Thread by @jfkeeler

So you mean you can trust Mexican records but not US ones?

Still doesn’t change #SacheenLittlefeather ancestors didn’t identify with the tribe when they came to AZ and haven’t since then. Or that Littlefeather added the claim some 20 years after her White Mountain Apache claim.

And the only person #SacheenLittlefeather’s sister Roz heard who speculated on the claim was her white mother. Her sister Trudy never heard such a claim.

And 1819? My kids have an Italian ancestor who moved to Canada around then. Does this make them Italian?

And an ancestor in Mexico from 1819 would not make #SacheenLittlefeather American Indian/Native American which is a political designation as I explained here:

And my remit was not to prove Mexican Indian identity for #SacheenLittlefeather but American Indian.

And American Indian as specified in the previous tweet.

I’m working on my “What is an Indian” piece tonight. It really seems like folks don’t get it.

UPDATE: appears the terminology "of the land" may only mean they were born in Yaqui territory, not actually Yaqui? Also, found the source citation on FamilySearch, but the family tree attached to it doesn't link to Sacheen's family. We're still examining this.