[Red Badger]

No, this one is....................

[Srednik]

Srednik may be mistaken, but the Italian-American screen actor known as Iron Eyes Cody was respected by the Lakota as a friend.

[Bob434]

cody ironeyes was pretty famous (The indian who cried tears when he saw litter on the ground of America)- he was an italian

[Wally_Kalbacken]

Her sisters have come forward, long after the fact, to reveal that she was half-Mexican, not Indian at all.

Smarter, harder working, drink about the same...close enough!

[ArcadeQuarters]

✅ Dark hair
✅ Parted in the middle
✅ Pony tails

OK. Checks out. She’s an Indian.

[GMThrust]

Did anyone else have a hard time reading this article. I still don’t know who Cruz is and I’ve read it twice.

[GMThrust]

Okay, so you have to go to the other imbedded article to know who she is. Greenfield’s article is verbatim from the other authors article. Wow-that was ten minutes I’ll never get back.

[chuckee]

Nope, Chief Italian Guy shedding a tear over the environment was followed by Princess I Wanna Job at Harvard who now has set up her teepee in the halls of the Senate

[Rockingham]

I had an aunt by marriage who dragged her young son to various ceremonies and events in North Carolina as affirmation of supposed Cherokee ancestry.

My cousin remembers those trips as being cold and dirty from living in tents in the woods, eating crummy food, getting bit by insects, and having to learn idiotic dances and chants and various Cherokee crafts and skills. He hated all of it. With blonde hair and blue eyes from his Polish ancestry father, my cousin did not even look like any of the real Cherokee kids he met or even much like his mother.

Several years after my aunt's death, my cousin took a DNA test that was a gift from his daughter. The test showed that his mother had zero Native American ancestry. Digging through a box of old family papers revealed the truth: his mother was of Greek and Italian ancestry, which accounted for her dark hair, brown eyes, and olive skin tone.

As best as my cousin could figure out, his mother, a stone solid racist, used the Cherokee ancestry claim to explain her features as something other than possible black ancestry. Sadly, my aunt suffered from dementia in her last years and was viciously critical and racist toward the nursing home staff who cared for her. My cousin, a dutiful son and a good sort, tipped the staff well and apologized profusely for his mother's trying nature.

[Jan_Sobieski]

[simpson96]

Liz Warren’s role model.

[nascarnation]

Was her father a Native American from Mexico? Or a Spanish Mexican? Or?

[Paal Gulli]

"Sacheen Littlefeather: Is This The Most Famous Fake Native American Ever?"

Not even close. Pocahontas was famous throughout the western world. She toured England as a celebrity and had an audience with King James I (& VI).