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Jan. 25th, 2005 03:25 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
urocyonAn even better than usual local history snippet from here, again run across by accident whilst looking for quick ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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According to local legends, by the seventeenth century Johnson County may have been inhabited by a Native American group known as the Totero. Their principal village was at Hager Hill. The Totero were probably related to the Siouian-speaking Tutelo of southwestern Virginia and they may have migrated southward with the Tutelo into western North Carolina. Anglo-Americans from Virginia began to explore the area during the 1750s. Dr. Thomas Walker's party traveled down Paint Creek in 1750 and other whites may have hunted in the area prior to the first permanent settlement, at the site that is now Blackhouse Bottom.
Breathtaking. The overall quality of the piece is about what one would expect, but this bit is special.
Local legends like, "Most of my mama's people are Totero from up Such-and-such Creek"? There's enough evidence of Eastern Siouan-speaking people living in Eastern Kentucky by now, at any rate.
Erm, yes, Totero and Tutelo were synonymous, back when people relied on less-than-standardised spelling and names for groups from *other* groups of people who spoke languages including different sounds. One group seems to have had an "R", one an "L" instead. Very basic stuff and easily found with a modicum of effort and curiosity.
So, we have this particular group of Kentucky Totero (what about the rest of them?) taking off with their Virginia cousins, right into the laps of the mutually hostile Cherokee, apparently to be out of the way in time for rather late "Anglo-American" settlement. (The reference to hunting likely reflects difficult-to-ignore complaints about unauthorised hunting in the territory beforehand.) Does that make one whit of sense?
This was silly enough--if a more understandable angle--when it was originally published in 1928, but apparent republishing in 1992 and later online, as fact, shows a certain lack of judgment and/or thinking capacity. (My capacity for thought is rapidly declining, trying to dig through the deeply nested credits at the bottom of the page and figure out who has been messing with this text and when, for that matter.)
I thought I was nearly immune to bare rehashing of ridiculous old "disappearing Injuns" history, but this bit provoked some fresh self-righteousness. ;)
For a bit more, excessive mention of coal companies requires another pointer to info on mountaintop removal mining. Knocking down mountains and filling up inhabited valleys with the rubble isn't, erm, nice.
vatine-baiting refererences:According to local legends, by the seventeenth century Johnson County may have been inhabited by a Native American group known as the Totero. Their principal village was at Hager Hill. The Totero were probably related to the Siouian-speaking Tutelo of southwestern Virginia and they may have migrated southward with the Tutelo into western North Carolina. Anglo-Americans from Virginia began to explore the area during the 1750s. Dr. Thomas Walker's party traveled down Paint Creek in 1750 and other whites may have hunted in the area prior to the first permanent settlement, at the site that is now Blackhouse Bottom.
Breathtaking. The overall quality of the piece is about what one would expect, but this bit is special.
Local legends like, "Most of my mama's people are Totero from up Such-and-such Creek"? There's enough evidence of Eastern Siouan-speaking people living in Eastern Kentucky by now, at any rate.
Erm, yes, Totero and Tutelo were synonymous, back when people relied on less-than-standardised spelling and names for groups from *other* groups of people who spoke languages including different sounds. One group seems to have had an "R", one an "L" instead. Very basic stuff and easily found with a modicum of effort and curiosity.
So, we have this particular group of Kentucky Totero (what about the rest of them?) taking off with their Virginia cousins, right into the laps of the mutually hostile Cherokee, apparently to be out of the way in time for rather late "Anglo-American" settlement. (The reference to hunting likely reflects difficult-to-ignore complaints about unauthorised hunting in the territory beforehand.) Does that make one whit of sense?
This was silly enough--if a more understandable angle--when it was originally published in 1928, but apparent republishing in 1992 and later online, as fact, shows a certain lack of judgment and/or thinking capacity. (My capacity for thought is rapidly declining, trying to dig through the deeply nested credits at the bottom of the page and figure out who has been messing with this text and when, for that matter.)
I thought I was nearly immune to bare rehashing of ridiculous old "disappearing Injuns" history, but this bit provoked some fresh self-righteousness. ;)
For a bit more, excessive mention of coal companies requires another pointer to info on mountaintop removal mining. Knocking down mountains and filling up inhabited valleys with the rubble isn't, erm, nice.
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Date: 2005-01-25 06:43 pm (UTC)Wah! No fair!
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Date: 2005-01-26 06:44 am (UTC)Yeah, there's always a fresh supply of idiots out there, even recently.
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Date: 2005-02-08 12:44 pm (UTC)Yep, I haven't been online much lately. The difference in sunlight intensity (on top of all the other changes) hit me harder than expected, and I'm just now coming out of a whopping case of SAD. Yay for Paxil and lightboxes! *g*
Eh, that was a pretty petulant-sounding post to come out with after months of silence here, but at least it did get posted...