Honorific Adoptions
Boone, Daniel (under Honorific Adoption), Batley, Robert Thompson (under Honorific Adoption), Colden, Cadwallader, Fowler, Percy Leo, Honorific Adoption, Kean, Edmund, Long Lance, Buffalo Child, Melville, Herman, Meyer, Julius, Powell, Peter John,
Boone, Daniel (under Honorific Adoption)
It is not unusual for adults to be adopted as honorary members of a family, clan or tribe. There are two main types. One is the publicity-stunt adoption of politicians, usually western l... [more]
Batley, Robert Thompson (under Honorific Adoption)
It is not unusual for adults to be adopted as honorary members of a family, clan or tribe. There are two main types. One is the publicity-stunt adoption of politicians, usually western l... [more]
Colden, Cadwallader
Colden was born in Ireland and after graduating from the University of Edinburgh (1705) he emigrated to the American colonies (1710). He spent the next half century in the colonial civil se... [more]
Fowler, Percy Leo
Fowler was born into a Lancashire family and emigrated with them to New Zealand in 1910. After several years in Auckland, the family homesteaded a 50-acre block of land in the Bay of Island... [more]
Honorific Adoption
It is not unusual for adults to be adopted as honorary members of a family, clan or tribe. There are two main types. One is the publicity-stunt adoption of politicians, usually western l... [more]
Kean, Edmund
Kean was the son of a poverty-stricken actress, Ann Carey, who more or less abandoned him on the streets, and (probably) an architect's clerk, Edmund Kean, who committed suicide when he was... [more]
Long Lance, Buffalo Child
Long Lance (born Sylvester Long) claimed to be a Blackfoot or Blackfoot-Cherokee chief. In fact he was almost certainly not a Blackfoot at all, but rather of mixed ancestry, including Afric... [more]
Melville, Herman
Melville was born into a comfortably well-off merchant family in New York, but his father went bankrupt and insane, and died when he was 12 (other sources say 14), leaving his mother a wido... [more]
Meyer, Julius
Meyer was one of the earliest Jewish settlers in the present state of Nebraska. He moved to Omaha in 1866 as a trader with the Native Americans, learned at least six Indian languages and wa... [more]
Powell, Peter John
Powell is a white man by birth but a Cheyenne Indian by adoption. His devotion to the ways and welfare of Native Americans has led to his formal adoption into at least four families of the ... [more]
