Smiling Crow,                                                         
Thank you, Kip :)

wayne george wrote:
> 
> Hello Kip..mii'gwetch for the repost..all that you've posted has helped me
> to give more to my Grandchildren who are with me,in learning more about who
> they are as Anishinaabek Women and their connections to your ancestors.
> respectfully
> 
> The Smiling Crow :-)
> Anishinaabek artist/member of The First Nations of Turtle Island
> ~~~~
> 
> Kip King  wrote in message
> news:3BB75DAF.662D4C8C@home.com...
> > p.s. - Our tribe in Kentucky fought on the side of the Americans against
> > the British and the main group of Cherokee in the US Revolutionary War.
> >
> > Kip King wrote in alt.native:
> > These were the ancestors of my tribe, the Upper Cumberland River
> > Cherokee Indians of Kentucky. In 1805, when the last of our tribal land
> > in Kentucky was sold by fraudulent treaty, we were given the option of
> > moving south with the rest of the tribe, or remaining as individuals on
> > individual pieces of land. My ancestors chose to stay.
> >
> > fish@digitalcave.com wrote in alt.native:
> >
> > One element often ignored by researchers is the presence of Cherokee
> > who NEVER WERE part of the Cherokee "Nation" per se (the 1835 "paper"
> > Nation established by Ross and his cronies).  There were large
> > numbers of what were called "Overhill Cherokees" who'd gone over the
> > mountains and down into Kentucky and Tennesee, and it's well
> > documented that some of them were there as early as the 1700's (the
> > U.S. even signed treaties with some of them!).  They WERE fully
> > Cherokee, but they were isolated enough from the bulk of the Nation
> > that many things passed them by (Ross's 1835 Nation didn't include
> > them, for example.... and the pre-Removal census didn't include them,
> > nor were any attempts made to Remove them in 1838).
> > Wade Wofford