Total Number Of Pages: 1
Source: Scanned from the original photograph which is 10 inches in width and 8 inches in height.
Date: 1943-00-00
Language: English
Coverage: Unknown
Creators:
Red Thunder Cloud [Cromwell Ashbie Hawkins West]
Rights: No Known Copyright Restrictions
Description: The reverse reads:
"Like their cousins, the Fowlers and the Pharoahs, the Butlers exhibit the same strong Indian facial characteristics and they and the others were described by the late Dr. Frank G. Speck of the Anthropology Dept. of the Univ. of Pa. as full blood types. Dr. Speck in a letter to me after I had introduced him to the Montauk Bands at Freetown and Eastville indicated that he was amazed to learn that such Indian looking people still remained on Long Island.
Ethel Butler shown here with her two children, Madelyn and Robert was a staunch Indian and taught her children to be proud of their heritage. The few remaining Montauks although living on 13 miles from the Shinnecocks held themselves aloof from the latter.
The removal of most of the Montauks from Long Island in 1765 left only closely related families remaining behind. The Fowler, Pharoah and Butler families were all first cousins and except for one instance they deemed it unwise to marry among each other. They also refused as a body to intermarry with Negroes and since they considered the Shinnecock and Poosepatuck survivors as undesirable for marriage many of the Montauks remained single.
Of those Montauks who chose to remain single there were William Butler, Bertha Butler, Mary Butler, Carey Butler, Pocahontas Pharoah, Samuel Powhatan Pharoah, Midge Pharoah, George Fowler and his brother William. These people are all now deceased.
Madely and Robert Butler who still live in East Hampton still adhere to this same attitude of their deceased tribesmen. Both are still single. Courtland Butler the older brother of Robert and Madelyn married into the white race. He had a daughter who has also married into the white race and she has children. Both Courtland's daughter and her children live in Sag Harbor."
