RE: Native Indian Re-enacting

[bluelake]

Scalp locks can be on the back of the head.

Wedge tents are known.

You Ojibwe or Odawa?  French?  Got any Roy, Campion, Lavallée kin?


Lucas Roy, originally from Detroit.

As I'm new to the TMA and the forums, I just saw this thread.  I'm Odawa on my dad's side (member of the Little Traverse Bay Bands of Odawa Indians) and WASP on my mom's.  The old joke in our family is that my mom is very proud that her ancestors were in America many years before the Mayflower (1602); my dad's response is that his ancestors were there to shake hands with hers.  

[Shawnee Mike]

What I think they meant is no Tipi's at their rendezvous/re-enactments due to the no Tipi's east of the Mississippi.

  Ah !!  No Tipis
   But there WERE conical lodges that look VERY simillar to tipis except made of reeds or bark.  Same shape, but wider at bottom and shorter.  Most Lay-folks would call them a tipi, But they would be wrong.

[Geezer in NH]

3/4 you are native American by the feds. I am by my GM and GF on both sides and cannot prove 1/32 so I am a freaking white Caucasian wish I had that problem. Bitter I am