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Post by Jimmy on May 4, 2008 15:20:02 GMT -5
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Post by hermin1 on May 4, 2008 21:11:04 GMT -5
Jimmy is the white Earth Reservation a chippewa reservation?
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Post by Jimmy on May 5, 2008 0:03:21 GMT -5
Jimmy is the white Earth Reservation a chippewa reservation? Yes it is, but I have found, in doing my own family tree anyway, that there was some intermixture between the Dakota and the Chippewa (or Ojibwe) of White Earth. |
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Post by wanbliho on May 5, 2008 11:32:00 GMT -5
Jimmy, have you ever seen a Susan Thomas in any of these censuses? .
Thanks for all you do.
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Post by Jimmy on May 5, 2008 12:00:28 GMT -5
Jimmy, have you ever seen a Susan Thomas in any of these censuses? . Thanks for all you do. Not that I remember. |
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Post by hermin1 on May 5, 2008 12:33:04 GMT -5
yes, you are right , Old Betsy's mom was Chippewa , and wasn't Wapahasha the I 's mother a Chippewa?
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Post by webchief on May 6, 2008 17:51:39 GMT -5
yes, you are right , Old Betsy's mom was Chippewa , and wasn't Wapahasha the I 's mother a Chippewa? And . . . . Wapahasha II's two "wives" were Ho Chunk (Winnebago). I mentioned that only to say that searching only for Mdewakanton documentation will limit a researcher's documentation resources. There is no "perfect transition" from today's DNA, fingerprints, civil birth records and church baptismal records from what decided a family connection during the days before the European incursion into what is now north-central North American. Therefore it is important to look in every available database. The European missionaries and other "recorders" of United States and Minnesota history could never (comfortably or successfully) explain how a union between the indigenous males and females of different bands, tribes or nations would result in the female half of that union and their progeny (children) being considered members of the male's band, tribe and nation. ( And I am probably not describing this identification dilemma very well either ! ) History is more dynamic (changing) than static (fixed) so we must continue to search all sources and question their validity as well. I supposed there is nothing very helpful to the original poster of this thread but I just needed to vent my opinion (and frustration) in why we cannot find "exact answers." |
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