tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1886324481502750929.post4662013335829591963..comments2024-03-03T23:33:19.887-08:00Comments on A drifting cowboy: Was Cousin Daniel A Potawatomi Chief?Drifting Cowboyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07843139206014640732noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1886324481502750929.post-85673910524380649102021-06-15T06:02:36.753-07:002021-06-15T06:02:36.753-07:00Thank you for this. I’m doing my ancestry (my dads...Thank you for this. I’m doing my ancestry (my dads side is completely French) and I got to the part of Rene Bourassa and it labelled him as CHIEF TOPINABE; and his wife Ann Charlotte Chevalier as Chippewa “Indian”; I was immediately confused. I dug deeer for a bout a day and all of their parents are from France, born in France and then came to what is known as Canada. I cannot find any connection (blood) for their son Daniel to the Potawatomi, his kids yes as he had a child with a native women, but Daniel himself; no his parents were both born in Canada and their parents were born in France. There is information about Bourassa family and their interactions with the Potawatomi, but in turns of blood relations all I see is that Daniel, is not a chief, he is French and he had a child with a Potawatomi woman. Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1886324481502750929.post-80880800523251059112013-11-09T03:01:39.057-08:002013-11-09T03:01:39.057-08:00Très intéressants et instructifs vos 2 commentaire...Très intéressants et instructifs vos 2 commentaires ...Merci<br /><br />So long Jicarillahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07413368635771845811noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1886324481502750929.post-24280492738023680312013-11-08T07:40:09.770-08:002013-11-08T07:40:09.770-08:00Thanks for adding your information John Pokagon. ...Thanks for adding your information John Pokagon. I spent weeks trying to sort the story out, and decided to post both sides of the argument. I know, through DNA testing, I have no Native American blood, besides Daniel was not a direct ancestor, yet it is still a "good tall tale."Drifting Cowboyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07843139206014640732noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1886324481502750929.post-17761508949166710352013-11-08T02:44:54.787-08:002013-11-08T02:44:54.787-08:00Daniel Bourassa is not Chief Topinebe. Please stop... Daniel Bourassa is not Chief Topinebe. Please stop trying to confuse people, it's really very sad. Quit trying to make your French descendant into something he was not, just because some Citizen Band descendant's insist he was. You cannot just change history because you feel like it. Truly lame. Topinebe was the brother of Chebass and Cakima. they were the children of Old Chief Nanaquibe. They were Full Blooded Neshnabek not French. Their family's were very well documented historically. Topinebe's descendant lived among the Prairie Band and the Pokagon band Through the bloodline of Simon Pokagon who's father Leopold married Topinebe's daughter. The only Citizen band members related by blood to Topinebe Is the Burnett's, through Chief Abram Burnett who's grandfather Chief Chebass was his brother. Chief Burnett died in Kansas, but his descendant moved to Oklahoma after his death in 1870. In Chief Burnett's 1869 deposition he writes of his relation to Chief Topinebe. The Prairie Band and Citizen Band were living together as one until 1862 when things began to change. Topinebe's descendants and bloodline lived and stayed among the Prairie Band through Topinebe's son Topinebe jr. who's family was documented through their tribal enrollment in Kansas were they were known to have lived and died. A Prairie Band member is the carrier of some of Topinebe possessions which were recently known to have been authenticated by some of the top native anthropologist in the U.S. along with some wood experts who scientifically dated some pipestems belonging to Topinebe. They were dated over 250 years old. Important Potawatomi Political and spiritual leader's were notified. Point is the Topinebe family is well noted, and Daniel is not Topinebe.John Pokagonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07160998211598754125noreply@blogger.com