Fortunately, the Cherokee Chief John Ross didn't hold the patent on the name.

I don't think there is hostility, but healthy skepticism. This looks like it is hosted in the extremely tenuous and volatile venue of someone's home Internet account. And a photo is just that--a photo. A nice glance back at people who may have established a group decades ago before the Internet was even an idea, many of whom are moved on or deceased. So that doesn't work as a form of validation.

If there is an organized group called the Pacific Northwest Folklore Society, separate from the various Seattle Folklore and Song Circle groups, it needs to make itself more distinctly separate and needs a more durable foundation than what may be a hobby for someone with an Internet account. This isn't meant to damn with faint praise or question the intent of whoever PNW folkie is (who is that, anyway? Someone I know? Pardon the query if everyone else knows but me.) Reviving an older but now defunct group may be a pleasant look back, but is there work that this group needs to do that someone else isn't already doing?

Maggie Dwyer