Posted on 05/01/2012 6:50:05 AM PDT by SeekAndFind
Is it determined like blackness, by the “one drop” rule?
Yes. There are folks here who hate Scott Brown more than Warren because he's impure, despite the phenomenal improvement he is over Kennedy he replaced, Kerry he serves with or other New Englander Senators.
These cranks lack pragmatism, sense or sanity.
Give the tribe wouldn’t recognize her or even her parent’s “claim,” it’s true shameful for her have claimed “minority” status for employment purposes.
Except, apparently, at Harvard University....
(Other than at Harvard, I could plausibly be arrested for fraud if I tried it -- see below!)
Definition and origins of Native Americans:
Definition. As described in DoD Directive 1350.2 a Native-American or Alaskan Native is a person having origins in the original peoples of North America, AND who maintains cultural identification through tribal affiliation or community recognition.
There is no one contemporary majority definition that establishes a person’s identity as a Native-American. The Bureau of Census states that “anybody who claims to be a Native-American” is a Native-American. The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA), which is the organization responsible for monitoring Indian affairs and issues, general definition to be a Native-American, you must:
Be 1/4-1/2 Native-American blood at a minimum.
Live on or near trust lands/reservations.
Be on a tribal roll recognized by the federal government.
Trace ancestry back three generations.
Be approved by BIA officials.
As I read it, according to The Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) (which should know an Indian when they see one), she isn't an Indian.
This lie will have zero impact in Assachusetts. The people willing to vote for her already accept lies as truth and only harden their opinion when the lies are pointed out to them. There is no more hope for Assachusetts than there is for Clownifornia.
Yeah, I’m something like 1/131000th Powhatan. Even if I could claim something from that I wouldn’t. I’d rather be judged for what I do than my distant ancestors.
I am red haired and blue eyed. I worked for about a year for the Mashantucket Pequot tribe here in Connecticut. The first tribal member I met could have passed for my brother or at least a cousin. He was red haired and blue eyed. The tribe contained all sorts of phenotypes; lots of blondes, red heads, brunettes, whites, blacks even an Indian (as in Bangalore) with no explanation or excuses offered.
I cannot rationally argue with anyone who claims that the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation (as it’s officially known) is a total fraud and a fiction. It does, however, allow a bunch of wannabes to run a casino.
Oh good grief, she’s playing the vagina card?
Thank you for the response. It was a good rebuttal.
We are all ‘related’ if one goes far enough back. My grandmother was a full blooded Indian Squaw. However, I do not claim to be an ‘native American Indian’.
This woman is 1/32 Indian (so she says). Probably had an ancestor somewhere along the line that molested children, so is she also a pedophile?
What native customs was she raised in and does she follow?
If there were no monetary benefit to claiming to be an Indian, how many people like this woman would ‘claim’ to be one?
What you say is true. I agree that her looks don’t prove the case either way.
Now... exactly what is it she does, other than use it to scam government money and power, that is the least bit ‘Indian’? When has she attended a tribal meeting? When has she ever practiced any of the tribal customs?
If she were any good, she wouldn’t have to try to use a crutch to get ahead.
It’s always about the money.
Well... it's been working for everyone else in our Federal Administration.
Or having a top album like EMINEM ?
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