Posted on 03/03/2007 9:06:01 AM PST by rabidralph
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MOST families of WOODLAND Indians "took" Celtic or English-sounding surnames. the WESTERN & PLAINS Indians frequently "took" Latino surnames.
that's WHY a Chief Chad Smith.
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fyi, we Tsalagiyi "assimilated" early (by 1840 essentially every Tsalagiyi had BOTH a Tsalagiyi & a "European-sounding" name.).
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Thanks for the ping SB
"The hairy faces came among us. They made us many promises;more promises than there are leaves on trees. BUT, of all the promises they made us, they kept just one. They said they would steal our lands."
TRUER words were NEVER spoken!!!!
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Afternoon Stand
You are probably already aware of this, but many of the Stand Watie letters to and from his wife are now online from the Univ. of Oklahoma. They are a great read. They had 5 children, all who died before leaving children of their own.
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v001/v001p030.html
A snip from a letter from Sarah Caroline Bell Watie (Sally) to her Husband Stand Watie. Lamar Co. Tx.
May 21, 1865.
"I hear that Cooper will not give you any supplies. if he does not I believe that they all are speculating of it and I hope that the last of them will sink. I do not want you to do any thing of that kind I would live on bread and water rather than have it said you had speculated of your people I believe you have always done what you thought best for your people and I want it to die out that bad belief. if I thought you was working for nothing but to fill your pocket it would trouble me a great deal but I know it is not else it would have been filled before this time. I know that you are capable of making a living any where if we are let alone after the war is over."
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Did you know that this group of Cherokee left the best written record of any ethnic group ever in the USA? Many do not understand the extent of the good education they obtained for themselves. Here's a link to a photo of Sara Caroline Watie, my grgraunt, Stand Watie and others.
www.paulridenour.com/swatie.htm
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"Sounds like they're taking lessons from Mr Farrakhan and La Raza.'
Actually, they are being the tribal society that they have always been. Tribes tend to be far less tolerant than present day American society.
Add in the possibility of either loss of, or diminuition of , unearned money, and tribal behavior can turn out to be simply "savage".
Think of the bitter fights amongst the members of the smallest of tribes, the heirs at the reading of the will of their "Dearly Departed".
"A joke comes to mind...something about them being tired of looking at those guys and being reminded of their ancestors' long-ago liaisons with bison...but no, it would be wrong."
Quite right, it would be very wrong. DNA (Dang Nab it All) evidence shows that such liasons with buffalo were the origin of Democrats.
It's a way of life I wish I was closer too. My oldest always said that she wished she had been born two or three hundred years ago. As sw stated, 'he WAS Tsalagiyi because he LIVED Tsalagiyi!'
Well said
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