JLP wrote:Are there any 100% pure Native Americans left? If there are, there can't be many. By 100% pure I mean those who have no ancestral link whatsoever with those who arrived on the continent from 1492 onwards.
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it makes it easier to define it that way because colombus arrived in the caribbean almost 500 years after
leif erikson arrived in canada...there really isn't any knowing who is who until you see all the documentation
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it makes it easier to define it that way because colombus arrived in the caribbean almost 500 years after
leif erikson arrived in canada and there were vikings further south down the east coast before and after
erikson. erikson intentionally went to what he called vinland because a guy name bjorn told him where it
was. if you think about it, native americans were supposed to have crossed the berring straight during the
ice ages when you could have walked across, but at that same time you could also have walked across
the ice from scandinavia-iceland-greenalnd, and there is euro dna in many native tribes that appears 100
generations before erikson. it's hard to say who EXACTLY has lived on this continent in ancient times, but
we know there were asians and euros going back as far as we can see. if you look at the carvings even in
the yucatan and western usa from way before colombus, they depict people with thick beards and white hair.
"natives" did not grow thick beards. where did those people with thick beards come from in the north american
ancient carvings and where did they go? did not mean to sidetrack the discussion, but if someone has any
pre-columbus blood and identifies themself as native american, that should be good enough. for example,
chuck norris says his father's mother and mother's grandfather were cherokee. the new us senator from
massachusetts, elizabth warren, claimed to be cherokee in order to get tenure at harvard, but cherokee
geneologist twila barnes traced all her ancestors going back to her euro roots and found not one native ancestor,
and many contradictions in warren's claims regarding certain relatives. warren signed a death certificate
for an "aunt bea" warren said told her about her native roots and there were different boxes to check on
the certificate, including one for native american, and warren checked "white". warren also said her parents had
to elope because her racist father's family wouldn't accept her mother's native family, when her parents
were married locally by a prominent minister and both families were present and gave full support with no
elopement. another relative warren said was native is referred to in a newspaper story as a white man who shot an
indian trying to steal his horse. other relatives she claimed were native actually were tennessee militia members
who oversaw the trail of tears. there was a colorado ethnic studies college professor, ward chuchill, walking
around with feathers in his hair who made a whole career out of being an indian fighting the white man who
turned out to have no native ancestry. he claimed he was keetowah cherokee and that group issued a press
release saying he had only been given HONORARY membership, because of assistance to the tribe, and he was
not in any way related to any of them. rocky mountain news then traced back to 142 direct ancestors and found
not one with an native american claim. i'm not even sure the famous wrastler Chief Jay Strongbow, who just
died this year RIP, was actually native. the heavywight jack sharkey was actually lithuanian who took on an
irish identity when he moved to boston and fought pro because boston was full of irish who supported irish boxers.
especially in showbiz and politics, where image is everything, there really isn't any knowing who is who until you
see all the documentation
