Hidden "White" Ancestors
"White” Indians According to Cones Kupwah Snowflower, many early Ohio "white" settlers were hidden Native Americans who moved west as the whites approached. The people of many Nations who were with Tecumseh at the Battle of the Thames (1813) were automatically considered outlaws, and not allowed to return home. As it became harder for them to live in exile, they filtered back in twos or threes, sometimes whole families.
The English Quakers and German Amish took them in, protected them, often claiming them as family members. So take a close look at any ancestor who just appears in an area of Amish or Quakers. Living among them but not practicing that particular religion, especially after the removal act of 1832. Also, in 1832 there were 600 Shawnee on the Wapakoneta Reservation in north western Ohio, when the Army showed up and ordered them to pack and leave. 300 arrived at the first Shawnee reservation, in what was to become Kansas City Mo. What about the others?
Well, they went far enough away, where they thought no one would recognize them, and changed their appearance. If they spoke fluent English they claimed to be English. If they spoke broken English - German or Dutch. If each of these Shawnee had four children, that is 1200 people in one generation. We are now seven generations down the road. So those original Shawnee could have produced 8400 descendants who are part of the current US population. And as Snowflower says, "If one group did it, why not others?" Hidden Ancestry Many researchers are unaware of their Native American Ancestry, because it has been hidden for generations. Due to fear of removal - relocations - adoptions out of the tribes - children taken to boarding school – and prejudice."
I couldn't have stated it better than that, but also look for very white names, because they did change their names, and there were a lot of adoptions during the trail of tears of Native Americans also.
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The English Quakers and German Amish took them in, protected them, often claiming them as family members. So take a close look at any ancestor who just appears in an area of Amish or Quakers. Living among them but not practicing that particular religion, especially after the removal act of 1832. Also, in 1832 there were 600 Shawnee on the Wapakoneta Reservation in north western Ohio, when the Army showed up and ordered them to pack and leave. 300 arrived at the first Shawnee reservation, in what was to become Kansas City Mo. What about the others?
Well, they went far enough away, where they thought no one would recognize them, and changed their appearance. If they spoke fluent English they claimed to be English. If they spoke broken English - German or Dutch. If each of these Shawnee had four children, that is 1200 people in one generation. We are now seven generations down the road. So those original Shawnee could have produced 8400 descendants who are part of the current US population. And as Snowflower says, "If one group did it, why not others?" Hidden Ancestry Many researchers are unaware of their Native American Ancestry, because it has been hidden for generations. Due to fear of removal - relocations - adoptions out of the tribes - children taken to boarding school – and prejudice."
I couldn't have stated it better than that, but also look for very white names, because they did change their names, and there were a lot of adoptions during the trail of tears of Native Americans also.
This information came from this site: