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From: "Elizabeth G. Brett" <>
Subject: RE: [Melungeon] Re:One Last Stick on the Fire
Date: Fri, 2 Feb 2001 00:16:10 -0500


YES YOU ARE right...


It was the Choctaw...

Pardon me I had a root canal this afternoon...think they dug all the way to my brain and scrambled it...

Aw heck...at lest they all begin with a "C"

Elizabeth



-----Original Message-----
From:Kim Collins [SMTP:]
Sent:Thursday, February 01, 2001 11:53 PM
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Subject:Re: [Melungeon] Re:One Last Stick on the Fire

Think of the help the Choctaws gave to the Irish during the potato famine.
Kim
----- Original Message -----
From: "Mike & Lindsey Matherne" <>
To: <>
Sent: Thursday, February 01, 2001 9:00 PM
Subject: Re: [Melungeon] Re:One Last Stick on the Fire


> Ingrid,
>
> You are quite right in your assessment. The Indians and the Scots/Irish
> found kindred spirits in each other. Their cultures were set up in
> basically the same structure.
>
> Did you know .******vbbbbbbbbbbc (sorry. Cat help.)
>
> Did you know that during the Potato Famine when the Cherokee found out
> about the starving Irish, the tribes got together and collected about
> $350 dollars when they didn't have anything themselves, and sent the
> money to Ireland? They were honoring their tribal relatives by marriage
> in their time of need, though they themselves were just as needy. This
> act of selflessness was honored and remembered a few years ago in a walk
> of hundreds of NA and Irish descent.
>
> Lindsey
>
>
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