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America’s Millions of Fake Indians Outnumber Real Indians-It’s not just Elizabeth Warren
Frontpagemagazine ^ | Jan 3, 2022 | Daniel Greenfield

Posted on 01/03/2022 7:43:15 AM PST by SJackson

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To: JBW1949

Yes. At least, briefly. Georgia probably most being Atlanta.

Where are the sites? Where are the people who obviously are Indian?


61 posted on 01/03/2022 8:55:40 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: Red Badger

But then, everyone’s Irish on St Patrick’s Day, right?


62 posted on 01/03/2022 8:57:55 AM PST by Monkey Face (In the end, if you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.Neal Maxwell)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Cherokee, NC...Lumbee, NC...Etowah, TN...Cohutta, GA, Big Cypress, FL, Brighton, FL...


63 posted on 01/03/2022 9:00:32 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: SJackson
The article leaves a lot of information out. The first step in Tribal recognition is proving that you are a direct descendant of a person on the Baker or Dawes rolls. Checking a box off on the census means nothing as far as recognition goes unless there is an outside entity that accepts that as gospel (see Elizabeth Warren and her University position). The easiest way to stop this is for the only recognition to be through Tribal confirmation.

There were many descendants who would have qualified for Baker and Dawes rolls listing who chose not to be listed (trust in government was a major factor) and their progeny may now be seeking official recognition. I also know of families from the Eastern Cherokee band that couldn't read or write at the time of acceptance that employed one person to submit their formal recognition and it was incorrect and denied by the Government despite sworn testimony of others (who weren't NA but attested to knowing the NA ancestor of the applicant). Reading through those documents is quite interesting. To be fair, having one person fill out the forms of hundreds would be a daunting task - no wonder the information was scrambled.

64 posted on 01/03/2022 9:01:24 AM PST by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Spend some time in NE Georgia...You’ll learn something...


65 posted on 01/03/2022 9:02:22 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Fido969

Family lore was that my family tree included one full-blooded Shawnee. It was easy to believe since my five brothers had dark-brown to black hair and brown eyes (oddly I was a blue-eyed blonde). When one of my nephews asked me about this I decided to put the family legend to the test and submitted a DNA test: Pure northwestern European! Not a drop of Native American blood. Curious, I next checked the world-wide distribution of the family surname. Most (about 9,000) live in the U.S. but surprisingly it’s the most common surname in one African country! Still trying to figure that one out.


66 posted on 01/03/2022 9:04:25 AM PST by Hootowl
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To: Fido969

My mother taught us some lore from her side of the family, since we were all very short people, about how several generations back, one of her ancestors was ill and was left behind to die when the tribe moved on. She was subsequently found by a cavalry scout, nursed to health and the rest, as they say, was history.

Fast forward to 30 some-odd years after the passing of my mother when my brother got a DNA kit for his birthday, in the hopes of checking his Portuguese ancestry. He’s so Irish he should have been born holding a shamrock.


67 posted on 01/03/2022 9:05:53 AM PST by Monkey Face (In the end, if you have not chosen Jesus Christ it will not matter what you have chosen.Neal Maxwell)
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To: Houserino

Bingo. Local and Fed gov’mts have institutionalized racism by simply asking what race you are and then discriminating on that.
I did a DNA test and found that I’m part Aztec. Fine, on any query I will ID as that.

Americans are mutts. ID any way you feel like it. Make the questions meaningless — as they should be.


68 posted on 01/03/2022 9:07:33 AM PST by bobbo666 (Baizuo)
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To: the OlLine Rebel

Have you ever heard of “Melungeons”???

Do you believe they don’t exist also???


69 posted on 01/03/2022 9:09:00 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: bobbo666

“...Americans are mutts...”

Perfect statement!!!!

Many, if not most Americans, are mixed with different nationalities....


70 posted on 01/03/2022 9:11:26 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: Red Badger

I was told the same for forty years until I made contact with other family members I did not know I had.

Our “Gen-u-wine Cher-O-kee Princess” turned out to be a German Italian orphan from Chicago.


71 posted on 01/03/2022 9:12:41 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Still OUT of Facebook Jail! But I'm pushing it!)
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To: bobbo666

This all started some time ago when government backed companies started requiring “minority owned’ suppliers. It’s entirely spread to everything now. Every year I used to think it has to reach a peak intensity, but every year it gets louder and more insane.


72 posted on 01/03/2022 9:13:43 AM PST by Houserino
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Well, that’s close enough, I suppose!......................


73 posted on 01/03/2022 9:13:52 AM PST by Red Badger (Homeless veterans camp in the streets while illegal aliens are put up in hotels.....................)
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To: UNGN

This reminds me of a dog food brand I used to buy at Co-Op.

GRIMALDI’S DOG FOOD!
DAGO For Grimaldi’s
Woppin to Please!


74 posted on 01/03/2022 9:15:29 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Still OUT of Facebook Jail! But I'm pushing it!)
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To: Tennessee Nana

The Cherokees had a housecleaning of fake Indians a few years back. Due to Indian benefits lots of blacks claimed to be Cherokee as they were allowed to do when they got their freedom from Cherokee slave masters.

https://www.npr.org/2011/09/19/140594124/u-s-government-opposes-cherokee-nations-decision

https://historynewsnetwork.org/article/36394


75 posted on 01/03/2022 9:20:21 AM PST by Ruy Dias de Bivar (Still OUT of Facebook Jail! But I'm pushing it!)
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To: woodbutcher1963

One must be 1/16th to be recognized and college benefits.


76 posted on 01/03/2022 9:21:14 AM PST by bgill (Which came first, the vax or the virus?)
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To: JBW1949

No, sorry.

I haven’t spent too much time in those states. It just never seemed anywhere, outside maybe my husbands home in central PA, that there was much of anything to look at. And I never saw people regularly anywhere that seem Indian. CT was interesting to see there was Ft. Shantok, a Mohegan fort (near where Mohegans would start building their casino as I left CT.

Other than that and the obvious sites at Jamestown and Plymouth, I just haven’t even heard of too much or seen.


77 posted on 01/03/2022 9:23:52 AM PST by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMV)
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To: Ruy Dias de Bivar

Did you know that “Cherokee” is derived by the whites from the Muskogee Creek word “Tsalagi”???

Tsalagi meant “people of a different speech”...

The older name for the tribe was “AniYunYiya” which meant “principle people”...


78 posted on 01/03/2022 9:24:28 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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To: SJackson

I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone from Oklahoma who doesn’t claim some level of Cherokee blood.


79 posted on 01/03/2022 9:26:53 AM PST by DoodleDawg
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To: the OlLine Rebel

I’m sorry you haven’t travelled very much around our wonderful country...There is MUCH to see just about everywhere....


80 posted on 01/03/2022 9:27:07 AM PST by JBW1949 (I'm really PC.....Patriotically Correct)
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