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The will was not faked -- not by Joanne Pezzullo and a simple google search would have brought it up as well as many other mentions. Old newspapers are full of articles about Chief Samuel Brown as well as his dealings with Jospeh Mahan. He and his wife Mattie are on the Oklahoma census, he listed as Indian interpreter.
They may have been decimated by the Cherokee-- who acted for Wiggan and Long -- but they were not 'wiped out' -- they did go to Oklahoma with the Creek but retained their language and their culture. Swanton puts their towns in East Tennessee and some early researchers have put them on Newman's Ridge -- and joined the Cherokee in North Carolina but left because of the language barrier.
It may be circustantial that Mattie Brown's ancestors came from Newman's Ridge, it may be circumstantial that the grave shelters built by the Yuchi are also found on Newman's Ridge but then most of ALL Indian tribal histories are based on circumstantial evidence.
''Yuchis are not recognized as a sovereign people by the Creek Nation or the United States'' -- that does not mean they are extinct
http://www.amazon.ca/Yuchi-Ceremonial-Life-Performance-Contemporary/dp/0803225946
EXCERPT FROM:
''On November 23,1956, Samuel W. Brown, Jr., dictated and
sealed a transfer of his chieftainship to his fourth child, Jewell Brown Caton, and asked that the transfer not be opened or recorded before six months time had elapsed after his death. He predicted that the six months waiting period would reveal any traitors to the tribe. Early in July 1958 the original document was carried from Mathis, Texas, where he had died, to Muskogee, Oklahoma and opened and recorded with the United States Indian Office :''
Read the rest;
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v037/v037p497.pdf
http://digital.library.okstate.edu/Chronicles/v037/v037p480.pdf
JOANNE PEZZULLO
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