{"id":14616,"date":"2011-06-30T02:33:06","date_gmt":"2011-06-30T02:33:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mixedracestudies.org\/wordpress\/?p=14616"},"modified":"2011-06-30T02:33:40","modified_gmt":"2011-06-30T02:33:40","slug":"the-blackfoot-tribe-of-the-midsouth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/?p=14616","title":{"rendered":"The Blackfoot Tribe of the Midsouth"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Blackfoot Tribe of the Midsouth<\/a><\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

American Society of Ethnohistory Conference
\n“Blackfoot, Redbones, Brass Ankles and Pied Noir: Colorful Identities, Creative Strategies American Society of Ethnohistory conference”
\nSanta Fe, New Mexico
\n2005-11-18 through 2005-11-20
\n2005-11-19<\/p>\n

Carol A. Morrow<\/a><\/strong>, Professor of Anthropology
\nSoutheast Missouri State University<\/em><\/p>\n

Over the years, I have had a number of African-American students identify themselves as having Native American heritage.\u00a0 Occasionally they claim descent from the \u2018Blackfoot tribe<\/a>\u2019, but they always have a southern heritage.\u00a0 Most students don\u2019t know much more than just the term, Blackfoot, but one student explained that Blackfoot meant a blend of African and Cherokee<\/a> heritage.\u00a0 Given our location on the Trail of Tears<\/a>, Cherokee heritage is common; the Blackfoot tribe is something else entirely.\u00a0 This paper reviews the use of the Blackfoot term throughout the Midsouth<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Over the years, I have had a number of students in my North American Indians classes who have self-identified as Blackfoot, or Cherokee and Blackfoot, or in one case, Choctaw<\/a> and Blackfoot.\u00a0 I would always ask them if they had ties or relatives in Montana<\/a>, and with one exception, they all said NO. The one exception is the blond blue-eyed young man, who in fact, did have relatives in Montana.<\/p>\n

I teach at Southeast Missouri State, which is in Cape Girardeau<\/a> and the Cherokee Trail of tears passed through our community in 1838-1839.\u00a0 Additionally, there was a large community of Cherokee Indians that lived to the sound of our area in Arkansas territory<\/a>, and many pushed north into Missouri<\/a> when they were moved in 1828 West into Indian territory (these were the Old Settlers).\u00a0 So we have always had a number of people in the area of Cherokee ancestry.\u00a0 But Blackfoot Indian is another story entirely.\u00a0 Finally, I realized that the Blackfoot students were African-American.\u00a0 My African-American students almost always had Indian blood, but it took me a while to figure out that they were the only ones that claimed Blackfoot blood…<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Read the entire paper here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The Blackfoot Tribe of the Midsouth American Society of Ethnohistory Conference “Blackfoot, Redbones, Brass Ankles and Pied Noir: Colorful Identities, Creative Strategies American Society of Ethnohistory conference” Santa Fe, New Mexico 2005-11-18 through 2005-11-20 2005-11-19 Carol A. Morrow, Professor of Anthropology Southeast Missouri State University Over the years, I have had a number of African-American […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1649,459,125,8,3015,14,20],"tags":[6705,6706],"class_list":["post-14616","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-anthropology","category-history","category-identitydevelopment","category-media-archive","category-native-americans","category-papers","category-usa","tag-carol-a-morrow","tag-carol-morrow"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14616","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14616"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14616\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14616"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14616"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mixedracestudies.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14616"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}