Posted on 03/13/2018 11:00:31 PM PDT by Zakeet
Sen. Elizabeth Warren sought Sunday to bolster her shaky claims of Cherokee ancestry with the story of how her racist grandparents drove her parents to elope.
But Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes says that account has its own credibility issues.
Ms. Barnes, who said her research into Ms. Warren's family found "no evidence" of Native American ancestry, has challenged key elements of the senator's tale of how her parents, Pauline Reed and Donald Herring, defied his parents by running off to marry.
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After Ms. Warren said in the Globe that her mother told her "nobody came to her wedding at all," Ms. Barnes looked it up and found that her mother’s friend witnessed the ceremony, which was performed by a prominent Methodist clergyman, not a justice of the peace.
"This marriage does not look like an elopement. It looks very much like a Depression-era marriage ceremony instead," said Ms. Barnes in an August 2012 post. "Sometimes people didn’t have a lot of money to spend on a wedding so they just obtained their license, got married and then went back home."
She also found a detailed wedding announcement posted in the local newspaper in Wetumka, Oklahoma.
"If Ms. Warren’s parents eloped due to her mother being 'Cherokee and Delaware' and it was such a disgrace, why did they rush back to Wetumka the same day they were married and proudly announce it to everyone?" asked Ms. Barnes. "If there was shame associated with the marriage and it caused so many problems, why was it happily announced in the local paper?"
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She is a liar, pure and simple
Remember, Progressives place no value on truth when a lie will serve their purpose.
Some waiter at a restaurant shoud be able to save her water glass and have it DNA tested as a public service...
Threw her grandparents under the bus.
Didn’t Obama do that too?
Fauxchohantas is such a freaking LIAR!! PERFECT DEMOCRAT!!
Well he visited her and she died, oh well.
“Me Cherokee princess name of Gray Beaver ..”
She should feel lucky that I named her that, instead of ‘Crazy Whores’.
I agree about the term squaw but everyone familiar with history knows that for years many friends and supporters of Native Americans (and even Native Americans) used that term as one might say “Senorita” or “Fräulein” not knowing the history of the word. Seeing it’s use growing up I assumed the same although I didn’t like the term myself and never used it. It just didn’t sound right.
I looked back in history at what FReepers said about Warren and it was a hoot. From: No Way: Elizabeth Warren Plagiarized 'Pow Wow Chow' Recipes?
To: Kaslin
Oklahoma Cherokees were famous for their use of crab.
2 posted on 5/18/2012, 7:05:14 PM by slumber1
So were the plains Indians. They called it Souix Shi.
3 posted on 5/18/2012, 7:07:27 PM by Tijeras_Slim
Custard’s Last Stand
10 posted on 5/18/2012, 7:22:25 PM by SC DOC
IIRC, in the 1950’s they called them that themselves.
Squaw is an Algonquin word meaning girl or woman. It means nothing to the Dineh tribe.
Algonquin is as different from Dineh/Navaho as French from Finnish. Had the Americans never been discovered by the West, perhaps all these tribes would have evolved into countries, as distinct as European countries.
It never meant a woman’s genitals. That’s a myth/lie from a incorrect feminist professor on the Oprah Winfrey show in 1992!
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaw
However, Qx almost lost his Adjunct prof job over it.
LOLOL.
Queer used to just mean different, or odd. I remember in Australia this chick called me queer, which I took great offense to. I told her in no uncertain terms that I was a heterosexual, and if she liked I could prove it then and there! (She was cute). She laughed and said, "No, your not a poofter, I meant just different!" In Australia, the word kept its original meaning.
Squaw's like the Latin word for Black - Niger, which became an offensive term in the English use of the word with just another g in it.
But squaw changed from the Algonquin word for girl just as the English term for a female dog - bitch - became a derisive word for a woman in the USA. Since Indians now find it offensive, it is.
Love your posts.
Injin ancestry was a useful lie to advance EW’s career. It was herstory and she’s sticking to it.
The fraud known as Elizabeth Warren is an embarrassment to all native Americans.
How about “Screeching Harpie”?
My uncle claims to have traced our family history back to Jesus himself practically... when ever he came across two people with the same name, do you think he chose the General or the army deserter?
So many Generals in our past! So few deserters!
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