It’s conceivable that someone could have been accepted into a tribe and grew up believing themselves to be Native American, but the whole confirmed-descent-from-primary-villain thing really blows that hypothesis out of the water.
Yeah, it’s very unusual. It doesn’t seem as though anyone in the family has much information about my Great Great Grandmother, who is the alleged link. I’m not sure what became of her during or after all the strife, or if she was even alive or present. It’s almost as though the family history just kind of begins after my Great Grandmother left Harlan behind, and that’s probably very much intentional. She was the youngest of her family, saw her father do some disturbing things (made her older siblings dig holes out in the woods, etc.), and was innocent in all of it herself.
It’s conceivable that someone could have been accepted into a tribe and grew up believing themselves to be Native American, but the whole confirmed-descent-from-primary-villain thing really blows that hypothesis out of the water.
Yeah, it’s very unusual. It doesn’t seem as though anyone in the family has much information about my Great Great Grandmother, who is the alleged link. I’m not sure what became of her during or after all the strife, or if she was even alive or present. It’s almost as though the family history just kind of begins after my Great Grandmother left Harlan behind, and that’s probably very much intentional. She was the youngest of her family, saw her father do some disturbing things (made her older siblings dig holes out in the woods, etc.), and was innocent in all of it herself.