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From: "Linda Carter" <>
Subject: Re: [KYCLAY] Blackfoot Identified Families in Clay County
Date: Mon, 6 Oct 2003 10:38:38 -0400
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Somebody posted about the Quadrules on our forum recently.

http://www.saponitown.com/forum/showthread.php?s=&threadid=697&highlight=quadrule

Linda
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From: "Penny Ferguson" <>
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Sent: Sunday, October 05, 2003 10:02 PM
Subject: Re: [KYCLAY] Blackfoot Identified Families in Clay County


> Linda Carter said:
> 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
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Linda I visited your website and I can't help with the Blackfoot people.
I
> have never heard of anyone in the areas I research say they were
Blackfoot,
> however a lot of people have a tradition in their family of an "Indian"
> grandma, or a "Cherokee" grandma. I am speaking of eastern KY here. In
my
> family my grandmother said our Indian (her word) was Quadrule Indians and
> they lived on Wallens Creek in Harlan County KY. I have been researching
> them, and have found some others who have these Quadrules in their lines,
> and right now my research is pointing to the Shawnee which are Algonquian
> instead of Siouan. These Quadrules may have been a mix of Native
Americans,
> research is possibly showing that they are Shawnee mixed with Cherokee.
I
> don't have enough evidence to write anything about their exact tribe
> connections yet. Good luck with your research.
> Penny Ferguson
>
>
>

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