Chat
|
Daily Search
|
My GenForum
|
Community Standards
|
Terms of Service
|
|
|
See them listed as white doesn't make any sense because my grandpa and his siblings are so far from white it is unreal. I did find this website stating that there where Blackfoot there but they were going by a different name.
The documentation of a band known as the "Blackfoot of the Seneca" in WV, and the close associations of the Saponi/Tutelo people with the Seneca in the 18th century, combined with the other associations of the term Blackfoot with the Saponi/Tutelo is still another shred of tantalizing evidence.
Adding to the evidence of Appalachian migrations is the very high incidence of the Blackfoot ID in families from Clay and Knox Counties in KY. Some of these families have surnames, and lineages, leading back to the Piedmont Siouan. http://www.saponitown.com/OtherBlackfootPageFour.htm
THis is just a little bit from the above website:
The first information I encountered linking the word Blackfoot to the Saponi was in Richard and Vicky Haithcock’s book, “Occaneechi Saponi and Tutelo of the Saponi Nation: aka Monacan and Piedmont Catawba.” The Haithcocks are part of the Ohio Saponi community, where the association of the word “Blackfoot” with Saponi has been held traditionally. I’ve presented the word “Sissipaha” as a link to the word “Blackfoot,” simply because it fits so cleanly with the recorded Tutelo words. I may also be motivated by a desire to trace the word to a single, tangible source. It’s my understanding, however, that The Ohio Saponi feel that the word “Blackfoot” refers to the entire confederation of Saponi - that the word “Saponi” itself is a corruption of words for “Blackfoot.”
Lawrence Dunmore III, Esq., and former chairperson of the Occaneechi Saponi Band of the Saponi Nation in Hillsborough, NC, has studied the Tutelo language extensively and explained to me that there is confusion surrounding the English corruption of Saponi tribal names.
Notify Administrator about this message?
Followups:
|
| http://genforum.genealogy.com/ai/messages/23388.html | ||
 |
Link to GenForum Add Forum |
|