The whitewashed story: My buddy’s great-grandmother was a native “servant”. There’s evidence that his great aunt was the product of her “boss” “having an affair” with her. This would have been just after the great depression.
His grandfather’s father was also a native servant who died mysteriously right before my buddy’s grandfather was born. Seven years later, while working for the same people, he got a little sister and his mom died mysteriously right after. So they lived with my buddy’s great great grandmother while his grandfather worked this guy’s land and couldn’t get education. When great great grandmother died, grandfather was 12 or 13. He took his little sister to Texas to work in the oil fields and take care of her.
He came and spoke to our class in 4th grade during a native American module in history class and told part of the story. I didn’t get to hear the rest until we were well into our teens. As an adult we started putting shit together and my buddy took a bunch of trips to Alabama to try to get everything else. He got the story corroborated by some older folks that were related to them and that’s where he found out some of the stories about his great aunt.
The whitewashed story: My buddy’s great-grandmother was a native “servant”. There’s evidence that his great aunt was the product of her “boss” “having an affair” with her. This would have been just after the great depression.
His grandfather’s father was also a native servant who died mysteriously right before my buddy’s grandfather was born. Seven years later, while working for the same people, he got a little sister and his mom died mysteriously right after. So they lived with my buddy’s great great grandmother while his grandfather worked this guy’s land and couldn’t get education. When great great grandmother died, grandfather was 12 or 13. He took his little sister to Texas to work in the oil fields and take care of her.
He came and spoke to our class in 4th grade during a native American module in history class and told part of the story. I didn’t get to hear the rest until we were well into our teens. As an adult we started putting shit together and my buddy took a bunch of trips to Alabama to try to get everything else. He got the story corroborated by some older folks that were related to them and that’s where he found out some of the stories about his great aunt.