I found the Suddeth/Sudduth name in a database of Pocahontas/Powhatan descendants. Although this is far from certain, Suddeth is a rare name—I have found no Suddeths I am not related to.
Excerpt of list: STUDSTILL, SUDDUTH, SUELFLOW,
They liked to gamble via the Basket Game, ditalutsa anetsodi, ᏗᏔᎷᏣ ᎠᏁᏦᏗ. they used 6 dice, kola diquanayosdodi, ᎪᎳ ᏗᏆᎾᏲᏍᏗ, made of seeds or beans with black/white sides. Lots of betting on all sides dark and so on. (AKA bowl dice or squaw dice) The Cherokee men in my novel, Stone Man and the Trail of Tears, loved to wager on this game.
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Pocahontas’s White Lineage: Married John Rolfe, a son, Thomas. Among her descendants, Ellen Louise Axson, wife of President Wilson, and Anne Frances Robbins, wife of President Reagan. White lineage is shown. Pocahontas first married Kocoum, Potowomac warrior, a daughter, Ka-Okee, Little-Goose. Among her Indian descendants is singer Wayne Newton. (No Indian lineage chart available)
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Yes, Cherokees used a blowgun, Duquesdv ᏚᏇᏍᏛ, made from rivercane—about 6 feet long. Children used it to kill small game. The dart, Diyosdi ᏗᏲᏍᏗ, is hardwood with thistle fletching—about 18 inches long. Nowadays they are used in competitions—shooting at targets about 60 feet away. Chucha, the boy in my novel, Stone Man and the Trail of Tears, uses one.
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Anetsodi, ᎠᏁᏦᏗ, Little Brother of War, was a Cherokee version of stickball, the southeastern version of lacrosse. Stickball uses 2 small sticks instead of 1 long stick. Cherokee stickball has a 25-foot-high goal in the middle of the field with a wooden fish on top. 1 point for hitting the pole and 3 for hitting the fish. Still very popular among southeastern tribes. Not an easy game—I played lacrosse in my younger days and got injured many times. Chucha, the boy in my novel Stone Man and the Trail of Tears, loved this game.
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Inspired by my great-great grandfather, Bill Pennington, who was born in 1830. During the 1838 Trail of Tears, he and his family fled from their Cherokee village and settled in a rural area a few miles north of Charlestown, Indiana.
After U.S. soldiers attack twelve-year-old Tsatsi’s Cherokee village, his family flees to the Smokey Mountains. Facing storms, flood, and hunger, they’re forced to go where Stone Man, a monstrous giant, is rumored to live. Their journey is a dangerous one. Will Tsatsi find the strength to become a Cherokee warrior? And will they ever find their family again?
Juvenile Fiction: Boys & Men -Legends, Myths, Fables-Native American – Historical-United States-General
Print ISBN 9781939844620
EBook ISBN 9781939844637
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Amazon – https://www.amazon.com/Stone-Man-Trail-Charles-Suddeth/dp/1939844622/
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Goodreads – https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/44453832-stone-man-and-the-trail-of-tears
Indiebound – https://www.indiebound.org/book/9781939844620
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Chunkey was THE game back in Mound Builder times. Players hurl hickory spears with wooden points at a rolling 6-inch stone chunkey disc. The players whose spear lands closest to where the disc stops gets 1 point, 2 points if touching the disc. Chunkey fields are about 100 feet long.
The Cherokees in my novel, Stone Man and the Trail of Tears, played this game.
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