Indian Princess (blood, elders, America, Article, Zen)

[t3gah]

More and more frequently, more and more people are discovering their Cherokee ancestry. The reasons are varied. Many times, elders have not passed this information along, and it is only as they are passing to the next world do they talk about their parents and grandparents--their roots.

In the early part of this century, there were many economical reasons for leaving your Native ancestry unclaimed. A "guardian" was assigned to full-bloods to help them in managing affairs. More often than not, the "guardian" benefited more than the Indian. Women were discouraged from registering by their Anglo husbands, especially if they were living outside the Indian Territory. Voting was a privilege denied Native Americans and women until 1924. The reasons can be as different as the phases of the moon, yet all had merit to that person at that time in history.

In 1976, Cherokee voters ratified a new Cherokee Constitution which changed the ways of measuring tribal membership. At that time, it was determined that anyone who could trace direct descent from the Dawes Rolls, a census taken between 1902-1907, could become a registered citizen of the Cherokee Nation....

Finding Your Cherokee Ancestor
I. Did your ancestor live in Oklahoma between 1893 and 1906?
II. Did your ancestor reside in the North Carolina/Tennessee area?

Click link to see "tree" for questions above and rest of article posted
(http://www.powersource.com/cherokee/gene.html)

[painted wolf]

don't forget the Georga Cherokee, of wich my Uncle was a council member.

I was hoping that you were going to post about the fact that everyone wants to be decended of an 'Inidian princess'.

wa:do

[No*s]

Nope. We don't have any ancestors confirmed in the Tsalagi (Cherokee...I'm consciously changing my terminology). I do have some from the Choctaw (I haven't gotten the correct term for them yet...but it'll come in time).

[painted wolf]

or Aniyunwia (cherokee name for ourselves)

I've been looking for an alternate name for the Choctaw and I think it may be Chatha.
I'll put some info on Choctaw language on the language thread.

wa:do

[No*s]

OK, thanks PW .

[Scuba Pete]

My mother in law is part of the "Cheatwood" line. She claims it and my wife is not so sure. Is there a way to look up the name like that?

[t3gah]

Originally Posted by painted wolf

don't forget the Georga Cherokee, of wich my Uncle was a council member.

I was hoping that you were going to post about the fact that everyone wants to be decended of an 'Inidian princess'.

wa:do

I only knew about this site because I have some friends in Texas that are half-Cherokee.

German and Cherokee to be exact.

The title of the thread is what it the article was called on the link posted.

I did see another article with the Indian princess title through Google but I thought that meant, east Indian as in Indian ocean area peoples.

[t3gah]

Culpepper Indian Legends and Facts

The Legends

Indian Princess

A number of legends exist about an Indian Princess (generally Cherokee) from whom certain Culpeppers are reportedly descended.

However, Native American historians dispute the use of the "Indian Princess" term. Of course, there is the modern-day father-daughter YMCA-sponsored program using the term. Also in modern times, some Indian tribes, such as the Pawnees, have used the term to refer to the daughters of the chief or in connection with a beauty contest. But there is no evidence that such a term was used in the pre-20th-century times during which the ancestral claims are made.

For more in-depth discussions of this from both Native Americans and experienced genealogists, see:
- Dispelling the Indian Princess Myth,
- Why Your Great-Grandmother Wasn't a Cherokee Princess,
- The Myth of the Cherokee Princess, and
- The Indian Princess Grandmother Myth.

Other than in one very small branch of the Mississippi Culpeppers (See the Pocahontas Connection below), no Indian ancestral connection has ever been found by Culpepper Connections!


Click link for complete article.
(http://gen.culpepper.com/historical/legends/indian.htm)