Before going into this our Tribal Historian - the last time we really talked about this subject - wanted me to acknowledge that this story was considered by her largely hearsay . So far we have found very little information on my great-aunt Hattie other than what was mentioned by our Tribal Matriarch or whatever was said by my grandmother Gurtine Howard. Hattie was the sister of my great-grandfather and our Tribal Chief James Lee Burns. She was the product of a relationship between Aggie Andrews and an unknown father. She's also said to be biracial and was able to pass for white during the most difficult time for race relations of the 20th Century. Aunt Hattie??? The only noted sighting of Hattie was at the funeral for her nephew Cornelius Brown which through research took place in 1990. I'd be very curious to know how old she was at that time, our Tribal Chief at that point had passed away about two years earlier. Unless there were other children out there we didn't k...