My great grandmother was full blooded Cherokee but her white husband really pulled her away from her culture. I wish that I could find out more about my family and customs. Any ideas?
2006-09-11 12:54:31 · 4 answers · asked by Audible silence 1 in Arts & Humanities ➔ Genealogy
Hi. This is great! I am so glad that you are interested in your culture. There are both Comanche and Cherokee tribal offices in Oklahoma. I believe the Cherokees are in Talequah. You can google them probably. I would call or email. Get some more info and support systems. Also, check out Amazon, com for books about your people (but don't believe everything until you get the facts from the Native people themselves). I am sure you are a very special kind of person if you have Native heritage. I would be very proud if I could be like you.
2006-09-11 14:45:56 · answer #1 · answered by Isis 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
a million. there is not any such element as a "section close by American", any further than you are going to be "section American citizen". You the two are or you're no longer. 2. Why do you should be an American citizen with a view to call your self an American? on account that's what an American IS.....a citizen of united statesa.. And a close-by American is a citizen of a tribal us of a. 3. Why on earth could the Cherokee (and there are 3 distinctive Cherokee bands, btw, with separate governments) settle on your loved ones folklore without evidence, once you're no longer even specific which us of a he belonged to? I propose, could you be conscious for French citizenship, with the aid of fact your great-great-gr-gr-grandfather might have been French? or maybe it replaced into Italian? we are uncertain? 4. each Cherokee citizen of the three bands has had to coach their eligibility for tribal citizenship, with the help of proving their descent from an truthfully tribal citizen. Why ought to they make exceptions for the tens of millions of people who all have an identical kin delusion that do you? We hear this comparable tale 10 circumstances a week. btw....you could no longer "connect" a tribe. we are countries, no longer golf equipment. You be conscious for citizenship in case you meet the standards. and that i'm sorry, yet you do no longer. IF (and that's an exceedingly huge IF) your tale is actual and documentable....then you certainly would be a million/sixty fourth Cherokee. The Keetowah Cherokee have a a million/4 minimum. The eastern band of Cherokee require a million/sixteenth. And at an identical time as there is not any minimum for the Cherokee us of a, you'll have one parent already a citizen. so which you do no longer qualify for citizenship in any of the Cherokee bands, i'm afraid. And just to furnish you with a warning, once you circulate to learn your kin tree......"Cherokee blood" replaced right into a bother-free euphemism for a mulatto ancestor, so don't be greatly surprised to locate your "indian" ancestor indexed as black or mulatto on the census records. Indian blood replaced into fairly extra appropriate than black blood, maximum of people (fairly interior the south) claimed to be section Cherokee extremely than section black.
2016-11-07 03:21:43 · answer #2 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Contact native groups in your area. You should be able to use google to find them. (Where I live there are mostly Ojibway and Mohawk - So I don't know any of the Cherokee groups) Universities can sometimes be a good place to look too, many of them have Native circles. If there are any powwows (sorry I don't know how to spell it) in your area, attend them, and talk to eveyone you can find!
2006-09-11 13:30:18 · answer #3 · answered by nymphetamine1978 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Ask as many relatives as you can about your great-grandmother. I hope your story is true, as many people want to have Native American heritage, and, unfortunately, cannot prove it. Good luck.
Here is a link to the Dawes list, which may help. http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/dawes.php
2006-09-11 18:45:06 · answer #4 · answered by newyorkgal71 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋