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To: bitt

That might not be the way to go about it. Cherokee are different and did look different (although not like Warren at all).

Cherokee DNA
https://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/cherokee-dna.htm

Researching genealogy would probably be a better approach, and in her case, would probably yield results or lack or evidence.

For what Cherokee look like, more or less, see Dana Loesch: the spokeswoman of the NRA. I’ve seen many others in the part of our country that I came from. Most have near ancestors who chose to avoid the Trail of Tears and Oklahoma.

People with much real Cherokee DNA are often tall (but not always) with black, fine hair (not coarse like Apache or Sioux), very light skin if not exposed much to sunlight (otherwise, darker than most white people) brown eyes (which moms referred to in children as “black eyes,” little insight there), broad shouldered, but with more European facial features...somewhat, than other American Indians of the western or southern types. And much more light complected than other Indians if not in the sun much (otherwise, easily dark).

Why go into Warren’s ancestry or her claim about Cherokee heritage, anyway? Those of us who weren’t on reservations or taught to be Indians are not really Indians. It’s the nation, not the race. That decision was made by most Cherokee long ago, to assimilate with Europeans, who were closer in important cultural customs than Indians further to the west or south. Many chose the surnames Wilson or Davis (don’t know why), but there were other names.

And Indians from other Indian nations moved onto the Cherokee reservation even before the forced march to that reservation and have ever since.

IMO, we should stop digging up graves for vanity, romantic ideas about race or disputes, and go on to do more important things.

You know that we’re all “Heinz 57s” anyway. Everyone’s mixed. It’s culture that matters, and our culture is American (U.S.A.!).


48 posted on 03/07/2018 7:26:39 PM PST by familyop ("Welcome to Costco. I love you." --Costco greeter in the movie, "Idiocracy")
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To: familyop

“Why go into Warren’s ancestry or her claim about Cherokee heritage, anyway?”

Did you read the post?

EW claimed Indian ancestry so she say she was a member of a minority just when Harvard Law was trying to fill out their ‘diversity’ declaration - she hooked a $350K salary (for teaching one course), likely due to her claims of being of Indian descent.

Not only do many of us despise her politics, we despise her duplicity.

EW’s claims have been totally debunked, even by the tribe she claims - matter of fact, it turns out her great great grandfather might have actually been one of the soldiers that drove the indians along the trail of tears..


52 posted on 03/07/2018 9:51:24 PM PST by bitt (We dont need an electric chair, we need electric bleachers.)
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