Helen,
I saw your post to Laura Morgan. I too am tring to trace my
heritage. I'm having difficulty due to an adoption while I was a baby.
Anyway, here are the details and what I have been able to find out.
My father was raised without knowledge of his heritage and
was only told of it a few years before he died. He and my white mother
had divorced while I was a baby and my mother remarried. My mom told
me my father's name was Bennie Suggs. I have found out that he was
also known as bennie White Feather. I don't know where he was born,
nor do I know what his parents names were. My mom told me that they
had moved to Calif. from the Oaklahoma/Arkansas area and that they
had moved there from Montana. I know that my father's father was
from the Teton tribe. His mother was either Blackfoot or Lakota/
Assiniboine. I was told that they left the RES and denied being native
because of the prejudice of the times. Unfortunatly, I have no more
Info than that.
I was wondering if maybe you could point me in the right direction?
I'm not one of these want to be's looking to gain something from the
government or crap like that. My search is simply to know who I am.
I'm proud of being native american and I'm tring to teach what I can
of my heritage to my children. If I could learn more, that would be
great. I consider myself native american and state so on job apps.
One problem I run into is that the government doesn't agree. Due to
the adoption of the father that raised me, I have ran into many dead
ends and road blocks while tring to either get the govenment to reconize
my birth right and/or tring to prove it. Any and all help is deeply
appreciated.
Steve Lucas
slucas@ashby.ncd.com