Elizabeth Warren Ancestor Rounded Up Cherokees For Trail of Tears

Breitbart ^ | 8 May 2012 | Michael Patrick Leahy

[Nailbiter]

thx

[Vigilanteman]

That's a really sad quote. Jackson's predecessors were genuinely sympathetic to the plight of the Cherokee, but Jackson looked at them as just another tribe of savage posers.

Jackson's opinions were colored both by his youth in the Carolinas where they were seen as British collaborators (even though there is no evidence of the Cherokee participating) and in his later years fighting them in Alabama, Mississippi, Tennessee and Louisiana.

Even though the situation had changed entirely by the time Jackson was president, his opinions did not change.

Interestingly, the one tribe which did collaborate with the British was the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina, which provided soldiers for both the Tory and the Colonial side. Due to the later fact, they were excluded from the expulsion order. The government also withheld tribal recognition until 1956 and said recognition included only recognition, no federal payments. The reasoning is that the Lumbee are more wealthy than their peers. They own banks, businesses and real estate.

[SunkenCiv]

Note: this topic is from 05/09/2016. Thanks Mount Athos.

[Fiddlstix]

[dsc]

“Warren could clear all this up in a jiff if she would just spend $99.00 and get ancestry.com to analyze her DNA. (If she really wanted to.)”

There was a post recently that asserted unreliability in DNA tests of Indians.

[catnipman]

““Warren could clear all this up in a jiff if she would just spend $99.00 and get ancestry.com to analyze her DNA. (If she really wanted to.)””

absolutely!

[dsc]

“http://jesusweptanamericanstory.blogspot.com/";

I can find no links to anything on that page.

[Rebelbase]

I’ve camped and hiked the areas around Joyce Kilmer and Snowbird creek in Graham County in the far western nook of NC.

This is one of the areas where the Cherokee hid to avoid being taken to Oklahoma. Rough country to say the least.

[madison10]

Great job opening that can if worms, Mr. President, otherwise it would never have seen the light of day.

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks madison10. One of the persistent memes / DNC talking points of the Partisan Media Shills is, the Republican is always an ignorant doofus, and the Democrat is always "the smartest guy in the room". Too bad for them that they believe their own propaganda.

[madison10]

Absolutely.