Posted on 05/27/2016 2:05:28 PM PDT by Rustybucket
I have tired of the offended class.
We have quite a few friends in OK. Some of them have Indian ancestry but you would never know it by looking at them and some of those get a government check.
One of them has a lot of Indian blood and he looks Indian, but he doesn’t get any money because he said his family was too slow to register.
Some Cherokee Indians care about Warren’s false claims. Three of them traveled to Boston when she was running for the Senate. One was Twila Barnes, who had researched Warren’s genealogy and found zero Cherokee. She wanted to talk to Warren about the harm to real Cherokee’s occasioned by false claims. Warren refused to meet the delegation, and went to great lengths to avoid encountering them.
I’m afraid that sounds quite accurate. What a mindset to go through life with.
Don’t sing for politicians.
Don’t sing for spuds!
You’d have a hard time finding an older family in Alabama that didn’t have some Indian blood. Dad’s side of the family through his mothers side were Creek Indian.
You can really tell it through his younger brothers kids. The women specially. His wife sure looked Indian but I’m not sure the lineage.
Pre-statehood and after the Creeks and Scots often intermarried. Many Creek were very civilized and landowners, planters and slaveholders.
The Creek Indian war, led by Andrew Jackson in the early 1800’s pretty much broke the Creek nation and paved the way for Jackson to become President.
It’s a pretty fascinating story actually. My ancestors fought on the side of the Redsticks. Great-Great-Great something or other was William Weatherford. Uncle through my mothers family was the Governor of Pensacola and provided the Redsticks with weapons. Don’t ask me why they had a “Governor” in Pensacola. Except Pensacola was claimed by the Spanish. Then the French. Then the Spanish again. Then the British. Then the Spanish again. Whew!
Regardless. No one in my family can claim any Creek Tribe or Creek land or qualifies for any benefits.
My husband was born in 1935, when he was about 10 or 12 he asked his elderly aunt if he was part Indian, he desperately wanted to be.
She said yes there was an Indian grandmother, but not to worry, she was the white folks kind of Indian.
He was overjoyed! ; )
The 'offended card is going the way of the 'race card'... Overplayed and stupid gets tiresome...
Hypersensitive. Lizzy Warren indirectly ripped off a Native American, depriving them of a scholarship. She also used the ruse to get a teaching position. Fraud is a real crime, but apparently not when it comes to EEOC.
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