Native American Heritage Anyone?

[mlmadura]

My maternal great grandmother was 100% Cherokee. She lived to be over 100!!!!!! She has quilts in the Smithsonian

 

[Kanchii]

Blackfoot for me

And I'm not sure what tribe she was from, as I haven't done research about it, but my cousins did a lot of background research on our family and found out we're related to Pocahontas. Sweeeeeet.

 

[chilisweet]

Chickasaw on my mother's side. My umpteenth great grandma was full blood, married a white man and that was it! The really cool thing is my mom has some pictures of great granny and her hubby. I love looking at those pictures!

 

[unionwirewoman]

Blackfoot and Metis Cree....My grandmother is 3/4 both ...so not sure as to how much of each I have .

My Great , Great grandfather (who was Metis Cree ) fought the last Indian battle in Canada , and fled here to the Flathead Valley . My grandmother found an old book that was published telling some of the story . His name was Toussaint Salois . I keep bumping into 3rd cousins of mine from the reservation 2 hours away that I've never heard of .

 

[curliet]

Something that you might be interested in

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/amex/weshallremain/

This looks as if it might be a good one, but you just never know.
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[FLOWERPOT]

Ok, Found out Grams was Cherokee
And Grampa was direct decendant of the Dalton Gang!!
Haha
My birth name was Dalton

 

[rubyv67]

 

[onecent]

dads side, Canadian Indian(Cree)& welsh, moms side, metis & ?, Irish & french............im a total mutt

 

[Mac in Wisco]

Quote:
Actually the word squaw is worse than that. And thanks for the right spelling I sure couldn't remember it LOL.

I always take statements like that with a grain of salt and had to look up what the heck you were talking about. It seems this story has been going around for 35 years. In 1973, a writer on Native American literature made an unsubstantiated claim in one of his books that the word's etymology was from an Indian word meaning vagina. Women's right groups and radical Indian organizations then ran with this erroneous claim and have since said that the word is another term for women's genitalia, that four letter "C" word, when in actuality it is an Alonquin word meaning "young woman".

Check out this link:

http://www.tomjonas.com/squawpeak/squaw.htm

 

[rubyv67]

As almays Mac your investigative mind has done it again and I stand corrected. I was born in 67 so I grew up hearing that info from family and took it as gospel. Thank you for the info, the truth is alot nicer in this instance.