I find her claims to Native DNA to be laughable.
Mom traced her family tree back to the 1750's when the path became muddied in the
Philadelphia Archives, but there was a reference to a Seneca maiden who married into
the family near the South Branch of the Potomac River in what was Virginia at that time.
It was the route of hunting parties coming down from the Finger Lakes region of New York.
considered part of the Iroquois Nation's hunting grounds.
I looked into it and was told I needed to be able to claim 1/32nd direct blood to claim
Native status. Well after 220 plus years, that would not work. But I still recognize having
that Heritage.
I still honor it but will not be a grandstanding LIAR like Warren.
There have to be millions of people whose families have some Native DNA in the
nation, especially if their ancestors go back as far as mine do.
I have lost my mind. If found, please give it a snack and return it?
"I won't be wronged. I won't be insulted. I won't be laid a hand on. I don't do these things to other people, and I require the same of others"...John Wayne in "The Shootist"
A Deplorable!