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To: Ilaine who wrote (1659)	12/9/2005 6:27:27 AM
From: Snowshoe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 2253

>>Some very strong Indian faces, some with a lot of European, maybe French, maybe German, maybe Irish, who knows?<< The European aspect in those faces is most likely French and a wee bit of Scottish, since they were the fur traders who intermarried with the native women. Not sure if the BIA can help, but you can find Chippewa/Ojibway genealogy links via Google. I suggest you also expand your search horizon to consider Canada and the Métis (mixed blood) people. The Turtle Mountain area straddles the US/Canada border, and is part of the Pembina Region where the Métis have had a major presence for hundreds of years on both sides of the border. For decades in the 1800s they sent huge parties on grand buffalo hunts south into the Dakotas, and drove long caravans of Red River oxcarts southeast to trade with the Americans in Saint Paul, Minnesota. If your ancestors have a Métis component, there may be Catholic parish church records in the US or Canada... Métis people (Canada) en.wikipedia.org P.S. The Métis are emotional, fun-loving, partying people like the Cajuns. <g>

To: Ilaine who wrote (1659)	12/11/2005 3:47:50 AM
From: KLP	Respond to of 2253

When you do decide to put some names on the back of your photos, an easy way to do it is get some file folder tabs (the stick on kind for folders like the 3-tab type), and look at the picture, write who you think they are on the stick on tab, date it, both the date you think it might be, and your actual date and name....then just put it on the back of the picture. That way, the ink or pencil won't bleed into your picture, as some have downstream in 25 or more years. Works great, and who knows...maybe someday you will find out who they are. Genealogy is more than a "me, me, me" type exercise, IMO. In most instances the kids today learn very little American History in school. This search for family background and history is really a search for our Country's history... We can't really change anything, unless we know why something was done in the first place. And BTW, with some of your old pictures, you may want to check with the Historical Societies in the areas where these folks were....Many of those organizations have many pictures of the Native Americans of their local area.... And so do the local University archives.