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Research in Other Countries => United States of America => Topic started by: Tdouglas861 on Tuesday 22 May 18 16:43 BST (UK)
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I've looked through Census records but I'm having no luck tracing it back and I know my grandmother walk the Trail of Tears and was actually placed into the Carolinas Indian Reservation but I can't find anything on census reports because it lists her as white can anybody help me with this
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/05/22/democrats-heres-a-better-message-oust-the-gops-wimps-and-weaklings/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.148e3fa5ebde
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/05/22/democrats-heres-a-better-message-oust-the-gops-wimps-and-weaklings/?noredirect=on&utm_term=.148e3fa5ebde
rato - I think you may have pasted the wrong link. It took me to a page from the Washington Post "Democrats, here’s a better message: ‘Oust the GOP’s wimps and weaklings’". Is this what you intended?
Philip
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No, I intended these:
https://www.doi.gov/tribes/cherokee
https://nativeheritageproject.com/2014/08/31/tracing-cherokee-ancestors/
http://cherokeeregistry.com/
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The Trail of Tears was a series of forced relocations of Native American peoples from their ancestral homelands between 1830-1850. My understanding was the Cherokee removal was in 1838.
Until c1924 Native Americans were not legally American citizens, so prior census to this should show her as Native American ( NA/Indians/ their tribe), so if your grandmother is written as white, then that suggests she was not NA and if she walked in 1838 (180 yrs is a long time ago for it to be your Grandmother) there was no option at that time but for her parent/s to register her with her tribe at birth, so even if on the 1930/1940 census she could potentially be classified white/American, however what is she classified as before on earlier census?
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Could you give us a little more information, such as her name, please?