Seven Celtic Nations/Including Norse

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Comment by Lady Boru on February 25, 2013 at 9:54am

Congrats to Brave for winning "Best Animated Film"

Comment by Lady Boru on February 25, 2013 at 8:39am

Comment by Lady Boru on February 25, 2013 at 8:30am

Jack Kinnard

The most most colorful of the characters in the lower Flint River region was the Scotch-Creek mestizo or "mixed-blood" named Jack Kinnard. Like a number of other Creek leaders in the late eighteenth century, Kinnard had a Scotch merchant father and a Creek mother. Scotch and English traders operating out of Charles Town (later Charleston, SC) often lived for awhile in Creek country while arranging for the exchange of deerskins for British manufactured goods, especially guns, ammunition, and alcohol. Some of these traders took Creek wives and produced offspring who often took advantage of their dual heritage. Since Creek society was matrilineal with property descending through the female line, the son for a Creek woman had status in American Indian society. In colonial British society, which was patrilineal, the son achieved his status through his father. In a sense then, mestizos like Jack Kinnard were the ideal intermediaries or cultural brokers between Creek and Euramerican society. In 1790, he owned over 1200 cattle and horses, and about forty black and several Indian slaves. In the 1790s he was recognized by both Creeks and Americans, as well as the Spanish in Florida, as the headman or Creek leader in the lower Flint River region. His father was probably John Kinnard, a Scot trader among the Creeks as early as 1747. His mother was apparently a Hitchiti Creek woman, for Jack was referred to on several occasions as a Hitchiti chief. The Hitchiti lived in one of the Lower Creek towns, located along the Chattahoochee River.

Comment by Lady Boru on February 25, 2013 at 8:23am

Comment by Lady Boru on February 25, 2013 at 8:22am

Welcome Wolfsky and to all the new members!

Comment by Lady Boru on February 23, 2013 at 9:30am

Comment by Lady Boru on February 23, 2013 at 9:28am

My friend Frankie from Scotland singing.

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