“...fourth-generation Cherokee born... His great-great-grandmother...”
Difficult, if not impossible, to prove/disprove. Lots of BS room in that claim.
Read Post #9, from someone who knows better than all of us.
I’m done with this semantic, gymnastic silliness.
In the winter of 1831, under threat of invasion by the U.S. Army, the Choctaw became the first nation to be expelled from its land altogether. They made the journey to Indian territory on foot (some “bound in chains and marched double file,” one historian writes) and without any food, supplies or other help from the government.
In 1836, the federal government drove the Creeks from their land for the last time: 3,500 of the 15,000 Creeks who set out for Oklahoma did not survive the trip.
1838, only about 2,000 Cherokees had left their Georgia homeland for Indian territory. President Martin Van Buren sent General Winfield Scott and 7,000 soldiers to expedite the removal process. Scott and his troops forced the Cherokee into stockades at bayonet point while whites looted their homes and belongings. Then, they marched the Indians more than 1,200 miles to Indian territory. Whooping cough, typhus, dysentery, cholera and starvation were epidemic along the way, and historians estimate that more than 5,000 Cherokee died as a result of the journey.
Doing the math, I don't find it hard to believe he is fourth generation in Oklahoma. We could write books on peoples inability to plug out comprehensive articles, myself included. Have a good day.