You’re not allowed to insult other posters in this forum. Please don’t do it again.
Okay. This is how it works, just so you know:
Most probably Elizabeth Warren has Cherokee and Delaware ancestry on her mother’s side. That the obnoxious Senator from Massachusetts would make that ridiculous/bigoted claim that “anyone can see she’s not” when referring to Warren’s physical appearance is racism itself.
To quote:
“Professor Warren claimed she was a Native American,” he added pointedly, “And as you can see, she’s not.” My jaw dropped to the flaw when Brown said that.
It raises the obvious question: which of her facial features alerted Brown that she has no Native American blood coursing through her veins? Surely, if she possessed whatever tiny fraction of one’s DNA must trace back to an indigenous tribe before he or she is deemed to be Native American, she’d have shiny, jet-black hair or a tan complexion. Or was it the absence of beads or a feather and a headband that tipped Brown off?
I’m increasingly convinced the American voter SHOULDN’T BE ALLOWED TO VOTE for the mere fact of acute ignorance. But go ahead … cast your vote for another racist.
And, good sir, are you ignorant enough to believe that marriages had that far back in one’s family would manifest themselves physically with all the stereotypical Native American traits Senator Brown implied they would (let alone her facial features)?
As a professional genealogist I will make you aware of several things:
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In the U.S. Censuses taken every ten years since 1790, no one who wanted to blend into the white mainstream would give their ancestry on a census sheet.
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Marriage licenses, birth records, and death records have never required one state the individual’s ancestry.
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What a previous poster said when she referenced “this man is Native American”, “this man is not” should have put you right but you had to go on pressing this preposterous thing.
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By in large the Native American population was only “encouraged” to have offspring with those of African American descent.
In President Warren Harding’s ancestry his great grandfather was 100% African American. Here’s the obvious IGNORANT question: Do you think Warren Harding “looked black??” And it’s more than likely that five other American presidents had black ancestry. Do the research. It’s right here at your fingertips.
My suggestion is that you know what your bloody talking about before you post. Brown kept prodding Elizabeth Warren with his “I’m not a student in one of your classes” statements. But she held firm and let him play the fool. Here’s to you Elizabeth Warren!
Last: I have done genealogical work for over twenty years. Easily one hundred people have claimed “my father said we had Indian ancestry”. Well I’ve never found any I could prove with those who claim it only because it’s impossible to prove when, if there was Native American heritage it was unfortunately covered up in order that the individual could mainstreamed into the white population. Somewhere in the early 1900s it became a badge of Patriotism I suspect to say one had “Indian Blood”.
In Elizabeth Warren’s case, I have no doubt there’s truth to her claim. The background (given the prejudice from her father’s parent’s family to the marriage) makes it even more viable a claim. But even the most clever of genealogists would never find it. It was purposely omitted. She has more information than most and given the area where she was raised I’m inclined to believe she has the Native American blood she claims she does.
I hope you have a clearer view of legitimate genealogy now. I was awfully pleased to help put you in the know.