Lineal descent means that anyone directly descended from original tribal enrollees could be eligible for tribal enrollment, regardless of how much native blood they have. A collateral descendant is a legal term for a relative descended from a brother or sister of an ancestor, and thus a niece, nephew, or cousin.
All poems of William Cullen Bryant Â». an American romantic poet, journalist, and long-time editor of the New York Evening Post. Bryant was born on November 3, 1794, in a log cabin near Cummington, Massachusetts; the home of his birth is today marked with a plaque. He was the second son of Peter Bryant, a doctor and later a state legislator, and Sarah Snell.
Like one who wraps the drapery of his couch. About him, and lies down to pleasant dreams. Bryant first wrote this poem when he was about 17, after reading the British graveyard poets (e.g. Thomas Gray, Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard and Robert Blair, The Grave)and William Wordsworth's Lyrical Ballads.