Memaw Wasn’t A Cherokee Princess?

Mary Lynne and Sarah serve up a plate of hot takes on white people’s claims of Native American ancestry and the cultural appropriation found in songs like Tim McGraw’s “Indian Outlaw.”

Hear the cautionary tales of Elizabeth Warren and Johnny Cash. PLUS, the LTC gals chew on some food songs from Lyle Lovett, Dale Watson, and The Carolina Chocolate Drops. Voices in the intro mashup were: Donald Trump, Elizabeth Warren, Elizabeth Cook, Tyler Mahan Coe, Drew Morgan, and Trae Crowder.

This is our companion playlist! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0j8Nje4gGuKnHdeieVVDWy

This is Mary Lynne’s Food Playlist: https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1uMWwDhMOqhnpC4OAc5mzv

To visit the Buncombe County Register of Deeds website created in partnership with the Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians, visit https://storymaps.arcgis.com/stories/e9913eb717dc4e68aebe7a7c7d3f42c3

Articles discussing why white people often claim to have Cherokee ancestors, https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/10/cherokee-blood-why-do-so-many-americans-believe-they-have-cherokee-ancestry.html

https://timeline.com/part-cherokee-elizabeth-warren-cf6be035967e

https://www.huffpost.com/entry/opinion-warren-cherokee-dna_n_5bc63a69e4b0a8f17ee6ba9a For a quick Twitter-torial on DNA tests and their specific role in determining tribal citizenship,

https://wakelet.com/wake/57e215e9-3566-4d4e-9fc7-a9d844bb504c This is a more extended interview with Kim Tallbear,

https://www.newscientist.com/article/mg22129554-400-there-is-no-dna-test-to-prove-youre-native-american/?utm_source=rakuten&utm_medium=affiliate&utm_campaign=2116208:Skimlinks.com&utm_content=10&ranMID=47192&ranEAID=TnL5HPStwNw&ranSiteID=TnL5HPStwNw-N_FzHSETg33._cx0N7Yg4A Plus she also wrote a book,

https://bookshop.org/books/native-american-dna-tribal-belonging-and-the-false-promise-of-genetic-science/9780816665860 To read Richard Lei’s 1994 Washington Post article,

https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/1994/04/08/catchy-tune-catches-controversy/2ca0a30e-bd4b-4f6f-8122-5fbb57db7698/

Another article from 1994 about Indian Outlaw, https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1994-03-24-ca-38102-story.html

Antigravity’s Erin Hall interviewing Rhiannon Giddens, https://antigravitymagazine.com/feature/country-girl-an-interview-with-the-carolina-chocolate-drops-rhiannon-giddens/

The Vice.com article on “100 Ways to Support - Not Appropriate From - Native People” https://www.vice.com/en/article/pa5a3m/how-to-be-an-ally-to-native-americans-indigenous-people