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We are reluctant to kick a sleeping dog, but this will be more like scratching the dog's back with the point of my boot…very gently.
Pocahontas was very distressed when it was learned that Pocahontas was not really Pocahontas. She pointed out that it was Donald Trump's fault that Pocahontas actually was another person by the name of Karla Marxene, the Queen of Goodness and Light and senior senator from Massachusetts, Home of the Chappaquiddick National Historical Centre.
We were sincerely affected by Karla's apologetic letter to the verification agency concerning relevance of legitimacy as a Cherokee ancestried person. Everyone knows that one does not write a letter to Big Chief Crossed Arms advising him that one has decided to tell the Chief, ''…Hello, Chief…I'm just like you because I'm a Cherokee, too!"
With almost all the extant American Indian nations, there are serious scribes, historians, genealogist, document analysts, attorneys who work on matters of "degree of linkage" of people who have small, medium, or large portions of their bloodline being of American Indian Origin.
It is not enough to say, "My folks always told us we we're part Indian." This could mean one part per one hundred and twenty-eight or 87.5 (7/8ths), or perhaps, nothing at all, quite frankly. In the South, it has, for certain, been commonly thought that 90% of all White Southerners who could prove colonial presence (…born in country before 1770…) had Indian ancestry to lesser or greater degree. For those of principally Black African ancestry, people would say, "Sixty per cent of the Black Africans in the South have Indian blood in their veins."
Those suppositions were commonly held beliefs among Southern people during those times when I was growing up in Texas.
What is required to establish one's Cherokee or Chickasaw membership and citizenship is a large retainer, and a reasonable account of the ascendency of this or that tribal member in History, and then turning everything over to a committee or tribal secretary and staff who will attempt to draw a straight line of ancestry between the petitioner and the Indian ancestor.
The retainer can be 1,000 dollars or even up to 3,000 or more dollars, most of which will be used in the research required to verify a line of blood descendancy from a verifiable Tribal ancestor.
To remind both myself and the noble reader, the DNA sample that Miss Pocahontas submitted to the nice man with the DNA service some months back was processed and did in fact reveal that Pocahontas did have a possible marker for a Native American DNA strain…of less than 2 per cent. It also pointed out that the indigenous group providing that marker was located in what is now Ecuador, Peru, and/or Chile.
While Pocahontas was overjoyed with the knowledge, finally, that she was 1 / 2,650th indigenous, possibly, there remains an insurmountable problem. The problem was and is that she is so stupidly ignorant that she failed to understand that the nice young man at the DNA place was trying to tell her in a nice way that the Indians to whom she might or might not be related had a Polynesian - Southeast Asian origin.
For Pocahontas to have been a real, live Injun of the North American sort, she would have had to have Indians of the Mongolian and far East Asian strain of humanity. The Great Nations, including the Iroquois and the Cherokees and all those scores of significant and cousin tribes and nations come from a completely different ethno-racial bio-schematic. In short, Pocahontas's DNA test proved that she could not have been "part Indian" in any true American biological sense.
So, we are very sorry, Pocahontas, or Karla Marxine, you are just a old white woman taking a subsidy you did not deserve and lied to obtain…presenting yourself as a deprived native American who had suffered the abuses and discrimination of The White Majority…when in fact you were part of the leftist stain that is always demanding preferential treatment when none is merited.
EL GRINGO VIEJO
We were sincerely affected by Karla's apologetic letter to the verification agency concerning relevance of legitimacy as a Cherokee ancestried person. Everyone knows that one does not write a letter to Big Chief Crossed Arms advising him that one has decided to tell the Chief, ''…Hello, Chief…I'm just like you because I'm a Cherokee, too!"
With almost all the extant American Indian nations, there are serious scribes, historians, genealogist, document analysts, attorneys who work on matters of "degree of linkage" of people who have small, medium, or large portions of their bloodline being of American Indian Origin.
It is not enough to say, "My folks always told us we we're part Indian." This could mean one part per one hundred and twenty-eight or 87.5 (7/8ths), or perhaps, nothing at all, quite frankly. In the South, it has, for certain, been commonly thought that 90% of all White Southerners who could prove colonial presence (…born in country before 1770…) had Indian ancestry to lesser or greater degree. For those of principally Black African ancestry, people would say, "Sixty per cent of the Black Africans in the South have Indian blood in their veins."
Those suppositions were commonly held beliefs among Southern people during those times when I was growing up in Texas.
What is required to establish one's Cherokee or Chickasaw membership and citizenship is a large retainer, and a reasonable account of the ascendency of this or that tribal member in History, and then turning everything over to a committee or tribal secretary and staff who will attempt to draw a straight line of ancestry between the petitioner and the Indian ancestor.
The retainer can be 1,000 dollars or even up to 3,000 or more dollars, most of which will be used in the research required to verify a line of blood descendancy from a verifiable Tribal ancestor.
To remind both myself and the noble reader, the DNA sample that Miss Pocahontas submitted to the nice man with the DNA service some months back was processed and did in fact reveal that Pocahontas did have a possible marker for a Native American DNA strain…of less than 2 per cent. It also pointed out that the indigenous group providing that marker was located in what is now Ecuador, Peru, and/or Chile.
While Pocahontas was overjoyed with the knowledge, finally, that she was 1 / 2,650th indigenous, possibly, there remains an insurmountable problem. The problem was and is that she is so stupidly ignorant that she failed to understand that the nice young man at the DNA place was trying to tell her in a nice way that the Indians to whom she might or might not be related had a Polynesian - Southeast Asian origin.
For Pocahontas to have been a real, live Injun of the North American sort, she would have had to have Indians of the Mongolian and far East Asian strain of humanity. The Great Nations, including the Iroquois and the Cherokees and all those scores of significant and cousin tribes and nations come from a completely different ethno-racial bio-schematic. In short, Pocahontas's DNA test proved that she could not have been "part Indian" in any true American biological sense.
So, we are very sorry, Pocahontas, or Karla Marxine, you are just a old white woman taking a subsidy you did not deserve and lied to obtain…presenting yourself as a deprived native American who had suffered the abuses and discrimination of The White Majority…when in fact you were part of the leftist stain that is always demanding preferential treatment when none is merited.
EL GRINGO VIEJO
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