Tribal Roots

While my birthmother’s roots are unknown to me at this stage my birthfather’s aren’t. I’m a descendant of two warrior tribes: the Shawnee and the McKenzie Clan. Native American and Scots. Both expelled from their ancestral homelands and exiled by colonists who took their lands.

For the Shawnee the colonists were the relative newcomers who became known as Americans. For the Scots it was their ancient enemy, the English. Both fought, lost and had to flee or be slaughtered.

This is where I’ll describe their journeys.

My paternal grandfather and grandmother. John Alexander McKenzie and Mary McBride Gore McKenzie

Sarah Sallie Bluejacket – my great-grandmother
Chief Charles Bluejacket – the last hereditary chief of the Shawnee. my great-great grandfather and father to Sarah Sallie Bluejacket. He was the son of George Bluejacket, who was the son of Chief Waweyapiersenwaw Bluejacket. The last paramount war chief of the Shawnee.

My father, Lacey Little McKenzie was born on the Bluejacket reservation in Bluejacket, Craig Country OK and is buried in the Bluejacket cemetery along with other members of our family.

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