Ang's Cherokee Lineage

[Ang]

The tree did not begin here, but this is the first generation that I was able to verify.

Name: Ootse-lu-nu-he Stephen SPEARS
Given Name: Ootse-lu-nu-he Stephen
Surname: Spears
Sex: M
Birth: Abt 1842 in Cherokee Nation,West,Native America
Death: 1906

Father: James SPEARS b: Abt 1804 in Cherokee Nation,East (Chatata),Native America
Mother: Elsie (Ailsey) FOREMAN b: 4 Jul 1804 in Cherokee,Nation East,Native America

Marriage 1 Louisa ROBERTSON b: Abt 1842 in Cherokee Nation,West,Native America
Married: 1865 in Cherokee Nation,,OK
Children
Mary L. SPEARS birth b: 26 Feb 1866 in Cherokee Nation,West,Native America
Arch SPEARS birth b: 26 Dec 1867 in Cherokee Nation,West,Native America
Alice SPEARS birth b: 24 Feb 1869 in Cherokee Nation,West,Native America <---My Great Gradmother.

Marriage 2 Mary TERRELL b: Abt 1850 in Cherokee Nation,West,Native America
Married: 1874 in Cherokee Nation,,OK
Children
Walter SPEARS birth b: 1879 in Cherokee Nation,West,Native America
Polly SPEARS birth b: Abt 1880 in Cherokee Nation,West,Native America.

When I wrote to the Cherokee nation West web site on the internet, to inquire about Stephen's name, this is the reply I recieved from Paul Fore:

Hello Angela,

According to my best memory "Ootse-lu-nu-he" or thereabouts. Another
rendition of the same word is "Oo-nah-lu-nah-heh" which is a reference to the
Son of God, in other words, The Savior, Jesus Christ. I came across the word
several years ago while reading a book "Reminiscences Of The Indians" by a
Baptist preacher who lived among the Cherokees around 1810 or so. I don't
remember his name. He studied the old religion of the Cherokees and deduced
that the Cherokees were a Christianic people anciently having known the name
of Jesus Christ, in their language, centuries before the whites arrived. His
short book was quite interesting. Your Stephen Spears must have been a man of
uncommon spiritual stature to have borne that name. Wa-do,
-----Ah-leh-yo-he-wah-----
Paul Fore

[PK]

The book "Black Elk Speaks" is about an Oglala Siouz Medicine Man, and he speaks of some indians that were sent to speak to the Wanekia (son of the Great Spirit).
He died around 1931 so this was not that long ago, but this Wanekia showed those indians visions and said that he came once before but the white man killed him.

Black Elk did not speak English and his story was translated by his son to the writer of the book.
I find it fascinating that an old indian man knew of things that he had never been told about.

The part about the Wanekia being the Messiah, especially in the 1800's leaves room for debate. Yes he could have been just a man pretending to be the Messiah in the Americas, but how did he show those few indians his visions. I think Black Elk's tribe sent four members to find him and speak with him, and of those four, three of them saw the vision, and he stated that he belived them to be honest men telling the story.

PK

[Ang]

I told you about a passage in the Book Of Mormon that states there were "white" people in this land (USA) before the Indians - didn't I? I'm no where near the Book right now or I'd look it up and type it in, but it's within the first few pages of the Book.

~Ang

[PK]

I dug the book out of the shed, but haven't looked into it yet.
May try to check that out today.