Spoetry - Submit your own Spoems

chofixico (Sunday 30th of November 2008 06:37:01 PM)

My grandmother's grandmother was Cherokee. She herself looked more Native than white, with black hair and darker skin. She was a feisty old bird and was quite a character, but I digress... I hope to find information about her one day. All I know is that my grandmother was from northern Alabama. By the way, great video.

NaturaTerra (Sunday 30th of November 2008 05:19:41 PM)

Amen!!

pamlange (Friday 28th of November 2008 12:27:04 PM)

Please do not include all whites, there are some of us who recognize the cruelty put upon the people. Some of us are reincarnates of the Native people, would they choose us, if we could not be 'changed'? Love and compassion know no boundrys.

devulboy1 (Friday 28th of November 2008 12:33:28 AM)

Definitely my Cherokee ancestors went on the Trail of Tears, but began to settle down in northern Arkansas & southern Missouri, and finally most of the Underwoods (the surname from Scottish and Irish ancestors) lived in Pattillo Mountain, north of Sallisaw OK. My late grandpa was born in 1922 on the Osage reservation in Skiatook, north of Tulsa, but he wasn't born a citizen! It was Pres. Coolidge signed a federal act in 1926 to gave all over-half blood American Indians right of citizenship. +

devulboy1 (Friday 28th of November 2008 12:27:35 AM)

You're ancestors must be part of the Eastern band in Swain county, No. Carolina west of Asheville, whom successfully received federal recognition in 1904 and granted autonomy for ther Indian reservation in 1934. My aunt researched our Cherokee side and came upon several ancestral groups from northern Georgia, parts of western North and South Carolina, and in eastern Kentucky. Out of 7 clans, the prime one was the Blue but then the clan kinship broke down and has other clans intermarry them. +

tranurse (Friday 28th of November 2008 05:22:05 AM)

thank you for the help. all i really know is that they ended up in ohio, looking for work. but i have heard about west virginia also. but, now i have a place to start looking. thanks so much.

devulboy1 (Friday 28th of November 2008 12:18:34 AM)

I'm half-French from my father's side from France, it's my maternal side originally from eastern Oklahoma. Her late father (my grandpa) was light-looking, but undoubtedly a person had Cherokee/Osage/Shawnee Indian heritage, but his father (my greatgrandpa) was half-Scottish and his mother (my greatgrandma) was full-blooded. She taught my Mom a few Cherokee words, how to smoke tobacco naturally and about Cherokee religious tales of the corn goddess, as well the Selo-and-Giduwi story to her. +

devulboy1 (Friday 28th of November 2008 12:12:06 AM)

"O-ci-yo" is the greeting, but also spelled "O-si-yo" when one attempts to rewrite the words in the English language. The Cherokee are one of the few Native American peoples in North America to have their own alphabet, the Cherokee Syllabary invented by Sequoyah, a Cherokee educator & linguist in the 1810's to help his tribe become fully literate in a few years in their mother tongue. I'm of Western cherokee/Oklahoma cherokee descent, but the eastern tribe fought to stay in their homeland. +

OAlittlechief (Friday 28th of November 2008 11:13:51 AM)

My ancestors went through many hardships to protect our culture and our land, that's why today I honor them.

devulboy1 (Friday 28th of November 2008 12:04:09 AM)

So much is true, including the current US government's inability to repair their predecessors' actions towards Native American peoples. I'm of Cherokee/Osage descent from my Mom but I'm white Caucasian as well lives in Sou. Cal. who experienced a mild level of racism by those who noticed I'm an "Indian". I knew well the Trail of Tears translated from "Nunna daula annawi" or a simple term "Tlo-va-sa" means "tragedy" occurred 160 years ago, but lets never forgot this & other events against them.+