Native American Heritage Anyone?

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I have been doing ancestry search for about 3 years now....got an ancesty.com account contacted family from all over america....got civil war records from my gggrandfather....everybody said we had cherokee indian I cant find it anywhere....living in the south everybody you talked to says thier ggrandmother was cherokee or thier ggrandfather was a chief...I dont know where they get it from but it is so hard to prove....My mother had dark skin and coal black hair....I know thier has to be some kind of indian blood....just cant find it
 
Very common! If the Full Bloods married White or Mixed. It was literal self preservation not to open your mouth. Just because your ancestors chose not to sign the U.S. Gov.'s roll sheets, doesn't mean there isn't truth to your family oral history. Frustrating,YES! Disappointing, very. Try Allthingscherokee.com she's pretty cool. Good luck,been right where you are in regards to genealogy.
 
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I have a feeling I'm gonna run into that too. Right now I'm concentrating on getting the names and birth and death info. Figured I would go as far as I can go with that and then maybe start researching the NA connection
 
gapeachy, I know that "Indian" blood was often used to explain away African descended family members, or even Italian, Spanish or Jewish. It depends alot on where and when and who was saying that great-aunt Nancy was Native.

I'm not Native, but I recently found out that my BIL is Tlinget and some sort of coastal native (supposedly related to Cheif Seattle). I think he is about 1/6 native.

Where I grew up, about a quarter of my classmates at school were Native.
 
Adopted into a white Dutch family here in west Mi, and after becoming an adult I couldn't stand the wondering about who I was anymore. Also, my daughters were asking questions about my heritage relative to health matters.
So, I went searching and found that I am not any part Dutch. Am Ojibwe (or Chippewa, the Americanized version of the word). My relatives came from Northern Ontario, along the river between Quebec and Ontario. They moved gradually away from there and ended up in MI after the Canadian Govt offered First Nations people money if they would leave their homes and go into the cities. (another effort to try to eliminate Native culture) Once they left, their names were removed from the census roles, and they were no longer members of the tribe. That made it very hard to research the records, since there was no-one connect to.
I was lucky enough to find some family names and place names, and then was able to find my way into our local Native Community.
I spent my whole life feeling as tho I was wearing someone else's clothing, or that my shirt wasn't buttoned up correctly. After finding out who I really am, I finally felt as tho I fit right inside my own skin, and am as proud of my Native heritage as if I had known about it from the day I was born.
For reading material that will help you with anything Native, the organization Oyate is excellent, offering books, music and movies that coverage all aspects of Native heritage, and helping with answering question about sensitive subjects like slang words and sports mascots, inappropriate remarks etc.
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DH is half cherokee, have tried to run down his past, can't find anything past 1880 on the censes records, I keep telling him he was dropped off here by a flying saucer.Me I'm irish an spanish, on my mothers side, the bible is in the libary at st augustine, fla but still can't find DH's grandmother, His aunt always said he was cousin to jeff musrat in ok. marrie
 
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I spent my whole life feeling as tho I was wearing someone else's clothing, or that my shirt wasn't buttoned up correctly.

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I loved your whole statement but the sentence up here is awesome and powerful. I hope you don't mind but I'm gonna put this in my notepad . I'm really glad you got to reconnect , sounds like that has brought you a lot of happiness and peace. Wayne
 

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