Injun' pics?

[S&WIowegan]

My wife is Pennsylvania Dutch on both sides and her DNA shows Native American. When the Penn family sent recruiters to Germany in the 1700s, her ancestors signed up. Germany was a perpetual war zone. These settlers pushed west in Pennsylvania. Native American wives were not uncommon but, sadly, families didn't talk about it much. Being part Native American is not as uncommon as many imagine.

 

[427mach1]

Several years ago we stopped at the Navajo trading post just east of the Grand Canyon South Rim. One of the booths was run by a young lady and her grandmother and they were selling the grandmother's beautiful handcrafted turquoise jewelry. We talked to the young lady for a while; I don't know if her grandmother spoke or understood English as the granddaughter was translating. We were taken by her beauty, even though she was quite elderly. After purchasing some jewelry (we just had to have a piece the grandmother made!) we asked if we could take her grandmother's picture. My wife painted this picture from the photo. I wish we would have gotten their contact information to send them a print.

 

[Stevens]

Here is something a little different, an old stone Mortar and Pestle used for grinding, pounding, grain, meat, whatever. My Mother's great Grandfather found them on his farm near Eugene Oregon in the 1800s.
The mortar has a neat ridge running horizontally about midway up, maybe decorative?
I do have quite a few stone artifacts from Central America and Hawaii. Also some American Indian arrowheads I'll post pics of them later.
Steve W

 

[chaparrito]

Picking up artifacts or worse: digging them up can get you in a world of hurt, especially on public land. It also removes and obscures potentially valuable cultural information. Once an artifact is removed from its original location all of the contextual information it could have provided is lost.

By the way, in order to be "1/4" indian requires a 4/4 blood ******* (full blooded) grandparent. Your mother's or father's mother or father was a full blooded native american. Not some distant ancestor. The Cherokee tribe of Oklahoma is one of very few tribes that do not have a blood ******* requirement for enrollment. Instead, prospective enrollees need to provide a verified document trail leading to a member enrolled under the Dawes Indian Enrollment Act.

 

[chaparrito]

Why in the world would the filters here asterisk-out the word

Q@U%A*N%T$U@M ??

 

[TX-Dennis]

I am a tiny bit Choctaw. My great great great grandmother was full Choctaw.

I said tiny bit . . .

I never met her, of course, but my grandmother used to talk about her. She said when she was little her great grandma would look at the kids but never speak to them. If they tried to talk to her she would just grunt. I would assume she spoke English, but I don't really know for certain. Her husband's last name was Ratliff, so he would have been of British descent.

Strange, thinking about it I realized I don't even know her name. My grandmother only referred to her as "Old Ma." She called her grandmother Ma Ratliff, and the great grandmother Old Ma. I need to look in the old family Bible and see if her name is there.

 

[JayFramer]

This thread title is racist. I don't understand why I was docked using it in a quote several years ago, but the OP gets a free ride?

 

[misswired]

This thread title is racist. I don't understand why I was docked using it in a quote several years ago, but the OP gets a free ride?

Rest easy friend, I've just completed a miserable, self-imposed two day banishment.
Saved the Mods a little trouble.... and everyone's happy.
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