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To: azhenfud

This may be getting more off-topic, but highly interesting that members of the Cherokee Nation (REAL Indians, not fake 1/16th-Indian white guys) come to the Pt. Lookout POW memorial services to lay wreaths at the memorial to rebel POWs. I've seen it myself. The people were real, too, not just fakirs like the casino people up in Connecticut.


66 posted on 10/10/2006 8:51:56 AM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel; stand watie
This may be getting more off-topic, but highly interesting that members of the Cherokee Nation (REAL Indians, not fake 1/16th-Indian white guys) come to the Pt. Lookout POW memorial services to lay wreaths at the memorial to rebel POWs. I've seen it myself. The people were real, too, not just fakirs like the casino people up in Connecticut.

Perhaps they were descendants of the following prisoners. [Source: February 27, 1864, Daily Picayune of New Orleans, reporting on a letter from a federal in Knoxville published in the Chicago Tribune of February 18]

Among our prisoners are about 100 copperfaced, bareheaded and barefooted Indians from the smoky mountains of North Carolina. Such savage wretches should never be taken prisoner. They will be sent North with the rebel deserters.

126 posted on 10/10/2006 3:12:45 PM PDT by rustbucket
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To: the OlLine Rebel
fwiw, i'm ONE of those AIs,who places wreaths/flowers at the PLPOWC monument.

the large WHITE/RED/BLACK wreath with the 7 white feathers belongs to our band of Tsalagiyi Nvdagi.(white is the color of mourning/death among our people. that's why no bride among our people wears a white dress!)

the RED symbolizes BLOOD of course & the BLACK is for remembrance of those "who have walked on up the trail of stars".

free dixie,sw

135 posted on 10/11/2006 8:22:19 AM PDT by stand watie ("Resistance to tyrants is OBEDIENCE to God." - T. Jefferson, 1804)
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