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Cannady / Cannaday Lumbee!

Cannady / Cannaday Lumbee!

I have finally figured out what is up with my family. My grandma said we were Cherokee Souix and pretty dark skinned. I did a bunch of genealogy and though one part of my family ends during the civil war and has a last name of slave keepers, I think that part of my family were slaves. But another part of my family stayed around Gallipolis, then to Virginia for as far back as I can trace, Patrick County in fact. The last name is Cannady / Cannaday and I think we are Lumbee. It would explain being Cherokee, then Souix.

I grew up around my grandma and there was stuff we did, like taking cigarettes (whichwe would have got in trouble for) and braking them open on a piece of paper and leaving it outside grandmas door. She liked muskrat and other small game and we could play with the bones but we could never keep them. She spoke in a different language, my family just said she was drunk. Nice. She was drunk a lot though.

I was wondering how we were so dark. I hope I can connect with someone and find a way to fit the last piece together. Its awful my family made me feel that my grandma was crazy and scary. When I married my third husband, who grew upon the rest, he let me know about this stuff.

My uncle resides in N. Carolina now and his brother remarked that he is now where some of our people were. We have a proud heritage as steamboat men and likely one family member died on the Scioto.

Time to sleep, or get up.

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Lumbee Cannaday Cannady

Thanks for sharing with us some of your Genealogy. You are not in some way intimidated by finding yourself "so dark" are you?

Cannady / Cannaday Lumbee! History & Civil Business Politics

No, just got tired ofpeople asking me what race we were. We always said we were white because thats what we were told but people would ask because some members of my family weren't light skinned enough. I got told we were part Indian. In my family, skin color doesn't matter, just how thats just the way we were. It wasn't until we went to school that I had any curiousity, then only because other kids made it an issue. I think it'd been sort of a secret, well not really talked about for so long that no one wanted to get into the history. I know there were some extremely hard times in our family history so I cant blame anyone for listing white on the census and such, it may have been so that they could be taxed, since Indians were exempt, some census takers might have "done them a favor". I don't know. They did share some traditions with me as a child though, even though they didn't get in to history, so that was really nice.

Lumbee Cannaday Cannady

North Americans are very picky about race. Although I do not know what you look like (feel free to use our Forum Gallery if you wish to share) I'm surprised you will say you are White if you have a strong part of Native American within you. It was my understanding with the North American One Drop Rule that you say otherwise. Please see that Topic here: Source 9

Lumbee Cannaday Cannady

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Comments: Who were your Cannaday family from Patrick County Virginia? I am descended from the Patrick Billy Family from there. My great grandmother was a Cannaday, and she was dark, and some of my uncles were dark, some darker than my grandfather. Some had dark hair and some had didn't. There were 24 children in that family, and they migrated to many different states. It's possible we are family. I would be proud to know I have Native American blood.