Hibernating
Oct. 28th, 2004 09:51 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
twilight33The impossible dream with work, Kieran & school, but one can hope :) What perplexes me is I've been eating like a horse since the weather has cooled off, yet started losing weight again. This is entering the not-a-good-thing category since my BMI is now a point under my skinny husband's, and probably also a sign that I'm doing too much at once. In light of this, I scheduled my personal holiday the day after Veteran's Day. Two 4 day weekends in November, yay! While I'll still work in the preschool Friday morning, I'll either lock Kieran and my husband in the basement or go elsewhere for an afternoon of peace & hobbies and enjoy every second of it.
Research for my class project is going well, and the prof really thinks it's special that I want to research the native group (Upper Chehalis, still trying to narrow down which group/village) that my ancestors interacted with in the early WA Territory days. My cousin gave me a copy of the land deed written from the US government to my 3x great-grandfather, 'by the President U.S. Grant' which really caused me to take a step back in perspective. He didn't buy it from a previous settler, no money changed hands. It was given to him 'pursuant to the act of Congress approved 20th May 1862 to Secure Homesteads to actual Settlers on the Public Domain.' That being the public domain taken first & recently from the Chehalis, the true 'actual Settlers', not all of whom went to the reservation established for them. Hmm.
Yet somehow my ancestors & the natives who apparently weren't on the reservation were on good enough terms that my 3x great-grandma, home alone with two kids under 5, handed two Indians a gun when they rode up & asked in Chinook jargon (which she knew well despite the fact she was a housewife and not a businesswoman, indicating frequent interaction) for one to shoot a bear. That definitely goes against typical preconceived notion of how 'the white men & Indians' act, and I'm having fun trying to get the root of it.
Research for my class project is going well, and the prof really thinks it's special that I want to research the native group (Upper Chehalis, still trying to narrow down which group/village) that my ancestors interacted with in the early WA Territory days. My cousin gave me a copy of the land deed written from the US government to my 3x great-grandfather, 'by the President U.S. Grant' which really caused me to take a step back in perspective. He didn't buy it from a previous settler, no money changed hands. It was given to him 'pursuant to the act of Congress approved 20th May 1862 to Secure Homesteads to actual Settlers on the Public Domain.' That being the public domain taken first & recently from the Chehalis, the true 'actual Settlers', not all of whom went to the reservation established for them. Hmm.
Yet somehow my ancestors & the natives who apparently weren't on the reservation were on good enough terms that my 3x great-grandma, home alone with two kids under 5, handed two Indians a gun when they rode up & asked in Chinook jargon (which she knew well despite the fact she was a housewife and not a businesswoman, indicating frequent interaction) for one to shoot a bear. That definitely goes against typical preconceived notion of how 'the white men & Indians' act, and I'm having fun trying to get the root of it.
