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In my research into my Sinkey line, we came to the conclusion that they were Shawnee. There was a Shawnee village in WV right next to my Green ancestors who married the Sinkeys (who also might have been Green relatives as Richard Sinkey is buried in a cemetery full of Greens and is on the 1790 census with George Green whose wife is buried in that cemetary. My cousin remembers words that he learned growing up that were Shawnee, and his father has a name that is Shawnee. There was a village very near my Irish ancestors in PA at the time of the Revolution that was Shawnee, and a location in IA where they must have crossed the Mississippi river, about 20 miles where my gggrandmother was born who definitely looks Indian and whose uncle was known to have said he was both Irish and Indian and knew the dances and did them at family get-togethers. There was also a Shawnee town near the Greens in WV.
So I am a member of the Piqua Shawnee. Last weekend, we celebrated my naming ceremony. I am now Red Willow in the tribe, named for my red regalia and my willingness to dance for all the ceremonies and my resemblance in dancing to a willow in the wind.
Techteach or Red Willow
Congratulations on your naming – a great honor and a lovely name. I am a Greene and have other surnames in my family that keep showing up on these lists. When I read about the saponi -catawba enrollment meeting in Chillicothe, Ohio I was both excited and sad. For the first time I felt like I was possibly close to being enrolled into a tribe where my blood actually belongs, but I don’t live in that state. Is it possible to be enrolled in a tribe but live in a different state? Or alternatively, has there ever been a secondary sort of “descendants ” membership status for people who live out of the area?
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