My Blackfoot ggggrandmother came from PA, specifically Beaver County. There was a town there called Logstown that sat on a well-traveled Indian path. She was an orphan according to family lore. Someone, Bess, I think it was, said that that town was mixed Shawnee, Tutelo and Delaware.
As I said before, I find it interesting how my two groups ended in the same place. I wonder if there was some type of pipeline of information about where mixed peoples could safely settle as they moved west. I read a master’s thesis over the winter about an Indian agent known to encourage Indians to buy their landwho initially surveyed the area in Iowa that my family settled in. His name was the same as some of my ancestors, so I thought there might be a clue there, but nothing. My ggggrandfather had two wives and the children of the first one, the white wife, returned to PA.
I went to school with families whose names were those I have named on this forum. I specifically remember one classmate whose grandmother had been a member of the Sinkey family but his family had nothing to do with that family, as my family had nothing to do with that family (I did not know at the time that they were related to me.) I always thought it was because they lived in the country and acted kind of backwoodsy. Now I think it was rejection of the Indian heritage for both families. And I think that this family’s culture was simply retaining some of its native elements. However, I do not know if they burned the fields before planting. My German father did though, and there is not a bit of native heritage there.