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From: "Livingston" <>
Subject: Re: Any ideas?
Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:04:30 +0100


Hi Mitzi,
I'll see if I can help. The Southern Band Tuscarora, are the direct lineal
descendants of the once Mighty Tuscarora Confederacy, that covered most of
NC. We are of Iroquoian lingustic stock.
Ok a lot of Native Americans carry what they call Mediterranean Anemia, I
myself am anemic, and have been since childhood, I have to eat chicken
livers, red meat, or wine, when mine gets low. One of my distant cousins is
so anemic she ends up in the hospital at least twice a year. And will most
likely die from it one day.
One of our other members also has a worse version than ours, her
grandmother used to treat it with dandelion tea. But neither of us can take
supplemental iron.
The Brown's are deffintely Native American, they are in just about every
tribe in NC. Some of the Harrell's did marry Tuscaroran Indians, but I
don't have their genealogies.
Too many people are so ashamed of their Native heritage they try to keep it
secretive, and this can cost their descendants their lives! This is why we
have to educate people on their Native Heritage. Too many people have told
me their bloodline didn't matter..
They don't realize to a lot of us it does matter, it could mean the
difference between life and death at a very young age.....
We also have other metabolic differences, and dissorders that have carried
down through the generations, that we know of.
One is fibromyalgia, to cover this lightly this means pain in every fiber
of your body. I say this is because every cell in your body remembers the
pains of the past lives, or of the ancestors and hurts at the memories,
like genetic memories. Scientist are just now discovering there is such a
thing as genetic memories, we've always known this.
Another is Myotonic Distal Muscular Dystrophy's, for example in our family
we all inherited a form of MD, called Charcot-Marie-Tooth Syndrome, or
Dijorne-Sottas Disease, where you have little or no nerve conductivity in
the distal extremities ie. below the knees, or in the hands, and severe leg
cramps, especially at night. An unsteady gait, clumsiness, weakness of the
legs, trouble negotiating stairs.But to look at us you'd say we are
absolutely "normal".
Some other doctor's have labeled It as Muscular Arthritis.
Another is eye diseases, some of our families like the Brown's here have
severe eye dissorders, Retina macular degenerative disease, which
eventually leads to blindness. Our Chief's mother is a Brown and she has
had three eye surgeries.
And last but deffinately not the least is Diabetes, and renal (Kidney)
failure. Resulting in leg amputations, and ultimately death.
The Fibromyalgia, CMT, and Anemia seem to go hand in hand, for some reason.
I believe one day they will finally discover these symptoms are in one
condition and find a name for it, that is why Physicans are called
practising physicans, because they don't know, and they practise on us
until they can name something that we've had with no name for forvever....
When they finally do "name" something then they try to tell us our
symptoms, and how we are supposed to feel, they don't have a clue!
Going back to the anemia, there is also something else to be warned about,
in our family, several of the cases of CMT come along with thick blood,
many of our people have had strokes, my mother has had strokes, and my
sister did at 31 years old. Doctors cannot explain this.
But Medical Science has come a long way, there are medicines that can and
do help us to lead "normal" lives, so don't think the situation is
hopeless, just know one day there will be cures, because of us Ginea Pigs.
My advise to you is don't pay any attention to these labels, live your life
to the fullest, love as hard as you can, cherish those around you, teach
others what you can, because life for some of us is too short for
pettiness.....
Oneh
Marilyn
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> From: Mitzi Bateman <>
> To: Livingston <>
> Subject: Re: Any ideas?
> Date: Saturday, October 17, 1998 6:54 PM
>
> Thanks for responding. I'm really interested in what you said about
> the Tuscarora Tribe and the comment that Tuscarora are mixed with just
> about every family in Bertie Co. One of the main reasons I'm trying
> to trace this line is because my Josiah Harrell's granddaughter was a
> Mary Della Brock who was a carrier of Mediterranean Anemia (beta
> thalassemia). Mary Della Brock married James D. Brown who also had a
> father from NC, and he also was a carrier. We know because they had a
> least one child who died of the disease (they didn't know what it was
> called then, but I'm going by the story of the child's symptoms).
> These were my mother's grandparents. She has two brothers and both of
> them have been diagnosed with beta thalassemia as has the son of one.
> We haven't been tested in my family, but there is the possibility.
>
> Since hearing about all this and trying to find out where our
> Mediterranean blood came in (James Brown had said he was Irish - black
> hair and blue eyes), I have found the Melungeon List, and it's
> implications as to my mother's family's bi-racial heritage. I have
> seen Brown, Brock and Evans (Josiah Harrell's wife was an Evans in
> Bertie Co) listed as possible Melungeon surnames, but haven't seen
> Harrell.
>
> Could you please send me some information on this mixing of Tuscarora
> with those in Bertie Co? Who are the Tuscarora?
> My grandmother on my father's side was Black Dutch(Askew and Dykes),
> so there's another puzzle.
>
> These people as far as I know, came to GA from NC in the early 1800's.
>
> I'm anxious to hear about this. I've been reading and studying
> everything I can find since learning about Melungeons and the current
> Black Dutck theories.
>
> (Mitzi)Lillian Clark Bateman (native of FL, but have been in northern
> CA for the last 20 years.)
>
>
>

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