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I am part Cherokee. When I was in 1st grade, my dad worked on the reservation in North Carolina. It was an experience.
I don't remember a lot about the history that I learned, but I remember the community. I remember the chief at the time coming to our house with his children for dinner.
In college here at KSU, I had the opportunity to meet Wanda Mankiller (I love that name). She was at the time the cuurent chief. I don't know if she still is or not.
Many of the Cherokee did not "register" after the trail of tears out of fear. Why would you want to register as an Indian if it meant you had to leave everything you knew and loved?
Read "The Education of Little Tree." It is a great book about a child who lived through that time. It's a true story. The man who wrote it covers topics from racism to religion to education. I think there is a movie, but I don't know if it compares to the book.
i'm proud to say i'm part cherokee an i will pass it on to telling my kids and grand kids. i will not let the government WIN. they may have taken our land but they can't take our blood.
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Everyone sign up to be a foster parent, or go thru process to adopt! What a difference it can make!
i'm adopted. i lost my mom a year later to her drinking and driving.my dad's second wife
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has anyone heard anything else on Jason?
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-----------------my ex husband had been locked up for abusing me many of times. the judge told him,if u come back one more time u get 5 to 10 years in prison. well guess what. i went to the doctor and was having problem's with my nose that turned out to be a birth defeat which my ex husband knew about. 2 weekends(later) in a row, he hit me in the nose. it hurt so bad. i went and took a protective order out on him. we showed up at court and i was served with divorce paper's. he knew i ment business, guess what. the protective order didn't stand. judge threw it out. NOW THAT IS PAULDING COUNTY FOR U? For that to happen to me and then for me to loose my son because of a lawyer going bad. What is going on in Paulding County? Glad i left.
Ok. I feel as though I am required to share my opinion on this one… To say that men use the legal system as a “safety net” or type of welfare is ridiculous! I grew up with this poor, exploited and discriminated crowd. It has nothing to do with not being able to find a job. It all comes down to WANTING a job. The welfare system is set up so you can live a “normal” life without having to ever work a job. Pop out a couple of kids and convince the system a few of them have some type of medical condition and you’re banking as much or more from the Government as you would working a job. Hell, they aren’t stupid. Why work when you can be a couch potato and make the same?? These people have no ambition. That’s why they’ll continue to live off the Government and refuse to work a job. When it comes to working, they want to start off at the top and complain when they have to start at the bottom where EVERYONE else STARTED. They think it’s unfair that Johnny gets to drive his new car and live in a nice house while they can barely pay their bills. It never crossed their mind that Johnny has been working for the past 10 years while they were sitting on their ass.
Now let’s move on criminals. These people think differently. It’s that simple. They have few morals and live in a state or anarchy. Their view is “if I can do it, and can get away with it, then I’ll do it”. It has nothing to do with whether they can get a job or not. I have friends that make $50K + that have no problem snatching a pursue if they think they can get away with it. Personally I don’t understand it. When asked why they did it, the answer is “I don’t know”.
I have a friend that’s in prison for killing someone. He got in a fight with some, picked up a rock and literally smashed a guys head open. Why’d he do it? “It seemed like a good idea at the time”.
I have another friend that spent a couple years in jail for auto theft. He purchased a wrecked late model truck. Then he went to car lots looking for a truck he’d like to have. He stole that truck and put its parts on the wrecked truck. Why’d he do it?? He wanted a new truck.
Now, I will admit that few do become institutionalized. My best friend’s uncle spent the majority of his life in jail or prison. He had spent around 10 years in prison when he was released. I think he was in his 40’s at the time. He had been out less than a month when he decided he was better off in than out. He shot a guy that snitched on him in the chest with a shotgun and is now serving a life sentence. This was his choice. He wanted back in.
On the other had. I have friends that have cleaned up their acts. They no longer do things that will put them away, no matter how minor. The kicker is most of them having 2 felonies under their belt. In Indiana, (may be other places as well) your 3rd conviction results in the maximum penalty. I’ll let you decide if these people had a change of heart or if they know the punishment for next time was going be more severe than what they wanted to deal with…
Damn that was long. I’m done now.
Now lets get back to the
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AJ,
From what I've learned, if you have a bed, they'll consider you. There is such a HUGE need for good foster homes.
If you have the ability and the desire, consider it. But remember, your own children first. The children that come into your home will need lots of extra attention and you don't want to jeopardize your own children's security.
I have one bed available in my home, but we are currently holding it in case a particular child needs a place. It's kind of her home away from home, and it may have to be official again before long.
check this out which i'm very proud to say she is my sister even if we r step sister's we grew up together since 1975. her name is michelle. she is a teacher in paulding county. michelle was a girl who grew up with out a real daddy which my daddy raised her and her sister. michelle had a real sister and 2 half sister's and 2 half brother's. michelle was the one that snuck and done thing's but was raised in church. u know how teen's r. well to tell my story- michelle said she would never have kids. didn't like them. well, today michelle has 2 teenage kids and is a foster parent and is a sunday school teacher. Michelle, i'm so proud of u and the thing's u do for kid's. i'm that kid that my dad's second wife loved enough to adopt which died a year later and then michelle's mom came along and brough michelle into my life. my brother's of my first mother were adopted by a professor and a high school teacher in Gainsville.--------I'm proud to say My sister is Michelle Abernathy who work's for the paulding county school system.love u sis. Keep up the great work.
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it's not just foster parent's or homes, when i worked for wolly world, i was told that employees found a 4 year old little girl wondering around the store. well they looked for the parent's but nothing. well, it had be 2 hours and nothing so they were getting ready to call the cop's when the mother walked up to get the little girl. she said she and her husband had gotten in a fight and left the store thinking the other parent had the child to discover later niether had the child. the manager's were so mad at her. they gave the child to her.which if it were me, i wouldn't have after 2 hours. i pray this baby is surrounded with angel's at all times.working at wolly world, u see alot going on.
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jason swiller never went to trial in paulding.he plea barganed every case.what a deal for our crooked d.a.'s office.they knew if he was your lawyer they had you.anybody who had jason for a lawyer and was railroaded by our d.a. and with the full knowledge of our judges,deserves a new trial.this has been going on for too long in our county.throw the bums out!!!!!!
what about us that lost our child due to jason not letting us use our evidence?
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WHAT???
during the divorce we were having problem's with them. It help's to have a family member in law enforcement to tell them the law as it is. Kid's tend to listen when they know the truth of the law.
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There's always shocking collars or tranqilizer guns. JUST KIDDING!!!
One idea about the handcuffs is maybe it embarrassed him so much
to get handcuffed and hauled away in front of his classmates that he
will think twice before doing that agian.
Like i told my daughter who is 8 and want's to take her time in the morning's for school and complain about the jean's she is having to wear that is in style but just want's to complain because she want's to lay back down, i told her that i will call the cop's to take her to school as has the princpal has told her. I told her i wasn't going to jail because of the law they past. I was told the 3rd week of school that there was ALOT of kid's coming to school in police car's because parent's were having a hard time making them get ready. My daughter heard the secretary say this so she know's they will come get her
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i'd have to agree with you- I saw a similiar case on larry elder the other day.
the boy needs help, I feel the handcuffs may only make him worse...
i wonder what the reason for detering him from his classmates was?
sigh- we need better mental health care in this country! I personaly feel kinda sorry for the kid- he is obviously having some problems.
As i tell my son who chose to go live with his daddy in 2003 during a divorce because i'm stricted and my 8 year old daughter who lives with me, your never to young for me to sign the paper's and place u in the paulding county detention as the sheriff has told them for a week. I come from a stricted father and my ex comes from a family who abuse the wifes and did drug's and stayed in trouble where my family didn't have problem's. We got our talk and we knew daddy ment business. Yes kid's follow in their parent's foot step's because my ex husband and ex brother inlaw abused the wifes and their daddy and their mom was a fighter too. Like i tell my kid's, i play no games.
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Other than a minority loan. shopping tax free at the reservation.. what benefits are you referring to?
Probaly what u stated. I just heard someone say something about it one day. I never asked. Have u read Cherokeeindian.com
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I'm half Cherokee on my dad's side. I don't remember what the trail of tear's was about I think it was pretty sad, if I'm thinking correctly.
The Government made them up and leave their land an every thing. Alot of people died on the trail of tear's. Go to CherokeeIndian.com
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I am very much Cherokee. My Great Grandmother was Cherokee and was taken in by the Creek so she wouldn't be moved to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears. I read the book "Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee" by Dee Brown, as anyone should, way back in 1971 and it broke my heart. My Great Grandfather on my dad's side was Cherokee out of Etowah, Tennessee. My husband's Great Grandfather came from North Carolina with his new wife, who was a Cherokee, and he settled on Ellsbury Mountain, and had to constantly fight with the white people, because he was married to an Indian, so I've been told many times over the years.
Every year in September we do the Motorcycle Ride to Chattanooga called the "Trail of Tears Ride." There is a web site. We make the ride all the way to Waterloo, Al, almost in Mississippi. The ride then goes on to Oklahoma where they settled the Indians. One day we will make the ride all the way.
If you're interested in the Cherokee, the Cherokee Nation is right up I-75 on the way to Calhoun. It's New Echota and I've taken my kids several times. If you're truly from the south, even into Florida, they had several tribes, then you're bound to have Indian in you. I'm kinda high yellow and I tan real good, have high cheek bones, smooth skin, mostly hairless skin. Indians didn't have much body hair.
I'm very proud of my Indian Heritage, even tho I'm mixed like everybody is. Whether you're all white or not, you're still mixed, ie: German, English, French, Northern European, etc. etc.
have u registered yet? if not, u may want too, i read where u can loose your cherokee name and the benefit's we r granted
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As far as I know, I'm full blooded Anglo-Saxon. My forfathers were very racist in their beliefs, but I don't shair that same sentiment.
The trail of tears would have to had included me. I could not have sat on my horse and watched it. I can understand how that would be hard to believe, though.
Hey Eddie, how r u? Well, my dad hates black's. My step sister and her husband came home for thanksgiving and brought their black friend. She told me when he walked into the house daddy told him he couldn't come in and they had to take him home. I dispise my daddy for being that way. It would be funny to see how he would act to know that my kid's love biracial and so on. I have taught my kids to love everyone as Jesus loves. And to know that he married my mom who is cherokee which he maybe also because he has that round face and very dark hair and tan's easy but has hazel eyes
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Wow Ellen, That is what happened to my G.G. Grandfather. O M Gosh..
I just recently found out that my Great Great Grandmother is/was and she did get sent off on the trail of tears.
She meet my G.G. Grandfather, married and did go hiding in the hills.
Where most of my family lives.
I love My family., I dont agree with them being made to leave our own land.
I have no idea how much is Cherokee.
There is also on my Grandmother's side from Tennessee.
Went to Telequa Oklahoma to the village of Tasleqee [not sure on spelling]
on road trip yrs. ago.
My 1st spouse is more than I and his Grandmother was full blood.
COuld see in his Mom too.
Must be why my kids can usually get the best tans.
My Uncle up North will tell me, When I get a "intuition" its from the indian side.
Good Post, Thank you..
If we do it right, we can be tanned in 3 day's. One good thing is we don't burn that bad.
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Can u tell me how to go about registering as a cherokee? And where to go?I'm registered Creek... My relatives are in Okmulgee, OK (The Creek Nation Headquarters). I love to visit the Creek Museum when we go visit. It's very interesting. -
I am ¼ Native American (my mother is ½ since my grandmother is ½ Creek/1/2 Cherokee.) And I have often thought of a lot of that part of our country. Then I think about how our country has a history of attempting to move people who we find undesirable so I try to set it aside. As far as genealogy, I do know that my grandmother’s people wouldn’t claim native American for fear of racism on the census. They are all over the Cherokee roles and registered in Oklahoma but when the local folks came around it was white…
Can u tell me where i can go to registor as cherokee? I read that if at a certain point in your family tree that someone doesn't registor, u can't claim that your part cherokee even if u r. It also said that u can't claim the heritage that the Goverment allows us to have.
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If I had a little Indian in me...I think I'd go see a doctor...or maybe you could be on that show, Ripley's believe it or not!
-----------I assume your ALL WHITE? NOT!!!!!!!!!!! R u trying to be funny?
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im over 25% cherokee. I love it, its easy to tan.lol. but i was really disapointed when i went to the reservation 3 years ago and the tour guy spoke more southern twang than my father does. It was hard seeing the cherokees without smiles on their faces and with accents that were there and shouldnt be. But im Proud of the blood, as im proud of the whitey in me.lol sorry if your anyone is offended but i love to joke. anyway I also have german and irish so im a real heinz 57. lol. cya
My grandmother was full blooded on my mom's side. i took the cherokee side and so did my son. we tan easy. my son's eyes r almost black they r so dark. But my daughter took the irish side from her daddy,very peel looking.
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A few years back I read an article that stated 40% of Georgia naitves are of Cherokee descent.
You may never find it if you are looking at your geneology because the ones who hid in the hills and did not leave their home would not claim to be Cherokee for fear of being sent to Oklahoma.
I have a history of the McDonalds (my maternal ancestors), their homes and churches in Hanging Dog, NC. One of the stories of the church there was of a widowed man who hired a Cherokee woman to live in his home and take care of his house and children. After a while the church told him he could not have this woman living in his home if he was not married to her and remain in good standing with them. He married her and was immediately removed from the church rolls for having married an Indian.
I was told my grandmother on my mom's side is full blooded cherokee, and my grandfater was white. I also was told the my (white) grandfather use to chase my mother around the house with a loaded gun at a very young age about age 4 or 5.
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tell me how u feel about the cherokee indian's and the trail of tear's and r u cherokee?
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I know being white myself and my people died from fighting in the war. So I am proud of the flag.
I would say it isn't prejudice just pride.
But, then I stop to think how the black people felt and how much they suffered and didn't deserve to be treated the way they did.
What make's me mad now is that race is a issuse everywere I think we should all set it a side and work on our problem 's with our mother earth...
Think about the cherokee indian's, we had it worst than the black's. Read the book trail of tear's. The government came in and took our land and made us leave. Lot's of people died on the trail of tear's. Hope u will think about us too when people r thinking about what the black's went though. I do have black friend's. But when i read the trail of tear's, i didn't feel sorry for them or anyone else, i felt sorry for my people who have worked hard and lost everything. The cherokee's r strong people.
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i may have had jason to represent me but i would like to make it clear, i NEVER DID any favor's for him or did he ask me too. he had a temper i can say.
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Countrygirl, my friend lost his son too because of this lawyer. I don't feel that it's anything to be ashamed about it. You are supposed to be able to trust that your lawyer is on your side. Unfortunately, there are a few rotten apples in the bunch and he is one of most rotten ones. Sorry to hear that you too were hurt by him.
------------is there a way i can get intouch with your friend? can i have your email? we need to talk soon.
Rip Amanda Mundy
in May they rest in Peace
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.....................is this the wanda mundy that use to go to THE DALLAS CHURCH OF GOD IN DALLAS,GA.?