I’m Native American, and a constituent of Elizabeth Warren.

I’m Native American and, for me, your take is the correct one.

The Dawes Rolls can “prove” your ancestors were complacent, maybe. Being on it was a prize for good little Indians that “behaved” and looked “right” and didn’t protest about being forced off their land. There were what... 250,000 names that should have been on it but at the end of the day there were only what...…

“If we continue to self-define ourselves by using the colonizer’s genocidal tools, we will eventually “kill the Indian” ourselves. Disenrollment—with 80 tribes now engaged in the practice—is a glaring example, with greed-addled tribal politicians wielding those tools to self-terminate their own kin.”

“the” Cherokees?

And the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma does admit that there are many people descended from Cherokee ancestors not included on the Dawes Rolls, which were notoriously incomplete even back in the day.

That’s only according to one Cherokee tribe. There are three recognized federally.

This was dismissed so I’m reposting it here:

then I have news for you. Almost everyone is a PoC and the term is meaningless.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-oklahoma-cherokee/second-largest-u-s-indian-tribe-expels-slave-descendants-idUSTRE77N08F20110824

He is talking about the frauds and poseurs trying to assume your hardship.

Uh, I didn’t say you do, so....

One of those campaigns that matters TODAY is the MA Senate campaign.

Also interesting but the Cherokee put out a statement

Again these comments are riddled with obvious sock puppets engaging in obvious brigading by her political opponents. New accounts created just for this, using the same talking points, writing style, and phrases and similar account names.

Because these comments are riddled with obvious sock puppets engaging in obvious brigading by her political opponents. New accounts created just for this, using the same talking points, writing style, and phrases and similar account names.

Nope.

Do you know what the one drop rule is? It was the law for Warren her family in Oklahoma for generations.

It’s like these people want to rewrite history and pretend the one drop rule never existed. 

Why do you ask?