@mystery-ak @ApplewoodDiscussion of “Are you an Indian?â€
I haven’t heard Warren’s whole story of why she believes she is Cherokee Indian.
Maybe I could find that on the net where she has explained it in more detail. She was born in Oklahoma so it likely started there.
Another Indian story (have a cup of coffee/wine) and read if you wish to:
I was born in 1933, much earlier than you were born. The Faulkner family (I am 50% Faulkner) lived in Arkansas in early days. A county there is Faulkner County. Some of them lived in southern Arkansas in Sevier County which is located in southwest Arkansas and borders the state of Oklahoma. My Great, Grandfather had a farm house in Sevier County which stayed in the family through the generation of my father – he was the last generation born in that house.
Now we go to
The Trail of Tears:
“The Choctaw left Mississippi in three groups. The first group left in November of 1831, and suffered hunger, bad weather, and disease along the route. Their journey took them from Memphis or Vicksburg, across
south Arkansas, to their land in Oklahoma. Those on the overland routes in this first group suffered from blizzards and extreme cold. By the time they got to Little Rock, eight children had died. The Arkansas Gazette quoted one of the travelers who said that the walk had been “a trail of tears and death.†This is considered to be the first use of the phrase
“Trail of Tears.†According to my family history told over and over through the generations, this Great, Grandfather (English) married a Choctaw woman during their stay in Arkansas. The rest of her family continued to Oklahoma. Some of the children of this union eventually went to the Oklahoma area where their Indian relatives were around Seminole, OK. Years later, my father with a small bit of Choctaw DNA, the rest 100% English) married my mother, also a resident of Sevier County (those ancestors 100% English), and they went to Seminole, OK, too where relations were. My brother was born there. Father got a job with Sun Oil Company and was eventually transferred to the oil boom in east Texas, where I was born.
When my brother was in his 50s, he went to Seminole to see an elderly relative and she had Tintype pictures of family members with Indian style hairdos and clothes, he said they had everything except an Indian Headdress with the feathers on it going down their back.
That is the end of that story. The tiny amount of Choctaw Indian I might have, would not be enough to show up on DNA, likely the same with Warren but she did have a bit of questionable DNA.
Tintype pictures:
Tintype pictures came about around 1833. The picture is actually on a metal plate.
I have a number of Tintype family pictures because my Mother kept them.
When my son was going to Rice University, he took a photography course and took the Tintypes to class to show what they are.