Thanks Marcie....have found and copied the articles. I hope the girl has not been scammed. Thanks TT ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ghostdance" <ghostdance@bigbend.net> To: <creek-southeast@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 10:30 AM Subject: Re: [CREEK-SOUTHEAST] Washitah NOT a tribe > Well stated Marcie. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Marcia Lee" <mlee@uwf.edu> > To: <CREEK-SOUTHEAST-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, October 21, 2009 8:28 AM > Subject: [CREEK-SOUTHEAST] Washitah NOT a tribe > > >> The Washitaw group claiming to be a tribe recognized by the UN are not a >> real tribe. The Southern Poverty Law Center has two good articles in >> their Intelligence Reports at their website on these folks. Read the >> reports for Spring 1999 "Born on the Bayou" & Spring 2000 "Common Law >> Groups A Louisiana Empress Faces the Law". These guys are major scam >> artists claiming to be Black mound builders & indigenous peoples who >> really own the land of the Louisiana Purchase. They issued for a nice >> fee their own drivers licenses of various kinds & passports & don't pay >> taxes, etc. If the UN really recognized this group as indigenous peoples >> then we have a problem in that its not checking & verifying these groups >> & the REAL indigenous peoples are being lumped in with some very shady >> folk. I guess that's just another reason the UN needs a house cleaning. >> >> Marcie >> >> Notes on the Creek Indians >> http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creeknotes/index.htm >> >> Early Creek History >> http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/early-history/ >> >> Migration Legend of the Creek Indians >> http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/migration/ >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> CREEK-SOUTHEAST-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >> > > Notes on the Creek Indians > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creeknotes/index.htm > > Early Creek History > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/early-history/ > > Migration Legend of the Creek Indians > http://www.accessgenealogy.com/native/creek/migration/ > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > CREEK-SOUTHEAST-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without > the quotes in the subject and the body of the message