[muawiyah]

My folks were friends of a couple down the street that had kids the age of my brother and I. That couple met at a reservation boarding school ~ but were from the same tribe somewhere near Waco. There's a fairly assimilated group of tribes there who are known "relatives" of the Comanche, although they themselves were not identified as same ~ must have been folks who moved South during the climate anomaly in the early 1600s.

One of my Great Great grandfathers used to run the trails taking pioneers West and preaching to them going East. He must have been married two dozen or more times ~ only had one kid we know of, but he sure did try. He married at least three Indian women over the years (maybe more but there's no records) ~ one of them definitely from up at an early "agency" at Sault St. Marie that had people from dozens of tribes.

We may be closer cousins than you imagine ~ then, one of his brothers had a son who ended up hanging around the old Menominee reservation ~ and the outcome of that is I have an awful lot of cousins in reservations all around the Great Lakes.

Still, going back further than that a couple of generations, they all seemed to be living in the Oneida lands in Iroquoia. Lots of whites, Indians and mixed people there at the time of the revolution. Our guys were all scouts with the Americans forces.

[Osage Orange]

Brozho Nican!!

I've certainly family living still in the Great Lakes region....and more probably along the trail that lead from there to here.

Best that I can tell...there were some good solid tribal members as relations. Some Chiefs, etc... The paper trail is real hard to follow....

I've aunts and uncles that attended Indian boarding schools here in OK....

You want to read a good book....pick up, "Empire of the Summer Moon"

FRegards,