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I received my first reply in the mail to my mailings to the 39 tribes, from the Chickasaw.
Basically they said they realized many Chickasaw are not eligible for tribal membership, and said they’d remember my letter if that situation ever changed.
Maybe they replied first because I mentioned to them my ancestors lived in the Chickasaw Nation, I showed them photographs, and have census records of them living there.
The generic letter above, I edited slightly, from tribe to tribe, if I had some specific tie to them.
It was polite yet not very concerned response, but it came from the elected Principle Chief of the Chickasaw, so that was somethin’ you’d expect from a politician.
ha ha. But that is understandable. I am honored that he chose to responded personally.All I expected was to just put the issue of the unenrolled before these 39 Federally Recognized Tribes. I don’t expect miracles, just recognition on a personal one on one basis, and to get them to thinking about what to do about and/or for us. I don’t think I can hope for anything more than that.
I’d like to encourage anyone else who wanted to, to write federal tribes in your own geographic area, just to put the issue before them.
vance hawkins
[This message has been edited by vance hawkins (edited 10-22-2002).]
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