Tribes of Montana 

My husbands ( Leon Decker) family is from Elmo Montana. His moms name is Christine Enas Decker. They are all Tribal memebers including my kiddos. We are proud of Montana! We try to go back every 4 years to visit. Love our extended family. Native Pride Always

Russell Boham was my instructor for the Research class for my B. A. in Native American Studies at Humboldt State back in around 1999 or 2000. Now I have a Master's degree. Hi, Russell! Hope you are doing ok. I really appreciated your class. You taught me the basics of [historical-comparative] research-remember my final paper? I got an A-. Also I found out from a cousin who is a genealogist that my family is Shawnee, not Cherokee as we thought. Due to the Beaver Wars, a lot of Shawnee moved into Tennessee-Cherokee country-which is where we immigrated from to Arkansas back in 1828. The British during a census listed the Indians in Tenn. as all Cherokee. The Shawnee either didn't know we were being "misclassified" or we knew and didn't say anything. Later the US gov't hated the Shawnee because of Tecumseh, so we probably were ok with being thought Cherokee.

I thought that Montana is the loneliest place ever..... but if i would find a lonely place....a human being would find me and talk to me...darn

I Love you too!!!!!!

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