Posted on 05/09/2016 11:08:37 AM PDT by Mount Athos
For over a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Warren has described herself as a Native American.
After researching her story, it is obvious that her “family lore” is just fiction.
Ms. Warren’s great-great-great grandfather, was apparently a member of the Tennessee Militia who rounded up Cherokees from their family homes in the Southeastern United States and herded them into government-built stockades in what was then called Ross’s Landing (now Chattanooga), Tennessee–the point of origin for the horrific Trail of Tears, which began in January, 1837.
These were the troops responsible for removing Cherokee families from homes they had lived in for generations in the three states that the Cherokee Nations had considered their homelands for centuries: Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
While these involuntary home removals were not characterized by widespread violence, the newly displaced Cherokee mothers, fathers, and children found an oppressive and sometimes brutal welcome when they finally arrived at the hastily constructed containment areas. An estimated 4,000 Cherokees were warehoused in Ross’s Landing stockades for months awaiting supplies and additional armed guards the Federal Government believed necessary to relocate them on foot to Oklahoma.
It is time for Ms. Warren to publicly acknowledge the truth of her ancestry. It is time for her to admit that she has no Native American heritage that she can prove; and it is time for her to acknowledge instead, that she is likely a direct descendant of a Tennessee Militiaman who apparently rounded up the ancestors of those who truly have Cherokee heritage, the first step in their forced removal from the Southeastern United States to Oklahoma over the long and tragic Trail of Tears.
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Warren could clear all this up in a jiff if she would just spend $99.00 and get ancestry.com to analyze her DNA. (If she really wanted to.)
One of my relatives in NC was supposed to work that but wound up not doing it, the history is rather garbled.
To be fair, what did she write and publish while on Harvard’s dime? A look at her supposed “research” would be nice too.
One word for the senator:
REPARATIONS!
she liaed about being cherokee twice to get high paying jobs...has anybody ever been able to locate any real indians that were displaced by her lies?
Too much wampum.
“It is time for Ms. Warren to publicly acknowledge the truth of her ancestry. It is time for her to admit that she has no Native American heritage that she can prove; and it is time for her to acknowledge instead, that she is likely a direct descendant of a Tennessee Militiaman who apparently rounded up the ancestors of those who truly have Cherokee heritage, the first step in their forced removal from the Southeastern United States to Oklahoma over the long and tragic Trail of Tears.”
NOT only that...but IF she has Cherokee heritage (like me, so little ...a nosebleed and it’s all gone!) it is likely those Cherokee were RICH aristocrats who owned AFRICAN slaves, including Chief John Ross, another corrupt politician who was only 1/8th Cherokee. Let her choke on that.
Their story is here:
Jesus Wept - An American Story
http://jesusweptanamericanstory.blogspot.com/
From Chapter 3: The 1835 Cherokee Census in Georgia reported: Indians 8,946, Intermarried Whites 68, Slaves 776, Farms 1,735, Acres under Cultivation 19,216. Because many of these Cherokees were above average in socio economic success, they were also more likely to suffer acts of violence from other factions of the tribe as well as settlers encroaching on their homes.
And you verified my experience. I was not looking for ‘benefits’ when I called. But I did learn there is a requirement to legitimately call oneself a Cherokee.
My great grandfather was full blood Native American.......from Tennessee. No one in the family has any clue what tribe since apparently he’s not registered anywhere. No one in the family has ever tried to claim their native American ‘privelege’. As far as I know no one ever even tells anyone they are part Indian.
At me time my aunt tried to trace him and ran into a brick wall.
Damned straight. Ethnic cleansing at bayonet point from green fields and mountains of people who had adopted every white cultural norm, settled farms, churches, frock coats and dresses, and their own written language. All followed by a thousand mile forced march onto an untamed prairie populated by genuine savages. May as well say the Bataan Death March was a fitness exercise.
Paleface squaw speak with forked tongue.
Back in 55 gals (even fat pigs) did not wear “hip huggers” and guys did not wear sweat shirts like the guy on the right. That picture is from the 70’s.
Well why choose a commie-lite when you can have a full blooded commie?
PALE FACE
RED IN THE FACE
AFTER ABOUT-FACE
” Ethnic cleansing at bayonet point from green fields and mountains of people who had adopted every white cultural norm, settled farms, churches, frock coats and dresses, and their own written language. All followed by a thousand mile forced march onto an untamed prairie populated by genuine savages. May as well say the Bataan Death March was a fitness exercise.”
The Trail where they cried was as cruel as anything in history. Why some ‘conservatives’ refuse the facts is what liberals do. But it wasn’t just ‘white man’ at fault. Chief John Ross, who was every bit as big liar as Obama and as good at race baiting/class warfare, held out for more money until the forced removal instead of protecting his people.
[snip] According to the dates in her dairy, Mrs. Releaf Mason of Little Rock observed the Bell Contingency nearing the end of it’s journey. On December 13, 1838 she wrote, “Heard of the unexpected death of a young lady of the Cherokee Nation.” A few days later she notes, “When we came to the river our horses took fright at some Indians encamped near the road and came very near precipitating us into the stream.” Her December 18th entry reflects, “Today the Indians, amounting to 700 passed off, which for several days have been encamped near us. Many of them very interesting, some Christians.”
Private John G. Burnett of Captain Abraham McClellan’s Company, penned his observations of the Cherokee Indian Removal. This description is of another contingency which took months longer and did not fare as well as the Bells.
“I saw the helpless Cherokees arrested and dragged from their homes, and driven at the bayonet point into the stockades. And in the chill of a drizzling rain on an October morning I saw them loaded like cattle or sheep into six hundred and forty-five wagons and started toward the west....On the morning of November the 17th we encountered a terrific sleet and snow storm with freezing temperatures and from that day until we reached the end of the fateful journey on March the 26th 1839, the sufferings of the Cherokees were awful. The trail of the exiles was a trail of death. They had to sleep in the wagons and on the ground without fire. And I have known as many as twenty-two of them to die in one night of pneumonia due to ill treatment, cold and exposure.”
http://jesusweptanamericanstory.blogspot.com/
1) Not surprising, especially for a liberal and a pretend Native American.
2) ‘Trail of Tears’ is a very fine song by Guadalcanal Diary. Not really about the Cherokees but the band was so good, and so overlooked, no harm in giving them some props.
Someone needs to ask Warren what Ani-Yun-Wiya is....
Don’t allow her to look it up...
If she is what she says, she will know...
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