This page is a work in progress, there's so much more I want to add. I am learning so much.
I want to thank Dennice Goudie for reaching out to me and helping me find out about my great grandma. I am very very grateful for all the hard work she has done. It's amazing.
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ENOS ANCESTRY
This info is from the Joao Ignacio d'Almada (John Enos)
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I recently got the John Enos Diary it is in the BCarchives and the scanned it and sent it and from it I found out this. I will be adding more info later.
I don't get this maternal grandson of Bernardo Jose de Fontes
Great Great Great Great Grandparents- Manuel Francisco d'Almada and his wife Ana Bernardina Dos. Prazeres
Great Great Great Grandparents- Jose Ignacio d'Almada and his wife Bernardina Jacintha
Great Great Grandparents- Joao Ignacio d'Almada (John Enos) & Theresa Eliza Enos (Songhees)
Great Grandparents- John Joseph Enos- Mary Anne Poirier
Grandparents- Joseph Enos - Anna Anderson
Parents-Shirley Enos- Leonard Winterlik
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I just found out about this and it is very exciting!!!!
Marie Ann Maranda dit Le Frise (Iroquois & Kalapuya ) (Mary Ann Poirier's grandmother)
Joseph Thomas Brulé (Mary Ann Poirier's grandfather)
(second marriage--- same woman)
Mary Ann Brule Vautrin
http://www.sookenewsmirror.com/community/303481881.html
Children from first marriage
Ellen Thomas Brulé (Mary Ann Poirier's mother)
Joseph Poirier (Mary Ann Poirier's father)
Mary Ann Poirier (Tina's Gr. Grandma)
married
John Joseph Enos (Tina's Gr. Grandpa)
Here are more related links, keep in mind that this is the most
recent posts so some of the info on the older posts are not accurate as I
have since learned more info.
Related Links:
Enos & Poirier Ancestry- Kalapuya, Iroquois, Portuguese, Songhees, Metis
https://mylangaratrccarvingjourney.blogspot.ca/2016/11/enos-poirier-ancestry-kalapuya-iroquois.html
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/03/my-portuguese-and-songhees-heritage.html
https://mylangaratrccarvingjourney.blogspot.ca/2016/09/my-heritage-and-7-generations.html
http://portuguesepioneersofbc.blogspot.ca/search/label/joe%20silvey
http://portuguesepioneersofbc.blogspot.ca/search/label/john%20enos
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(Mary Ann was born at Marysville (Corvallis) in the Willamette Valley of Oregon in 1834. Her parents were of Iroquois and Kalapuya blood; she was raised to age 15 at the Catholic Mission at St. Paul )
This is such an interesting page I want to share all of here...but for now, read this please and check out the link.
http://www.salemhistory.net/people/native_americans.htm
"As a semi-nomadic people, the
Kalapuya(s) lived in permanent
winter homes and migrated throughout the Willamette Valley
during the warmer months. They traded regularly with their
Molalla and Cayuse neighbors as well as other Northern California,
Oregon coast, and Columbia River tribes." (Kalapuya,
page 4)
Food
The
Kalapuyas were hunters and gatherers. Women did most
of the gathering, while men were the hunters. Salmon, trout,
and eels were part of their diet as were birds, small game,
deer, bear, and elk. Grasshoppers and a type of caterpillar
were considered delicacies. Other food items included hazel
nuts, berries, tarweed seeds, and wapato. (Zenk, page 547-548)
Camas root was the
Kalapuyas' most abundant and important
staple. This "bulbous root plant resembles an onion in
shape and consistency but is considerably more bland in taste,"
according to "Cooking up Camas," an article in Historic
Marion. A member of the lily family, "camassia quamash"
still grows in the Willamette Valley; it is known for its
beautiful blue spring time blooms.
Kalapuya women dug the camas with forked wooden sticks and
then roasted and dried the root in pit-ovens. This mixture
was also pressed into cakes or loaves for later use as food
or as a valuable trade item.
From this webpage
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~goudied/a_la_facon_du_pays.html
à la façon du pays
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Fur trade society developed its own marriage rite, marriage à la façon du pays (after the custom of the country), which combined both First Nations and European marriage customs.
Life was difficult and precarious for both sexes in nomadic Indian tribes, and other commentators felt that the women did not question their role which was essential for survival. However, it did not accord with European notions of femininity for women for women to be strong. The Hudson's Bay Company men found the unladylike strength of Chipewayan women particularly astonishing. On one occasion David Thompson sent one of his strongest men to help a Chipewyan woman who was hauling a heavy sled; to the man's surprise, it took all his strength to budge the load. The Chipewayan themselves took the superior strength of women for granted. As a famous chief Matonabbee declared, "Women... were made for labour; one of them can carry, or haul, as much as two men can do." Samuel Hearne perceived that the Chipewayan evaluated women by different criteria than did the European. Physical prowess and economic skill took precedence over delicate features:
Ask a Northern Indian, what is beauty? he will answer, a broad flat face, small eyes, high cheek-bones.. a low forehead, a large broad chin, a clumsy hook-nose, a tawny hide, and breasts hanging down to the belt. Those beauties were greatly heightened, or at least rendered more valuable, when the possessor is capable of dressing all kinds of skins, converting them into the different parts of their clothing, and all to carry eight or ten stone in Summer, or haul a much greater weight in Winter.
The positions adopted by Indian women in labour, either squatting or kneeling over a low object, seemed to lessen the length and pain of parturition. Concerned at the lack of help and attention which "the sex" received in childbirth, Samuel Hearne endeavoured to explain to Indian women the benefits of the use of midwives as in Britain.. He was met with the contemptuous response that such interference was probably the cause of the humpbacks, bandy legs and other deformities which the Indians observed among their English visitors. James Isham, on the other hand, found Indian attitudes commendable. After observing how soon Cree women resumed their heavy work, he was prompted to suggest that Englishwomen were too often unnecessarily pampered. "I think it's only pride and ambition, that takes in Keeping their bed a full month, and putting a poor C'n to Charge and Experience for aught."
Isham also noticed that Indian women were not very prolific. Children were generally spaced two or three years apart. In attempting to account for this lack of fertility compared with European women, prevented conception. Indian mothers suckled their children for several years, never having recourse to wet nurses that was then common practice amongst the wealthier classes in Europe. The traders considered that such a long nursing period had a detrimental effect upon the women because it resulted in premature aging, but the Indians had their own reasons for supporting this practice. If children were weaned before the age of three, the Indian women at Severn House informed William Falconer, they would develop large bellies from having to drink too much water and this would make them poor travelers unable to withstand fatigue. Furthermore native women had to nurse their children until they were old enough to eat solid, adult fare. As one observer succinctly wrote: "They give babies nothing but milk or else present them with a leg of goose."
The Europeans did comment favourably on the practicality of the Indian cradle which allowed the children, encased in soft skins, to be conveniently carried on its mother's back. A silky, dried, absorbent moss, which frequently changed, took the place of diapers. Isham thought this was such a "good Saving Method", dispensing with the trouble and expense of washing, drying and buying cloth for clouts, that it could be advantageously adopted by "the poor folks in our own Nation".
Excerpt: "Many Tender Ties"
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~goudied/
This explanation here explains very well why I can not find the name of my great great grandma who was Songhees.
It's so sad, vile and disturbing. Why people felt they were so much better. Sadly many privileged people still think similar thoughts...I pray that the work we are doing today enlightens everyone and things truly change for the better...for now I am grateful to understand more about what went on and why.
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One of the problems of searching the native families is that they didn't always use the same name and the clergy didn't always record the name the same way each time. Hence Barra is sometimes Barry, Berra, Burra etc.
Fur trade society developed its own marriage rite, marriage à la façon du pays (after the custom of the country), which combined both First Nations and European marriage customs.
During the 1800s and into well into the 1900s, there was social stigma attached to anyone with Native ancestry. A prime example of the sentiment of the time is contained in a letter found at the BC Archives (MS 0182 - Yale or Reel # A01658). It's referenced as 'no 11,' a letter to James Murray Yale from a friend, Mary Julia Mechtler. On page 2, she writes:
"Continue to keep your good resolutions of not taking an Indian wife, on account of yourself as well as of the dreadful fate that generally awaits the Bois Brule offspring of such a connection. Reflect what every man owes himself. What apology can a white man make to his children for mixing and polluting his pure blood with that of a savage. How dare such a person pretend to principle and feeling! Fie upon him for a selfish monster! I hope, my dear James, you will never have such a reproach to make to your conscience.""
After reading this I feel like puking. Shame on Mary Julia Mechtler, but she learned her hate and ignorance from somewhere and that is the lesson we must take from this, do not teach hate, be careful of what we have learned and learn never to teach hate to our children. For if we do, we shall never have peace.
Important links I want to share
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~goudied/bibliography.html#Many%20Tender%20Ties pp 27-29
http://www.ctsi.nsn.us/chinook-indian-tribe-siletz-heritage/our-history/part-i
http://www.grandronde.org/
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~goudied/marriage-sources.html#Joseph%20Brul%E9%20Marie%20Ann%20Maranda%20dit%20la%20Frise
http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~goudied/
https://www.familytreedna.com/
Okay to be updated and continued as I said I have a lot to add here.
Here are more related links, keep in mind that this is the most
recent posts so some of the info on the older posts are not accurate as I
have since learned more info.
Related Links:
Enos & Poirier Ancestry- Kalapuya, Iroquois, Portuguese, Songhees, Metis
https://mylangaratrccarvingjourney.blogspot.ca/2016/11/enos-poirier-ancestry-kalapuya-iroquois.html
https://tinawinterlik.blogspot.ca/2016/03/my-portuguese-and-songhees-heritage.html
https://mylangaratrccarvingjourney.blogspot.ca/2016/09/my-heritage-and-7-generations.html
http://portuguesepioneersofbc.blogspot.ca/search/label/joe%20silvey
http://portuguesepioneersofbc.blogspot.ca/search/label/john%20enos
