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Elizabeth Warren's story of racist grandparents disputed by Cherokee genealogist (mad squaw alert)
Washington Times ^ | March 11, 2018 | Valerie Richardson

Posted on 03/13/2018 11:00:31 PM PDT by Zakeet

Sen. Elizabeth Warren sought Sunday to bolster her shaky claims of Cherokee ancestry with the story of how her racist grandparents drove her parents to elope.

But Cherokee genealogist Twila Barnes says that account has its own credibility issues.

Ms. Barnes, who said her research into Ms. Warren's family found "no evidence" of Native American ancestry, has challenged key elements of the senator's tale of how her parents, Pauline Reed and Donald Herring, defied his parents by running off to marry.

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After Ms. Warren said in the Globe that her mother told her "nobody came to her wedding at all," Ms. Barnes looked it up and found that her mother’s friend witnessed the ceremony, which was performed by a prominent Methodist clergyman, not a justice of the peace.

"This marriage does not look like an elopement. It looks very much like a Depression-era marriage ceremony instead," said Ms. Barnes in an August 2012 post. "Sometimes people didn’t have a lot of money to spend on a wedding so they just obtained their license, got married and then went back home."

She also found a detailed wedding announcement posted in the local newspaper in Wetumka, Oklahoma.

"If Ms. Warren’s parents eloped due to her mother being 'Cherokee and Delaware' and it was such a disgrace, why did they rush back to Wetumka the same day they were married and proudly announce it to everyone?" asked Ms. Barnes. "If there was shame associated with the marriage and it caused so many problems, why was it happily announced in the local paper?"

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtontimes.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: Massachusetts; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: cherokee; credibility; elizabethwarren; fauxahontas; genealogy; grandparents; helixmakemineadouble; massachusetts; oklahoma; psychojawea; scottbrown; slingingbull; trailoftears; twilabarnes; warren
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To: proud American in Canada

She is a liar, pure and simple


Remember, Progressives place no value on truth when a lie will serve their purpose.


21 posted on 03/14/2018 2:36:36 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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To: Zakeet

Some waiter at a restaurant shoud be able to save her water glass and have it DNA tested as a public service...


22 posted on 03/14/2018 3:06:43 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: anton

Threw her grandparents under the bus.

Didn’t Obama do that too?


23 posted on 03/14/2018 3:09:05 AM PDT by OrioleFan (Republicans believe every day is July 4th, Democrats believe every day is April 15th.)
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To: SunkenCiv

Fauxchohantas is such a freaking LIAR!! PERFECT DEMOCRAT!!


24 posted on 03/14/2018 3:13:35 AM PDT by Ann Archy (Abortion....... The HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: OrioleFan
Didn’t Obama do that too?

Well he visited her and she died, oh well.

25 posted on 03/14/2018 4:36:35 AM PDT by itsahoot (There will be division, as long as there is money to be divided.)
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To: Zakeet

“Me Cherokee princess name of Gray Beaver ..”

She should feel lucky that I named her that, instead of ‘Crazy Whores’.


26 posted on 03/14/2018 4:41:17 AM PDT by Beagle8U (Nuke the Gay Whales!)
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To: Nifster

I agree about the term squaw but everyone familiar with history knows that for years many friends and supporters of Native Americans (and even Native Americans) used that term as one might say “Senorita” or “Fräulein” not knowing the history of the word. Seeing it’s use growing up I assumed the same although I didn’t like the term myself and never used it. It just didn’t sound right.


27 posted on 03/14/2018 5:02:27 AM PDT by \/\/ayne (I regret that I have but one subscription cancellation notice to give to my local newspaper.)
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To: \/\/ayne
Her grandparents got married in a large Presbyterian church a few towns over and then came back for a large wedding reception. There was a front page account of it in the local paper. Breitbart found it. Thanks to the local library.
28 posted on 03/14/2018 5:09:29 AM PDT by MGG
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To: SunkenCiv
Thank you SunkenCiv!  Something about the Fauxcahontas story brings out the humor on FR!

I looked back in history at what FReepers said about Warren and it was a hoot.  From: No Way: Elizabeth Warren Plagiarized 'Pow Wow Chow' Recipes?

To: Kaslin

Oklahoma Cherokees were famous for their use of crab.

2 posted on 5/18/2012, 7:05:14 PM by slumber1


To: slumber1

So were the plains Indians. They called it Souix Shi.

3 posted on 5/18/2012, 7:07:27 PM by Tijeras_Slim


To: Kaslin

Custard’s Last Stand

10 posted on 5/18/2012, 7:22:25 PM by SC DOC

29 posted on 03/14/2018 5:21:56 AM PDT by poconopundit (MAGA... Get the Spirit. Grow your community. Focus on your Life's Work. Empower the Young.)
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To: razorback-bert

IIRC, in the 1950’s they called them that themselves.


30 posted on 03/14/2018 5:24:58 AM PDT by JockoManning (http://www.zazzle.com/brain_truth for hats T's e.g. STAY CALM & DO THE NEXT LOVING THING)
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To: JockoManning

Squaw is an Algonquin word meaning girl or woman. It means nothing to the Dineh tribe.

Algonquin is as different from Dineh/Navaho as French from Finnish. Had the Americans never been discovered by the West, perhaps all these tribes would have evolved into countries, as distinct as European countries.

It never meant a woman’s genitals. That’s a myth/lie from a incorrect feminist professor on the Oprah Winfrey show in 1992!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Squaw


31 posted on 03/14/2018 5:43:01 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Alas Babylon!
I think you are quite right over it.

However, Qx almost lost his Adjunct prof job over it.

32 posted on 03/14/2018 5:45:24 AM PDT by JockoManning (http://www.zazzle.com/brain_truth for hats T's e.g. STAY CALM & DO THE NEXT LOVING THING)
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To: JockoManning
I only recently (through dna testing) found out that I do have Native American ancestry. I wish I could have used that for my education! Now I feel like Elizabeth Warren has culturally appropriated my heritage!
33 posted on 03/14/2018 5:55:40 AM PDT by liberalh8ter (The only difference between flash mob 'urban yutes' and U.S. politicians is the hoodies.)
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To: liberalh8ter

LOLOL.


34 posted on 03/14/2018 6:01:55 AM PDT by JockoManning (http://www.zazzle.com/brain_truth for hats T's e.g. STAY CALM & DO THE NEXT LOVING THING)
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To: JockoManning
Well, I do understand. Trying to reject the Leftist word definitions is an impossible task. Remember when gay meant happy?

Queer used to just mean different, or odd. I remember in Australia this chick called me queer, which I took great offense to. I told her in no uncertain terms that I was a heterosexual, and if she liked I could prove it then and there! (She was cute). She laughed and said, "No, your not a poofter, I meant just different!" In Australia, the word kept its original meaning.

Squaw's like the Latin word for Black - Niger, which became an offensive term in the English use of the word with just another g in it.

But squaw changed from the Algonquin word for girl just as the English term for a female dog - bitch - became a derisive word for a woman in the USA. Since Indians now find it offensive, it is.

35 posted on 03/14/2018 6:02:03 AM PDT by Alas Babylon! (Keep fighting the Left and their Fake News!)
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To: Alas Babylon!
Agreed. Thanks.

Love your posts.

36 posted on 03/14/2018 6:13:00 AM PDT by JockoManning (http://www.zazzle.com/brain_truth for hats T's e.g. STAY CALM & DO THE NEXT LOVING THING)
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To: Zakeet

Injin ancestry was a useful lie to advance EW’s career. It was herstory and she’s sticking to it.


37 posted on 03/14/2018 6:29:26 AM PDT by Brooklyn Attitude (The first step in ending the war on white people is to recognize it exists.)
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To: SunkenCiv

The fraud known as Elizabeth Warren is an embarrassment to all native Americans.


38 posted on 03/14/2018 6:45:29 AM PDT by Wuli (qu)
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To: Beagle8U

How about “Screeching Harpie”?


39 posted on 03/14/2018 6:53:50 AM PDT by Inspectorette
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To: reed13k

My uncle claims to have traced our family history back to Jesus himself practically... when ever he came across two people with the same name, do you think he chose the General or the army deserter?

So many Generals in our past! So few deserters!


40 posted on 03/14/2018 7:18:46 AM PDT by willyd (I for one welcome our NSA overlords)
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