Read the excerpts from The Land.When I asked my mama why Cassie and I couldn't call our daddy the same as Robert and George and Hammond, she said simply, "They're white and you're not, and their mama was his legal wife.". . .His name was Kanati; means the lucky hunter. My daddy said he left with some of his people headed west into Alabama or Mississippi before the soldiers made them go. From what my daddy told me, Kanati knew they'd be made to go because folks like my daddy and others wanted the Nation's land, and there was nothing to be done about that.