is this stolen valor?

snubbyfan said:
Don't nobody mention this to that clown. I get enough people coming up to me and telling me they're 1/16 Cherokee. They're usually blond and blue eyed and it's always Cherokee.
Them Cherokees musta been one heck of a busy tribe. Now I do know some people of Cherokee descent but they look it despite having very light skin.
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Those Cherokee cheekbones are a dead give away! I have a buddy who is 1/8 and he and all his kids have the exact same cheekbones his Great-Great Cherokee Grandma had.:D My only claim to fame via my ancestors is my Great Grandaddy used to be a moonshiner in West By God Virginia back during prohibition, he used to tell me stories about shooting at revenuers.
 
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feralmerril said:
Hate to get technical, I believe there was a book title something like "Son of morning star" that said he had a indian mistress that had a son by him.
I have no idea if it was truth, fiction or just rumor. I know that him and his wife libby didnt have children.

Kind of reminds me of the story of some general that retired and wanted to keep his orderly. Told him he wanted to keep things just like when they were active. The first morning the orderly came in and woke the general up, slapped the generals wife on the butt and said its back to the village for you baby!
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Hi:
There is a TV Movie from several years ago, "Son Of Morning Star" that was made from the book.
 
I read a book called The Custer Reader by Paul Andrew Hutton a few years back. It's an anthology of articles written about him by his contemporaries with some commentary by the Author/Editor.

One of the things he (Hutton) postulates in the book is that contrary to the popular idea that Custer was trying for one big victory so he could win the Presidency, Custer had no interest in Politics and was trying to get a big victory in an effort to get his General's stars back.
 
It is certainly not a stretch of the imagination for Custer to have had VD...pretty common among soldiers of every era prior to penicillin.

The discussions about having Native American ancestors really got hot when people wanted a share of casino profits.

Native American "wives" were common on the frontier from the earliest arrival of Europeans. It's almost impossible to trace because people tended to deny and cover it up until recently.

Elizabeth Warren did herself more harm than good by playing the "race card" to get preferential treatment. I'm embarrassed for her.
 
kimporter said:
...tells us when he joined up he got to choose what unit he wanted because his ggg-grandfather was a general in the civil war...
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Why do guys tell stories like this? They are so easily verified (read debunked) that it makes no sense to me. Do they really think we'll be impressed by it?

Honestly, I pity anyone who is so lonely they have to make up stories of military exploits.
 
Why does Cherokee have such a cachet ? What's wrong with Sioux or Cheyenne or Pawnee ? Don't recall too many people here in the East claiming Mohawk or Iroquois or Oneida ancestry.
 
My wife tells me she has Blackfoot in her lineage. She is blond and blue eyed, but her dad has darkish skin and straight black hair. She doesn't tell people that to try to gain some kind of status. In fact, she doesn't tell anyone ever.

For some reason it came up with my neighbor and he told us to check it out and get some kind of government entitlement for it. She would not do that and neither would I. Heck, I don't even know if Blackfoot is a real tribe/sect/family group.
 
Rastoff said:
My wife tells me she has Blackfoot in her lineage. She is blond and blue eyed, but her dad has darkish skin and straight black hair. She doesn't tell people that to try to gain some kind of status. In fact, she doesn't tell anyone ever.

For some reason it came up with my neighbor and he told us to check it out and get some kind of government entitlement for it. She would not do that and neither would I. Heck, I don't even know if Blackfoot is a real tribe/sect/family group.
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Nihtsi siksika. I'm Blackfoot and the last time I looked I was real.
 
Rastoff said:
Why do guys tell stories like this? They are so easily verified (read debunked) that it makes no sense to me.
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It's because (IMO) they don't know enough about their topic to realize how easy they are to debunk
 
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