I agree - Indian lineage is difficult to trace. We have an Indian woman in ours, and no one can find the details. I think perhaps her name was changed, and she was anglicized.
She was Cherokee and most folks that I bump into doing research have a story about her existance.
I was hoping Cherokee Nation might help, but haven’t had time to explore.
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Mine was born about 1854 and we think she was born in MS since that is where she grew up. We have a photo of her with most of her kids. On a census, one of her kids and his family were listed as mulatto which meant Indian mix. My cousin’s wife has been all over the country going to Indian offices to see if she could find info on her but she has not been able to. Some of her children were offered land in OK but no one took the offer. You would think that there would be some kind of information on her.