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Comment on Where are the Susquehannock? by Keith Hamilton

Keith Hamilton — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 18:45:54 +0000

Does anyone know of any Susquehannock settlements in Lancaster?

Comment on Where are the Susquehannock? by Mats Karlsson

Mats Karlsson — Fri, 30 May 2008 18:45:52 +0000

Hi!
I’m a journalist in Sweden, tracing ancestors in Pennsylvania. According to family legend, they hail from the last woman of the sesquehannocks. Do you know anything about descendants of Michael and Mary, who survived the 1763 massacres?

Best regards,
Mats Karlsson

Comment on Tracing Your Native American Ancestry, Part II by Dorothy Franks

Dorothy Franks — Fri, 30 May 2008 04:29:29 +0000

There are eight generations that I have traced in my genealogy. I have at least three bloodlines of Indian (Choctaw, Cherokee and Creek). My 1st gen grandmother on my grandfather’s is listed as a Choctaw indian in the U.S. Census Records. My 3rd gen grandmother on my grandfather’s side is Cherookee (vintage photo), and my 3rd gen grandmother on my grandmother’s side is Creek (oral history). I have features of the Indian, but not sure how to prove it. Can you tell me if the DNA testing really proves anything and if it is worth the money?

Dorothy

Comment on Are You Part Cherokee? by Edgar WhiteWolf

Edgar WhiteWolf — Sun, 25 May 2008 21:55:20 +0000

I am 1/4 Cherokee on my mothers side. 1/4 Choctaw on my Grandfathers side and Creek on my fathers side. All my family was dark with either dark brown or black hair. I was not that fortunate. I was always told by my mother that we were Indian and when I was young I use to go to the movies and see the Indians on the screen. Dark, bare chested, long black hair. This is what I thought we were. Then one day my mother showed me pictures of some of our elders, most who had passed away. I was shocked. In stead of what I visioned my people to look like, they didn’t. The old pictures showed people wearing turbans and old centurion coats, smoking long stemmed pipes. Or the newer fotos who showed what looked like just farmers, in the fields or by log cabins or wood homes. Not what I had envisioned.
As I became older and more taught I learned much more about my people. Over the years I have also, as stated in here that all the wannabes were mostly all Cherokee. I ask…WHY? If I was not an Indian but wanted to tell everyone I was…why not choose Apache, Commanche, Sue, and thing you saw on tv or in the movies…not Cherokee.
I don’t have the answer for that but what I do know is that the Cherokee people are the first Indian people who had contact with the Europeans. As time went by we started inter marriages. Our blood line thinned by this and as years passed a lot of our ancestors became lighter than other Natives who had yet to see the white people.
Our plight in the 1880’s were no different than any other tribes across the US when Andrew Jackson signed the Indian Removal Act. Our benefit was that many of our people escaped the Trail of Tears and went into the Smokey Mountains and lived their among the mountain people The mountain people accepted accepted our people and because of complexion, we blended well.
However, they were still Indian. So most changed their names and destroyed any written record of being Indian. That was great for them, but it lost a lot of family history. So today, what our ancestors did to protect themselves from being caught by the military, has caused our people today, not to be able to track their heritage. Instead, their heritage at some point hits a brick wall and there it is lost. A very good indication that those people are in fact Cherokee or some tribe. Myself, it has taken me 50 years to be able to find relatives or ancestors before my mother was born. She was born but I couldn’t find her parents anywhere. But because of the computer, I have found her and her sister on the Baker Rolls. I finally found my great grandfather on the Keetowah rolls. So finialy today, I can truthfully say, I am Cherokee…before I pass on to my ancestors.
So I say that those who heard you are Cherokee, keep looking, you might find something. But don’t be overly disappointed if you don’t find a thing.
Now as the writer said, there was not real Cherokee Princesses. However I did find that the word princess was used widely by parents, grand parents and the daughters. So hearing that your grandmother was a Cherokee princess, maybe does not mean they were royalty, but a princess to someone.
Remember that the belief of the Cherokee is that even if you have but one drop of Cherokee blood, as long as you know you are Cherokee and your heart beats Cherokee and you walk the path…then you are Cherokee.
Wado,
Edgar WhiteWolf
Chief
Lone Wolf Band of Cherokee Indians

Comment on Otoe-Missouria Genealogy by Angela Dwyer

Angela Dwyer — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 18:17:37 +0000

I have a Corbett C. White b. abt 1914, son of Robert “Ervin” White b. 1892 AR d. 1980 Miller AR wife Sarah E ____. Grandson of Buck White of Texarkana AR wife Frances “Frankie” Loraina Attaway b. 1874 Texarkana Bowie Co TX. I am wondering if there is a connection. Thank you.

Comment on Where are the Susquehannock? by Renee Waring

Renee Waring — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 02:38:31 +0000

I am a descendant of the Susquehannock People, and a member of the Bald Eagle Wolf Clan tribe of the Leni Lenape. Because my Delaware ancestor never lived on the reservation I cannot legally claim my ancestry from my ancestor and because my Susquehannock People were destroyed by the whites. I am what my family calls a through back, which means I show more Indian ancestry in my genes than the other members of my family. Unfortunatlly in this situation I’m lost. I can’t claim a lost history and I sure wish I knew where to turn. Have you heard of anyone else who is a descendant of the Susquehannock People?

Comment on Native American Events in Maryland by Richard Karel

Richard Karel — Sat, 19 Apr 2008 01:27:57 +0000

I’m a herbal medicine student in the M.Sc. program at Tai Sophia Institute. I’m doing a little volunteer work with Baltimore Bioneers and we are looking for an articulate, well-focused Maryland Native American to speak at the conference (in October) regarding Native American worldview, the environment, sustainability, and possibly herbal and shamanic medicine.

If anyone knows of someone who might be interested please let me know.

Thanks,

Richard

Comment on Where are the Susquehannock? by Ray Nagle

Ray Nagle — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 23:00:20 +0000

I grew up along the southern Susquehanna in a small town called, York Haven. On the island (Brunner’s Island) formed by the Conewago Creek and the Susquehanna was the remains of a reputed Susquehannock Indian village as evidenced by the many artifacts uncovered over time, as well as during the construction of PP&Ls coal-fired electric generation plant on the island in the late 1950s/early 1960s. Arrow heads, complete battle axes, etc, were found by anyone who wanted to take the time to look. Attending school in York county, I, too, never recall studying the tribe.

Comment on Contact Me by Bonnie Zondory-Surfield

Bonnie Zondory-Surfield — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 12:24:53 +0000

I would like to thank you for this site. My husband and I have recently become den leaders of our local Cub Scout Pack and we have been looking for anything to get the pack back to “basics”. This info. is so needed to make the Wolves and Bears come alive again. Keep up the excellent work!

Bonnie Zondory-Surfield
Wolf Den Leader, Pack #780

Comment on Moravian Mission Archives by Luke C. Ryan

Luke C. Ryan — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 02:57:42 +0000

Hi. Your website is truly fascinating. And it mirrors research that I have been doing, in part, over the last several years while writing my dissertation on Indian Kansas during the 19th century. Please write me so that we can make an introduction and communicate. I know a great deal about the records related to the Christian and Munsee who moved from New Fairfield on the Thames. Best regards, Luke.