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From: "Vaughn Ballard" <>
Subject: Re: Fair skin Indians
Date: Sun, 14 Feb 1999 15:39:18 -0600


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From: davidk88 <>
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Sent: Sunday, February 14, 1999 2:11 PM
Subject: Fair skin Indians

>My great grand mother from Palestine area once told me of fair skinned
Indians
>in east Texas.This maybe folklore but she told me that they were
descendents
>of Cynthia Ann Parker or her son Quahna Parker.The young girl had been
taken
>by a tribe and raised as their own.
> Karen Kerr

Karen,

In 1685, Rene Robert Cavelier Sieur de La Salle came to what is now
Nacogdoches, Texas and found a tribe of Indians with pale skin and hair and
blue eyes. Tradition is that an old Caddo chief whose tribe lived along the
Sabine River had twin sons, Nacogdoches and Natchitoches. Nacogdoches was
fair complected with fair hair and Natchitoches had a dark complexion and
dark hair. When the two sons became men, their father instructed them to
begin new tribes. Nacogdoches and his followers were sent three days and
nights journey into the setting sun, and Natchitoches was sent the same
distance into the rising sun. The places they settled their tribes became
Nacogdoches, Texas and Natchitoches, Louisiana.

Vaughn

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