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Polly Granddaughter
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Cherokee Genealogist and Blogger. ~~ Following or RT does not = an endorsement.
Nov 22, 2019 • 11 tweets • 5 min read
Thread w articles & info about the white contractors who claimed to be Cherokee to get contracts intended for minorities. Some are now suing the city of St Louis for "discrimination."

The first, an investigative report by @adamelmahrek @latimes

latimes.com/local/lanow/la… Native American minority contracts are under scrutiny as officials vow strict enforcement @adamelmahrek

latimes.com/local/lanow/la…
Nov 17, 2019 • 20 tweets • 4 min read
For Native American Heritage month, I'd like to share a little about my Cherokee heritage.

I am the daughter of an Indian boarding school survivor who refused to cry when her parents visited her at school because she knew it would make them cry too. I am the granddaughter of a "first generation" Cherokee born in the United States. He was born in 1922. All the generations of Cherokees who came before him were born in the Cherokee Nation, not the United States.
Oct 15, 2019 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
1- Warren's ancestors had many opportunities to claim to be Cherokee but they didn't. They didn't even claim it when they were living smack dab in the middle of the Cherokee Nation (as squatters.) One member of her family actually claimed to be white even when her husband and children were filing their Dawes claim as Choctaw. #ElizabethWarren's ancestors were not Native and never pretended to be.