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This Annotated Resource Set is about the Native American people. I used my own back ground and heritage to gather this information about the indigenous people of America.
My father is Edward Fixico Sr. born in Weleetka, Oklahoma in 1927. He is a Musocgee Creek, which is considered one of "The Five Civilized Tribes" by the U.S. government. He was the youngest of three boys and grew up on his own land and not on a reservation. His level of education went to the ninth grade but Dad served in the Army as a sharp shooter during World War II. He had a great sense of humor which was the reason my mother said she was attracted to him.

My mother is Hannah LeftHandBull born in St. Francis Mission, South Dakota in 1923, one year before Native Americans were made U.S. citizens. She grew up on the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation and was taken away from her family at the age of 8 years old and put into a mission school. Her hair was cut, her clothes taken away and she was not allowed to speak her language nor practice her religion. Mom graduated from high school and went on to college and she served as a Navy Wave.

This Annotated Resource Set is about some of my ancestors from Oklahoma, the Fixico's. It seems that my father's side of the family led a pretty colorful life. I was surprised to see so many newspaper articles about the Fixico's. For my mother's connection to the past is of how she was taken from her family and put in the mission school. There's a picture of a mission school with teepees in the foreground, it looks just like how mom had described it. Her mom and dad camped out like that because four of their five children was taken from them and put into a mission school.

I believe we are all a part of history and we just have to look for it.