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From: "Jack Butler" <>
Subject: Re: [APG] Native American blood lines
Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2007 21:57:49 -0400
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I am afraid that all of these generalized statements are a waste of time.
How Indians or people of Indian descent were perceived or treated almost
certainly varied from one location to another. I would certainly expect a
different reaction in Oklahoma - home of numerous reservations and formerly
known as The Indian Territory - than one might find in...say parts of
Southwest Texas, or maybe South Central Georgia.

I don't believe that you are going to find a "one size fits all" answer to
the question. Clearly, one can find examples of people facing both
acceptance while others ran into rejection.

And, for what its worth, I have TWO family lines (Campbell and Spencer)
where three brothers actually did come to America. Even the hoariest of the
myths can occasionally be true.

Jack Butler

----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Douglass" <>
To: "APG" <>
Sent: Sunday, September 16, 2007 9:33 PM
Subject: [APG] Native American blood lines


> Colleagues,
> I have read with much interest of the "stigma" associated with being
> Native American at different times. I have a very large court case full
> of testimony concerning my great-grandmother's attempt to be registered
> as a member of the Choctaw Nation just before Oklahoma statehood. She
> was second-generation Irish, widow of a second-generation Scotsman who
> had survived his young Choctaw wife. Harmon was adopted into the tribe
> as Susannah's husband and Joanna, the second wife, was trying to cash in
> on the land lotteries. She failed. One of her daughters married a
> Choctaw man. Their son was admitted into the tribe, but not their
> daughters until after another court suit was filed. At least in the
> early years of the 20th century in Oklahoma, being Indian was not a bad
> thing.
>
> --
> Mary Douglass, CG
> Your Kansas research specialist
> URL: www.historical-matters.com
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