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<blockquote data-quote="728ups" data-source="post: 5427346" data-attributes="member: 33372"><p>The jokes write themselves ,i swear. Something is really wrong with a guy who just lies non stop</p><p></p><h3>Herschel Walker’s mom disputes son’s claim that grandmother was ‘full-blooded Cherokee’</h3><p>The mother of <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/republican" target="_blank">Republican</a> Senate candidate <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/herschel-walker" target="_blank">Herschel Walker</a> has disputed her son’s claims that his grandmother was a “full-blooded <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/cherokee" target="_blank">Cherokee</a>” and that he is himself an Indigenous American.</p><p></p><p>Mr Walker, who achieved fame as a running back for the University of <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/georgia" target="_blank">Georgia</a> and is attempting to parlay his football success into a political career in his home state, discussed his family’s purported indigeneity at a small campaign event in Forsyth, Georgia last month.</p><p></p><p></p><p>“My mom just told me that my mom, grandmother, was full-blood Cherokee,” Mr Walker said at the event. “So I’m Native American!”</p><p></p><p></p><p>According to <em>HuffPost</em>, which <a href="https://www.huffpost.com/entry/herschel-walker-cherokee-native-american-grandm_n_6345aee8e4b03e8038ce26a7?d_id=5017774&ncid_tag=tweetlnkushpmg00000016&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=us_politics" target="_blank">reported</a> Mr Walker’s comments in Forsyth, the Cherokee Nation has no record of Mr Walker as one its members.</p><p></p><p></p><p>What’s more, Mr Walker’s mother told <em>HuffPost</em> in a phone interview on Wednesday that she could not confirm her son’s claims about his grandmother and could only offer that she heard stories growing up that her own mother may have related in some way to Cherokee people.</p><p></p><p>“She was kin to Cherokee,” Christine Walker said. “Back when I was a little child running around, she was kin to the Cherokee.”</p><p></p><p>Ms Walker said she doesn’t know how far back her apparent Cherokee ancestry might go.</p><p></p><p>“See, my grandmother, she passed when I was quite young,” Ms Walker told <em>HuffPost</em>. I don’t know too much about how she was connected.”</p><p></p><p></p><p>It is not uncommon for Americans, including American politicians, to claim Indigenous ancestry with scant <a href="https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/evidence" target="_blank">evidence</a> as a <a href="https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/10/cherokee-blood-why-do-so-many-americans-believe-they-have-cherokee-ancestry.html" target="_blank">means</a> of claiming an authentic American past and absolving themselves for the crimes that the US has perpetrated against Indigenous peoples and nations</p><p></p><p>[URL unfurl="true"]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/herschel-walker-cherokee-heritage-evidence-b2201626.html[/URL]</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="728ups, post: 5427346, member: 33372"] The jokes write themselves ,i swear. Something is really wrong with a guy who just lies non stop [HEADING=2]Herschel Walker’s mom disputes son’s claim that grandmother was ‘full-blooded Cherokee’[/HEADING] The mother of [URL='https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/republican']Republican[/URL] Senate candidate [URL='https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/herschel-walker']Herschel Walker[/URL] has disputed her son’s claims that his grandmother was a “full-blooded [URL='https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/cherokee']Cherokee[/URL]” and that he is himself an Indigenous American. Mr Walker, who achieved fame as a running back for the University of [URL='https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/georgia']Georgia[/URL] and is attempting to parlay his football success into a political career in his home state, discussed his family’s purported indigeneity at a small campaign event in Forsyth, Georgia last month. “My mom just told me that my mom, grandmother, was full-blood Cherokee,” Mr Walker said at the event. “So I’m Native American!” According to [I]HuffPost[/I], which [URL='https://www.huffpost.com/entry/herschel-walker-cherokee-native-american-grandm_n_6345aee8e4b03e8038ce26a7?d_id=5017774&ncid_tag=tweetlnkushpmg00000016&utm_medium=Social&utm_source=Twitter&utm_campaign=us_politics']reported[/URL] Mr Walker’s comments in Forsyth, the Cherokee Nation has no record of Mr Walker as one its members. What’s more, Mr Walker’s mother told [I]HuffPost[/I] in a phone interview on Wednesday that she could not confirm her son’s claims about his grandmother and could only offer that she heard stories growing up that her own mother may have related in some way to Cherokee people. “She was kin to Cherokee,” Christine Walker said. “Back when I was a little child running around, she was kin to the Cherokee.” Ms Walker said she doesn’t know how far back her apparent Cherokee ancestry might go. “See, my grandmother, she passed when I was quite young,” Ms Walker told [I]HuffPost[/I]. I don’t know too much about how she was connected.” It is not uncommon for Americans, including American politicians, to claim Indigenous ancestry with scant [URL='https://www.independent.co.uk/topic/evidence']evidence[/URL] as a [URL='https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2015/10/cherokee-blood-why-do-so-many-americans-believe-they-have-cherokee-ancestry.html']means[/URL] of claiming an authentic American past and absolving themselves for the crimes that the US has perpetrated against Indigenous peoples and nations [URL unfurl="true"]https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/herschel-walker-cherokee-heritage-evidence-b2201626.html[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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