Siyo! My great grandfather was also on the Dawes Rolls, adopted Shawnee, and our line goes back to Blackfish.

I'm part Hikawi

I agree with you. The data presented is accessible and should be easily understood. I'm Native American, which is a term that's a complete change from the way I was taught by my American Indian grandparents. Aside from being taught to call myself a Cherokee American, which is the only other way I was taught as a kid when my grandparents taught me our language and culture. It might be interesting to know that we American Indians represent the minority who enlist in the U.S. military at the highest rate per capita. My Cherokee grandfather was a USN gunner's mate serving in the Pacific Theater during World War II and I served in the USAF beginning just after high school. In my family, it's traditional to serve in the U.S. military and I am proud to have served, as was my grandfather. Great observations about an educational presentation that was entertaining as well. Blessings to you and yours.

It's hard for me to say, but it would likely have been one of the more recent ones- either the Whittlesey Culture, or the Erie. They were fighting over land back and forth in the years leading up to the Beaver Wars, when both were destroyed. Whittlesey would have buried everyone 4 ft deep in neat rows, with all the dead facing either east or west & probably originally marked each grave with a spirit house, but these were almost entirely made of wood & would have rotted away by the time settlers arrived. Erie had an Iroquoian style burial ground, which was very different- bones buried in neat little bundles with grave goods & gifts &, I think, in much more disarray.

Also, when was that last Native man around in Parkman? There was a group of Ottawa in Trumbull County until sometime around the War of 1812. I was wondering where they ended up. Since the Ottawa were so far removed from the collective hunting grounds set aside by the Wyandot in northeast Ohio, they were actually allowed by the other tribes to maintain villages in Ashtabula County & were evicted by the military in the 1790s, just before whites began moving in, but according to the local history in Trumbull County, they were pretty much just wandering around between Newton Falls & Mespo for several decades & never actually left.

I apologize for the late response. The my father thought he passed away around 1900 but im afraid I don't have a more specific date.

​@@4thgates34Thanks for the input. The last time we have a written record was around 1811-1812, so we are clearly missing something. Yeah, I've been researching it more & was kind of shocked that there were dedicated Native villages in Portage & Geauga Counties until around 1811- not just those Ottawa, but also Senecas & possibly some Wyandot. The way the early history of Trumbull County was taught to me in school made me think there was just Wyandot living much further off who were just travelling here now & again from west of Cleveland. They never really teach for the whole county, either- just whatever Township you happen to live in, so you miss things. Like, they were often camping on the outskirts of Warren, but Warren history never brings them up, only Champion history does. Sad thing is, the best explanation I can come up with for where they went if they didn't intermarry themselves away with whites is that they moved to southern Ohio & tried to join the cult Tecumseh's brother, the Prophet, made. Perhaps this one guy stayed behind to look after things & they all assumed they would come back one day, but they got caught up in the Shawnee War & never returned, so the man died alone? If I remember correctly, didn't Geauga County divide off some Indian land in their early days, on the outskirts of Parkman? I swear ai heard about that once, somewhere, but I can't find any info of it online.

We know the names of four tribes, between early explorers who got up to the edge of Ohio & the French up in Canada- Erie, Miami, Mascouten & Mosopelea- albeit admitting the Mosopelea requires assuming that the Shawnee were always here is bull. The Miami are actually interesting, because they were here before, were chased off during the Beaver Wars, then came & took some of their original land back after.

@@MrChristianDT Thanks, good info! I'm looking for tribes downstate in Indiana and western Ohio. Aware of Miami (Wea and Piankashaw) included, and the Potowatami who all were exiled to Wisconsin and moved back. If anyone has info and source I'm interested.

​@@charlietallman9583You'll probably like this Canadian study on an old French map of the Great Lakes from the 1630s, then. ontarioarchaeology.org/wp-content/uploads/oa051-02_steckley.pdf

Actually, not very many at all & the ones who moved here were from the Virginia groups, who had already completely lost their culture a while ago, but they did say their ancestors came from Ohio not that long ago. I'm just of a mind that they were the Mound Builders in northern Ohio that the Iroquois say the Erie chased out. The three mounds up here that were labeled Hopewell & excavated in the 70s happen to bear a striking resemblance to theirs in Virginia, just a little more complex in design. Also, that would put the Monongahela Culture right next door to them, who lived in the same style of dwelling as the Saponi did.

finders keepers

Early pioneers of archeology were "scientists" that were horrified at the prospect of giant human bones giving credence to the book of Genesis in the Christian Bible, so they disposed of the evidence wherever they found them so that only their "scientific" findings would be fact not some religious dogma they despised.

"Look at the Bones."

Sorry. West Virginia.

The problem is there isn't a whole lot left who actually know what happened in this area back then. People have tried.

This isn't elementary school. 🤡

So? Just because you did, doesn't mean you have the facts. 🤡💩🤨🤔🥱

Yet ask any Tribe from Canada,North or South American and we ALL WILL SAY WE CAME FROM THE EAST ON A GREAT CANOE.

Seminoles don't look Asian

The ones who they call Indian today did come from Asia the aboriginals which they Ignore on this video never needed a boat to come as were already here.

Are you one of the aboriginals with dark skinned or the natives that did come from the East who they label as Indian today?

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