This is an older story, but it still comes up from time to time.

Rod Meldrum uses this video to argue that ancient Hebrews were in America.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wHNRf9H7nD4

What he doesn't tell you is that the Central Band of Cherokee are a fake tribe and Joe Sitting Owl IS NOT Native American.

All anyone has to do is read the Bureau of Indian Affairs final determination against granting the Central Band of Cherokee federal tribal status. It is signed by Larry Echo Hawk, who is now an LDS general authority.
http://bia.gov/cs/groups/xofa/documents/text/idc017585.pdf

The BIA document is very interesting. It lays out the efforts and pseudo nonsense that Joe White (AKA Sitting Owl) and others tried to use to get federal recognition of their fake tribe. Page 18 sums it all up by stating that not even one of the so called Indians could show that they were descended from any Indian tribe.

"The evidence shows the petitioner’s members and claimed ancestors were consistently identified as non-Indians living in non-Indian communities."

"none of the group’s members have demonstrated descent from a historical Indian tribe or tribes that combined."

This article from the Cherokee Phoenix lays out the problems that people like Joe create. The garbage that Rod Meldrum and his kind are promoting has harmful affects on real people.
http://www.cherokeephoenix.org/19212/Article.aspx

If the LDS top 15 had an ounce of honesty and integrity they would put a stop to this kind of bullshit.

"not even one of the so called Indians could show that they were descended from any Indian tribe."

Hey, that's no big deal. No Mormon apologist can show that any Indian is descended from any Hebrew, either. :-)

If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck ...

This BIA final report needs to get more attention. Larry Echo Hawk signed it and now he is an LDS general authority. Kind of hard to argue that it is anti-Mormon source:-)

Meldrum's video is still up, more than two years after the BIA final report came out. Meldrum and those that follow him don't care about facts.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 08/09/2014 06:24PM by Tapirrider.