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.
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
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No matter how much fun is made of her, MA people still believe in her.
Yes, Jackson successfully advocated Crockett’s defeat in the TN congressional race of 1830.
Being a fraud is a huge leap forward with the American people.
Yep...
“Correct me if I’m wrong. But didn’t Jackson and Crockett have a falling out of the relocation of the Indians?”
Indeed.
[snip]Some historians contend Congressman David Crockett’s political career ended because of his support for the Cherokee against President Jackson’s removal plans. Crockett explains his position in 1834:
“.......His famous, or rather I should say infamous, Indian bill was brought forward, and I opposed it from the purest motives in the world. Several of my colleagues got around me, and told me how well they loved me, and that I was ruining myself. They said this was a favourite measure of the president, and I ought to go for it. I told them I believed it was a wicked, unjust measure, and that I should go against it, let the cost to myself be what it might; that I was willing to go with General Jackson in everything that I believed was honest and right; but further than this I wouldn’t go for him, or any other man in the whole creation.
I voted against this Indian bill, and my conscience yet tells me that I gave a good honest vote, and that I believe will not make me ashamed in the day of judgment.”
From: http://jesusweptanamericanstory.blogspot.com/
The whole point was to establish their credentials as good citizens to prevent just the sort of tragedy the 1838 Trail of Tears became. Sort of like the old white guys in ObaMao's America who paid their taxes, fought our battles and kept our noses clean only to be told to get in the back of the bus because we are now a threat.
” The whole point was to establish their credentials as good citizens to prevent just the sort of tragedy the 1838 Trail of Tears became. Sort of like the old white guys in ObaMao’s America who paid their taxes, fought our battles and kept our noses clean only to be told to get in the back of the bus because we are now a threat. “
YOU get it!
[snip] Elias Boudinot, as Editor of The Cherokee Phoenix, which was published both in English and Cherokee and read in the East and Europe, captured the Cherokee situation in just a few words.
“Perhaps Washington, Jefferson, Madison and Monroe were only tantalizing us when they encouraged us in the pursuit of agriculture and government. Why were we not told long ago that we could not be permitted to establish a government within the limits of any state? The Cherokees have always had a government of their own. Nothing, however, was said when we were governed by savage laws. Others say it is time for the Cherokees to submit to inevitable destiny.
What Destiny? To be slandered and then butchered? Yes, this is the bitter cup prepared for us by a republican and religious government. We shall drink it to the dregs.”
Same thing happened to my wife’s kin. Her ancestors did not register and get on the Indian Roles as back then many were ashamed to be part Cherokee.
When the government started doling out money to those on the roles, all of a sudden there was a rush of “Indians” flushed out of the woodwork.
I go to church with blond haired bearded people who have Cherokee license plates on their vehicles. Put a horned helmet on their heads and they would pass for VIKINGS.
“Kaw-Liga” and Fauxahauntis.
KAW-LIGA, was a wooden Indian standing by the door
He fell in love with an Indian maid over in the antique store
KAW-LIGA - A, just stood there and never let it show
So she could never answer “YES” or “NO”.
He always wore his Sunday feathers and held a tomahawk
The maiden wore her beads and braids and hoped someday he’d talk
KAW-LIGA - A, too stubborn to ever show a sign
Because his heart was made of knotty pine.
[Chorus:]
Poor ol’ KAW-LIGA, he never got a kiss
Poor ol’ KAW-LIGA, he don’t know what he missed
Is it any wonder that his face is red
KAW-LIGA, that poor ol’ wooden head.
KAW-LIGA, was a lonely Indian never went nowhere
His heart was set on the Indian maiden with the coal black hair
KAW-LIGA - A, just stood there and never let it show
So she could never answer “YES” or “NO”.
Then one day a wealthy customer bought the Indian maid
And took her, oh, so far away, but ol’ KAW-LIGA stayed
KAW-LIGA - A, just stands there as lonely as can be
And wishes he was still an old pine tree.
No problem. She said it was just a family squabble.
It’s interesting how genetics play out at times. You’d think blond hair and blue eyes, being recessive, would lose out with indian ancestry, but not necessarily so. I’ve got a little Cherokee on both sides. I have cousins who are blond with blue eyes and tan very well. I have cousins who have straight almost black dark brown hair and brown eyes, but with very fair complexion. I’m that way myself, get mistaken for a Scot or Castilian Spanish when out of the country, until I open my mouth.
My mother had a first cousin who married a full-blooded Arapaho Indian in Oklahoma, but they are now dead and had no children.
It’s interesting that Sam Houston and Crockett agreed on this issue though Houston didn’t fight Jackson on it. Houston loved the Indians and lived with them as a teen.
I’ve always wondered if the relocation of the Indians wasn’t one of the reasons Houston left Tennessee and moved to Arkansas/Oklahoma to live with the Cherokee. I can see where Houston could have simply left rather than turn on Jackson, his old friend and mentor. I know historians say it was because his wife loved another man.
I’m sure Crockett and Houston would have butted heads for the presidency of the Republic of Texas had Crockett not been killed at the Alamo. But they definitely agreed on the Indian issue.
“Since they chose to replace me with a timber toe they may all go to hell. And I shall go to Texas.” or something like that
“It’s interesting that Sam Houston and Crockett agreed on this issue though Houston didn’t fight Jackson on it. Houston loved the Indians and lived with them as a teen.”
This story is told in the book I mentioned..”Jesus Wept” - an American Story. The family I am supposed to be attached to, part of the Ridge Party bought land in Texas, Mt. Tabor. They purchased the land from Mexico, with their blessing, because NO Mexican wanted any part of it...too wild and difficult. When Texas formed, and the Cherokee made successful plantations, they fought the invading Mexicans for Houston from entering and destroying everything in sight.
When Texas became a state, Houston turned completely white man. Those Cherokee were NOT allowed to have mineral rights on their land. And that was one of the first places drilled for oil. The Cherokee got NOTHING.
Years later the broken headstone of John Bell Jr. was found in the bottom of an oil drum. Yes, they even destroyed the ‘CHRISTIAN’ cemetery.
A photo of that stone is on this page...Scroll down to photos.
http://jesusweptanamericanstory.blogspot.com/
Headstone of John Bell Jr. found in the bottom of an oil barrell c. 1930 near what was the community of Mount Tabor, Texas. He died in 1852.
The cemetery was destroyed by oil drillers.
Sorry to make you even sadder!
B.
Where is Mt. Tabor, Texas? It’s not on any maps.
“Where is Mt. Tabor, Texas? It’s not on any maps.”
Oh, sorry. That is the name given it by John Adair “Jack” Bell. Rusk County, not far from Tyler.
More on it:
http://cherokee1838.tripod.com/mount_tabor.htm
Thank you.
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