Honest Injun
So I was reading about this special election that I find troubling, and it got me thinking about my own heritage. I've never been especially interested in genealogy, so I've only got what little family lore I've retained to work from. But the story as well as I know it goes like this: my father's father's mother was a full-blooded Shawnee Indian
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Solved! Your great grandmother was not a full blood Shawnee,
Read Tecumseh, A Life by John Sugden, Henry Holt, New York, 1998.
Absentee Shawnee are not related to Tecumseh: See Sugden, John, Tracking Tecumseh's Descendants, The Hoosier Genealogist, Vol. 42, No. 4, p/ 206-16, 2002. Mucogee Nation history recounts the period of 1650-1750 when the Shawnee Kispoko division lived amongst the Creeks (Muscogee) in the Gulf Coast. The Kispoko were the last of the five divisions to gather around lower Shawneetown about 1750. It was one of the very few historical times that occured. By 1787, they were again splitting,never to do so again, even today. Although three Shawnee tribes now exist in Oklahoma, there is little incentive for them to re-congragate.
Lawsie_me2
Norman OK
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