Here's the puzzle for my family. My grandfather's mother, Daisy Murray was, we believe, half Indian. However, she denied her Indian heritage throughout her lifetime. It was only discovered after her death that she was part Indian. What my grandfather was told is that his mother was "Iroquois", not Sioux (the largest local tribe where they lived in Iowa and South Dakota).

Due to Daisy's denial of her Indian roots, we have precious little exact information to go by to track her ancestry. Was her Indian background through her father Louis Murray, or through her mother Louisa (last name Thurman according to some family historians)? Which Iroquois tribe was she from and when did they come west? If anyone has any information, email me at ckdane@yahoo.com