Posted on 12/02/2017 9:28:17 AM PST 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 ...
Conservative pragmatic thinkers need to stop being so tolerant and start fighting back. The native americans were not all peaceful aand tolerant non-violent victims of manifest destiny. They failed to adapt to change and paid the consequences.
This is not to say that the Yankee Bluebelly feds with a big army looking for something to do after the Civil War ended was not to blame also, but the brutal fact of human history is what it is, not a romantic "poor poor indian genocide" fantasy fairy tale
Now there’s irony for you!
Iron Eyes Cody - Such a good actor he convinced himself he really was an Indian!
Cody was born Espera Oscar de Corti on April 3, 1904, in Kaplan in Vermilion Parish, in southwestern Louisiana, a second son of Francesca Salpietra from Sicily and her husband, Antonio de Corti from southern Italy.[3] He had two brothers, Joseph and Frank, and a sister, Victoria.[1] His parents had a local grocery store in Gueydan, Louisiana, where he grew up. His father left the family and moved to Texas, where he took the name Tony Corti. His mother married Alton Abshire and had five more children with him.[1]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iron_Eyes_Cody
I am native American, I can’t stand that old Crone Warren, now that said, as much as I would want it to be true, this article is full of holes (not enough info) to make me think , I’ll wait on this one for better info than brought up here. Even IF he was in the militia, what proof that he actually rounded up Indians for the trail of tears? Documentation ? paper trail? so easy when you detest someone to jump on the bandwagon. Like for instance, Joe Scarborough in his hate for Trump saying all kinds of lies and bull crap.
always good to be skeptical
She was almost right - she knew there was an Indian connection in her family’s past.
Well now...is she aware of this?
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