CrusaderFrank
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Harry Reed?
LOL
\Scott Brown: Elizabeth Warren Should Do DNA Test To Prove Her Native American Heritage (Libs Livid)
He's not shown as a Indian anywhere, just another of Squirrely Cheekbones that maybe, according to family legend, with all evidence to the contrary, he was 1/4 Indian.
"All were always found in all records as white.
Generation 2
2. Harry Gunn Reed: born 1 Oct 1872 in Mount Vernon, Jefferson County, Illinois; married 2 Jun 1893 in Sebastian, Arkansas, United States; died 23 Dec 1956 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma County, Oklahoma."
Yes they were. And if you actually read the post, I explained why.
Um, because they were white
They were self-reported as "white". In a time when self-reporting as anything else was self-destructive.
Duh.
They we're "self reported" as white because they were white.
Duh
From the same post you can't seem to read:
At the time, the federal government was attempting to break up reservations by granting land allotments to individual Native Americans, pressing them to assimilate into white society and leave their tribal ways behind. The goal, as one officer bluntly put it, was to “kill the Indian and save the man.” Those who could pass for white — or convince the census taker that they were — sometimes did.
“If someone was not white, they were a little bit less of a citizen,” said Matt Reed, the curator of the American Indian Collections at the Oklahoma Historical Society in Oklahoma City, whose mother was a Pawnee Indian. “If you had darker skin, you were a lesser human. So, if your skin was light enough to pass as not being Indian, then you just passed as white and your life was a lot better off. A lot more people did that than you might think.”
Yeah and Harry Reed is still white.