Cape's 
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Our family story begins in Tangipahoa Louisiana where my grandmother was raised her story is Mixed…. A part of her life’s journey comes from information passed down to our family Through family and stories told. Some said she was actually an Indian child that was given to the Tate family to care for. My grandmother’s father was said to have been an Indian man that would do odd jobs around the Tate home for Food , One day he asked the Tates to care for his  6  year old daughter, He said that he was returning to Oklahoma territory to find the rest of the family and that he would return soon. It is said that her and her father were living in an old abandoned Indian site down by the Tangipahoa River, Outside of Fort Moore , located in Tangipahoa Louisiana. Her father never returned. This is how she was raised by the Tate family. 

Many years later I took my grandmother to visit a cousin in New Orleans who lived across the street from a Catholic school in the gardenDistrict. she pointed out the school as the school she went to for two years. In Later years a friend and I were passing the school and she told me that it was a Catholic repatriation school for Indian kids And that only Indian kids were allowed to attend that school.
as a result I began my search to find out who my grandmother‘s ancestors actually were. my grandmother told me herself that she lived at one time on an Indian reservation until she was six years old. Of course I did not understand what she meant by that statement.