but but but- she wrote a ‘native American cook book’ called “Pow Wow Chow”
https://elizabethwarrenwiki.org/pow-wow-chow-cookbook/
sorry- meant ‘she wrote FOR a native American cook book’- submitted recipes and listed herself as cherokee as did her husband
from link:
Mrs. Warren’s 1984 recipe for Cold Omelets with Crab Meat contains all four of the ingredients listed in Mr. Franey’s 1979 recipe in the exact same portion but lists five additional ingredients. More significantly, her instructions are virtually a word for word copy of Mr. Franey’s instructions from this 1979 article. Both instructions specify the use of a “seven inch Teflon pan.” …
Did original Cherokees even know what crabs were? Not likely.