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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I admit that I have not kept up with her tall tales, but the insertion of the grandparents into her narrative seems to be a recent addition.
Several months ago, when the issue as again being discussed, the only mention of grandparents was her tale that, when she was about age 9, her grandmother told her she had high cheekbones. She took that to mean she had Native American ancestry, but her grandmother did not say that.
Princess Wampum keeps refining and revising her narrative. Even her recent claim that she never used her NA heritage for benefit is said with ‘forked-tongue’.
I worked on the big res for two years, whenever they held a “squaw” dance, we shut down. All our rig hands were at the dance.
True words
Which Rez?
The ancestor was more likely BLACK.
They can sure do pow-wow’s/gatherings!
LOL!
Bumping this, just saw a re-run on Tucker Carlson’s show.
Thx.
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