Voices of the Grandmothers

“Voices of the Grandmothers”

The thing that prompted Christine Wales to search for the history of her grandmothers was because all of her grandmothers would not recognize as being part Indian for that reason is it spured her on to figure out why they wouldn’t recognize themselves is part Indian. No one I personally know from my family or outside of the it had a need to uncover the past that I know of. You may be curious about your past because you may want to know where your family originated from or if anybody in your family was famous or in the war.

I feel like I understand why Christine Welch had to hide the fact that she was native but I feel like it was ridiculous that the Europeans made her feel this way and didn’t just accept her for who she was. I feel that the native wives were treated very poorly. I believe the Europeans could have treated them a lot better than they did because without of them who would look after the kids and clean the house and make the meals. These are some of the things the Europeans never considered when they were treating the wives the way they were.

Yes I agree that Christine Welch’s explanation that her great-grandmother’s denial of her native heritage was a survival mechanism. I believe this because back in her great grandmother day natives were considered less important than a man’s dog for this reason her grandmothers hid the fact there were native so she would not have to go through the same thing they did.

From listening to my grandpa I learned that Presceskys come from deep in the Ukraine and that we still have relatives there. Through my grandpa’s stories I learned my great great grandpa had a lot to do with Ford’s Battleford’d history. He found a lot of the artifacts that sit in there today. Through my dad I learned that my great grandma Creamer was going to come across to Canada on the Titanic but missed it. She came across on a ship called the Mayflower. I found this a very interesting piece of my family’s past because if she had been on the Titanic she would’ve died. My dad told me a story about my great grandpa who used to play on the Titanic as it was being built.