What is a Native American? Native American Meaning

What is a Native American? Native American Meaning

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What is Native American?  What an encumbered question.  One might as well ask “Why is the sky blue?” Obviously, a rhetorical question to be profound as one does not need the technical scientific answer to... Read more »
Am I Native American? Native American Ancestry & Genealogy

Am I Native American? Native American Ancestry & Genealogy

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Many people in the US and Canada have at least one Indian ancestral line in their family.  Lots of people grew up hearing the family legend about a family member that was Native American. Proving that legend t... Read more »
Guion Miller Roll of the Eastern Cherokee: 27.Aug.1906 – 18.May.1909

Guion Miller Roll of the Eastern Cherokee: 27.Aug.1906 – 18.May.1909

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One may argue that the Guion Miller Roll is perhaps one of the most important Rolls ever done of the Cherokee Nation in a Genealogical sense.  This roll is more formally referred to as the Eastern Cherokee Emigrant Pa... Read more »
Final Roll of the Cherokee Nation & Freedman

Final Roll of the Cherokee Nation & Freedman

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Today we call this the Dawes Rolls, although it encompasses the original Five Civilized Tribes of the South East (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek, and Seminole). This article is specifically about the Cherokee ... Read more »
Holdout, Doubtful and Reject of the Dawes Rolls

Holdout, Doubtful and Reject of the Dawes Rolls

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Previous articles gave overviews and some tips on navigating through the Dawes Rolls. This article follows up on some information on those common arguments on who is and who is not Cherokee because of three classifica... Read more »
…MY GRANDMOTHER WAS A CHEROKEE INDIAN PRINCESS…

…MY GRANDMOTHER WAS A CHEROKEE INDIAN PRINCESS…

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To any Native American that travels a great deal and attends and participants in a large number of cultural events, it would appear that everybody has an “Indian Princess” in the family. Usually, this person is a “Che... Read more »

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