Originally Posted by Irishguy
I have fun with genealogy in my spare time. I come from Scottish, Irish, Welsh, and Scandinavian, but I am also descendent of two separate Chiefs of the Mvskoke Creek Native Americans or Red Sticks.

These two dudes were great grandfathers of mine...

https://encyclopediaofalabama.org/article/menawa/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opothleyahola

Both were of Scottish descent intermarried with Creek women. The Creeks were a matriarchal society so the women controlled the property and when a man married a Creek woman he joined her clan.

If you are into history and Southeastern Native culture at all the link below is an interesting read...

https://electricscotland.com/history/america/american_indians.htm

A short quote from the article for those that don't read much is below. Those who know anything about Southeastern history should know who William Bartram is...

As early as the 1730s, British philanthropist James Oglethorpe enticed a band of Highlanders, mostly from the Inverness region, to settle in Georgia with the hope that this Presbyterian group would serve as a buffer against the Catholic Spanish in Florida. The settlers thrived, and by midcentury members of Clan Chattan virtually controlled all the Indian trade within the Creek nation. One trade item that proved popular was cloth for a kilt, for by coincidence the outlawed Scottish kilt resembled the traditional male Creek breechcloth. Both of these skirt like outfits proved especially suitable for Georgia’s wet, marshy terrain, and traveler William Bartram once likened Creek dress to the Highland kilt. The Scots traders influenced Creek headgear as well, selling a number of turban like coverings, to which the Natives usually added feathers. With each passing decade, noted historian J. Leitch Wright, Jr., "the dress of Muscogulge warriors seemed more like that of Highland lairds."

The cultural borrowing between Scots and southeastern Natives did not stop with the modification of material objects. Ideas, stories, and legends must have been exchanged as well. Although these are hard to trace with any precision, they are potentially far more powerful. In the legends surrounding the Battle of Culloden, one meets, perhaps, the most extensive Scots-Native borrowing of all.

The battle of Culloden in 1746 did far more than simply send Jacobite sympathizers to North America. This last dramatic rallying of the Scots clans may also have had an impact on the evolution of American Indian resistance strategy against the Euro-American settlers. Although this is admittedly a speculative argument—no documentary evidence exists one way or the other—it has the benefit of historical logic. The case revolves largely around the activities of the McGillivray clan.



How did you trace your Indian ancestors to find out who they were ?
We know our GGrandmother was Indian but it doesn’t show up in DNA tests
Her name was Alabama and her sister name was Missouri


When I need expert advice I tend to talk to myself
The older I get the better I used to be