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From: "Linda Carter" <>
Subject: Re: [KYCLAY] Blackfoot Identified Families in Clay County
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 08:47:54 -0400
References: <20031006010510.25524.qmail@web40302.mail.yahoo.com>


Hahaha, yes my great-grandfather, Thomas Harris, was supposed to be an
Irishman also, but the neighbors were always very skeptical about that.
Thanks so much for telling me about your Smiths. I have some Smith's I've
wondered about being involved with this. They settled at one point in
Indiana near where a "Blackfoot Church" was in the 1820's -- too soon for
anybody to be hearing about the western Blackfoot and thinking it was a
colorful name. More likely is was a mission church to convert these refugee
Indians from back east.

Are there physical traits in your family that have made you wonder about
this?

Linda


----- Original Message -----
From: "Mary Ann" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 9:05 PM
Subject: Re: [KYCLAY] Blackfoot Identified Families in Clay County


> Ms. Carter
>
> I am Mary Ann Crawford, my father, Frank James
> Crawford always told me his great-grandfather (really
> don't know which side, I believe the Smiths) was a
> full blood Blackfoot Indian. Everyone says there were
> no Blackfoot in that area. He says he is certain.
>
> I really can't be sure - for some reason conflicting
> stories (from some of his brothers and sisters) have
> been told to me, that his great-granf father was a
> little Irish fellow.
>
> Mary Ann
>
>
> --- Linda Carter <> wrote:
> > I joined this list because I belong to a group that
> > has been researching
> > what a family tradition of Blackfoot descent
> > originating east of the
> > Mississippi signifies. A lot of what I
> > think/believe is in an article at
> > www.saponitown.com/blackfoot.htm.
> >
> > We seem to be seeing a pattern of surnames that's
> > very similar to those
> > found in Indian descended families in VA/NC.
> > There's a strong belief among
> > a number of researchers that there is a primarily
> > Siouan origin to the ID.
> > Interestingly, there is a branch of the Western
> > Sioux that are called
> > Blackfoot, the Sihisapa. There was a NC village
> > called Sissipaha, which may
> > be an anglicization of the VA/NC Siouan words for
> > 'foot black' -- 'ici
> > asepa'
> >
> > One of the counties in the country which has been
> > turning up the highest
> > incidence of people reporting this ID is Clay
> > County, KY. In some cases,
> > we've been able to trace those families back to
> > families known or believed
> > to be VA/NC Siouan. I'm curious to find out more
> > about Clay County families
> > who have this tradition and would love to hear from
> > them.
> >
> > Linda Carter
> > www.saponitown.com
> >
>
>
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