a response from a Wampanoag about the Brown/Warren Indian ancestry controversy

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4. Agree. And I have a similar story to hers--I have a letter from my late grandmother

describing my grandfather's "Indian blood" and I have one other letter with a similar tale. Having researched several lines of the family tree(s), and amazed at what people have put on the web in the past ten years, and having sorted out many other mysteries or conflicting info, I was hoping that I would be able to confirm or disconfirm this. But so far, I haven't been able to do either.

Several of the branches of the family have been here since the 1600s. I would imagine that many, many people with similar histories have similar family lore.

I do believe it would have been better had she confronted this earlier, and that it is POSSIBLE (not that it did happen) that unbeknownst to Warren, her listing in the directory may have helped her get at least one prior job. But what difference does that make? She did nothing wrong, and she's proven herself to be outstanding as a professor, and so that should show that the people doing the hiring made a good decision, shouldn't it? What relevance does it have for this campaign? How does this bear on the important issues?

Brown is desperate and despicable.