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Good morning folks! I recently recieved an email from a gentleman whose surname is TABOR…my maiden name was TABER so of course I followed up on it…he was trying to locate information on his paternal lineage and knew the names of the males 4 generations up from himself and hit his “brick wall”….as it turns out I was able to trace his tree clear back to a TABOR male born in the mid 1500’s in England. (I should be so lucky on my TABER line!) Anywho….one thing I DID find that caught my eye was a connection of his family to the BLACKFEET Indians in Montana…I am NOT very educated about that tribe however, from what I have been able to discern thus far…there were 4 “factions” on the Blackfeet: 3 settled in Canada and one was in Montana…with it’s beginnings in and around the St. Peter’s Mission area in Lewis & Clark Counties, MT. Apparently the Jesuits began this mission for the tribe members. The TABOR’s of that Montana group migrated as such: England -> VA -> NC -> KY -> MT. Ultimately, the Tabor fellow’s line began with a Blackfeet man with the given name “Owl Child”…. from what I understand a Native child was given a name and then his subsequent children used his given name as their surname. Anywho….I found a neat little LINK that lists numerous Blackfeet surnames including TABOR’s and many many others, it can be viewed at the following URL:
http://blackfeetgenealogy.com/index.htm#TOC
The Blackfeet Nation website is located at:
http://www.blackfeetnation.com/
A cool link about the Blackfeet/Blackfoot language:
http://www.native-languages.org/blackfoot.htm
Wonderful Blackfeet/Native American link with lots of links in it:
http://www.nativeamericans.com/Blackfeet.htm
Happy hunting and geneological blessings from Cincy~~~Laurie
Hey Laurie,well I grew up near the Candaian Blackfeet communities, and they are from the north as you know, but what we are researching is the Southern Blackfeet from the Virginia stae and North carolina areas., but I did really enjoy your links. Thanx .
Yes, just so everyone knew understands, there are three types of Blackfoot in North America. There’s the Algonquin Blackfoot in MT and elsewhere that most people think are “the” Blackfoot. There are the Sihisapa Teton Sioux. The word Sihisapa means black foot, and they refer to themselves as the Blackfoot Sioux. Then there’s the many people who derive from the Upper South who carry that name in their families. We believe it’s a marker for Saponi or Piedmont Siouan of NC/VA. Those are the people we’re researching here. Though, it is helpful to keep in mind the list of surnames that point to the other tribes. Thank you.
Linda,
It is interesting to say the least how Grandfather has given me all the information I have needed regarding my family without me having to dig dig dig. I was reading some Warrenton NC history online and found Aaron and Della Owens mentioned as being slaves (which they were not) for a family that moved from Halifax Va to Warrenton and after that family moved on they bought the family home. Now , if I remember my history no slave of African decent ever owned any property or homes in Warren Co. One reason where would they have gotten the money? Well Della Owens is my gr gr gr gr grandmother and she and Aaron were indians that worked with this family. I have noticed the people that put this information about Warrenton on that wesite always refer the the people that were servants as slaves. Kinda gets me in my gut. I went on one of the Blackfoot websites and bingo Owens is a Blackfoot surname. I also read that is was common for the Blackfoot to use a part of their european given name as the surname of their children. Now, Della’s daughter (also named Della) is James Baker (Baker is also a Blackfoot surname) Plummer’s mother and one of his brothers named their daughter Owen. So now it is all making since for me on who the Plummers really are….. My family has always owned their own businesses and homes. I remember the poorer people in the county lived in the county and were sharecroppers . It has been said in the oral history of Warrenton that some of those were slaves that did not go any farther after leaving the deep south. Warrenton is still 85% Native American and even now with being able to proudly say who they are they are still afraid of being ridiculed and called wannabees. Society wants to discourage us so it will still have the appearance of us being completely wiped out. They know it is still more of us than them and that must really scare them.
Jade
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