What exactually is considered 'rational and provable'???? Why wouldn't it have to have been through marriages that the original/first early Native Americans had Christian name (although the French made it a practice to take Native Indian wives)...I don't remember reading anywhere in the required reading as I went through school and graduated three times, that when the white man visited that he thought his religion was better than any other ethnic group was, with whom it came in contact with. The white men have through history have been noted as being quite arrogant and ethnocentric, which is often the theme when one who visits doesn't understand the culture they are visiting..thus, this leaving of a Christian sounding name and belief system isn't hard to believe. My mother was part Native American within her Kentucky background; I can't prove this background, but I saw pictures of my great, greatgrandmother, so I knew this was true without proving it to someone else. Marriage was a by product and only taken on by those white men who want to survive within the area. In all probability, ever since the white man has visited places that weren't 'native' to him, he has left behind him, something of himself (which through history has been recorded as unkindness) as well as taken much more of the others' cultural resources of the group that he had visited...leaving less of himself than he took. Just because in our twentieth century minds we can't conceive something that has been noted down through history, doesn't mean it never or couldn't have happened...stranger things have taken place. Rhonda Warmack Houston ([email protected])

You also have to remember that when the British consolidated their possession of the new world in North America they required all to take on surnames and most then assumed surnames of people they knew and associated with. It happened again in the 1800s to the slaves who were freed. So the fact remains that many Native Americans and people of color were named long after birth, by official policy. and those names had no relationship with what they were born with. The earliest example recorded would be Amonte Matuaka, who was renamed Lady Rebbecca Rolfe, commonly known to Americans as Pocahontas. Jeff Rhonda Houston wrote: > What exactually is considered 'rational and provable'???? > > Why wouldn't it have to have been through marriages that the original/first > early Native Americans had Christian name (although the French made it a > practice to take Native Indian wives)...I don't remember reading anywhere in > the required reading as I went through school and graduated three times, > that when the white man visited that he thought his religion was better than > any other ethnic group was, with whom it came in contact with. The white men > have through history have been noted as being quite arrogant and > ethnocentric, which is often the theme when one who visits doesn't > understand the culture they are visiting..thus, this leaving of a Christian > sounding name and belief system isn't hard to believe. > > My mother was part Native American within her Kentucky background; I can't > prove this background, but I saw pictures of my great, greatgrandmother, so > I knew this was true without proving it to someone else. Marriage was a by > product and only taken on by those white men who want to survive within the > area. > > In all probability, ever since the white man has visited places that weren't > 'native' to him, he has left behind him, something of himself (which through > history has been recorded as unkindness) as well as taken much more of the > others' cultural resources of the group that he had visited...leaving less > of himself than he took. Just because in our twentieth century minds we > can't conceive something that has been noted down through history, doesn't > mean it never or couldn't have happened...stranger things have taken place. > > Rhonda Warmack Houston > ([email protected]) > > > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > -- Jeffery G. Scism, IBSSG ~~ Blacksheep Ancestors in your Family? 'Blacksheep Genealogy' is a registered California Sole Proprietorship. The International Black Sheep Society of Genealogists is a Social Organization Identified by its members using IBSSG after their signatures.