Re: Re: Ancestry

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In a message dated 3/23/2006 4:16:23 PM Eastern Standard Time, ravenmagic2003@... writes:

Jill wrote: "My great grandmother was Cherokee but I'd be laughed at if I tried to go hang around the Cherokee people."Unless you've actually approached any Cherokee, I wouldn't assume they would laugh at you.Of course, the Métis became known as Métis because neither the full bloods or the white man would accept them. Now we travel well between both sides.Raven

The Cherokee got a bad deal. They had been very friendly to the whites and were adopting much of the culture while retaining their own. It was looking like they might actually get their own state or at least something close. However, I think it was became president and he hated the Indians so much that he forced them out of their territory all the same, thus leading to the Trail of Tears. That of course caused other tribes not to trust any treaties and such.

If not for , it might have been possible to set up territories or the like for the western tribes on their own home ranges. One thing that never made much sense to me was that there were all those buffalo out there, but instead of using them as a ready made resource, they killed them off and brought in cattle instead. It always seems more sensible to me to hire the Indian tribes to herd the buffalo like the cowboys later did cattle. That would have given them a real stake in the white man's world and could have resulted in one or two big plains states set aside for the herding of buffalo and the tribes that handled the herds.