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Question:i am begging to trace my ansesters and my roots. there are many blanks. i know that on my dad's side of the family a woman was born on an indian reservation in the 1840's to 1860's? maybe earlier. i think (not sure) that her mother was on the trail of tears. she came fron the illinois-iowa area. my grand mother said maybe cheroke or saux, maybe faux.

my question is who do i contact to get a verification on this. all i have found out is that the reservation is near present day wititah kansas. is there still a reservation there or within 50 miles of it?


Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: i am begging to trace my ansesters and my roots. there are many blanks. i know that on my dad's side of the family a woman was born on an indian reservation in the 1840's to 1860's? maybe earlier. i think (not sure) that her mother was on the trail of tears. she came fron the illinois-iowa area. my grand mother said maybe cheroke or saux, maybe faux.

my question is who do i contact to get a verification on this. all i have found out is that the reservation is near present day wititah kansas. is there still a reservation there or within 50 miles of it?

First you are going to have the correct tribe. You need as much information as you can possibly dig up, names, dates places, siblings, everything.

Shawnees, Potawatomis, Ottawas, Miamis, and Chippewas were in the southern part of Kansas. The tribes were assured that "so long as the sun shines and water runs down hill," this land would remain theirs. Two generations later, settlers forced new treaties causing Native Americans once again to be displaced, this time to present-day Oklahoma. Northeastern Kansas remains home to four Indian reservations inhabited by members of the Potawatomi, Kickapoo, Sac and Fox, and Iowa tribes. Cherokee were never listed as being in Kansas, but many people did not finish the Trail. Found this at: http://skyways.lib.ks.us/history/indres....

There are some sites where you can look for a specific name if they were recorded on the Native American Rolls that were taken before or after the Trail.
http://home.ptd.net/~nikki/nativeam.htm
http://www.snowwowl.com/nainfnalinks.htm...
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/
http://www.angelfire.com/la/brantley/
http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/no...
http://www.hanksville.org/NAresources/in...

Tracing Native American Geneology is not alwys the easiest path. People were given English names. Sometimes they were used on the rolls and sometimes the Native names were used. Some people never made it to the rolls.

Once you have gathered as much information as is available and exhausted all search possibilities, you can contact the tribe. Some of them are very helpful. There is a possibility that you won't be able to prove your Native American ancestry. I haven't been able to trace mine. I belong to what has been dubbed the Lost Cherokee. Those that left their land before the rolls were taken or those that dropped out before the end.

Good Luck.

go to ancestry.com i had to do an ancestry report and this was the perfect solution

The Cherokee were on the Trail of Tears. They were from the South. If she's from Illinois, she's not Cherokee. She's probably Sauk. They and the Fox were given a reservation of just 24 acres, so they must be small. They relocated to Oklahoma in 1869. Potawatomi, Lincoln, and Payne Counties east of Oklahoma City is where they went. Some returned to Iowa.
Sac & Fox Nation of Missouri in Kansas and Nebraska
Sac & Fox Nation, Oklahoma
Sac & Fox Tribe of the Mississippi in Iowa
These are the ones that currently exist.