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Anyone here go to this meeting in Chillicothe?
Posted: Monday, March 28, 2016 8:18 am | Updated: 11:40 pm, Wed Mar 30, 2016. The Jackson County Times-Journal
The Saponi-Catawba nation will hold a meeting on Saturday, April 2, at noon. The meting will be held at the Northside Chillicothe Public Library, 550 North Buckeye Street, Chillicothe, Ohio. The meeting will be held in the large conference room at the library. Please bring a covered dish to share. Beverages and table service will be provided.
This is a Tribal enrollment meeting for the Saponi and Catawba Tribal descendants. We are the Ohio River Valley Sioux. We are Saponi, Tutelo, Occaneechie, Ofo and Biloxi. We occupied the Ohio Valley in what is now known as Ohio, Kentucky and West Virginia before disbursing down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, and migrating to Arkansas, Mississippi, Pennsylvania, Maryland, New York and Six Nations.
After leaving the Ohio River Valley, our ancestors split from the main body of Sioux and settled in the Virginia Piedmont region. After warfare with the whites and other warring tribes, we signed the treaty of Peace in 1713 at Colonial Williamsburg, Virginia under our Hoontski, Chief Tanhe’ Soka. Around 1715 and 1716, the Catawba Headman Chief Whitmannetaugheehe brought 60-70 Catawba children to the school at the Saponi Indian Reservation to get an education. The children were held as hostages by the English to honor our treaty. These children were the sons and daughters of Chiefs. The Indian school was located on the Saponi Indian Reservation in Brunswick County, Virginia on 23,040 acres. Trading Fort was then called Fort Christ Anna which was named after Jesus Christ and Queen Ann of England.
The Saponies were later forced of their reservation land. Prior to leaving the fort, the English allowed the Six Nations to ambush the Catawba Chief and school children, killing many of them. Those that were left settled in nearby Virginia and Carolina with our Catawba allies and cousins. From there, we returned to our ancestral homelands in the Ohio River Valley. Our Tribal bands resettled as early as 1806-07 in Highland, Pike and Ross Counties, Ohio. In the 1830’s some settled in Logan, Gallia, Greene, Jackson and Lawrence Counties, Ohio. Most of them moved to Cass County, Michigan in the 1850s.
The following Native American surnames and related families are encouraged to attend: Ayers, Blevins, Bowling, Bowser, Brandom, Branham, Brown, Byrd, Canada, Carter, Chavers, Chavis, Chavous, Clark, Coker, Collins, Copeland, Davis, Dempsey, Evans, Fayette, Gatliff-Lauderdale, George, Green, Greene, Griffen, Guy, Goins, Haithcock, Haithcox, Harden, Hardin, Harding, Harris, Harris-Jackson, Harris-Lett, Hathcock, Hawley, Heathcock, Hedgepath, Holley, Hunt, Irwin, Ivans, Jackson, Jeffreys, Jeffries, Jeffers, Johns, Johnson, Jones, Keel, Keels, Kennedy, Lett, Liggens, Lynch, Mabra-Richardson, Melton, Pettiford, Powell, Pryor, Richardson, Rickman, Ross, Sanders, Scott, Simmons, Sizemore, Stewart, Tyrie, Tyler, Winburn and the documented Chickamaugua-Cherokee.
I just saw this posting today because I haven’t been on the Saponitown site that often lately. But my dad’s family surname is “Greene” and that is my maiden name. His family has a lot of history mainly in Collinsville, IL, near Cahokia Mounds, but also Mississippi and Michigan before Cahokia, and there was quite a bit of Indian history in our family. I was mainly focused on my mom’s side, but I guess now I’ll pay more attention to my Dad’s side.
Unfortunately, I live in Los Angeles so I can’t get to any meetings in Ohio. I’m very interested in this Saponi-Catawba history since my dad’s family seems to run parallel with this history. It would be great if my family turns out to be true descendants of this group. I’d learn more!
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