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Hello,
This is my first time here I want to know if I belong. I read the information On the Other Blackfoot and my father is from Pennsylvania and his family moved to Indiana in the late 1920s early 30s and I’m just hoping that maybe someone out there can close up some holes for me in my search for answers.
I had people in Pennsylvania and Indiana on the side of the family where there were stories of us being Blackfoot. What names? what towns?
Then, of course, there’s the historical records about the Saponi/Tutelo people’s presence in Pennsylvania.
Probably about 1740 the Saponi and Tutelo went north, stopping for a time at Shamokin, in Pennsylvania, about the site of Sunbury, where they and other Indians were visited by the missionary David Brainard in 1745. In 1753 the Cayuga formally adopted the Saponi and Tutelo, who thus became a part of the Six Nations, though all had not then removed to New York. In 1765 the Saponi are mentioned as having 30 warriors living at Tioga, about Sayre, PA, and other villages on the northern branches of the Susquehanna. A part remained here until 1778, but in 1771 the principal portion had their village in the territory of the Cayuga, about 2 miles south of what is now Ithaca, NY. After which they disappear from history [the Saponi, that is – the Tutelo survived a bit longer with the Cayuga on Six Nations reserve in Canada where some of their customs and ceremonies are still observed]. — Bureau of American Ethnology, Bulletin 30, page 464.
Have you seen the article on the main page yet? http://www.saponitown.com/blackfoot.htm
[This message has been edited by Linda (edited 04-27-2002).]
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