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Paul "Walkingstick" Burt, State Clan Chief of the Texas Clan

I was born in California, but moved to Texas just as fast as I could.

After proudly serving a tour in the U.S. Navy, I spent three years in a management position with a drugstore chain in California. I then went into the restaurant business. I moved to Texas where I am still in the restaurant business.

My hobbies are, and I am a novice in all of these, a flint knapper, canoe builder, bow builder as well as a maker of tomahawks and peace pipes. My wife and I enjoy nature and raise a few Blackbuck antelopes in the Lost Pines area of Bastrop, Texas.

My father was an Italian immigrant. He was born in 1878.

My mother was at least half Cherokee. My grandmother’s family was wiped out in a massacre. We are not sure if these people were white civilians or military, but she was the lone survivor in her immediate family. She was raised by a white family who passed her off as their grandchild.

According to my mother, her brothers and sisters, as well as her mother, were not allowed to register on the Dawes Rolls by my grandfather because of the fear of reprisal by the government and other white people, even with the enticement of land.

My grandmother’s family was from North Carolina and came through the Ohio Valley, then down into Tipton County, Tennessee. It has been talked about in the family for years that they were probably members of the Trail of Tears march. They possibly escaped, hiding out in Tennessee.

My grandfather was possibly Mohawk and Portuguese and according to the Census Reports his ancestors were from Virginia and the Carolinas. (All of this area was home of the Iroquois Nation).

There are twenty-three of us siblings. Five of us are full brothers and sister, the rest are all half brothers and sisters.

Chief Walkingstick

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Texas Clan

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Chief Paul "Walkingstick" Burt

232 Bluebonnet Drive

Bastrop, Texas 78602

512-332-2878

bastroppaul@yahoo.com