Posted on 10/16/2018 5:35:49 AM PDT by Zakeet
Leftists responded with rage and anger after Cherokee Nation came out on Monday to criticize Elizabeth Warren for "undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage."
Warren earlier in the day released the results of a DNA test conducted at "a private lab in Georgia" which said she might possibly be anywhere from 1/64th to 1/1,024th Native American (which means she may have less Native American DNA than the average white American).
"Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong," Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin Jr. said in a statement. "It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is proven. Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage."
(Excerpt) Read more at informationliberation.com ...
I keep seeing various posts about her receiving special treatment due to her claim of Native American status but she claims she never mentioned it when applying for school or jobs.
Does anyone have a direct link that shows proof that she lied in order to receive benefit? If so, it needs to be shared far and wide!
But...but...but...she identifies as a Native American!
It is curious that most of the fake Indians claim descent ONLY from the Cherokee Tribe, which is, after all, only one of some four or five hundred that populated the North American continent prior to 1492. And not all the tribes that were here when Columbus touched land for the first time in the Western Hemisphere arrived from the same source (a land bridge across the Bering Strait some 12,000 years ago). There is another ethnic group that lived around the North polar region, commonly called “Eskimos”, that were distributed from Siberia, to northern Alaska and Canada, around to Greenland, and completing the circle in the part of Scandinavia called Lapland. There is also evidence that some migration from the Pacific Islanders to the west coast of South America, in what is now Chile, also occurred, and very likely some ethnic Caucasians made their way westward along a glacier bridge from northern Europe into the lands of eastern Canada. The Ojibwa (Chippewa) are very different from their neighbors, the Plains Indians commonly known as the Sioux, and very nearly look European, if such differences may be quantified.
“American Indian” is actually a very poor descriptive term for the many ethnic strains that make up the New World people.
>https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-accurate-are-online-dna-tests/?fbclid=IwAR3DNUf1ru2bPvz0ADNoRWr2IUC6lswklqPuSG0BIwZR5hULFd_EVR29fRU<
"When it comes to ancestry, DNA is very good at determining close family relations such as siblings or parents, and dozens of stories are emerging that reunite or identify lost close family members (or indeed criminals). For deeper family roots, these tests do not really tell you where your ancestors came from. They say where DNA like yours can be found on Earth today. By inference, we are to assume that significant proportions of our deep family came from those places. But to say that you are 20 percent Irish, 4 percent Native American or 12 percent Scandinavian is fun, trivial and has very little scientific meaning. We all have thousands of ancestors, and our family trees become matted webs as we go back in time, which means that before long, our ancestors become everyone’s ancestors. Humankind is fascinatingly closely related, and DNA will tell you little about your culture, history and identity."
Great history lesson. Many thanks.
lol
That was good enough for Harvard Law to include her in their diversity numbers! Why isn’t it good enough for us?
(well...because....oops...as it turns out, Indian is a rather precisely defined category....oops)
I've noticed the same thing. I never hear anyone brag that they're 1/60 Apache, Modoc, or Kumeysay.
“high cheek bones”
Hmmmmm! Hmmmmm! Hmmmmm!
I love the things about which they get angry. So damn silly.
The operative word being “ANGRY” because that is part of their name
ANGRY MOBS.
Live with it, Lefties.
I’m thinking that most claim to be Cherokee, perhaps, because their record-keeping and organization were above the norm probably, and their forced move from the Southeast to Oklahoma is well known. Plus Sam Houston sojourned with them for a time :)
And they seem to be bigger today in terms of business footprint than others. But that’s just my general impression.
On a lighter note...I’ve had friends who thought they were Comanche ...but as they did the research, they found out they were only Choctaw, but they went ahead and enrolled.
Bummer. You think you are a great warrior, but then discover you are only a farmer.....
They are just as accurate as TAROT CARDS, and the methodology used is exactly the same.
Pocahonky
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I wish Trump would pick up on that name and use it.
The word isn’t ‘heap’, it’s heapum, I should know since I’m 0.0000000023% Cherokee.
Virtually all Hispanics have more or less Native American roots. For some reason in this country, in the popular imagination we tend to think of Native Americans as those who resided in the area that is now the United States. The fact is, all of the people that occupied the Americas--from Alaska to the tip of South America were racially all the same. There were/are differences in language, customs, and even some physical appearance, but they were all ethnically Native Americans.
Two reasons for that:
1. LORE has it that the Cherokee were peaceful people while the Sioux were depicted as evil scalpers.
2. Most of these 'fake indians' have trouble spelling the word 'Sioux' properly, and can't even name any other Indian 'tribes'.
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