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From: "Kelley Weber"<>
Subject: Re: [APG] Georgia court case question/ Removal of Indiandisabilities
Date: Tue, 10 Apr 2007 16:10:50 -0400 (EDT)
Carolyn, I have no further comments or leads or insights, but I am reminded of something amusing I ran into last year. I live not far from the Pottawatomie and Prairie Band Indian Nation in Kansas. Theyannually host a huge Pow Wow in June and I took my kids. Among other things, there was a t-shirt with a picture of a man in full Native American regalia that read: "I'm part white, but I'll probably never be able to prove it." Since I've said "My grandfather told me we were part indian, but . . . " more than once, it positively cracked me up. But, I didn't dare buy it after I noticed the angry-looking Indian woman in charge of the booth glaring at me. I got the distinct impressionshe would have loved to tell me just what she thought of white people trying so hardto be indian. That's OK - it hasn't stopped me from trying to prove it. :-) Kelley WeberTopeka, KS--- On Tue 04/10, Carolyn Earle Billingsley < > wrote:From: Carolyn Earle
Billingsley [mailto: ]To: : Tue, 10 Apr 2007 00:31:34 -0600Subject: Re: [APG] Georgia court case question/ Removal of Indian disabilitiesAt 11:12 PM 4/9/2007, Elizabeth wrote:>Tracing Ancestors among the Five Civilized Tribes: Southeastern Indians>Prior to RemovalElizabeth: I found your entire post extremely helpful in understanding what I'm trying to comprehend. (Sometimes it's a bit hard to ask the right questions when you don't know exactly what it is you need to know .) I wasn't aware of Rachel's book but I'm ordering it right now, as it sounds as if not only the book, but the bibliography, is just what I need to further my research goals.I'm just starting work on a lecture regarding the REALITY of researching Indian ancestry; that is, MOST of us who have Indian ancestry will not find any evidence of said ancestry on the "official" "Indian" rolls, but we can still find ways to research our Native American
heritage.Most people have the erroneous impression that ALL Indians were "removed" to Indian Territory and that obviously wasn't true. I've had DNA research done and have an estimated 16% Native American ancestry . . . and I'm pretty sure which branches of the family contributed that heritage . . . yet NO relatives yet found are "officially" Indian.And these family members who weren't officially removed and/or didn't go to Oklahoma to claim rights, were definitely not wealthy or educated either, although your example about those who were makes perfect sense.I suppose a lot of Native Americans did what my distant grandmothers did: they married white men and then claimed their darkness was due to "Portuguese" or "Mexican" ancestry.And I'm also interested in the answer to Shell's question . . .>And I'm with Carolyn, why did Georgia grant these Cherokee and Creek>naturalizations? What made my fifth G-GF and the others qualify for this?>>Regards,>ShellSo I welcome
any other comments or leads or insights or even stories/narratives/oral history that might further assist me in developing leads for my research or enlighten me in any way regarding this topic. Regards, CarolynCarolyn Earle Billingsley, Ph.D.Member of APG and NGS2100 Pleasant Grove, Alexander, AR 72002-9154Telephone and Fax: 501.847.0114Communities of Kinship: Antebellum Families and the Settlement of the Cotton Frontier (University of Georgia Press, 2004)http://home.earthlink.net/~cebillingsley/.-------------------------------To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message
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