It's really hard to say in my family, too. My great grandfather used to tell his kids and grandkids that he was Red Indian and if you look at the few pictures we have of him, he does have the right sort of features...
Around the time he was born, in the very early 1900s, Native Americans were brought to London to do circus acts - Long Wolf was buried in a London cemetery, and exhumed and returned to South Dakota (Pine Ridge) 105 years later. It had been his dying wish to go home...
I think we must have been part of Long Wolf's tribe - it certainly fits with what Pop used to tell the kids. He was Oglala Lakota, too.
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Date: 2006-12-04 12:21 am (UTC)Around the time he was born, in the very early 1900s, Native Americans were brought to London to do circus acts - Long Wolf was buried in a London cemetery, and exhumed and returned to South Dakota (Pine Ridge) 105 years later. It had been his dying wish to go home...
I think we must have been part of Long Wolf's tribe - it certainly fits with what Pop used to tell the kids. He was Oglala Lakota, too.