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There may be another reason .... Carlisle Indian School or other such schools that would kidnap NA children and force them into being white. Sometimes it was just easier to pass as white.townmouse said:I was really surprised. There's no denying the heritage of the family, but the anecdotal stuff is fairly sketchy. Both grandparents are dead, and my uncle went nuts during the years that he was doing the genealogy.
But I grew up hearing their names and when they lived, and there they all were in the rolls. So that's something. I don't know how it all worked, but it is surprising that anybody in my family would bother reporting anything to anybody.
Part of the reason Grandpa wouldn't talk much about it...his dad was a bootleg whisky runner and Grandpa got in the habit, during childhood, of refusing to say anything about his dad :haha: