Surprising how easy it is for society to believe that celebrities have indian ancestors, but what about the rest of us.  Do we need to be a movie star to be believed?? 
The Bureau of Indian Affairs expects us to prove it, prove who was native american, and prove how much indian blood we actually have, and even then we may get rejected from the Indian Nations.
 
Many of my ancestors' applications were rejected.
 
For instance, the marvelous Wayne Newton insisted his line to Pocahontas earned him the right to move her burial to America but he failed.
 
Cher may or may not have an indian grandmother..
 
The wonderful actor Will Rogers had a mother from Alabama, named Scrimpshire, and her family is also in my lineage with my grandma Sellers family. Then my daddys mother Luella Coonfield Cochran family spent the 1920s in his Rogers County, Oklahoma in the town of Chelsea, and some of her relatives actually showed up as native american on the census images.
 
My parents were fond of Hank Williams, seeing him play guitar on his porch, while they were courting and walking along holding hands and his father was Alonzo Williams, but what about Alonzo's wife or even his mother... 
 
 When mothers great grandpa Peter Bozeman died, there was an estate audit signed by a Nathaniel Williams, who had also followed him from South Carolina to settle in the Pintlala/Hope Hull areas.  Nothing is known about Peter's mother, yet his brother John is believed to be half breed, found living in Mississippi indian nation.
 
In July 1937, the Williams and McNeil families opened a boarding house on South Perry Street in downtown Montgomery. It was at this time that Williams decided to change his name informally from Hiram to Hank, a name he said was better suited to his desired career in country music.
[citation needed]During the same year he participated in a talent show at the Empire Theater. He won the first prize of $15, singing his first original song "WPA Blues". Williams wrote the lyrics and used the tune of Riley Puckett's "Dissatisfied".[24] He never learned to read music and, for the rest of his career, based his compositions in storytelling.[25] After school and on weekends Williams sang and played his Silvertoneguitar on the sidewalk in front of the WSFA radio studios.[26] His recent win at the Empire Theater and the street performances caught the attention of WSFA producers who occasionally invited him to perform on air.So many listeners contacted the radio station asking for more of "the singing kid"  From Georgiana....Widely considered country music's first superstar, Hiram "Hank" Williams was born September 17, 1923, in Mount Olive, Alabama. Cut from rural stock, Williams, the third child of Lon and Lillie Williams, grew up in a household that never had much money and nothing is written about his mom.
 
Recently I lost a dear elderly friend, Marie Linn, who said that her father had found her mother on an indian reservation around Georgiana, AL, so 
Marie and her siblings were basically half breeds, but she had a beautiful olive complexion and such a peaceful attitude about life. I came to respect her and love her stories about her life.  She had become such a wonderful storyteller.
 
Many songs refer to our indian ancestors,
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Reservation_(The_Lament_of_the_Cherokee_Reservation_Indian) by adordable Mark Lindsay and then http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indian_Outlaw 

 

The song is an up-tempo set in minor key, backed by tom-tom drums and fiddle. The narrator describes himself as a rebellious American Indian character, "Half Cherokee andChoctaw". He describes, among other things, his pursuit of a Chippewa lover.

The song contains a sample of John D. Loudermilk's song "Indian Reservation,[1] which is sang as shouting at the end ("Cherokee people, Cherokee tribe! / So proud to live, so proud to die").

A dance remix of the single was also made. This remix appears on McGraw's 2010 albumNumber One Hits. The song was considered controversial at the time, due to its stereotypical portrayal of Native Americans

 

 

CHER had a beautiful song, Half Breed, and she was mixed. Cher was born Cherilyn Sarkisian in El Centro, California, on May 20, 1946.[5] Her father, John Sarkisian, was an Armenian-American truck driver with drug and gambling problems, and her mother,Jackie Jean Crouch, was an occasional model and bit-part actress with Irish, English, German, French,Dutch, and Cherokee ancestry

 

It was the first international release from Cher's album Half-Breed.

 It was meant to be sold to the American market. It tells the story of a young woman who is half white and halfCherokee and describes the troubles faced by the main character. The song offers a scenario in which whites often called her "Indian squaw" and Native Americans never accepted her as one of their own, telling her that she was "white by law".

This often refers to my family, because my mother was native american, documented as white, but daddy still called her his little indian squaw. I still continue their family research, both great grandparents claiming their indian ancestry.  Plus we lived in Broken Arrow, Oklahoma when I was born. Older census images show their ancestors living by many famous indian names, I have no doubt there were intermarriages which I may never locate.


 


Recorded with legendary Nashville guitarist Hank Garland.
Was the 3rd inductee in the Native American Music Hall of Fame in 1999 because of his Muskogee Creek and Tsalagi (Cherokee) ancestry. Jimi Hendrix and Buddy Red Bow were numbers 1 and 2 respectively.
At his untimely funeral, C&W greats Roy Acuff, Red Foley and Ernest Tubb respectively sang, "I Saw the Light," "Peace in the Valley" and "Beyond the Sunset"
Half-brother of Leila Griffin.
Son of Alonzo "Lon" Williams and Lillie Williams.
Cousin of Walt McNeil.
Cousin of Lewis Fitzgerald.
Made his final public appearance at the "Skyline Club" in Austin, Texas, on December 19, 1952.
According to Jimmy Grabowske, the steel guitar player for the House Band at the Skyline Club in Austin, Hank was only able to perform for about half an hour at his last show at the Skyline on December 19, 1952. Jimmy says Hank started off well, but after about thirty minutes it was obvious something was wrong, and Hank started shaking. He was unable to continue, so Jody Meredith, the House Band leader, finished the show. Hank died thirteen days later on January 1, 1953.
In the video for the 1989 duet with Hank Jr. "Tear In My Beer", Hank is shown singing the song from an old clip of a television appearance. Computer graphics are used to show Hank's mouth appearing to sing the words to "Tear In My Beer". In fact, the song Hank is actually singing is "Hey, Good Lookin'".
Godmother of his son Hank Williams Jr. was June Carter Cash
 
 
My mom was Anne Carter. And a Nathaniel Williams signed documents for her ancestors.
 

Claims of Native American ancestry and Comanche adoption

In interviews in 2002 and 2011, Depp stated that he "guesses" he has Native American ancestry,[110][111] and that his "great-grandmother was quite a bit of Native American, she grew up Cherokee or maybe Creek Indian."[111] However, he cites family stories and Kentucky lore among non-Natives, rather than any evidence, for this belief.[112] Depp's claims came under question when Indian Country Today Media Network stated that Depp has never inquired about his heritage nor does theCherokee Nation recognize him as a member.[113] Depp's continued claims, despite all evidence indicating he has no Native American ancestry, have lead to criticism from the Native community, as well as criticism of his choice to portray a Native American character (Tonto).[113][114][115][116][117]

Depp was adopted as an honorary son by LaDonna Harris, a member of theComanche Nation, on May 22, 2012, making him an honorary member of Harris' family, but not a member of the tribe............

“I’m part Cherokee–that’s why I’ve got the head of an Indian chief tattooed on my arm.”

— Johnny Depp, 1987

Depp was born in Owensboro, Kentucky, the son of Betty Sue Palmer (née Wells), a waitress, and Nathan Morton Hyde., a History Teacher. He has one brother, Daniel, who is a novelist, and two sisters, Christie (now his personal manager) and Debbie. Depp has French, German, Cherokee, and Irish ancestry. According to biographies, the Depp family in the United States began with a French Huguenot immigrant, Pierre Deppe or Dieppe, who settled in Virginia around 1700, part of a refugee colony situated above the falls on the James River.

http://nativeamericanencyclopedia.com/johnny-depp/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Native_American_actors


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Miley Cyrus Details

Birth Name: Destiny Hope Cyrus

Birth Place: Nashville, Tennessee, USA

Date of Birth: November 23, 1992

Ethnicity: Scottish, Irish, English, French, Welsh, Dutch

and

Cherokee Indian

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A Quest by a Dream Team to Bring Pocahontas Home

Singer Wayne Newton has enlisted crack forensic experts to locate the Powhatan princess' remains in England for reburial in America.

Pocahontas, the legendary princess who befriended the Jamestown colonists, was buried in an English graveyard 383 years ago, but the location of her remains was lost over the centuries. Now, prompted by entertainer Wayne Newton, Lee has organized a "dream team" of forensic scientists to find her.

Lee, a world-renowned forensic scientist and Connecticut's Public Safety Commissioner, was recruited by Newton last year. Newton, whose Native American ancestry includes Pocahontas' Powhatan tribe, showed up in Lee's office one day to plead for his help in a longtime quest to find and return her remains to her native Virginia.

Lee dismissed Newton's request at first but was soon won over.

"His sincerity in wanting to bring her back here to close a piece of American history touched me," Lee said. Newton, who could not be reached for comment, has called Pocahontas' burial abroad an "atrocity."

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Marriage in Early Virginia Indian Society

Contributed by Helen C. Rountree

What is known of marriage in early Virginia Indian society is limited to the observations of Jamestown colonists, visiting English observers, and later American historians, and is mostly applicable to the Algonquian-speakingPowhatans of Tsenacomoco, a paramount chiefdom of twenty-eight to thirty-two groups living in Tidewater Virginia. Marriage was crucial for survival in Indian society, because men and women needed to work as partners in order to accomplish their many daily and seasonal tasks. The man initiated courtship and looked for a woman who would perform her assigned tasks well. The woman could decline a marriage offer, but if she did choose to accept it, her parents also needed to approve the offer. The groom's parents, meanwhile, paid a bridewealth, or marriage payment, to the bride's parents to compensate them for her lost labor. Men were allowed to have additional wives, so long as the husband could afford to provide for them; for chiefs especially, these wives served as symbols of wealth. It is estimated that the paramount chief Powhatan (Wahunsonacock)had as many as one hundred wives during his lifetime. While a man's first marriage was expected to last for life, additional marriages were likely negotiated for shorter terms. Unless a woman was married to a chief, she was allowed to conduct extramarital affairs, provided she had her husband's permission (which was usually given). Punishment for dishonesty on this score could be severe, however. Virginia Indians held onto their marriage traditions long after contact with the English, and marriage between Indians and the English was rare

http://www.encyclopediavirginia.org/Marriage_in_Early_Virginia_Indian_Society

Courtship and Marriage Ceremony

The Powhatan Indians of Tsenacomoco expected men and women to perform specific and very different roles. In addition to bearing children, women farmed, collected fuel for their fires, butchered animal carcasses, cooked, made household implements, foraged, and supervised young children. For their part, men hunted, fished, cleared fields, waged war, and participated in political and military councils. Because it was impossible to survive by accomplishing just one of these sets of tasks, and because no one person could do everything, Indian men and women depended on partners of the opposite sex for their survival. For that reason, marriage was generally an economic, not a romantic, arrangement. According to written records by English colonists, only weroances, or chiefs, considered physical beauty to be an important attribute in choosing a wife.

Women became eligible for marriage once they reached puberty and were able to fulfill their obligation to bear children. Men became eligible once they had completed the huskanaw, a ritual that initiated them into manhood. Only then were they considered able to fulfill their obligation to hunt, fish, and fight. The man initiated courtship by presenting his potential bride with gifts of food, thus demonstrating his ability to provide. She was free to decline the proposal, but if she did not, the suitor negotiated a bridewealth with her parents. The opposite of a dowry, the bridewealth was an amount of wealth paid by the groom (or his parents) to the bride's parents, presumably to compensate them for her lost labor once she left to live with her husband. A feast would be held to celebrate a successful negotiation.

The man then returned to his parents' town (if indeed the bride and groom did live in different towns) and prepared a house and furnishings, both of which were probably made for him by his female relatives. The two families then met for a formal marriage ceremony, apparently at the bride's home. After the groom delivered the bridewealth, the bride's father or some other elder joined the couple's hands together and broke a long chain of shell beads over their heads. After another feast, the couple took up residence in their new house.

 

So Chief Powhatan had 100 wives and just as many children, most you will never hear about,  and my daddy's cousin, Dorline Gray Teegardin, in his mother's Coonfield lineage, had joined a Pocahontas Society, while doing her own family research.  Dorline and cousin Martha Hawes worked on our Kentucky heritage of Luella's grandpa Little, the Wrights and and of course the WEATHERFORDS of Virginia, who migrated south mostly during the American Revolution and also had more than one wife!!!  Martha's grandfather was L. Powhatan Little, famous in Kentucky, for his research and writings. His grandmother was a Catherine Weatherford, daughter of Charles, so think about that. I found a Patsy in VA and KY who may have been his first wife. Charles was also father of Chief Red Eagle, known as William Weatherford, yet by another wife, Sehoy. From there where did Charles go? Where did he die? Where is he buried? .

 

So it is easy to believe a celebrity claim but what about the rest of us.

The Trail of Tears removed some Cherokee from the northern tip of Alabama and Georgia but most of my folks were in the south.....in Creek Territory where many other tribes took refuge, so our ancestors could come from many tribes, throughout Virginia, throughout the south and among many tribes indeed.
Daddy's sister, Aunt Bernice, born in 1915, said that their grandfather John Little, after the civil war, had refused the offer in Kentucky to remove to the free indian land allotments yet in 1900 he did take the homestead in Arkansas, which did have many indians residing there....so....? Dad had a lot of possibilities in Kentucky, and Ohio, from the immigrants of Virginia, Rhode Island, Massachesetts, and the New York Indian Country.
 
So the research began 100 years ago, as Bernice and Dorline took on the works of cousin Laura, daughter of L. Powhatan Little.
 
My mother's side has many names registered on the indian rolls and I just need to save the funds to order the family packets to see where we fit in, because she has a large amount of possibilities. Sadly on the census images, there was too much hatred and prejudice against the red man, that they only wrote down black or white, after the Trail of Tears, the indian had no rights, no civil rights, no land rights except for dry dusty Oklahoma.
 
We grew up around so many indians, my best friend was apache, and we never thought about color. Attending an indian festival is a beautiful inspiring experience full of love, colors, music, and dance.  My parents loved to dance.
 
I love the dance.
 When your mother says she is indian - then she is! And she is a star!