Nonetheless, seeing my friends on the academic left tie themselves up in knots trying to parse how "genuine" someone is, genetically speaking, fills me with a warm, ardent and self-satisfied glow.
Perhaps Senator Elizabeth Warren of Massachusetts could be invited to "pow-wow" with all parties and reach some sort of accord.
Sounds like they have a lot of native American, white women of color on the college campuses back east.
“Pretendians.”
Heh
#transraciallivesmatter
"Me heap big squaw!"
I think we should consider a law that all pretendians get scalped and all fake african americans get forced into “slavery” like jobs /sarcasm....
If a whtie man like Bruce Jenner can “self identify” as a woman and be celebrated as a hero dressed like a female on the cover of Vogue magazine, and a white woman like Rachel Dolezal can “self identify” as a black woman and be the leaader of an NAACP chapter, why can’t these New England women “self identify” as Indian Squaws?
Don’t these liberal academics at Darmouth celebrate diversity?
LOL - me too! Where's my new job?
You do recognize that the picture of the “sad Indian” was Italian. He never tried to hide his Italian heritage, and he worked to understand and become an Indian, so several Indian tribes treated him like a brother. He got his image from working in the movies.
There is a documented story where an investor in the Hudson Bay Company went to Canada to evaluate his investment. He asked the "company store manager" that he wanted to meet an Indian. So the store manager yelled, "McDonald, come here!"
Think about it, a lot of single white males were wandering in the backwoods. Many of them got along with the local tribes. So who do you think they married?
Warren get a new job?
She claims to be native...so what I was born here too.
Just another award Churchill or Rachel whatever her name is
I disagree.
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Ms. Reed says she is of Native heritage, though in response to queries, she didn’t specify which tribe or tribes she descends from.
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Some Native American activists say they can find no records linking Ms. Reed’s family, which has helped lead the group, founded in 1984, to any tribal heritage.
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Now let’s take a step back.
Any time I or any of my family make the same claim, we each have an ID, issued by the nation, to back such a claim.
If you have a traceable, documented blood line you can also get an ID from this department of the interior, BIA. I have both in my personal records file. Not that I’ve ever really needed them, but I have them.
I am astounded by the number of people who are so called activists and advocates who have never taken the time to establish their blood lines. It makes me think that in too many cases it is because they are UNABLE to document their lines. Pretendians indeed.
Well this research seems to indicate the family is 100% Irish.
http://ancestorstealing.blogspot.com/2015/09/susan-taffe-reed-and-eastern-delaware.html
The Delaware in Oklahoma—who are indisputably authentic—have been trying to get some light shed on these Eastern Delaware organizations for years now. People form these organizations based on limited, sometimes only anecdotal evidence of Indian heritage, and colleges and even museums sometimes lap it up uncritically. These groups really should be asked pointed questions about their descent, but too many academics just accept them without checking.
However, the blogger linked to above is actually wrong about no Lenape/Delaware surviving in the area. Indian Ann was certainly one:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?page=gr&GRid=4035
This is why genealogy and documentation is so important to show Indian ancestry in the East. There certainly have been pockets of Indians or mixed-race communities that survived here or there. But if you claim that, you better be able to show it.
