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MY FATHER ANCESTRY IS CHOCTAW FROM MISSISSIPPI, BEFORE MY GRANDMOTHER DIED I WOULD ASK QUESTIONS ABOUT HISTORY AND SUCH, BUT SHE SAID THAT THE CHOCTAW AND THE AFRICANS WAS BOTH ENSLAVED BECAUSE BOTH GROUPS LOOK THE SAME AND YOU COULD ONLY TELL THE DIFFERENCE ONLY BY LANAUAGE. SHE SAID THEY SHIP THE CHOCTAW AND OTHER DARK PEOPLE OF TRIBES HERE IN AMERICA TO OTHER PARTS OF THE COAST AND THEN TELL THE PEOPLE YOU WAS FROM AFRICA TO CONFUSE THE PEOPLE.
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Not funny but this is so TRUE it made me laugh.
Why? Because my Mom's family (her Maternal line) was frm Nesoba, Mississippi, namely Phiadelpha was was the 'capital' of the Creek nation
In fact, awhile back I posted a thread with a theory that the Missippi Delta was like a parallel 'universe' to the Nile Delta.
Why? Because them 'native' were 'moundbuilders...similar to those 'mounds' the white man calls pyramids in Nubia and Cush.
The 'blues'? Look deeper and thats from east 'african' witchcraft and ritual music. lol! But one gotta do some deep rootwork to find this.
This is the SAME famly line that I once told brother Blackbird goes back to South Carolina. Dead giveaway. 'Creek' was basically another name for 'Geechie'. Them 'Gullah' island folks.
Just like their kinfolk the 'Seminole'. Rather say the 'Maroons' which means what? Think about it. Ain't 'America' to us kinda like a big deserted island? At least thats what Chris Columbo thought.
On the topic, no one should be surprised because them groups was known as the 'Five Civilized Tribes' for a reason. The Cherokee and Chicasaw were mostly mercenaries and soldiers of fortune. Some worked for the French. Some for the Spanish. Some for the English speaking British or American occupying armies.
Creek, Choctaw and 'Seminole' had a longer history of resistence to european colonization and many of these three inter-married. It was like cousins marrying with cousins and keeping it within the 'clan'.
Ever heard of the 'Panther Clan'?
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One of my mother's great uncle's was named William Stribling. The Stribling's were well known in Tennessee and Mississippi. They was all mixed up. Well, Uncle Will was known as 'Wild Cat'. Not the same chief by that name but he was named after him.
A few months ago I also spoke of my 'Akan name' as Kwaku Baako. Ths is a spin of the Muskogee 'Kowake' (Koh-wah-kee).
Well, the Creek, Choctaw and Seminole refer communally as the Muskogee. They stretched from Florda to the Rio Grand Valley to Vera Cruz, Mexico. Some were slave owners. Even more were liberation fighters who battled against all the occupying Euopean and settler regimes. Undoubtedly, the Panther Clan originated within the Cherokee, but that was the earlir band in North Carolina and Tennessee. Things started to change when they migrated to Georgia and came into contact with the kinfolk in the Low Country. Some of the 'Muskogee' are also referred to as 'Miccosuke'.
Something here to recognze is how marriage wa not permitted within 'clans' but slavery and miscegenation with the Europeans broke down these traditional rules and in effect yt bacame the hereditary 'chief' through userpation.
Since one of my families (from Alabama/Oklahoma/Texas) is from the ROSS clan, of the Cherokee, the story of John Ross is a prime example. That's why some many Cherokee today clim to be of 'Scot-Irish' descent. Which is also why they recently denied citizenship rigths to Cherokee Freedmen.
Trying to deny the Root in favor of one branch.