Native Ancestry

One year, when I was real young I remember getting a bow and suction cup arrow with a Sioux style feather headdress for my birthday. I also remember one of the older neighbor kids getting stuck in the eye with one of the suction cups. It's funny the things we remember.

When I was in high school I remember having a certain lack of motivation and purpose most of the time. I don't remember what year it was but my Dad talked with me one day and he asked me if I knew that we had Native American ancestry in our family. I was surprised but excited. Dad gave me an old book that he had when he was a young man. It was a book of Native American arts and crafts book by Ben C. Hunt. I occupied most of my free time and too much of the time I was supposed to be doing homework, with this book and other activities with my friends, Travis, Clint, Micah, Dave, Loren, Jason and Byron. We learned all we could with the resources we had at hand and from others about Native Americans and their culture. Our talents and knowledge grew overtime but, that is another story. Since then I have always had a big interest in any native culture.

I have not done much research to find exactly where the Native ancestral line lies on my Dad's side of the family. Good thing is, I have started working on my families genealogy. Slowly but surely. Other family members have done much more work on our family tree than I have. The word from Grandma Tiger (Medlar/Perry) is that our Native ancestry came from the Cherokee Nation.

My interest in native cultures continues still today.