Momfeather

[Epiphany]

She was born Martha L Sparks.  Some of her heritage claims:

when I was a very young girl, my grandmother who was Cherokee taught me to stick weave. My dad made my first sticks from hickory.

http://moonmaiden.hubpages.com/hub/Stick_Weaving_For_a_Quick_Homemade_Gift

Erickson, one-quarter Cherokee

http://migration.kentucky.gov/Newsroom/travel/momfeather.htm

Erickson, one-half Cherokee

http://www.manataka.org/page1562.html

Mom Feather's grandmother Sally Brown (a Medicine Woman like her mother before her)

http://books.google.com/books?id=_TtwKw8WvbEC&lpg=PA1&dq=mom%20feather%20%22sally%20brown%22&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q=mom%20feather%20%22sally%20brown%22&f=false

She posted this on a genealogy site:

Martha Sparks Kaelbli Erickson <Momfeathr@aol.com>
Date:    2007-11-21
Comments:    
I have been working on our Sparks family since about 1993.

I have not had a lot of time lately but keep trying to find more. I would like to add to this...My grandfather was John Sparks, great grandfather Franklin Sparks, great great grandfather John G. Sparks, great great

great Issac Sparks, Jr. and great great great great Grandfather Issac Sparks. I do have an abundance of information on this side of the family. Back to the first tax records of Kentucky.

http://resources.rootsweb.com/~guestbook/cgi-bin/public_guestbook.cgi?gb=6579&action=view

I found obit of her father Stanley Sparks http://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ERlBAAAAIBAJ&sjid=gagMAAAAIBAJ&dq=anna%20sparks%20kaelbli&pg=6067%2C414504


She does have a grandmother named Sally Brown, listed white in census, as were Sally's parents.

While working on her genealogy I discovered that Martha Sparks Kaelbli Erickson has already posted her genealogy on ancestry.com. She knows her heritage several generations back, she knows they are all white Kentucky folks.

Her husband is Dean E. Erickson, their two Marion, Kentucky non profit companies are MANTLE ROCK CHEROKEES, INC. and MANTLE ROCK NATIVE EDUCATION AND CULTURAL CENTER, INC.

Kentucky corporation searches http://www.sos.ky.gov/business/online/

A Leonard Soaring Eagle Martin is also active in both those corporations.

[BvrWhstls]

As Feather's son in law let me clear so misconceptions up if I may. If you feared for your life because you knew first hand of the disappearances of Native American people during the trail of tears and were multiracial would you add your names to a government list and live on a reservation or would you hide and live as they did in the hills of eastern Kentucky? Martha's grandmother named her Feather and taught her the ways of her ancestors. Martha Sparks was one quarter Cherokee. The familes were not full blood for generations. But they never forgot what their grandmother taught them. Why do you think she and her children were
always mistaken for Cherokee on the reservations when they visited friends, if they are just common run of the mill white folks?

Walk in beauty,
Alex

[Piff]

Martha "Momfeather" Kaelbli-Erickson
Sep 15, 1939 - Apr 8, 2017

Martha "Momfeather" (Sparks) Kaelbli-Erickson, 77, of Shepherdsville, KY, departed on her spiritual journey on Saturday April 8, 2017.. She was born on September 15, 1939 in Harlan County, KY to Stanley and Callie (Halcomb) Spar

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1234.msg43717#msg43717

[Sparks]

Martha "Momfeather" Kaelbli-Erickson
Sep 15, 1939 - Apr 8, 2017

Martha "Momfeather" (Sparks) Kaelbli-Erickson, 77, of Shepherdsville, KY, departed on her spiritual journey on Saturday April 8, 2017.. She was born on September 15, 1939 in Harlan County, KY to Stanley and Callie (Halcomb) Spar

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1234.msg43717#msg43717

The full text of that obituary, and more, can be read here:

http://www.maramanbillings.com/obituaries/Martha-Kaelbli-Erickson/
http://www.maramanbillings.com/obituaries/Martha-Kaelbli-Erickson/#!/Obituary

— The rest of the misplaced post partly quoted by Piff reads:

As Feather's son in law let me clear so misconceptions up if I may. If you feared for your life because you knew first hand of the disappearances of Native American people during the trail of tears and were multiracial would you add your names to a government list and live on a reservation or would you hide and live as they did in the hills of eastern Kentucky? Martha's grandmother named her Feather and taught her the ways of her ancestors. Martha Sparks was one quarter Cherokee. The familes were not full blood for generations. But they never forgot what their grandmother taught them. Why do you think she and her children were
always mistaken for Cherokee on the reservations when they visited friends, if they are just common run of the mill white folks?

Walk in beauty,
Alex

[Sparks]

— The rest of the misplaced post partly quoted by Piff reads:

The misplaced post has been moved into the present thread and is now located here:

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=1995.msg43717#msg43717