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Contents Preface and Acknowledgments vii A Waak Photo Album xi Migration Map xxxiii "My bones are red" 1 1. My Bones Are Red 2 The Path of Blessing 9 "There is a welling in the depths of my soul" 10 2. The Song of the Ancestors 11 "Across a great boundary river" 20 3. Texas Cattle Country 21 "We are bound for no-man's-land" 37 4. The Neutral Zone 38 "Were you born of wind and sun?" 54 5. The Apostle of the Opelousas 55 The Path of Darkness 68 "No soul?" 69 6. In a Tennessee Court 70 "Oh, Esther, beautifully formed and lovely to behold" 88 7. The Myth of the Missing Father 89 The Path of Creation 95 "Shipwrecked upon an eastern coastline?" 96 8. The Mystery of Our Origins 97 "There is a love of the sea" 105 9. Sea, Land, and Wind: the Journey 106 "May I tell you what touches my heart?" 117 10. The Roots of Our Spirit 118 The Path of Transformation 127 "Granddaddy was a Cherokee" 129 11. Granddaddy Was a Cherokee 131 Appendix. Ascendency Charts 135 1. Charles W. Smith and Martha Mary Perkins 136 2. Dooley Wirt Smith and Annie Elizabeth Jane Mayes 137 3. Boxly William Waak and Anne Nell Smith 138 4. Jordan Perkins and Virginia Jane "Jinny" Goen 139 5. Jesse Perkins and Lucinda Willis 140 6. Joshua Perkins and Mary Mixon 141 7. Patricia Ann Waak to Esther Perkins 142 8. Joshua "Old Jock" Perkins and Dorcas Perkins 143 Bibliography 145 Index 153
Library of Congress Subject Headings for this publication:
Waak, Patricia -- Family.
Perkins family.
Racially mixed people -- United States -- Biography.
Racially mixed people -- United States -- Genealogy.
Cherokee Indians -- Biography.
Cherokee Indians -- Genealogy.
Pioneers -- Louisiana -- Biography.
Pioneers -- Texas -- Biography.
Louisiana -- Biography.
Texas -- Biography.