My uncle is a quarter native Hawaiian. --Leolaia
Do You Have Any: First Nations Connection/Aboriginal Peoples Connection
by RAYZORBLADE 26 Replies latest jw friends
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RAYZORBLADE
Wow!
Now that's exotic, but very cool.
Having lived in SE Asia, specifically the Philippines, I can appreciate your affinity towards the Hawaiian Islands.
That is, indeed, a very unique connection.
Thanks for sharing Leolaia.
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dottie
I am a Seneca Indian of the Six Nations in Southwestern Ontario and upper state New York. My fathers family all live at Six Nations in Ontario, but I'm sure I have relatives that I haven't even met all over the US. I know that my paternal grandmother has family in Florida, and my Uncle (by marriage not blood) has family thoughout Delaware just to name a few.
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RAYZORBLADE
(((Dottie))) given what you have told me about where you more or less originated on the shores of Lake Huron, this doesn't surprise me.
WOW!
WILL is a lucky man!
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Guest 77
RB. They don't have a PowWow in your neck of the woods? We have an annual one one here in July. I'm next door to Montreal. The Mohawk Indians. Have you heard about the Oka Crisis? Check your search engine.
There's always something doing here. We just turned down a Casino and now were into other politcal battles with the Band Council.
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RAYZORBLADE
As Guest 77 indicated with the Mohawk nation near to where he/she resides.
Here's an interesting link:
http://www.canadiangeographic.ca/resources
In their latest issue, there's an entire section dealing with Kahnawake community just south of Montreal.
Do a search there, link above for more information.
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Yerusalyim
Cherokee on my Mom's side...don't really pay that much attention to it...for all practical purposes...I'm AMERICAN...ethnically...I'm Italian.
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Guest 77
RB, I clicked into the suggested site but I couldn't find anything about Kahnawake. Can you point me in the right direction for the article?
The above location is our next meet-up in January 10.
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Mulan
I have posted about this before, but here it is again. My great grandmother was a Brothertown Indian. Her name was Frances Fowler. The Fowler family were Montauk originally.
changing their family names to 'European' family names was not uncommon, anything to appease the non-native community at large.
Fowler seems to be a pretty common Indian name, but is probably an English translation of the real name. The family has that name back to the 1600's. Skeesuck (my great great grandmother was Fanny Skeesuck) seems to be original. One of my ancestors was Weincombone and his father was Wyandanch, who married WUCH-I-KIT-TAU-BUT. You can really have fun with that name.
""The Brothertown Indians are a tribe that was made up of several diverse Algonkian -speaking Indian tribes that originated in New England. The tribes represented are: Mohegan, Pequot, Narragansett, Montauk, Tunxis, Wangunk, and Niantic. A few of the prominent family names are: Fowler, Dick, Skeesuck, Crosley, Potter, etc. As these people tried to live Christian lives in New England, they found it difficult to resist pressures from Whites around them who encouraged them to abuse alcohol, give up farming, and sell their lands.
In the 1770s, Samson Occom and Joseph Johnson, both Mohegan, were determined to lead their people and other New England Indians to a home where they could live in peace and lead Christian lives. Occom, a Presbyterian minister, served as a Christian missionary to other Indian tribes as well. Following negotiations with the Oneida tribe in north central New York, Occum and Johnson led a group of New England tribal families to a new home among the Oneida. As Christians, they wanted to live in Brotherhood, and named their new home, Brothertown. Another group of Algonkian-speaking people, the Stockbridge, also moved onto lands granted by the Oneida in the 1780s, escaping pressures from incoming settlers. Today, there are about 1650 members on the Brothertown tribal rolls. Most still live near Fond du Lac and Lake Winnebago, and still continue the fight for federal recognition. The tribe maintains tribal council meetings which are held regularly. ""
It's an awesome heritage and I am learning more about the Brothertown all the time. They gave up their rights as an Indian nation in 1834, so as not to be moved once again to another reservation, this time in Kansas. The land where they lived on the reservation, alongside Lake Winnebago in Wisconsin, was divided up and distributed to each individual tribe member, and they were given a form of U.S. citizenship. Today they are trying to get that status as an Indian nation back, and all the rights that go with it.
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simplesally
My mom is 1/4 American Indian. She is Cherokee and Choctaw Indian. My grandparents were each 1/4 Indian. One of my great grandma's, we called her Mama, she used to always downplay her Indian heritage. Back in her day, if they had found out that she was a 'half-breed' they'd have boycotted her husband's business and probably shunned her and her family.