Hello, My name is Judy Ann Kelley Townsend, My Father is Billy Gene Kelley Sr. son of Suzie Marie Roberts and Grandson of Viola Ellsworth Clubb Roberts. Who's Mother is Violet Brown who Married Franklin Club. She is the daughter of Alexander Brown, Who's Mother is Naky Canoe.. As I read your comments I'm wondering why you are trying to claim Cherokee, I believe my sixth great Grandfather ( Dragging Canoe) came from a tribe out of Quebec, and Naky's Mom is Natchez.. Both of my 6th Great Grandparents we're adopted as babies to the Cherokee tribe, there parents killed in war.
Forgive me, but that will cause a rejection.. But we are Native. The Ward's are my kin
they do not know me but I am aware of them.
I would love to here what you think,
Thanks to The Great Spirit., Your Cousin ...
He was the son of Attakullakulla ("Little Carpenter"), who was born to the Nipissing. He and his mother were captured when he was an infant, and they were adopted into the Cherokee tribe and assimilated. His mother was Nionne Ollie ("Tamed Doe), born to the Natchez and adopted as a captive by Oconostota's household.[2]
They lived with the Overhill Cherokee on the Little Tennessee River. Dragging Canoe survived smallpox at a young age, which left his face marked. According to Cherokee legend, his name is derived from an incident in his early childhood. Wanting to join a war party moving against a neighboring tribe, the Shawnee, his father told him he could stay with the war party as long as he could carry his canoe. He tried to prove his readiness for war by carrying the heavy canoe, but he could only manage to drag it.[3]
The Nipissing First Nation consists of historic First Nation band governments of Ojibwe and Algonquin descent who, following succeeding cultures of ancestors, have lived in the area of Lake Nipissing in the Canadian province of Ontario for about 9,400 years. They are referred to by many names in European historical records, since the colonists often adopted names given to them by other nations.
The Nipissing are generally considered part of the Anishinaabe peoples, a grouping of people speaking Algonquin languages, which includes the Odawa, Ojibwe and Algonquins. This broad heritage is likely the result of the Nipissings' living at a geographical crossroads, a watershed divide.
Natchez people
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Natchez
Pre-contact distribution of the Natchez people
Total population
(6,000[citation needed])
Regions with significant populations
United States Mississippi- Natchez Bluffs,(historical)
Oklahoma
Languages
English, Natchez
Religion
Christianity, Native
Related ethnic groups
Muscogee, Cherokee
The Natchez /nætʃəz/[1][2] (Natchez pronunciation [naːʃt͡seh][3]) are a Native American people who originally lived in the Natchez Bluffs area in the Lower Mississippi Valley, near the present-day city of Natchez, Mississippi in the United States. They spoke a language with no known close relatives, although it may be very distantly related to the Muskogean languages of the Creek Confederacy.[4]
The Natchez are noted for being the only Mississippian culture with complex chiefdom characteristics to have survived long into the period after the European colonization of America began. Others had generally declined a century or two before European encounter. The Natchez are also noted for having had an unusual social system of nobility classes and exogamous marriage practices. It was a strongly matrilineal kinship society, with descent reckoned along female lines. The paramount chief named the Great Sun was always the son of the Female Sun, whose daughter would be the mother of the next Great Sun. This ensured that the chiefdom stayed under the control of the single Sun lineage. Ethnologists have not reached consensus on how the Natchez social system originally functioned, and the topic is somewhat controversial.
Around 1730, after several wars with the French, the Natchez were defeated and dispersed. Most survivors were sold by the French into slavery in the West Indies; others took refuge with other tribes, such as the Muskogean Chickasaw and Creek, and the Iroquoian-speaking Cherokee. Today, most Natchez families and communities are found in Oklahoma, where Natchez members are enrolled in the federally recognized Cherokee and Muscogee (Creek) nations in Oklahoma. Two Natchez communities are recognized by the state of South Carolina.
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