Scottish and Native American pictures

**cryerelizabeth** · 15th September 13, 04:41 PM

I think this might be the right place to post this. Does anyone know of any pictures of Native Americans sharing in Scottish culture and customs (and vise versa). Since writing a paper about Scottish settlement in Georgia I've been curious about this topic.

**Hawk** · 15th September 13, 05:22 PM

Got some.....PM me.....

Hawk

**ThistleDown** · 15th September 13, 07:43 PM

Hawk's avatar is probably the picture best known outside the USA, but for finer tuning from an historic perspective, you might want to PM our 'captive' historian, Cajunscot. Look him up, he has a vast fund of knowledge on the connections between Scotland's immigrants to your country and your country's aboriginal people.

**bluebonnet** · 15th September 13, 08:34 PM

Good article here: How the Irish and Scots Became Indians: Colonial Traders and Agents and the Southeastern Tribes

James E. Doan
New Hibernia Review / Iris Éireannach Nua
Vol. 3, No. 3 (Autumn, 1999), pp. 9-19
Published by: University of St. Thomas Center for Irish Studies

The Hudson Bay has several lithographs of the Scots working in Rupert's land with the Cree and Innu.

One book is Strangers in Blood: Fur Trade Familyin Indian Country by Jennifer SH Brown

Another is Many Tender Ties by Sylvia van Kirk

**ThistleDown** · 15th September 13, 08:59 PM

For text and not pics: "White People, Indians and Highlanders"

**MacCathmhaoil** · 15th September 13, 10:11 PM

I have a Great-grandmother who was Ojibway/Cree and Scottish mix, her father was a Hudson's Bay Company factor who was a highlander. The HBC actually encouraged the employees to take First Nation's wives, strengthened trading ties as well as kept them from leaving the company.

**bluebonnet** · 16th September 13, 05:35 AM

Originally Posted by MacCathmhaoil

I have a Great-grandmother who was Ojibway/Cree and Scottish mix, her father was a Hudson's Bay Company factor who was a highlander. The HBC actually encouraged the employees to take First Nation's wives, strengthened trading ties as well as kept them from leaving the company.

Absolutely! My grandchildren are descended from HBC man (and first govenor of BC) Sir James Douglas and Amelia Connelly - whose father William Connelly and her mother was Suzanne (Miyo Nipiv was her Cree name). I bet you would find mention of your ancestor in that book "Many Tender Ties" - the HBC is a treasure trove of historical and genealogical records (located in Winnipeg)

**Riverkilt** · 16th September 13, 06:03 AM

Current issue of The Highlander magazine (Sept/Oct 2013) has a cover photo of Alfred Jacob Miller's painting of William Drummond Stewart among the Crow Indians. Not kilted, but a Scotsman with the Indians.

**cryerelizabeth** · 17th September 13, 06:21 AM

wow, cool stuff everyone! I know my dad has a little bit of American Indian in him (I think its Cherokee or Creek, I have no idea) and my mom has some Scottish in her.

I always knew that the Indians and Scottish got a long very well, but I never knew that it went so far as to marrying into each others cultures.

**cessna152towser** · 17th September 13, 06:43 AM

I have a cousin who lives on Vancouver Island. She's part Scots and part Irish and her husband is Native Kwakiutl. She has a Native name which she is known by in the First Nations Community and she and her husband operate a Native Crafts gallery. We stayed with them last year while on holiday on Vancouver Island and we found the First Nations Community at Sooke made us feel very welcome.