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Post by whollygoats on Oct 29, 2016 20:38:24 GMT
I got some interesting information sent my way as a result of my SIL cleaning out her house.
First, were a number of childhood pix of yours truly.
Then there was the photocopy of my grandmother's official request to have herself, and her nine children, entered on the tribal rolls of the Dakota Sioux tribe. The document, outlining her personal ancestry back to her two tribal grandmothers, and outlining her children's birthdates and birth locations.
The document was addressed to: Enrollment, Standing Rock Indian Agency, Ft. Yates, North Dakota...dated, July 21, 1980.
Evidently, I am related to the people carrying out the insurrection against pipeline building across sacred land, reputedly protected by treaty.
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Post by JoeP on Oct 29, 2016 23:56:22 GMT
Now it's personal.
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Post by raspberrybullets on Oct 29, 2016 23:58:29 GMT
Neat. It's cool to find some connections I think. I enjoyed anyway, being able to question my grandma a bit when I stayed with her in Slovakia for a while, and find out a bit more about my relations and ancestors.
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Post by jayme on Oct 30, 2016 0:50:50 GMT
That's so cool! The Standing Rock Sioux prolly don't even know they have a Goat Clan.
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Post by Kye on Oct 30, 2016 1:15:33 GMT
Neat, WG!
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Post by tangent on Oct 30, 2016 8:05:01 GMT
Very nice.
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Post by Mari on Oct 30, 2016 16:46:30 GMT
Coolio
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Post by whollygoats on Oct 30, 2016 21:17:58 GMT
Well...Not so much.
So. The document which came my way did not jibe with what I knew of the outcome of the 'Indian heritage' controversy which raged through my family. I remember lots of scoffing and gossip being generated. So....I tracked down my youngest aunt, who has in the interim, made herself the extended family's definitive source on geneological questions. I got her on the phone and told her about the document.
She laughed.
She told me to ignore it. She had not been able to confirm any of the story at all. She had tracked down all the family trails, even the three wives of her great-great-grandfather, and found not one native American in the direct line. She had cross-examined her mother about the enrollment form and was told that her oldest sister had pressured her mother to enroll them, because, "since the family had been in the Dakotas for three generations, there must be Indian blood". Evidently, the form was forged to get the daughter off the back of her mother.....The tribe refused to accept the enrollment. She did note that my grandmother's brother had had children who had married in to the tribe, but they were not in the direct line in my family. She has done geneologies for both my grandfather's family and my grandmother's family and I am sending her the necessary funds to provide me zip drives of both family histories.
No known native American blood in these veins. It's probably all privileged white folks...Scots, Anglos, Germans. I guess I'll find out.
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Post by JoeP on Oct 30, 2016 22:53:46 GMT
So you're just immigrant stock.
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Post by whollygoats on Oct 31, 2016 0:39:57 GMT
Yep. Of course, native Americans are just immigrant stock, too.
That's why I prefer the Canuckistani definition of the peoples as 'First Nations'. They are immigrant stock, but they got here first. By several thousand years.
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Post by Kye on Nov 1, 2016 19:44:10 GMT
Well, that's disappointing...
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Post by whollygoats on Nov 1, 2016 22:03:56 GMT
I still stand with the Standing Rock Tribal Council and the protesters. I'm just not related.
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