While we know our northern friends may not feel it, in the South, Spring is
here. So we thought we'd share a few of our gardening sites appropriate
for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
ready to diet so that you can fit back into that bathing suit this summer!
The Full
Blood Cherokees Progress. Political,
Business and Social Activities
Redbird Smith, who was the moving spirit of
the Nighthawk branch of the Keetoowah
organization of Full-blood Cherokees, was
born July 19th, 1850, somewhere
near the city of Ft. Smith, Ark. His father
and mother, together with other Cherokees
being enroute to Indian Territory from
Georgia.
Pig Redbird Smith, (the name Smith
being added by the white people in Georgia
because he was a blacksmith by trade), was
an old and ardent adherent of the ancient
rituals, customs and practices of the “Long
House” group of eastern Indians of which the
Cherokees were the head band or tribe.
The wife of Pig Redbird Smith and mother
of Redbird Smith was Lizzie Hildebrand
Smith, a woman who carried the best
blood-lines of the Cherokees.
At an early date in the boyhood life
of Redbird Smith, his father dedicated him
to the services and cause of the Cherokee
people in accordance with ancient customs
and usages. At the early age of ten years,
Redbird received instruction at the council
fires. At this time, the latter part of
1859, Pig Redbird Smith, Budd Gritts and
Vann, all being impressed with the virtues
of the religious and moral codes of the
ancient Keetoowah order, concluded to
reorganize.
