It happened once again. I was writing a post, had to go out, and obviously hit the “publish” button instead of the “safe draft” button.
Let me read what I have written down.
I’m feeling a little sad today. As you know, I am trying to sell my share of this building, one-ninth, but the co-owners of the building are sending away prospective buyers who may need to take a mortgage. In this building, if a co-owner fails to pay his or her mortgage, making payments becomes the responsibility of the other co-owners. That can be changed.
My Assignment
My realtor has asked me to speak to the co-owners of this building, but all I can say is that they are putting themselves at considerable risk. A few are very old. They may need to sell their share and move into a residence. My mother fell when she was 80 and lost the use of her legs. She spent the last three years of her life in an institution.
Wish me luck. I may not be able to persuade the other co-owners that they may have to change the rules and create a reserve fund.
Back to our Amerindians
I will now return to our Amerindians. Yesterday, I read James Mooney’s account of the removal of the Cherokee from Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, Tennessee, Texas, and Alabama. They were sent to Oklahoma, but not without resistance. As Mr Mooney wrote, the relocation of the Cherokees was worse than the expulsion of the Acadians.
Sequoya, featured at the top of this post, worked on developing a written language for his people: the Cherokee. They were able to publish a newspaper.
Several Cherokees were Métis.
Source
James Mooney’s Myths of the Cherokee, Gutenberg [EBook #45634]
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I have done that published instead of draft I now schedule before typing to prevent that happening regards Ian
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Thank you very much and my best. Micheline 🙂
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Thank you. 🙂
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What an amazing man. Do we know what sort of silver work he did?
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Thank you Gallivanta,
I wish I knew what kind of silver work he did. It may have been jewelry. I will have to do a little research, but what he gave his people, an alphabet, was very precious. Amerindians were signing documents they could not read. Longfellow devoted a canto to picture-writing. Jesuit missionaries in New France also made a written language for aboriginals. They spoke Amerindian languages. Thank you for writing. Best regards 🙂
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Yes, the alphabet was more precious than silver or gold.
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For them, the alphabet was valuable. They were signing documents they had not read, but had been read to them. However, after the Cherokee were removed, their bodies were exhumed so that the white could recover silver, among other precious metals.
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How sad. I didn’t know that silver was so much part of the Cherokee culture.
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Silver was important to them. For the Ojibwa, copper delighted them but they should not have shown the cache they had. I hope you are well and surrounded by the objects that were your life. A mere plate holds years of happy memories.
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