It must have come as a huge surprise to her husband, who never claimed to be Native American, but was somehow also listed in that cookbook as "Cherokee"
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That's kind of my point. She kept trying to milk this vague claim of being native and trying to justify it in ways that don't make sense, all of which is very disrespectful to natives. The cookbook issue is kind of silly, but you have to admit it shows a willingness on her part to not only represent someone else's writing as her own, but to represent it as something traditionally indigenous and "ethnic" while being the product of a NYT article written by a white guy. But she can't bring herself to oppose building oil pipelines through native lands. The NA community is rightly pissed off about this, and you're framing them all as a bunch of anti-progressives who don't like women, and you're wrong about that.
OMG! She submitted a recipe to a fundraising cookbook! And identified herself as Cherokee because that's the story her parents told her. OMG! I'll bet she raked in MILLIONS ! (voters, dollars, whichever, both--you're choice). And so did her husband! So, double the milllions!!!!!!!!
In very minor ways, I've written and edited and helped to publish a variety of newsletters, yearbooks, etc. Trust me: it's very easy for an error to appear.
Also, only an absolute idiot would think any of those recipes were purported to be Cherokee recipes.
How absolutely ridiculous you are.