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I am always surprised, when I see how little many other families know about their ancestors....I was just so very lucky to be born into a family of talkers, who loved telling the old tales...unless all these things are written down, talking and tale telling are the means by which a family retains a connection with their very own past...

One other thing I should mention about this Sioux ancestry...my grandfather, had two other brothers, fathered by my great grandfather, and great grandmother...you can see the glaring difference in appearance between them and my grandfather...the Indian or Sioux traits were passed down to my dad and his sister, both who have the very high cheekbones, and had jet black hair, which is not supposed to exist in 'whites'....still neither my dad nor his sister looked like what one often thinks of an Indian looking like...actually they were most often taken for being Jewish(cant explain that one, tho I am often mistaken for being Jewish, which none of us are)

Now when my aunt had her first baby during the 1940s, she had him in a very small community hospital, in a small town...her hubby was away at war, and she was pretty much alone in the hospital...in that time, often you did not even get to see your baby, until some lengthy time had elapsed from birth...

When they finally brought her baby, she unwrapped the blanket, and screamed for the nurses to come back...she was sure they had given her the wrong baby, as this baby was what my aunt called an 'Indian' baby...well, they assured her this was her baby, as being such a small hospital in a small community, my aunts baby was the only baby that had been born in the last three days...

To this day, my cousin is always taken for being 100% Indian....and the older he gets, the more he looks like the pictures of older Indians...

None of the rest of us cousins have that appearance, he is the only one....but as heredity and traits go, I suspect that somewhere down the line, one of our kids will give birth to a baby, which bears no seeming resemblance to its parents...and I can just hear them wondering, as my aunt did so long ago, why this baby looks just like a picture they might have seen, of an Indian baby..