Well, the offensive material is back up once again.
ten-skey, the facts are thus. Jerry Pope victimized many people. They did not "split off", but "walked away", and the court records proving that are filed as public records in Bellefontaine, Ohio.
I won't speak on the legitimacy or actions of the other groups publicly, but you can PM me for private discussion.
I only answer for my own actions and words. That being the case I will tell you plainly that in my opinion every time you label Jerry's victims as "split offs" you are committing slander, as the public records clearly show they "walked away" from him.
You ask a simple question as to my Shawnee ancestry. The simple answer is that it appears to have come from Bent Twigg of (Shawnee) Oldtown, Maryland.
There is no doubt that my division is Sewighili, now called Thawagili.
ten-skey, before commenting on Shawnee affairs, you should understand that the Shawnee national covenant belt was formally and publicly broken in 1779, and to this day there is no SNO, similar to the one the Cherokee have with the CNO.
I suppose that what I will have to do now is apply for one of those BIA descendant cards. Some people tell me they feel like its like getting a tag from the American Kennel Club, but what the hell...
Quite frankly, I despise the names the archaeologists made up for the peoples, and I don't need to use them. Hence my much earlier comments on "Woodland Indians", which was made prior to finding the offensive material on your forum.
I met with some more of the archaeologists on Wednesday, and I am tired, so I am not in too good a mood right now.