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

[kestrel91316]

36. I am pretty much as WASP as WASP can get, but even in my family,

on my mom's side, there are persistent rumors about one of my great-great-grandmothers having some NA heritage. Neither I nor another genealogist in our family can find any actual evidence of this, and a photograph of her shows she had blue eyes (if they are light enough you can tell in those old photos). Another very distant cousin had also heard the rumor about this particular ancestor, and I am wondering if there might not be a little truth to it. Where there is spotty smoke like this there is occasionally fire.

Like Elizabeth Warren's father's family, her family came from western NY through Ohio and Illinois before winding up in WI and then KS/NE. I just don't know.

It's interesting. And that's the branch of the family I got my nose from - which on a dark-haired person might look somewhat NAish.