She’s definately a white Native American.
Even the Nazi’s looked only to 1/8th (or maybe to 1/16th) for proof that someone was enough Jewish to mandate death for them. As somebody said on one of the other threads, this Dimocrat claims special status because of 1/32nd But Zimmerman does not qualify for a minority status at 1/2.
This is really funny in our race obsessed culture. The only “advantage” my considerably larger Indio blood has ever gotten me is being called a damn Mexican and poor white trash on the same day. Oh well. I should have followed the career path pioneered by Ward Churchill. Nah.
Just as she’s the philosophical mother of the OWS scum, she’s the philosophical great granddaughter of Sitting Bull. Her Indian name is Spouting Bull
Claiming "Minority" status for Benefits should be prosecutable as Perpetrating a Fraud, I would think.
If the SAME tortured ancestry search could provide that one's distant relative had an ounce of black blood, we could all be "minorities", and avail ourselves of "Obama Money", right?
If she’s 1/32 Cherokee, I’m 1/2 woman (but I don’t fill out my paperwork as such!)
“...Warren might have taken a job another Native American could have received.”
Anyone see the irony in this ?
Thomas Jefferson (discussing offspring of white/black relationships) said that "three crosses clear the blood" (meaning that someone who had only one black ancestor after that many generations would count as white). Not quite sure what he meant but it could mean someone with one-eighth black ancestry. Of course in reality in America someone with one-eighth black ancestry is usually considered black unless some other identity supersedes that--Native American or Hispanic. (George Zimmerman seems to be at least one-eighth black, if his "Afro-Peruvian" great-grandfather was entirely of African ancestry.) Homer Plessy was one-eighth black but was arrested for sitting in the "white" cars in public transportation in Louisiana.
A great-great-great-grandmother could be pretty far back in time. One of mine was born about 1792 and died in 1852; another was married in 1770 (I don't know her year of birth or year of death).
Remember, because of intermarriage with individuals in other tribes you can be 100% Indian and not actually qualify for membership in many of the tribes who might lie in your background.
What the genealogist has to do is PROVE Elzbet has an ancestor who was on the Dawes Rolls. According to the Boston Globe's full article "But he said Warrens family is not included in the official Dawes Commission rolls, a census of major tribes completed in the early 20th century that Cherokees use to determine tribal citizenship."
Now that doesn't mean she wasn't a Cherokee ~ it just means she doesn't qualify for membership. There were well over 20,000 people who followed the Cherokee West to Oklahoma who were rejected for inclusion in the rolls by the Dawes Commission.
The observation that the woman was identified in an old document as Cherokee is suggestive of her being, at the least, an Indian of some sort, and possibly even a Cherokee. Or, she might have been a gypsy ~ or a mulatto ~ or whatever.
It would have been quite unusual for someone to identify someone as an Indian if 'white' was available.
Many amateur genealogists have come up against that problem ~ that an ancient but certainly loved ancestor was identified in the census as 'NOT WHITE' ~ not realizing that took place during a period where Indians were not even part of the census!
So Obama is sixteen times more white than she is Indian
That’s funny.
She 3% indian and 97% 1%er.
Probably millions of those of us descended from Americans of many generations are part Cherokee. ...more injun in me than her, but I don’t try to use it to get money. People should give up obsessions with ethnicity other than classic American identity.
Tiger Woods has 4 times as much Native American blood as does Warren, and Bruce Lee had eight times as much German blood, as she does Native American.
She may be 1/32 Cherokee, but she’s 100% POS.