Kalisetsi
03-20-2002, 12:19 PM
I wasn't sure where to post this , so I hope this is the right spot. I found this bulletin board yesterday, while doing a search for "Blackfoot Indians from the Southeast". I was surprised and pleased to find a group of people discussing the topic....so after reading the posts for a few hours, I got enough nerve to register.
My family is like most of yours - Native with "other mixtures". My mother's family is Cherokee(my great grand dad and her aunts). My Mom's father was black.
My Dad's background is Blackfoot/Cherokee and that is how I identify myself. His paternal grandmother was a Blackfoot, her name was Myme (MY-MEE). I don't know her last name. On his mother's side of the family the people were Cherokees. There is also Irish(Corley) and German(Unger, Kaufman)with black. I'd say an altogether interesting mixture. Contrary to the stereotype, I was raised as an Indian, though I have had friends from all races
I have written all the information about my family down in a book, as it was told to me by my Mom and Dad and an aunt of my Dad's. But, I have not done research, it seems like a daunting task.
What I have found upsetting was being told, as an adult, from people in the Native community that there were no Blackfoot Indians in the south. I have also read a lot of disturbing things, but I came to the conclusion that my family had no reason to lie about who they were. I find that idea insulting.
Someone, in one of the posts on here said (to paraphrase) 'Indian people tend to feel that the information given to them from their families would be true'. I also found that it seemed too coincidental, that so many people would have similiar stories to relate about their families, and that there was a common look to the people. I knew in my heart, even though I couldn't prove it
;-) - that the Blackfoot from the south did exist. Thankfully, most of you here came to to the same conclusion.
Oh!! I did do a little reasearch, a few years ago, on the 'net, and I after reading a bit I had an inkling , a glimmer of truth that the Blackfot from the south were a Siouan people, as I have read here. Then my computer crashed and I lost the info.
So, it's nice to come here and read about people who have similiar backgrounds and finding new and interesting information.
Thank you / Wado !
Kali
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My family is like most of yours - Native with "other mixtures". My mother's family is Cherokee(my great grand dad and her aunts). My Mom's father was black.
My Dad's background is Blackfoot/Cherokee and that is how I identify myself. His paternal grandmother was a Blackfoot, her name was Myme (MY-MEE). I don't know her last name. On his mother's side of the family the people were Cherokees. There is also Irish(Corley) and German(Unger, Kaufman)with black. I'd say an altogether interesting mixture. Contrary to the stereotype, I was raised as an Indian, though I have had friends from all races
I have written all the information about my family down in a book, as it was told to me by my Mom and Dad and an aunt of my Dad's. But, I have not done research, it seems like a daunting task.
What I have found upsetting was being told, as an adult, from people in the Native community that there were no Blackfoot Indians in the south. I have also read a lot of disturbing things, but I came to the conclusion that my family had no reason to lie about who they were. I find that idea insulting.
Someone, in one of the posts on here said (to paraphrase) 'Indian people tend to feel that the information given to them from their families would be true'. I also found that it seemed too coincidental, that so many people would have similiar stories to relate about their families, and that there was a common look to the people. I knew in my heart, even though I couldn't prove it
;-) - that the Blackfoot from the south did exist. Thankfully, most of you here came to to the same conclusion.
Oh!! I did do a little reasearch, a few years ago, on the 'net, and I after reading a bit I had an inkling , a glimmer of truth that the Blackfot from the south were a Siouan people, as I have read here. Then my computer crashed and I lost the info.
So, it's nice to come here and read about people who have similiar backgrounds and finding new and interesting information.
Thank you / Wado !
Kali
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