She has repeatedly lied and changed her lies throughout her career. Buffy has no Native American ancestry, but uses special makeup to change her facial skin color. She has accepted Canada’s highest honors, while actually she was born and grew up in Boston Metro.
Her skin was quite pale, until she hit it big in the music world. My guess is that her “ethnic look” comes from Moorish ancestry in Sicily. Her father was from Italy. The Moors ruled and colonized Sicily in the Early Middle Ages. When she first became a big star, I assumed that Canadian indigenous peoples just looked different than those in the United States.
Now the situation is just the opposite for Rita Coolidge from central Tennessee. She claimed for decades to be Cherokee, but now is being labeled a fraud, because the Cherokees have denounced her. Too bad that Rita didn’t look at the Colonial Era maps, when starting her career.
Rita obviously had substantial Chickasaw and/or Upper Creek ancestry. Her family always lived in the part of Tennessee, which was always occupied by the Chickasaw and their buddies the Upper Creeks. In her 20s, Rita strongly resembled my grandmother, when she was young. She’s the real thing, but now does not know it.
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What’s the best way to know for sure? I don’t trust the DNA services. Also, I have been searching tribal rolls for decades! One cousin was in Eastern band of Cherokees, but that’s all I know for sure.
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DNA Consultants, Inc. has worked with many Cherokee descendants. There does not seem to be a consistent pattern of DNA among most Cherokee families.
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Thank you! I didn’t know about them.
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Many card-carrying Cherokees have no Native American DNA. A member of the famous Vann Family told me that they never did, Chief Vann of the Vann house was actually Jewish.
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Richard,
I find it an absolute shame that a beautiful young woman gets shunned by the Cherokee despite growing up in Tennessee and believing she is Cherokee??
With the Cherokee claiming pretty much everything else as theirs, hell, the liklihood of other Cherokee having as little as 1% Native American ancestry runs very strong with DNA studies, leaving the other 99% resembling many others in Tennessee, North Carolina and , Alabama.
Even Cherokee Chief John Ross was half Scottish through his Dad who was a full blooded Scot.
I find it disheartening that there aren’t better Native American genetic indicators to help this lady out.
i certainly hope she is accepted by other tribes and pointed in the right direction, as it becomes more apparent to her.
R/,
Zac
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Well, Rita is not Cherokee. She is either Chickasaw, Upper Creek or a combination. I can tell by looking at her. Muskogeans are quite different in appearance in the Southeast, because we have not mixed with other tribes like the Creeks have in Oklahoma.
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