New Thought It s not the information it s the juxtaposition Yes genealogy is hard but putting that next to questions of truthfulness is WP OR not because any PART of this is untrue or undue but because putting them together makes a conclusion that is not supportable As a disclaimer at the top of a long section maybe but not as an answer to charges Furthermore let us look at the 3 actually 1 2a and 2b that pertain to Cherokee 1 many Cherokees refused to register when told to at the turn of the century Yes BUT those who refused were by and large full blood Cherokee did so in vehement protest of the idea of the Dawes Roll were or could be added in the 1930s and left the modern life for a more authentic lifestyle based on their roots Definitely NOT the category Warren s 1 32 ancestor belongs to 2a Intermarriage Cherokees had been intermarrying extensively since Georgia over a hundred years before the Dawes Rolls so looks were deceiving even then meaning that ancestry and ethnicity were guarded jealously but the family or Nation was exceedingly inclusive Dawes Rolls were made very loose as to inclusion and Warren s family clearly did not meet that loose criterion even then Not a problem with Warren s genealogy Which leads to 2b 2b False claims of Cherokee heritage Since people in 1890 didn t have to look Cherokee and if you claimed to be Cherokee at the time the government decided to give away Cherokee land you got a huge handout to anyone who identified themselves as Cherokee you pretty much had a boom of instant not Cherokees flooding the Oklahoma Territory Sorting out genealogy when there were so many false claims made over decades it took about 20 years which may have passed into family lore makes the general question of Cherokee lineage more difficult Perfectly willing to accept that SHE has family lore and that SHE has believed it also willing to posit that in spite of basically new evidence that her lore is wrong it does not PROVE it to be without any basis since genealogical research always has some questions All of this is irrelevant since the problem is not any small genealogical history but a claim to be a Protected Class of American which has a specific definition she does not meet