Author Archives: Roberta Estes

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About Roberta Estes

Scientist, author, genetic genealogist. Documenting Native Heritage through contemporaneous records and DNA.

Dr. Arwin Smallwood’s Tuscarora Research – Another Lost Colony Survival Scenario

Dr. Arwin Smallwood, Professor of Colonial American History at the University of Memphis is well known for his Tuscarora interest and research.  You can read more about his research and publications at the University of Memphis website at http://cassian.memphis.edu/history/asmallwd/ Dr. Smallwood … Continue reading

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Study of the Poteskeet Indians

Penny Ferguson, a long time researcher of mixed race records, has graciously given  permission to republish her Study of the Posteskeet Indians which was originally published on the Historical Melungeons Blog at http://historical-melungeons.blogspot.com/search?q=poteskeet.  This blog is an excellent resource for factual Melungeon information. … Continue reading

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Hamilton McMillan’s List

Hamilton McMillan wrote a book in 1888 titled “The Lost Colony”.  Mr. McMillan spent his entire career as an advocate for the Lumbee, then called variously the Croatan Indians, Cherokee and the Indians of Robeson County.  His achievement which probably … Continue reading

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Carlisle Student Records Location Analysis – Part 3 of 3 – North Dakota through Wyoming

This is the third of 3 articles including the state by state and tribe by tribe analysis of the student locations who attended the Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, Pa.  This groups includes the states of North Dakota through Wyoming.  … Continue reading

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Carlisle Student Records Location Analysis – Part 2 of 3 – Georgia to North Carolina

This is the second of three postings regarding the locations of the tribes of the students attending the Carlisle Indian School.  These records spanned about 30 years, covering about 12,000 students by their count, approximately 7000 of which are covered in … Continue reading

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Carlisle Student Records Location Analysis – Part 1 of 3 – Arizona to Florida

The Carlisle student records are not only quite valuable individually, especially given that the assignment of some surnames occurred at enrollment, but as a group as well. In the National Archive records, three pieces of information are given for each … Continue reading

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The Sioux at Carlisle

The National Archives holds records for almost 7000 students who attended the Carlisle Indian School in Carlisle, Pa.  Records for the school indicate that there were a total of 12,000 students, so some records appear to be missing from the online archives. … Continue reading

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Geronimo

“Geronimo!”  That’s what we yelled as kids just as we lept off the roof of the porch, or off of the hayloft into the hay.  Anything extremely brave required the “Geronimo” shout. More recently, in 2011, Geronimo was the code word for … Continue reading

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Anti-Miscegenation Laws Overturned in the US in 1967

Many people with early Native heritage “lose” their ancestor in colonial Virginia, NC or one of the states east of the Blue Ridge.  Maybe said another way, we have legends that they exist, but we can’t figure out who they … Continue reading

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Oneida Chief Skenandoah

Oskanondonha, known as Skenandoah, the Oneida War Chief also known as “the Deer” was born, according to tradition, to the Susquehannock and was adopted into the Wolf Clan of the Oneida.  He eventually became the War Chief, a position chosen on the … Continue reading

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