Posted on 04/06/2017 4:30:21 AM PDT by billorites
She successfully appropriated ethnic ancestry for career advancement.
Sort of like how Barrack Hussein Obama played up his ties to Kenya when it was beneficial to him (college and literary).
Her Indian name is Rabid Squirrel. Just watch her speak and you know why.
Elizabeth Warren Ancestor Rounded Up Cherokees For Trail of Tears
by MICHAEL PATRICK LEAHY 8 May 2012
For over a quarter of a century, Elizabeth Warren has described herself as a Native American. When recently asked to provide evidence of her ancestry, she pointed to an unsubstantiated claim on an 1894 Oklahoma Territory marriage license application by her greatgreat grand uncle William J. Crawford that his mother, O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford, Ms. Warren’s greatgreatgreat grandmother, was a Cherokee.
After researching her story, it is obvious that her “family lore” is just fiction. As I pointed out in my article here on Sunday, no evidence supports this claim. O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford had no Cherokee heritage, was listed as “white” in the Census of 1860, and was most likely half Swedish and half English, Scottish, or German, or some combination thereof.
(Note, the actual 1894 marriage license makes no claim of Cherokee ancestry.)
But the most stunning discovery about the life of O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford is that her husband, Ms. Warren’s greatgreatgreat grandfather, was apparently a member of the Tennessee Militia who rounded up Cherokees from their family homes in the Southeastern United States and herded them into governmentbuilt stockades in what was then called Ross’s Landing (now Chattanooga), Tennessee–the point of origin for the horrific Trail of Tears, which began in January, 1837.
This new information about Ms. Warren’s true heritage came as a direct result of a lead provided to me by William Jacobson over at Legal Insurrection, who in turn had received the information from one of his readers. Jacobson, who has questioned Warren’s explanation for her law faculty listing, calls this discovery “the ultimate and cruelest irony” of the Warren Cherokee saga.
Jonathan Crawford, O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford’s husband and apparently Ms. Warren’s greatgreatgreat grandfather, served in the East Tennessee Mounted Infantry Volunteer Militia commanded by Brigadier General R. G. Dunlap from late 1835 to late 1836. While under Dunlap’s command he was a member of Major William Lauderdale’s Battalion, and Captain Richard E. Waterhouse’s Company.
These were the troops responsible for removing Cherokee families from homes they had lived in for generations in the three states that the Cherokee Nations had considered their homelands for centuries: Georgia, North Carolina, and Tennessee.
While these involuntary home removals were not characterized by widespread violence, the newly displaced Cherokee mothers, fathers, and children found an oppressive and sometimes brutal welcome when they finally arrived at the hastily constructed containment areas. An estimated 4,000 Cherokees were warehoused in Ross’s Landing stockades for months awaiting supplies and additional armed guards the Federal Government believed necessary to relocate them on foot to Oklahoma.
Jonathan Crawford most likely did not join the regular Army troops who “escorted” these Cherokees along the Trail of Tears. He did, however, serve once more with Major William Lauderdale’s reformed Batallion of Tennessee Mounted Infantry Volunteer Militia. This group fought the Seminole Indians in Florida during the Second Seminole War. Crawford arrived in Florida in November, 1837, and served there for six months until his unit was disbanded in Baton Rouge, Louisiana the following May. (Note: It was not uncommon in those days for militia formed to serve for a limited period of time under specific commanders would reform later under the same commanders.)
Jonathan Crawford’s service as a Private in Captain Richard E. Waterhouse’s Company of Major William Lauderdale’s Battalion of Mounted Infantry in Brigadier General R. G. Dunlap’s East Tennessee Mounted Infantry Volunteers is confirmed by his appearance in the muster roll of the Brigade, taken around June of 1836. (Note that this transcription of the muster roll incorrectly lists the date as 1832.)
His service a year later (1837) in Major William Lauderdale’s Tennessee Volunteer Mounted Infantry (Five companies of volunteers, one of which was led by Captain Richard E. Waterhouse) is confirmed by his widow O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford’s 1851 pension application before the Bledsoe County, Tennessee commissioners.
Meanwhile, William J. Crawford (Elizabeth Warren’s greatgreat grandfather who would, fiftyseven years later, falsely claim that his mother was Cherokee in that nowinfamous 1894 Oklahoma Territory marriage license application) was born in Bledsoe County, Tennessee in 1837. This was just a few months after his father apparently helped remove thousands of Cherokees from their homes and a few months before his father went off to fight Seminole Indians in Florida.
His father, Jonathan Crawford, Elizabeth Warren’s greatgreatgreat grandfather, died in Jackson County, Tennessee in 1841. His mother, O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford, died sometime between 1860 and 1870 – most likely in Bledsoe County, Tennessee.
Neither O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford, Jonathan Crawford, nor any of their seven other children, apparently ever claimed that O.C. Sarah Smith Crawford had Cherokee heritage.
As recently as two weeks ago, Ms. Warren publicly claimed to have Native American ancestry. In Dorchester, Massachusetts on April 27 at the Bricklayers and Allied Craftsmen Apprentice Training Center she stated, “I am very proud of my Native American heritage.” Yet, decades after she first made this same claim, it now appears that it is without any foundation.
It is time for Ms. Warren to publicly acknowledge the truth of her ancestry. It is time for her to admit that she has no Native American heritage that she can prove; and it is time for her to acknowledge instead, that she is likely a direct descendant of a Tennessee Militiaman who apparently rounded up the ancestors of those who truly have Cherokee heritage, the first step in their forced removal from the Southeastern United States to Oklahoma over the long and tragic Trail of Tears.
She sounds like the Ruth Buzzi character, “Gladys Ormphby,” when she really gets going with her screeching.
Because she’s a lying communist who thinks she deserves to be wealthy while you and I deserve to live in socialist misery.
Where did they find a hack who could write something this stupid?
Great post in a great thread.
Insight BUMP!
Besides her lying she reminds everyone of a harpy ex wife.
Starts with a ‘C’ and sounds like HUNT.
Her original platform is what got Trump elected, but then she went PC.
Unfortunately, Liz has a face only a mother could love and then only on pay day. lol
And the sites that do allow comments are targeted by Share Blue professional paid trolls who spam the comments with leftard narrative.
Oh absolutely he is stupid.
The Native American issue can not be intellectually minimised to that degree. After the information on the Trail of Tears came out her party should have dumped her with prejudice.
But her underlying work on understanding the plight of the middle class caught up by the machinations of the financial industry inducing Congress to pass legislation to ensure that they benefited from their plundering ways was right on.
I saw that thread. Limbaugh talked it about at length yesterday too.
She reminds me of a strict, disiplinarian, schoolmarm.
I didn’t read the whole thing.
Did they mention she only pays women on her staff 70% of what she pays the men? That’s even less than the 78% national average that feminists claim.
Saw that story yesterday at legal insurrection.com
I live in MA. I hate her. I hate her because of her condescending attitude against anyone who might not agree with her.
That and Liawatha.
A better question is “why is she not being prosecuted for scamming Federal benefits meant for REAL Indians?”
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