None of the above.
Great Grandfather Roberts is buried in Oklahoma and I have one photo of him...[Dad’s Grandfather] On the reservation.
Dad’s mother was a full blood Scots and from Virginia.
They also had connection to Mississippi, as that is where Dad was born, but then his Dad was one of the Cherokee’s working on the railroad.
Mother was from Texas, as were her parents and grandparents.
You do not have any doubts of their blood line, looking at the family photos, tall, dark and so proud.
Farmers mixed in on both sides.
I have not traced the line, and for years some of them tried to hide the fact that we are indian, but certain habits and thoughts made me start asking questions.
I asked my mom, she said not me, talk to your dad.
So I wrote to him, and found out he was half, but mom was a full blood and when I got to her side of the family, they all said they were Cherokee, that my mom had been tired of the indian label and moved to California for a new start, so she decided she was Irish/Spanish......
One cousin on mom’s side was working on it, but has died and we do not know what happened to her work.
My brother and I are the tall thin kind.
The rest are short and stout.
I never met my g-grandma, but the from pics I saw of her, and what I’ve been told by older relatives, I look just like her. I’m definitley on the stout side, and I have her moon face and high cheekbones and the silver stripe in my hair on the right hand side of my temple. The black hair and eyes didn’t make it to my generation. LOL Some of my aunts had black hair/eyes and the silver stripe.
Many in the family have an affinity for the land and growing things and creatures. Very creative and talented.