Henri Membertou and his alleged daughters, and his alleged descendants, Francine (Poitras) Jones and Nancy (Saucier) Rivera etc and Native American DNA, etc

Francine Jones - unknown - Nancy Rivera – Theresa Olson – Shirley Hook (Koas & VCNAA member)

Koasek Council & Elders Members who made parts of above Regalia in March 2013 Koasek Seminar after Planned defection to Koas Tribe in April 2013 sharing confidential Koasek council information, now above Celebrating Defection in Montpelier with Koas & VCNAA in May 2012

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From: douglaslloydbuchholz@yahoo.com
To: BunnellLoyalist@aol.com
Sent: 6/8/2013 10:44:52 P.M. Eastern Daylight Time
Subj: Ok, NOW I have the 'proof' of the pudding as they would say Paul....

Francine Jones IS now 'in' with Bernie Mortz..... she says she couldn't handle the 'politics' and so on.... so she "jumps ship" like the rest of 'em because she wanted State Recognition from becoming  a SUDDEN member of Bernie Mortz group.
Pardon my expression or wordage here, but how absurd can this get?
Just plain disgusting to say the least. There is this woman, young 20's or so, who took pictures of the Abenaki Heritage Festival May 2013, there in Montpelier, VT and who should be standing right next to Bernie Mortz ... but Francine Jones!
Amazing, the gall of it all. I am speechless Paul Bunnell at their manipulations and deceitfulness. No integrity at all, period ... in any of them. 
Nulhegan idiot "littlebear400" on datehookup.com in a thread is claiming to be a Shaman and Nulhegan. He or she is soliciting people to write to their Congressional Rep's to solicit Federal Recognition for all Abenakis in the USA.
Totally rubbish to say the least, and YES, I have been keeping digital copies of all communications on that site as well for future reference, if need be.
Totally amazing the sh** that this "recognition" has turned up to the surface of all eh.
Hope you are doing well Paul [Bunnell] and please, keep your head up and your toes pointed forward. Life is too short. Shove this whole mess in a petri dish for what it is.....
Nathan must be pretty pissed too I would imagine, and rightly so too!
Douglas

Paul Joseph Bunnell

Again, the required headband, the necklace and the Indian Blanket motif.

Nancy "SpiritBird" (nee: Saucier) Riveria

Ex-Member of the Koasek Traditional Band Of The Sovereign Abenaki Nation

Now a member of the "other" State "Recognized" group led by Bernie Mortz

The "Indian-ist look" or pretense of being..... Koasek Abenaki

Howard Franklin Knight, Jr. the "Retired" "Chief"
of MANY "Abenaki" Wannabiak groups in Vermont

Howard Knight Jr, Brian Chenevert, Paul Bunnell and [Raymond F. Lussier?]

Paul Joseph Bunnell

One Wannabiak Group gets together with another Wannabiak Group.

Nathan Elwin Pero and Paul Joseph Bunnell

Notice the headband = a real "Koasek" "Abenaki" and the Indian-ist t-shirt

[Note the Medicine Bag and the wampum necklace]

That's to make sure they 'look' "Abenaki" as headbands, Indian-ist clothing, and of course, Medicine Bags (the BIGGER the better) are the IN THANG to match their appropriated "Abenaki" persona's.

And if you are really REALLY Abenaki....

You go from looking like this:

Stage 1

http://youtu.be/g3HDbnbA36M

Jeanne Antoine (nee: Lalime) Lincoln - Kent

Stage 2

Stage 3

 Stage 4

you look like this....

If you "look the part" of one's created persona, the better to deceive the naive and ignorant "white" tourist(s) at their so-called "Community" Pow-wow's

(then they go home and seek more grants, etc) 

Koasek Traditional Band Of The Sovereign Abenaki Nation

PO Box 147, Post Mills, Vt. 05058 &

7 Cottage St., Milford, NH 03055

Website: http://www.cowasuckabenaki.com/

Tribal Genealogist: Paul J. Bunnell, Chief

Home Address: 7 Cottage St., Milford, NH 03055 Email: Bunnelllloyalist@aol.com

117. Jones, Francine (Poitras) K523 23860

195. Rivera, Nancy (Saucier) K349 06226

Nancy (Saucier) Riveria and Francine (Poitras) Jones

"Nulhegan" Pow-wow 

Now both are members of Bernie Mortz Group

Joseph Firecrow, Nancy (Saucier) Riveria, Melody (Mason) Nunn, Kevin Carney?, Francine (Poitras) Jones, and Neil Chaske

Nancy (Saucier) Riveria, Melody (Mason) Nunn, Francine (Poitras) Jones

Joseph Firecrow, Nancy (Saucier) Riveria, Francine (Poitras) Jones

Joseph Firecrow, Nancy (Saucier) Riveria, Melody (Mason) Nunn, Kevin Carney?, Francine (Poitras) Jones, and Neil Chaske

I think you get the picture(s)

My point in posting these pictures, is because Nancy (Saucier) aka "Spiritbird" and her side-kick friend Francine (Poitras) Jones aka "Dancing Bluewolfspirit" (that's Neil Chaske and Melody (Mason of course Nunn as well) were members of one group, and now of another group. Because they wanted their claim-to-fame, with an already VT State Recognized "Tribe" and they love to get their pictures taken (ego .... imo). 

http://abenakiart.org/abenaki_art_directory/francine_poitras_jones

Her mother "Doris (nee: Bergeron) Poitras was never allowed to speak of her native heritage and ancestry" according to her daughter Francine (nee: Poitras) Jones .... ???

What, did someone put a sock in the mother's mouth? Was she locked up, tasered by a Worcester, MA Police Officer, or slapped if or when she ever dared speak of her "native" ancestry contrary to her FRENCH ancestry?

The horse-pucky "We-Could-Never-Speak-of-Our-Native-Ancestry/Heritage" Song and Dance is getting a bit absurd.

I have never found this to be a trait, with legitimate Native People's. One doesn't just "Band" or "Tribe" hop and shop around, to the whims of fancy ...  

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Q1YTLuaLqPTE9wcmdNYU1qUjA/view?usp=sharing

So... JUST LIKE JEANNE LINCOLN KENT and so MANY other "Abenakis" like PAUL RENE TAMBURRO, whom I consider yet another Indian-ist Group Hopper Wannabiak...

Francine Poitras Jones claims to be "Abenaki" .... yet she joins one group, and then jumps to another?

January 1, 2013

Francine Dancing Bluewolf Jones

Thank you - I made it in the style of the Odanak in Canada - they are Abenaki. The

tribe I belong to is the Koasek Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation [Paul Bunnell & Nathan Pero's Group]. You can Google the website.

Wliwni (thank you),

Elder Francine Blue Wolf Spirit

Mar 20, 2013

11:47 PM

"Nancy Rivera" wrote:

"I agree with u they will never be able to purify their spirit now.  Did I tell you that Bernie approached me about joining them. I could and would never join them. I can't contaminate myself like that."

Mar 20, 2013

11:52 PM

 Douglas Lloyd Buchholz" wrote:

"Bernie Mortz solicited you to join his group? When was this? Recently?"

Reply from Nancy Saucier - Rivera

"At that meeting [Nov. 2012] I video taped. He was really beside himself when he saw me there."

Mar 20, 2013

11:53 PM

From: Nancy Rivera

To: Douglas Lloyd Buchholz  

Subject: Re: Can you say n-a-n-c-y d-o-u-c-e-t?

It would be like selling out to all my ancestors. 

July 22, 2013 

Francine Poitras Jones 

Kwai Kwai!

The reply option won't let me post our website address. So, do a search for Koasek Traditional Band of the Koas Abenaki Nation and our website should pop up. There is contact information there for you, as well.

Wlakamigen.

Bluewolf

July 22, 2013

Francine Poitras Jones 

Since the time that I produced this video, I've found out that the original tribe I

belonged to was NOT state recognized. They are misrepresenting themselves. Since then, I've become a member of the true state-recognized tribe, which is the Koasek Traditional Band of the Koas Abenaki Nation [Bernie Mortz group formerly led by the late Nancy Millette - Doucet]. I can't post the website address here, but if you do a search, the website will come up. I apologize for any confusion.

And so we get this point of my data:

March 03, 2013 6:20AM

From: karen mica

To: Paul Bunnell, Douglas Lloyd Buchholz, Francine Bluewolfspirit, Nancy Rivera 

Paul, 

Do you remember that article I wrote back in 2009, explaining where the "Koasek" came from ... the one Brian [Chenevert] didn`t want up on the web site because it upset Luke [Willard] and a few others and he was taking a lot of flack over it ?

I wonder if we should revamp that article, and put it up on our website now, so people will know once and for all where "we" are really from and how we have nothing to do with the "modern" made up version of VT history as it has twisted, to fit an agenda? What do you think?

Here`s a small portion, do you remember this..and when they rejected it?

Re: final version, ready to go

July 30, 2009 

3:40 AM

From: "houseofmica@yahoo.com" [Karen (nee: Bourdreau) Majka aka Karen Mica]

To: brialcay@yahoo.com [Brian Chenevert]

Cc: "Paul" [Paul Joseph Bunnell]

Bcc: "Ray" [Raymond F. Lussier]

"The Abenaki of Vermont, who we are and who we are not. 

Much has been written, recorded and stated as fact, concerning the identity and the origin of the peoples of Vermont claiming to be Abenaki, or of Abenaki descent. 

It is not our intent to create strife or hostilities with any Band or Organization claiming to be Abenaki and "of" the State of Vermont.

We do not censure you and we have no desire to argue your claims. 

It will be for someone else to do that eventually.

We are simply interested in bringing certain information into the public domain, what is done with this information is not our concern. 

We have stood quietly by, and endured many public and private attacks from certain individuals belonging to these various "Vermont Abenaki" organizations, as well as one such organization now operating in the State of New Hampshire. 

It is our intention to remain quietly by and unconcerned with the antic`s and the somewhat shoddy showmanship, of these organizations leadership and their transparent need to bestow upon themselves much undue attention and credit. 

We make no claims for any other people, but ourselves. 

We know who we are and where we came from and we have decided that it is time to make certain information available to the public.

We have no problem with anyone wanting to "claim" that they are native Vermont Abenaki...though we intend through this and forthcoming articles, to state firmly and to make perfectly clear ..... that we, are not native Vermont Abenaki! 

Speaking only for ourselves;  we know, and have known, that the names Cowasuck, Coo`s, Koasek and many other versions of this word do not identify a unique "people" but simply denote a place, or places where white pine trees grew and that many different tribal peoples frequented these places. 

They were not the exclusive or specific domain of any one tribe or band. 

They simply testify to certain locations that Native peoples have resided at, and during, various times in history."

So Karen (nee: Boudreau) Majka aka "Karen Mica" in a communication in March of 2009 states VERY CLEARLY "that this 5th group of "Metis", are firmly not Native Vermont Abenakis .....

And yet they are going for Vermont State Recognition as the 5th group entity, with a "Chief" Nathan Elwin Pero, whose only claim-to-fame, of having Native American ancestry, is to a woman Catherine Pillard, of the 1600's, identified in the records and by DNA testing, as a HURON? Not Abenaki.

Hmm ... 

On the website 

http://www.membertouheritagepark.com/view-entries.asp?page=3

there is this entry:

Posted By Francine Poitras Jones | September 8, 2010

I am directly descended from Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk - Henri Membertou. I have just recently discovered this and was quite excited to find this site.

Thank you!

Francine

She found out in 2010 that she is descendant of Henri Membertou? 

I am quite aware of what the Paul Bunnell/Nathan Pero's ex-member Francine Poitras - Jones has put on the internet, what with her FALSE genealogical connection(s) many times over to Henri Membertou of the Mi'kmaq People's in the early 1600's.

And while she MAY herself have jumped ship from YOUR group, it still does not negate the reality that even though you have submitted 400 pages of genealogical information to the Scholars for review, neither scholar is a genealogist, and the VCNAA in Vermont has no professional genealogist to review the genealogies of a petitioning group seeking Vermont State Recognition.

How does anyone know the legitimacy and accuracy of such genealogical mappings Paul?

Case in point:

Francine Anne (nee: Poitras) Jones has the following ancestry:

Roch Manintoubeouich / Manitouabeouich & Outchibabhanoukoneau

1. Roch Manintoubeouich / Manitouabeouich & Outchibabhanoukoneau HURON

2. Marie Olivier Sylvestre

3. Louis Prévost

4. Marie Prévost

5. Marguerite David

6. François Henri Zacharie Cloutier

7. Zacharie Cloutier

8. Marie Jeanne (nee: Cloutier) Gagne

9. Marie Anne (nee: Gagne) Gagnon

10. Lucie Julie (nee: Gagne) Lariviere

11. Marie Beatrice (nee: Lariviere) Rheault dit Rault dit Raoul dit Reux

12. Eugenie (nee: Rheault) Bergeron

13. Romeo William Bergeron

14. Doris (nee: Bergeron) Poitras

15. Francine Ann (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Chief Atsena Du Plat 8endat Attign8stan and Annengthon HURON

2. “Catherine” 8enta Plat (Pillard) HURON

3. Marie Catherine (nee: Charron) Tétreault dit Ducharme

4. Marguerite (nee: Tétreault dit Tetreau) Guillet

5. Marie Louise (nee: Guillet) Fontaine

6. Louis Augustin Fontaine

7. Louis Auguste Fontaine

8. Auguste Fontaine

9. Heloise Elvire (nee: Fontaine) Gaudet

10. Henriette (nee: Gaudet) Bedard

11. Marie Mathilda (nee: Bedard) Poitras

12. Francis Euclide Poitras

13. Francine Anne “Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Chief Atsena Du Plat 8endat Attign8stan and Annengthon HURON

2. “Catherine” 8enta Plat (Pillard) HURON

3. Pierre Charron Sr.

4. Pierre Charron Jr.

5. Jeanne Marie (nee: Charron) Meunier

6. Marie (nee: Meunier dit Lapierre) Fontaine

7. Louis Auguste Fontaine

8. Auguste Fontaine

9. Heloise Elvire (nee: Fontaine) Gaudet

10. Henriette (nee: Gaudet) Bedard

11. Marie Mathilda (nee: Bedard) Poitras

12. Francis Euclide Poitras

13. Francine Anne “Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Jeanne Gisis Bahmahmaadjimiwin Nipissirinienne NIPPISING/ALGONQUINE/OTTAWA?

2. Euphrosine Madeleine (nee: Nicolet) Dussault dit Lafleur

3. Jean Francois Dussault dit Lafleur I

4. Jean Francois Dussault dit Lafleur II

5. Jean Francois Dussault dit Lafleur III

6. Charlotte (nee: Dussault) Bergeron

7. Cecile (nee: Bergeron) Cote

8. Cecile (nee: Cote) Bedard

9. Eusebe Bedard

10. Marie Mathilda (nee: Bedard) Poitras

11. Francis Euclide Poitras

12. Francine Ann (nee: Poitras) Jones

Francoise (Mi’kmaq)

1. Francoise Mi’kmaq m. Germain Lavendure Doucet

2. Marguerite Louise Judith (nee: Doucet) Dugas

3. Marie (nee: Dugas) Melanson

4. Elizabeth (nee: Melanson) Bourg

5. Michel Bergeron

6. Marguerite (nee: Bourg) Bergeron

7. David Bergeron

8. Charles Bergeron

8. Raymond Bergeron

10. Raymond Bergeron

11. Calixte Bergeron

12. Emile Bergeron

13. Romero William Bergeron

14. Doris Bergeron

15. Francine Ann (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Francois Mi’kmaq m. Germain Lavendure Doucet

2. Marguerite Louise Judith (nee: Doucet) Dugas

3. Claude Dugas

4. Joseph Dugas

5. Jean Baptiste Dugas Sr.

6. Jean Baptiste Dugas Jr.

7. Marie Josephe (nee: Dugas) Gauthier

8. Francois Xavier Gauthier dit Landreville

9. Marie Ozine (nee: Gauthierdit Landreville) Poitras

10. Joseph George Ozias Poitras

11. Euclide Poitras

12. Francis Eulicide Poitras

13. Francine Ann (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Francois Mi’kmaq m. Germain Lavendure Doucet

2. Marguerite Louise Judith (nee: Doucet) Dugas

3. Claude Dugas

4. Marie (nee: Dugas) Melanson

5. Anne Mare (nee: Melanson) Thidbodeau

6. Paul Olivier Thibodeau

7. Joseph Thibodeau

8. Marie Josephte (nee: Thibodeau) Bergeron

9. Raymond Bergeron

10. Calixte Bergeron

11. Emile Bergeron

12. Romeo William Bergeron

13. Doris (nee: Bergeron) Poitras

14. Francine Ann (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Francoise Mi’kmaq m. Germain Lavendure Doucet

2. Marguerite Louise Judith (nee: Doucet) Dugas

3. Marie (nee: Dugas) Melanson

4. Elisabeth (nee: Melanson) Bourg

5. Michel Bourg

6. Marguerite (nee: Bourg) Bergeron

7. David Bergeron

8. Charles Bergeron

9. Marie Madeline (nee: Bergeron) Bergeron

10. Calixte Bergeron

11. Emile Bergeron

12. Romero William Bergeron

13. Doris (nee: Bergeron) Poitras

14. Francine Ann (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Francois Mi’kmaq m. Germain Lavendure Doucet

2. Marguerite Louise Judith (nee: Doucet) Dugas

3. Claude Dugas

4. Joseph Dugas

5. Elisabeth Isabelle (nee: Dugas) Leblanc

6. Marie (nee: Leblanc) Gauthier

7. Joseph Antoine Gauthier

8. Francois Xavier Gauthier dit Landreville

9. Marie Ozine (nee: Gauthier dit Landreville) Poitras

10. Joseph George Ozias Poitras

11. Euclide Poitras

12. Francis Eulicide Poitras

13. Francine Ann (nee: Poitras) Jones

Anna (nee: Matchonon Cord Clan) Huron-Wendat

1. Abraham Martin dit L’ecossais & Anna (nee: Matchonon) HURON -WENDAT

2. Anne (nee: Martin Matchonon – Cord Clan - Attigneenongnahac)  & Jean Jehan dit Cote dit Coste

[F: Mathieu da Cote dit Coste M: Mi’kmaq woman]

3. Noel Coste dit da Cote

4. Jacques Cote

5. Marie Louise (nee: Cote) Hout dit St. Laurent

6. Marie Louise (nee: Huot dit Houde) Dubois

7. Elisabeth (nee: Dubois) Rousseau

8. Francois Vilbon Rousseau

9. Ferdinand Rousseau dit Rousseard

10. Emilia Marie (nee: Rousseau) Bergeron

11. Doris (nee: Bergeron) Poitras

12. Francine Ann (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Abraham Martin dit L’ecossais & Anna (nee: Matchonon) HURON -WENDAT

2. Anne (nee: Martin Matchonon – Cord Clan - Attigneenongnahac)  & Jean Jehan dit Cote dit Coste

[F: Mathieu da Cote dit Coste M: Mi’kmaq woman]

3. Jean Cote dit Coste

4. Ignace Coste dit Cote

5. Marie (nee: Cote) Poliquin

6. Marie Louise (nee: Poliquin) Duquet

7. Marie Louise (nee: Duquet) Rheaume

8. Georges Rheaume

9. Marie Delina (nee: Rheaume) Rousseau dit Rousseard

10. Emilia Marie (nee: Rousseau) Bergeron

11. Doris (nee: Bergeron) Poitras

12. Francine Ann (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Abraham Martin dit L’ecossais & Anna (nee: Matchonon) HURON -WENDAT

2. Anne (nee: Martin Matchonon – Cord Clan - Attigneenongnahac)  & Jean Jehan dit Cote dit Coste

[F: Mathieu da Cote dit Coste M: Mi’kmaq woman]

3. Noel Coste dit da Cote

4. Jacques Cote Sr.

5. Jacques Cote Jr.

6. Josette (nee: Cote) Croteau

7. Flavie (nee: Croteau) Martineau

8. Flavie (nee: Martineau) Rheaume

9. Marie Delina (nee: Rheaume) Rousseau dit Rousseard

10. Emilia Marie (nee: Rousseau) Bergeron

11. Doris (nee: Bergeron) Poitras

12. Francine Ann (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Abraham Martin dit L’ecossais & Anna (nee: Matchonon) HURON - WENDAT

2. Anne (nee: Martin Matchonon – Cord Clan - Attigneenongnahac)  & Jean Jehan dit Cote dit Coste

[F: Mathieu da Cote dit Coste M: Mi’kmaq woman]

3. Noel Coste dit da Cote

4. Jacques Cote Sr.

5. Jacques Cote Jr.

6. Jean Charles Cote

7. Jean Bapiste Charles Cote

8. Cecile (nee: Cote) Bedard

9. Eusebe Bedard

10. Marie Mathida (nee: Bedard) Poitras

11. Francis Euclide Poitras

12. Francine “Dancing Bluewolf”(nee: Poitras) Jones

Joachim Ouentouen Arontio & Cecile Arendaeronnon Arenhatsi

1. Joachim Ouentouen Arontio & Cecile Arendaeronnon Arenhatsi HURON

2. Marie Felix Arontio Aneneontha Ouentouen HURON

3. Jean Baptiste Dubuc I

4. Jean Baptiste Dubuc II

5. Jean Baptiste Dubuc III

6. Marie Rosalie Dubuc

7. Charles Poitras

8. Prosper Poitras

9. Joseph George Ozias Poitras

10. Euclide Poitras

11. François Eucilide Poitras

12. Francine “Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

Keskoua (Mi’kmaq)

1. Keskoua (Mi’kmaq) & Basile dit Blanchet

2. Perrine (nee: Basile dit Blanchet) Bellemaire dit Celestin

3. Jeanne (nee: Bellemaire dit Celestin) Brazeau dit Lebrasseur

4. Marguerite (nee: Brazeau dit Lebrasseur) Henry

4. Theotiste (nee: Henry) Gaudette

6. Joseph Gaudet dit Gaudette

7. Flavien Gaudet

8. Henriette (nee: Gaudet) Bedard

9. Marie Mathilda (nee: Bedard) Poitras

10. Francis Euclide Poitrais

11. Francine “Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Keskoua (Mi’kmaq) & Basile dit Blanchet

2. Perrine (nee: Basile dit Blanchet) Bellemaire dit Celestin

3. Jeanne (nee: Bellemaire dit Celestin) Brasseur

4. Pierre Brasseaux

5. Marguerite (nee: Brasseaux) Guildry dit Guidry

6. Jean Auguste Guildry dit Labine

7. Jean Charles Guildry dit Labine

8. Felicite (nee: Guildry dit Labine) Morin

9. Zoe (nee: Morin) Gaudet dit Gaudette

10. Flavien (nee: Gaudet)

11. Henriette (nee: Gaudet) Bedard

12. Marie Mathilda (nee: Bedard) Poitras

13. Francis Euclide Poitrais

14. Francine “Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

And this is not at issue with me (for the most part) other than the DISTANCE between that historical documented native person or couple, and the DESCENDANT, 11-12, and so on generations down.

But what really rubs me wrong, is this: 

Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk – Henri Membertou

1. Sachem (Mi’kmaq)

2. Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk – Henri Membertou

3. Amerindienne “Marie Catherine”

4. Edmée "Aimee" (nee: Lejeune) Gaudreau

5. Marie (nee: Gauterot) Theriot

6. Marguerite (nee: Theriault dit Terriot) Landry

7. Madeleine (nee: Landry) Dugas

8. Marie (nee: Dugas) Bergeron

9. Pierre Michel Bergeron

10. David Bergeron

11. Charles Bergeron

12. Raymond Bergeron

13. Raymond Bergeron

14. Calixte Bergeron

15. Emile Bergeron

16. Romero William Bergeron

17. Doris (nee: Bergeron) Poitras

18. Francine “Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Sachem (Mi’kmaq)

2. Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk – Henri Membertou

3. Marie (nee: Radegonde Kagijonais) Lambert

4. Radegonde Lambert

5. Marie Anne (nee: Blanchard) Gaudet dit L’Aine

6. Claude Gaudet

7. Pierre Lejeune Gaudet

8. Marie Anne Gaudet

9. Madeleine Marie (nee: Poirier) Bergeron

10. Raymond Bergeron

11. Raymond Bergeron

12. Calixte Bergeron

13. Emile Bergeron

14. Romero William Bergeron

15. Doris (nee: Bergeron) Poitras

16. Francine “Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Sachem (Mi’kmaq)

2. Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk – Henri Membertou

3. Amerindienne “Marie Catherine”

4. Edmée "Aimee" (nee: Lejeune) Gaudreau

5. Marie (nee: Gauterot) Theriot

6. Germain Theriault dit Terriot

7. Claude Theriault dit Terriot

8. Marie Anne (nee: Theriault) Bourg

9. Marie (nee: Bourg) Thibodeau

10. Joseph Tibodeau

11. Marie Josephte (nee: Thibodeau) Bergeron

12. Raymond Bergeron

13. Raymond Bergeron

14. Calixte Bergeron

15. Emile Bergeron

16. Romeo William Bergeron

17. Doris (nee: Bergeron) Poitras

18. Francine “Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Sachem (Mi’kmaq)

2. Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk – Henri Membertou

3. Marie (nee: Radegonde Kagijonais) Lambert

4. Radegonde Lambert

5. Madeleine (nee: Blanchard) Ricnard dit Sansoucy

6. Marie Ann (nee: Richard) Theriault dit Terriot

7. Claude Theriault dit Terriot

8. Marie Anne (nee: Theriault) Bourg

9. Marie (nee: Bourg) Thibodeau

10. Joseph Thibodeau

11. Marie Josephte (nee: Thibodeau) Bergeron

12. Raymond Bergeron

13. Raymond Bergeron

14. Calixte Bergeron

15. Emile Bergeron

16. Romeo William Bergeron

17. Doris (nee: Bergeron) Poitras

18. Francine “Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Sachem (Mi’kmaq)

2. Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk – Henri Membertou

3. Amerindienne “Marie Catherine”

4. Edmée "Aimee" (nee: Lejeune) Gaudreau

5. Marie (nee: Gauterot) Theriot

6. Marguerite (nee: Theriault dit Terriot) Landry

7. Madeleine (nee: Landry) Dugas

8. Marie (nee: Dugas) Bergeron

9. Pierre Michel Bergeron

10. David Bergeron

11. Charles Bergeron

12. Marie Madeleine (nee: Bergeron) Bergeron

13. Calixte Bergeron

14. Emile Bergeron

15. Romero William Bergeron

16. Doris (nee: Bergeron) Poitras

17. Francine “Dancing Bluewolf" (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Sachem (Mi’kmaq)

2. Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk – Henri Membertou

3. Marie (nee: Radegonde Kagijonais) Lambert

4. Radegonde Lambert

5. Marie Anne (nee: Blanchard) Gaudet dit L’Aine

6. Claude Gaudet

7. Pierre Lejeune Gaudet

8. Marie Anne (nee: Gaudet) Poirier

9. Madeleine Marie (nee: Poirier) Bergeron

10. Marie Madeline (nee: Bergeron) Bergeron

11. Calixte Bergeron

12. Emile Bergeron

13. Romero William Bergeron

14. Doris (nee: Bergeron) Poitras

15. Francine “Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Sachem (Mi’kmaq)

2. Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk – Henri Membertou

3. Ameridienne “Catherine Marie” (nee. Membertou) Lejeune dit Briard

4. Catherine (nee: Lejeune dit Briard) Savoie

5. Andree (nee: Savoy edit Savoie

6. Anne Pregent dit Prejean dit Lebreton) Pitre dit Nordest

7. Agnes (nee: Pitre) Boudreau dit Boudreaul

8. Francois Boudreau dit Boudreaul

9. Jean Boudreau dit Boudreaul

10. Justine (nee: Boudreau dit Boudreaul) Otis

11. Christine (nee: Otis) Corbin dit Lacroix

12. Eleanore (nee: Corbin dit Lacroix)Turcotte

13. Orelle Ovile (nee: Turcotte) Bergeron

14. Emile Bergeron

15. Romero William Bergeron

16. Doris (nee: Bergeron) Poitras

17. Francine “Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Sachem (Mi’kmaq)

2. Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk – Henri Membertou

3. Amerindienne “Marie Catherine”

4. Edmée "Aimee" (nee: Lejeune) Gaudreau

5. Marie (nee: Gauterot) Potet dit La Fortune

6. Marie (nee: Potet) Bourg . Bourque

7. Claude Francois Bourg dit Bourque

8. Anne (nee: Bourg dit Bourque) Dugas

9. Jean Baptiste Dugas

10. Marie Josephe (nee: Dugas) Gauthier

11. Francois Xavier Gauthier dit Landreville

12. Marie Ozine (nee: Gauthier dit Landreville) Poitras

13. Joseph George Ozias Poitras

14. Euclide Poitras

15. Francis Eulicide Poitras

16. Francine “Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Sachem (Mi’kmaq)

2. Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk – Henri Membertou

3. Amerindienne “Marie Catherine” Kagigoniac

4. Edmée "Aimee" (nee: Lejeune) Gauterot

5. Marie (nee: Gouterot) Theriot

6. Jean THeriot dit Terriot

7. Marguerite (nee: Theriot) Babin

8. Françoise (nee: Babin) Thibodeau

9. Madeleine (nee: Thibodeau) Consigny dit Sansfacon

10. Madeleine (nee: Consigny dit Sansfacon) Levasseur

11. Jean Baptiste Levasseur

12. Benoit Benjamin Levasseur

13. Thomas V. Levasseur

13. Ann (nee: Levasseur) Cormier

14. Beatrice G. (nee: Cormier) Saucier

15. Nancy “Spiritbird” (nee: Saucier) Rivera

1. Sachem (Mi’kmaq)

2. Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk – Henri Membertou

3. Ameridienne “Catherine Marie” (nee. Membertou) Lejeune dit Briard

4. Catherine (nee: Lejeune dit Briard) Savoie

5. Germain Savoy dit Savoie

6. Francois Xavier Savoy dit Savoie

7. Francois Xavier Savoie

8. Simon Savoie

9. Simon Savoie

10. Jean Baptiste Savoie

11. Hilaire Savoie

12. Eveline (nee: Savoie) Poitras

13. Euclide Poitras

14. Francis Euclide Poitras

15. Francine “Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Sachem (Mi’kmaq)

2. Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk – Henri Membertou

3. Marie (nee: Radegonde Kagijonais) Lambert

4. Radegonde Lambert

5. Madeleine (nee: Blanchard) Richard dit Sansoucy

6. Marie Josephte (nee: Richard) Savoy edit Savoie

7. Francois Xavier Savoie

8. Simon Savoie

9. Simon Savoie

10. Jean Baptiste Savoie

11. Hilaire Savoie

12. Eveline (nee: Savoie) Poitras

13. Euclide Poitras

14. Francis Euclide Poitras

15. Francine“Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Sachem (Mi’kmaq)

2. Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk – Henri Membertou

3. Marie (nee: Radegonde Kagijonais) Lambert

4. Radegonde Lambert

5. Marie Anne (nee: Blanchard) Gaudet dit L’Aine

6. Augustin Gaudet

7. Michel Gaudet

8. Joseph Gaudette I

9. Joseph Gaudet dit Gaudette II

10. Joseph Gaudet dit Gaudette III

11. Flavien Gaudet

12. Henriette (nee: Gaudet) Bedard

13. Marie Mathilde (nee: Bedard) Poitras

14. Francis Euclide Poitras

15. Francine “Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Sachem (Mi’kmaq)

2. Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk – Henri Membertou

3. Amerindienne “Marie Catherine”

4. Edmée "Aimee" (nee: Lejeune) Gaudreau

5. Marie (nee: Gauterot) Girouard

6. Germain Girouard

7. Marie Josephte (nee: Girouard) Gaudet

8. Joseph Gaudette

9. Joseph Gaudet dit Gaudette

10. Flavien Gaudet

11. Henriette (nee: Gaudet) Bedard

12. Marie Mathilda (nee: Bedard) Poitras

13. Francis Euclide Poitras

14. Francine “Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Sachem (Mi’kmaq)

2. Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk – Henri Membertou

3. Amerindienne “Marie Catherine”

4. Catherine (nee: Lejeune dit Briard) Savoie

5. Catherine (nee: Savoie) Levron dit Nantais

5. Elisabeth (nee: Levron) Picot

6. Michel Picot Jr.

7. Marguerite (nee: Picot) Guildry dit Labine

8. Jean Guildry dit Labine

9. Felicitie (nee: Guildry dit Labine) Morin

10. Zoe (nee: Morin) Gaudet dit Gaudette

11. Flavien Gaudet

12. Henriette (nee: Gaudet) Bedard

13. Marie Mathilda (nee: Bedard) Poitras

14. Francis Euclide Poitras

15. Francine “Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Sachem (Mi’kmaq)

2. Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk – Henri Membertou

3. Marie (nee: Radegonde Kagijonais) Lambert

4. Radegonde Lambert

5. Marie Anne (nee: Blanchard) Gaudet dit L’Aine

6. Jeanne (nee: Gaudet) Arsenault

7. Paul Arsenault

8. Marie Angelique (nee: Arsenault) Doucet dit Laverdier

9. Marie Angelique (nee: Doucet) Guildry dit Labine

10. Felicite (nee: Guildry dit Labine) Morin

11. Zoe (nee: Morin) Gaudet dit Gaudette

12. Flavien Gaudet

13. Henriette (nee: Gaudet) Bedard

14. Marie Mathilda (nee: Bedard) Poitras

15. Francis Euclide Poitras

16. Francine “Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

1. Sachem (Mi’kmaq)

2. Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk – Henri Membertou

3. Amerindienne “Marie Catherine”

4. Edmée "Aimee" (nee: Lejeune) Gaudreau

5. Claude Gautrot dit Gautreaux

6. Jeanne (nee: Gauterot) Hebert

7. Marie (nee: Hebert) Arsenault

8. Marie Angelique (nee: Arsenault) Doucet dit Laverdier

9. Marie Angelique (nee: Doucet) Guildry dit Labine

10. Felicite (nee: Guildry dit Labine) Morin

11. Zoe (nee: Morin) Gaudet dit Gaudette

12. Flavien Gaudet

13. Henriette (nee: Gaudet) Bedard

14. Marie Mathilda (nee: Bedard) Poitras

15. Francis Euclide Poitras

16. Francine “Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

I did some SERIOUS investigation on her genealogical claims, and I found it EXTREMELY SUSPICIOUS 

MÉTIS /NATIVE AMERICAN ANCESTRY SOURCES :

		MÉTIS /NATIVE AMERICAN ANCESTRY SOURCES : (Now outdated) Catherine Lejeune reasoning:     Where was I able to obtain the names of Catherine LeJeune's parents, wife of François Savoie?
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(A document that I have erroneously described as…) “The 1661 Quebec Register “ refers to two sisters Edmee and Catherine LeJeune “en Acadie”  as  “vici en France ou de mère indienne” – this (if truly a 1661 register) would have illustrated that even in 1661 the origin of the two girls was not certain, but that indian blood was suspected, else it would not have even been mentioned in the register.  The  Acadian   Research Center  in St. John, New Brunswick has in the past provided documentation to various Lejeune descendants expressing the belief that Edmee and Catherine were Métis. The misidentification of this documents stems for the following scanned image, obtained from the Acadian research center in St. John, New Brunswick. Note the label “1661 Quebec Register” in the right margin.

 See: "so-called" 1661_Quebec_register

Stephen White identified this document as a working document of researcher Archange Godbout, rather than a 1661 register of any sort. Because, as White points out, the handwriting does certainly appear to be much more recent in style than would have been the case for a 1661 sample, and because White has indicated to me that his copy obtained from the archives at the University of Moncton does not have the “1661 Quebec register” label,”   I am confident that White is correct. The 1661 label must, therefore, have been erroneously added, at some later point, by an unknown individual (or visitor?), at the  Acadian   Research   Center in  St. John .  My part in propagating this error was in posting the  Acadian   Research   Center  copy that has the 1661 label, and in referring to it by that name, as well as not having noted that the handwriting style is too recent in appearance to be of 1661 vintage.

As part of the previous arguments proposing that the Lejeune sisters might be Amerindian, I also noted that Edmée’s son Charles Gautreau married Francoise Rimbault, the Métis daughter of (mtDNA-proven haplotype A) Amerindian Anne-Marie. 

However….recent mtDNA test results for several of Catherine and Edmée’s descendants have consistently indicated a haplotype of U6a.

www.acadian-home.org list this type as “U6a-European,” but more formal genetics sources and studies consistently refer to U6a as North African in origin, primarily concentrated in, but certainly not limited to  Morocco ,  Turkey ,  Tunisia ,  Algeria , and also beyond North African in  Croatia ,  Czechoslovakia  and the  Ukraine . U6a is also found in statistically significant distribution on the  Iberian Peninsula  (believed introduced there with the spread of Islam), and is not identified anywhere that I have seen as a potential Native American haplotype.  The “North African” origin attached to U6a certainly is not inconsistent with a French ancestor, Although there are other haplogroups more common in France, the spread and intermingling of civilizations throughout the millennia often introduced North African DNA into Europe, particularly into Spain and Portugal, but it would be absurd to believe that France would be isolated from such inter-mingling, and several individuals tested as U6a list France as the ancestors earliest know point of origin. The same remarks above related to the reliability of commercial testing DNA results would also also apply here, but if such results can be trusted (and there seems to be less ambiguity here about U6a vs. Radegonde Lambert’s X/X2/X2b), then Catherine and her sister Edmée could no longer reasonably be believed to be Métis (at least not through her mother), despite all circumstantial evidence to the contrary. Having said that, I would again suggest that you converse, if possible, with a professor or similarly-qualified expert in a university genetics research project, and I believe you will realize that the definitiveness of any such results are somewhat questionable. Even the links on such testing company sites about understanding your results will help you understand that these tests predict the “likelihood” of such haplotypes (with what even they describe as a high “probability” and not a certainty), but are insufficiently extensive to irrefutably prove what we may have believed they might, or to absolutely prove or discount a particular ethic origin.  While the mtDNA U6a results also exclude Catherine’s mother’s mother, that still leaves 7 great grandparents whose DNA was not tested, including three on Catherine’s maternal tree. Hypothetically, any or all three of those could have been full-blooded Amerindian and still be consistent with the mtDNA test.  This is, however, very unlikely given the believed\approximate date of birth for Catherine. It would have been particularly noteworthy by both religious and civil authorities had Catherine been born in  Canada  from U6a European mother and mixed-blood male.

http://www.acadian-home.org/SAW-CloserLookRecords.html

My Response:

Therefore Marie and Catherine are NOT very likely descendants of Henri Membertou as Francine Poitras Jones has implied and perpetuated.

Of course, the VCNAA nor the "scholars" can 'see' this, because they have no professional genealogist who is not had or does have a working relationship or is unbiased in their research methodology etc. 

While Paul Joseph Bunnell has stated that he has sent 400 pages of genealogy in his groups application petition for Federal Recognition, the "Scholars" John Scott Moody, nor Eloise Biel are genealogists and the former has even stated as such, on the record. So what difference does it make if "Koasek" wannabiak "Chief" Paul Bunnell sent in 5,000 pages or any amount of genealogical data to the VCNAA or the Scholars, because the VCNAA nor the "Scholars" have the ability to discern and or detect, let alone review, such genealogical data, for any distortion(s), inaccuracies and or outright appropriation of someone's else's ancestry, that might not belong to that petitioning "Koasek" member's descendant.

What is apparently, is that a 50+ woman by the name of Francine Poitras - Jones of VA has claimed that her mulitple intwined interconnected genealogical ancestry, connects to and goes back to Kjisaqmaw Maupeltuk – Henri Membertou, via his alleged various daughters, when in reality, those very daughters, are highly suspect. It is not even clear and convincing that they were even native! 

Even if they were native Mi'kmaq descendants, how is that 12 generations + the descendants are now "Koasek" "Abenakis" let alone Native Americans? Sure, they are "descendants" of native ancestry, BUT what legitimate cohesive coherent historical community of Abenakis or Vermont Native People's do they (and Francine Poitras - Jones, actually prove to come from?)

She was born in Massachusetts, lives in Virginia, and is was a member of a non-VT State Recognized "tribe" and now jumps to the one that it is "recognized" by the State of Vermont, having used a very a remote genealogical connection to the above mentioned native ancestry, all of whom are NOT derived from Vermont Abenakis, historically or otherwise.

They are attempting to steal the Abenaki Identity, by twisting the Mi'kmaq history and the ancestries up there in "Acadia", to 'fit' their agenda down here in Vermont ... 

Why is Vermont even listening to these groups now, when these groups are filled with these people, like Francine, pontificating and Playing Indian, in front of everyone, especially school children? It really is pathetic and absurd, to conclude these people are legitimate, even if they do have membership in a State-Recognized "tribe" of alleged "Native Americans" who self-identify today as "Abenakis".....

When in reality and fact, they are not Abenakis at all.

http://www.acadian-home.org/origins-mtdna.html#Radegonde%20Lambert

Even Marie (nee: Radegonde Kagijonais) Lambert is in dispute, whether or not the woman was derived of Mi'kmaq ancestry; but even if she was, what difference would it really be? Francine Poitras-Jones ana Dancing Bluewolf Spirit is so far removed from these ancestor, ancestrally and generational-speaking, that to even imply that she, the 12th+ descendant of HURON ANCESTRY, is an Abenaki from and of Vermont historically or contemporaneously, if about as ridiculous as saying today that the Earth is flat!

DNA Study is great, its grand, but it is not going to PROVE that someone is an Abenaki, let alone provide clear and convincing evidence or proof, when the 'target' ancestor and descendant tester is 8 to 12 steps out.

Read this book:

Of course, in Vermont, the "Abenaki" Circus is in town, where TRUTH and ACCURACY and TRANSAPARENCY are but an illusion, and the "Abenaki" Clowns are attempting to deceive, distort, and lie their way into becoming and turning themselves into thee "Vermont Abenakis."

And in March of 2013, Nancy (Saucier) Rivera stated that to join Bernie Mortz wannabiak "Koasek" "Abenaki" State Recognized group, "would be like selling her ancestors", she did just that, by joining his group,

... after being in another group led by Paul Bunnell and Nathan Pero.

I guess becoming an official State Recognized "Tribal" member of an "Abenaki" group of wannabiak, is very much like going to the mall and trying on varied lipsticks, etc. (or a piece of clothing) ... sort of like an "Abenaki" version of the 3-Bears and Nancy (Saucier) Rivera/Francine (Poitras) Jones ... this "tribe" is too small, this "tribe" is too political, and this "tribe" is too small, and in the end, in just the right "tribe" of wannabiak, they fall fast asleep in the bosom of State Recognition, and are officially "Abenaki" "Koasek's" ...

My question is ... when will the Bear's wake up and eat these wannabiak?! These wannabiak are trespassers, imposers, pretenders, and identity thieves. They know this, the State of Vermont Attorney General knows this, the sleazy politicians know this ...

How many previous Indian-ist groups/incorporated organizations has they been a member of is anybody's guess. I can honestly and documentarily state for the record, that Jeanne Lincoln - Kent, Charles Lawrence Delaney Jr., Michael Delaney and Ina (his wife), Paul Rene Tamburro and MANY MANY other people who claim to "Abenakis" have all hopped, skipped, and jumped around from one incorporated group organization to another over the years since 1980.

I guess its a New England Native dynamic, because I don't see Lakota's, Mi'kmaq's, Penobscots, Passamaquoddies, Maliseet's, or even the Wampanoag's or Mohegan's "jumping around from one group to another group, trading in their membership in one group, for another...." 

Francine (Poitras) Jones, Nancy (Saucier) Rivera, Paul J. Bunnell, etc, etc = Abenakis? 

I think not.

Their genealogical records, and their concocted "oral histories" show that these contemporary descendants, distort their own histories.

Hope those that read this blog, enjoy my post(s), SHARE IT.

A Response from "Chief" Paul Joseph Bunnell and a bit more information regarding Jeanne Lincoln Kent etc.

October 06, 2014 - 10:37 PM:
Paul Joseph Bunnell's Response:

Douglas,
"You can find many native mixes in nearly every native nation just like spouses, adopted members, and as I said, today most tribes, and especially NE tribes are mixed/Metis. This doesn't mean that they can't reside in the organized areas. In this case, the Abenaki, Huron, MicMac and other Algonquin tribes have moved in and out of, and or settled in all the areas they exist in today. This is fact in today's melting pot. But in no way will I denounce any ethnic part of my heritage I wish to enjoy and learn from. I have direct relatives who settled in Rutland, Vermont in 1848, and I also have many related native bloodlines in the Vermont and New Hampshire areas, not to forget my Canadian and other areas of native lines. If native bloodlines are established in Koasek territory for nearly 200 years, then they should have the right to declare it in the native community." 
"One of my other lines are New Brunswick Loyalists which I am also proud of. That ancestry area is very close and dear to me, because it also is home of my Acadian and more Native lines. My town of birth is Amesbury Mass. Does this mean I cannot belong to my ancestral relatives there? People have the right to celebrate any or all of their ancestral heritages. No one can take those choices away from them. The Algonquin peoples are all related. My Metis statement is fact. Show me a pure blood Abenaki? The geographical areas I mentioned in our research discussion doesn't change the fact that all these traditional lands were settled or hunted in by most of our ethnic native peoples in the past 5000-10,000 years. Before that, this area was two miles under ice. So, I guess this also really means that we are all Cherokee, Muscogee,Seminole, Chickasaw, and Choctaw nations from the Southern states."

This identity game is fine, if you are identifying non-natives, but the persecution tactics you are conducting is no worse then the Perkins extermination programs of the 1920-30's [Eugenics Survey of Vermont]. 

You remind me of the Twilight Zone episode where the evil man investigates everyone by his standards, and tried to destroy them, but at the end, he was shrunken down to a little weasel of a tiny man 3 feet high.

I guess I let you use me long enough. I feel sorry for you little man. Now it's my turn, is it not?"

Chief Paul J. Bunnell, UE, Author, Professional Genealogist
Gwilawato (He looks For Something)
Chief, Koasek Abenaki Nation & Tribal Genealogist
http://bunnellgenealogybooks.citymaker.com
Koasek Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation
For Koasek Business contact: Koasek@yahoo.com

Website: http://www.KoasekAbenakiNation.org
32 Hoit Mill Rd. #202, Weare NH 03281
Loyalty Is Everything

MY RESPONSE:

MORE EXCUSES for Paul Bunnell's appropriation of ... if his Metis statement is in fact .... FACT ... then he ought to have had no issue(s) or problem(s) whatsoever, of my posting his stated FACT that his group, as well as the other four groups are merely "METIS" groups ... and NOT ABENAKI TRIBES.

Mr. Paul Joseph Bunnell has searched his 'ancestral garbage can' (as any good genealogical-minded person tends to get addicted doing) and he's looked for any scrap of INDIAN / Native American Ancestry that he can find (it's like winning the Lottery these days....), and joined up with Nancy Lee (nee: Millette) and Nate Pero etc. subsequently he developed a persona of being an "Abenaki" or a "Koasek" etc.

Or is he Metis?

Just look at all those "title's" he lists.... if that isn't an EGO, I don't honestly know why it has been so important to claim he's a Chief, and a so-called "Professional Genealogist" etc.

Then again, there is A LOT of people that have quite DISTANT Native Ancestors, in the 1600's or 1700's ... and BELONG to NO COMMUNITY of NATIVE PEOPLES, KNOW NO NATIVE LANGUAGE, and have joined post-1974 CREATED INCORPORATION(S) that claim to REPRESENT _________ "Tribe" and so on ....

I think you got the idea, if you have read this blog's content.

"My 7th Great Grandmother was a Siberian Indian Shaman" and NOW I am an "Abenaki" from and of Vermont, and am ENTITLED to grants, status, identity and anything else I can get my grubby little thieving hands on ... 'cause I SAY I am an "Abenaki" .... 

Paul Joseph Bunnell DOES NOT LIKE TRANSPARENCY, and obviously he doesn't like my previous post of this evening. Ohhhhh well ...

There wasn't any untruth to what I posted. He said it. I got the emails right here.
And perhaps Nancy Lee Millette was a descendant of a Huron woman Catherine Pillard, of the 1600's, whose descendants that were claiming and self-identifying as FRENCH or ENGLISH or WHITE, migrated to Vermont? It's a VALID INQUIRY to my thinking, considering Christopher Shawney was Nancy's ancestor!

Shawney = Shonyo/ Shinnio = Chagnon? Paul Bunnell's SAYS he didn't find ANY Native Ancestor connection(s) in Nancy Millette's ancestry. He had a vested interest not to find any connection(s) of native ancestry, in her genealogical background, to my thinking. Perhaps I am wrong?

Comparing me NOW, to a Eugenic's Advocate? Give me a break! I simply stated that having a 7th Great Ancestor whose HURON does not make the 7th Great Grandson an Indian nor an Abenaki ... this isn't ethnocide or genocide or anything of the like. It's simple common sense.

Nathan Elwin Pero has made certain claims and assertion(s) about his ancestor(s) being Chief's of a Koasek Abenaki Tribe, from 180 year ago to the present....

Ok, so where is the PROOF, the clear and convincing EVIDENCE of his claims?

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Q1YTLuaLqPWFQ4S2IyTVc3Y1U/view?usp=sharing

And HERE:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Q1YTLuaLqPNnFnX3pQb3pXVFU/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Q1YTLuaLqPOTBzNkZ0RE5zWlE/view?usp=sharing

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Q1YTLuaLqPTTlRVFM1ejlOZ28/view?usp=sharing

Vermont Politicians, the VCNAA, and these FAKE WANNABIAK "ABENAKI" Incorporate Created Groups will HIDE their LIES and DISTORTIONS and Tactics of APPROPRIATION from the naive Vermonter and the GENERAL PUBLIC and the legitimately historical and cohesive Native Communities.

I chose not to hide their claims or their words....

Now Mr. Bunnell wants to imply that I am some sort of worse-than-the-Eugenics Survey - of Vermont and New Hampshire of the 1930's?

I guess TRANSPARENCY is a bit harsh for this "Chief" of the so-called "Koasek" "tribe" eh?

This isn't about self-identification or celebrating one's distant/remote ancestors, whoever they might be.

This State Recognition IS very much about stealing a culture identity, that does not belong to Mr. Paul Bunnell etc. nor any of these four other groups claiming now to be "tribes" .... of course, they will ALL claim to be thee Vermont "Abenakis" because $$$$ is involved, etc.

I do not follow or adhere to the 1-Drop-NDN-Rule.

Show us the actual factual ABENAKI ANCESTRY for 51% percent of ANY of the Vermont's four groups OR this 5th group that now seeks to gain Vermont State Recognition, transparently and openly.

If Paul Joseph Bunnell can't, which I know he can't (his group is comprised of Wannabiak, just like the other four groups in VT) because, as he SAID and states as FACT, they are METIS.

They have redefined the meaning of being an Abenaki -and- redefined the meaning of Metis as well, to suit their own created persona's, agenda's, and political dynamics.

So, I am a little man, according to Paul Joseph Bunnell, Chief of a Wannabiak "Tribe" of FAKE Koasek Abenakis, that uses a revisionist history filled with distortions, half truths and lies against the Historical and Contemporary Abenaki Peoples.

I guess Paul Joseph Bunnell was hoping I wouldn't ascertain his ancestors as well?

Dated 31 July 2005 - Book Review - French & Native North American Marriages, 1600-1800      

Here is a great review of my book by Norm Leveilee, renown Native American Researcher. His website is: http://www.leveillee.net/roots/index.html He writes the following:

Késsinnimek - Roots - Racines
Mon Petit Coin   by   Norm Léveillée
A Book Review
The revised editon of Paul Bunnell's book French And Native North American Marriages 1600-1800 is a marvelous book dedicated to all our Native American and European ancestors who married to create a new nation of Métis. Paul has spent considerable time in this second edition, bringing up-to-date data based on more accurate resources.

In the introduction, Paul writes:
This work is dedicated to my Huron ancestors to whom I am related, in some cases several times.
And for the next two pages, he lists several of his Native American and European ancestors:

"Nicola Arendanki/Anenontha (Huron) who married Jeanne Otrihouandat/Otrihandit/Otrihoandit (Huron); Germain Doucet (possibly Micmac) married Marie Jeanne Bourgeois...;Jean Claude Landry (Micmac) married Marie Sale/Salle;...;Martin Aucoin married a Métis Woman (needs more research...); Pierre Lejeune married a MicMac/Mi'qnak Woman; Radegode (MicMac oral history says she was of First Nation People married Jehan/Jean Lambert are among those listed as his ancestors."

Again, these Ancestors are in the 1600's ... how does these ancestors, make Paul Joseph Bunnell born in Amesbury, MA and now living in New Hampshire, an Abenaki, let alone a Koasek or a Metis person?

Does he or his ancestral descendant from these stated ancestors ever LIVED IN a Native Community that was historically to contemporaneously defined, observable, by ANYONE?

I have an genealogical and genetically verifiable ancestor paternally,  Margreta Knadchen / Knoedgen who married Johann Wilhelm Rozenbach / Rosenbaugh in the early 1800's from Nassau, Deggendorf, Bayern, Deutschland, Germany.

I think I will claim to be GERMAN, and claim that ethnicity (because I love Germany and German Songs etc)...

But, you know, IF I went to Germany and made such outlandish claims about being a German, not speaking the language fluently, not coming FROM a German Community etc, the German people would laugh (even if politely behind-my-back, and rolling their eyes).

I also have direct relatives still living in both Vermont and New Hampshire; that doesn't make them or me "Abenakis" or a "tribe" ... Jeanne Antoinette (nee: Lalime) Lincoln - Kent TRIED to pull that number too Mr. Bunnell, claiming HER daughter Bonnie moved to Vermont, therefore Jeanne Kent herself was an "Abenaki" (I'll post more on her, like I said afore, when I get good and ready to do so).

Did you know she had a METIS Membership Card from Claude Aubin's group out of Aylmer, in the Province of Quebec, Canada No. #M 00360 -and- she was a member of the Paul Wilson Pouliot's wannabiak group too? How MANY "tribes" as she dipped her old toes into over the years? 4-5-6-7 or 8? And now she is a "Nulhegan Abenaki" whose got "Vermont State Recognition". 

She said it (I didn't) quote, "You should see what we have to put up with. Visit the website, and look at the comments of two of the people continuing to verbally attack Abenaki people with inaccurate information, even though we are recognized. Very Sad." 
Dated December 13, 2012 at 2:15 a.m.

I don't need to verbally attack anyone. I simply post the documents and add commentary. People choose to read my posts and commentary. They are welcome to leave the blog site and stop reading the blog content, at ANY TIME they so choose. There is No Hook set in anyone's ass, to assume this blog is a verbal attack on the Abenakis or any other legitimate historical or contemporary Wabanaki Nation or Community that has been COHESIVE, and CONTINUOUS genealogically-historically-and socially. I do not consider ANY group in "New England or Quebec, post-1974 to within this parameter of definition.

There are lots of DESCENDANTS out there; that does not make these DESCENDANTS Abenakis, Penobscots, Mohawks, Cowasucks, Pennacooks, Mi'Kmaq's, Maliseets, Cherokee's, Blackfeet, Lakota's or the like. Especially not because of some 9th Great Grand Ancestor, whose descendant(s) join Indian-ist Incorporation(s) throughout, simply because they want to PLAY INDIANS/ PLAY ABENAKIS etc.

Admittedly, and honestly, this is a blog about Wabanabiak, FAKE "Abenakis" throughout the past and present.... and FAKE Wannabiak "Tribes" within New England.

Of course, I get feedback from all corners of New England, about these wannabiak. Inaccurate information? Please.... does this look like inaccurate information?

I've got a lot more documents regarding Jeanne Lincoln Kent, etc which I will be posting in this blog. Jeanne Lincoln Kent was most definitely looking to funnel her genealogical records THROUGH Bruce Dubois, to Odanak, in her attempt(s) at the time, to gain official Abenaki Tribal Membership Status, in and at Odanak. The documents and letter(s), correspondence between Jeanne Lincoln Kent and Bruce Dubois prove this out.

And "Bruce" is none other than Bruce Louis Dubois, of Arizona that is mentioned in the above attached document. 

He claimed falsely to be descended from the Abenakis at Odanak, like the Bruchac's have attempted to imply as well retrospectively (more on them later).

Bruce Dubois had been claiming for years, to both the late Odanak Chief, Gilles O'Bomsawin, and to Richard Bernier, that he factually was descended from Simon Obomsawin and Catherine Degonzague's ALLEGED daughter Helene Catherine Obomsawin born at Odanak on June 08, 1847 and died August 31, 1921 in Chicopee, MA ....

But, I met with Bruce Dubois when he came to Vermont a year ago or so, and began looking into his genealogical background as he was enroute to Vermont. He had the same like-minded response to me, as Paul J. Bunnell does now towards me, when I showed him the documented genealogical records, showing, the correct and accurate ancestry for Bruce Louis Dubois. Not what HE SAID or IMPLIED, but what his ancestors SAID and DOCUMENTED of themselves.

There was NO DAUGHTER that this Obomsawin couple had, by the name of Helen Catherine Obomsawin, and if they had such a daughter (hypothetically speaking) she did not marry Francois Forcier / Fusha / Fisher on June 16, 1864, as Bruce L. Dubois had alleged.

1. Chief Atsena Du Plat 8endat Attign8stan and Annengthon HURON

2. “Catherine” 8enta Plat (Pillard) HURON

3. Marie Catherine (nee: Charon) Chagnon dit Larose

4. Marie Angelique (nee: Chagnon) Benoit dit Livernois

5. Marie Angelique (nee: Benoit dit Livernois) Tétreault dit Ducharme

6. François Tétreault dit Ducharme

7. François Marie Tétreault

8. Ursule (nee: Tétreault) Fontaine

9. Ursule (nee: Fontaine) John Ayöt

10. Rose Mary (nee: Ayöt) Forcier

11. Hélène Rose (nee: Forcier) Dubois

12. Bruce Louis Dubois

Bruce's mother had a Mazipskwik Membership Card, of which this Spin-Off Group was led by Connie Brow and David Gilman, retrospectively, upset with Homer Walter St. Francis, Sr. they created a new "tribe" of which Michael Delaney and his wife Ina became members of as well. Charles Lawrence Delaney was in numerous "tribes" as well, just like Jeanne Lincoln Kent -and- now he too is a Nulhegan Tribal Member? 

How was Bruce Louis Dubois, an Abenaki, when the only Native Ancestral connection detected thus far, is to a HURON woman in the 1600's?

Oh I get it. The Huron People were part of the Wabanaki, and Abenaki is a corruption of Waubanaki, so therefore a Huron = a Wananbaki = equates to being an Abenaki, right Rhonda? Or is it simply because a father SAYS so, or because a husband claims to be a "Chief" too?

I guess I am confused?

Francis "Frank" Forcier / Fisher born Feb. 15, 1842 in Vergennes, VT married on Jan. 16, 1864 in Ferrisburgh, VT to Mary Ellen Jane June Helen Laurent dit Larro.

Obviously she weren't an Obomsawin! 

And this is why I detest wannabiak like what's being created in Vermont and New Hampshire etc, by those seeking State "Recognition" based on lies, distortions, and outright absurdities. Appropriating genealogical connection(s) and ancestors that are clearly not-their-ancestor(s). Even some of my own Woodward kith and kin have attempted to do these tactics, naively enough, in the past, using a very early 1900's Alfred S. Campbell colorized photographic image of a Kahnawake Mohawk Indian Actor, by the name of Sose Akwiranoron a.k.a. Joseph Beauvais, who was a MOHAWK (NOT an Abenaki at all). They claimed it was their ancestor! Without doing ANY research, without doing any validation of who it was in the image, for years. That is, until I came along, and became aware of the photographic image, and the myth my relatives created around it, and about it, etc. The image isn't of Parker Preston Woodward, nor his son Darius Adrias Woodward, nor of Herbert Chester Woodward ...

Photograph in the Woodward-Phillips Family

of

Sose Akwiranò:ron

aka 

Joseph Beauvais

1872-1913

And some that I have found over the years (below) ...

I could have perpetuated the Woodward-Relative Myth regarding this image.

I chose not to claim someone else's ancestry for my own.

To claim one is a Chief of an Abenaki Koasek Tribe and yet the ONLY discernible Native ancestral connection, is to a HURON woman in the 1600's?

I am not perpetuating 'ethnocide' or 'genocide' or 'eugenics' against anyone by stating as I have on this blog, the documents, and my commentary.

My Woodward kith and kin were in the Eugenics Survey of Vermont, I doubt Paul Joseph Bunnell even laid eyes on the Eugenics Records, let alone, actually understands WHO were targeted, and or WHY those persons were targeted.

Of course, he probably buys into the MYTH that the Eugenics Survey was targeting the Abenakis of Vermont, because they were Abenakis/ Indians.

So, take a look at Paul Joseph Bunnell's Genealogical Record.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B6Q1YTLuaLqPTTcyQzMwUDdiTjQ/view?usp=sharing

I see Metis (allegedly). I see Mi'Kmaq (allegedly). I don't see him jumping up and down trying to claim he's Italian or being an Italian Chief of an Italian Social Club.

And I do not see ANY Vermont Abenaki Ancestry at all in his genealogical mapping.

Yet, he and they claim to be "Koasek" "Abenakis" From and OF Vermont.

And let's not forget this little communication:

From: BunnellLoyalist@aol.com  

Subject: Resignation Again 

To: bdmortz@yahoo.com, brialcay@yahoo.com nathanepero22@hughes.net houseofmica@yahoo.com wobanaki@Kingcon.com grand_conseil@abenakis.ca trainconn@adelphia.net tcmmjpg@yahoo.com DanHughesjr@aol.com eislinn_99@yahoo.com redsoxmatt545@juno.com normsroyalstar@yahoo.com DrRaymondL@aol.com gonefishin1958@localnet.com singing2feathers@yahoo.com emsugarhouse@aol.com descoteaux_richard@yahoo.com Cc: magoua.clan@gmail.com jeffrey.hubbard@pw.utc.com roony_311@hotmail.com TomM@egcrc.net, osgoodsr@yahoo.com

Date: Sunday, May 15, 2011, 3:59 PM 

Dear Koasek Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation. 

I can no longer hold the tribe together. I have done nearly everything for everybody through all the hostility and after our leadership walked away leaving everything vacant, I still tried to hold everything together as Nathan was placed under the impression of being assigned chief, which I went along with until he needed so much help that I was asked to help him by being chief for a short while until he was more versed in tribal business. The weaknesses that were obvious in the past in this area are still obvious now; in communication. It takes a lot of communication and hard work and drive to run a tribe. I have been that engine the last several years, always doing my duty to the fullest. I have been used in the past to keep people from getting into office, used to prove chiefs false genealogies, used to hold the entire tribe together, used to bridge relationships in other tribes who use to be hostile or distant, I have been cut out of talks with tribal merger plans, asked to formed a new tribe by council member, and I heard everybody’s complaints and fights always being the in between person long enough. Now I am being used here to disintegrate our tribe while it was already being dissolved by our leadership who left it. Everyone has their own agenda and poor pity party. No one ever took the time out to recognize I was in there putting thousands of hours of hard work into this tribe with no return from anyone. This is my last communication and I suggest all these records be destroyed because I am tired of getting threatening request for all these people striking back at me by way of these damn records. I am not taking anymore offers of saving this drowning nation. In fact it is dead. This is my final resignation and from everything. I will not be taking Calls, Emails from anyone. I will only answer by mail from Nathan how he wants these records, and money and the money better be returned to the proper people involved in Newsletter, Donations, etc. I will await your request by mail to pick up these items and money and reports. I will not be here to make anyone feel awkward. You make arrangements and a family member will assist you. I Quit. My Time Has Ended. 

Paul Bunnell 

Paul J. Bunnell, UE, Author, Professional Genealogist Gwilawato (He looks For Something) Ret. Sub-Chief of the Koasek Abenaki Nation & Genealogist http://bunnellgenealogybooks.citymaker.com 

My Logo Store Items - http://www.cafepress.com/bunnellgenealogybooksgifts Koasek Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation. Website: http://www.CowasuckAbenaki.comhttp://violettefamily.

And now Paul Joseph Bunnell and his group want Vermont State Recognition, because they claim to be ... "Koasek Abenakis"

I think not.

The 5th Group is no better than the previous 1, 2, 3, or 4th Groups ... claiming to be ... Vermont's Re-Invented "Abenakis"

"Little Man" I might be, but I also have the researched documents to prove what I claim and comment on.

Let's see Mr. Paul Joseph Bunnell and or Nathan Elwin Pero have that same transparency and honesty about who they really are, and who their ancestors really were?

I won't hold my breath ....

More thoughts on the "Koasek Traditional Band Of The Sovereign Abenaki Nation" group led by Nathan Elwin Pero and Paul Joseph Bunnell Etc....

Too many people believe common myths when it comes to Abenaki genealogy. They often use these myths to explain why they believe they are Abenaki but cannot prove it. We heard these myths used repeatedly when VT Senator’s Vincent Illuzzii & Hinda Miller and their supporters were trying to give the concocted VT Indigenous Alliance's 4 groups, with their Johnson State College Professor Frederick Matthew Wiseman, literally a pass on their lies about having Abenaki Historical Community and Genealogical Connection to the Abenakis. We still hear these excuses today.

Here are some of the most common myths being perpetuated by these VT/NH "Abenaki" and their supporters (and others).

1 – There are no records.

There are plenty of records to prove one has Abenaki ancestry, if they truly do. Nancy Lecompte, Christopher Roy, Denis Watso, Richard Skip Bernier, and even I have found MANY RECORDS on varied families having historical and contemporaneous CONNECTIONS to the Abenaki.

2 – It is hard to prove Abenaki ancestry.

If one is Abenaki, then they will find many or at least some records to show it, as explained in my posts herein this blog.
I have even DISPROVEN many of my own families MYTHS concerning particular photographs and "oral history," with FACTUAL historical documentation.

3 – If your family isn’t on the Odanak or Wolinak Abenaki Communities, then you can’t prove you have Abenaki ancestry.

One does not have to have an ancestor listed as being from Odanak or Wolinak to show they are an Abenaki descendant. Time and time again, we see Abenakis living elsewhere, such as Sartigan, Quebec -Sudbury Ontario, in Canada Etc; in Troy, New York, and even in varied places within Vermont, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, Massachusetts, and Connecticut..... Even New Jersey, Florida and California! Abenakis live everywhere. But their ancestral CONNECTIONS ought to connect at some point to having lived within a historically identified cohesive continuous Abenaki COMMUNITY. And within the previous 100 years those ancestors ought to have been identifying as Abenakis or Indians, associating with other Abenakis/Indians.

4 – Indians could only be listed as white or black on the census.
Since 1860, people could be and were listed as Indians on the US Census, as explained on the blog Polly's Granddaughter - Indians on the US Census.

5 – Everyone from Vermont/New Hampshire probably has Indian/Abenaki/Pennacook ancestry.

Yes, we hear this a lot from “scholar” John Scott Moody, David Stewart Smith, and Professor Wiseman, that Abenakis are “hiding in plain sight” ready to pop out of the woodwork. Just raise your hands and claim to be Abenakis; it cool to be Indian now. Even if the evidence that one is Abenaki, doesn’t honestly exist and never did.

The decades before VT/NY and or NH statehood, the non-Indian population exploded in Vermont/New Hampshire/Lower Canada territories. If a family was in these areas before statehood, such as Clarenceville, Quebec, Canada, they were more than likely white, because very likely, that's what they were. NOT Indian or Abenakis.

As you can see, they are simply myths, just like Nancy Millette - Doucet's "Koasek Abenaki ancestry". And as you all can see, though the "truthers" continue to try to validate their claims; though their campaigns had plenty of money to hire a professional genealogist on the VCNAA; and though many people (both hobbyist and professional genealogists) were doing their genealogies, not one...NOT ONE SINGLE person has proved me or the little research team (Paul Bunnell, Suzette LeClair nor myself) wrong about many of these newly VT Legislatively Stamped “Abenakis”.

To name just a few here ... Louise Lampman - Larivee, Judy Fortin - Dow, April St. Francis - Rushlow - Merrill, Paul Wilson Pouliot, Nancy Millette-Doucet, Rhonda Lou Besaw-True nor her husband Charles True Jr., Doris Gertrude Chenney-DeCarr-Minkler, Donna Carvalho-Charlebois-Moody and Margaret Bruchac - Kennick (and so many others not listed here) ARE NOT ABENAKIS, so much as they have, none of them, can SHOW or PROVIDE their genealogical connections to the Abenakis historically, socially or genealogically. They can believe what they want to, and the naïve politicians and agencies and grant writers can label these people “Abenaki” but honestly, what does their genealogical records and histories really prove?

Can we expect any differently from the "Koasek Abenaki Nation" or the "Koasek Traditional Band Of The Sovereign Abenaki Nation" group led by Nathan Elwin Pero and Paul Joseph Bunnell?

400 Pages of this 5th Group's membership's genealogies were submitted by Paul Joseph Bunnell in their Application for VT State Recognition.

Does the PUBLIC get to see the genealogical connection(s) to the alleged Abenakis? "Abenakis" closer than 5-6-7-8-9-10-11 or 12 generations out from the member whose in this group?

Those are my thoughts for today.

Thanks for reading.

Nathan Elwin Pero and his late father Elwin Merle "Joe" Pero etc, and the attempt to create a 5th Vermont "Abenaki" "Koasek" "Tribe" in 2014-2015

Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 12:54 PM
From: BunnellLoyalist@aol.com
To: douglaslloydbuchholz@yahoo.com
CC: franbluewolfspirit@gmail.com [Francine Poitras - Jones]

BCC: houseofmica@yahoo.com [Karen nee: Bourdreau aka. Karen Mica]

From: Paul Joseph Bunnell

"Keep in mind that we never did and do not have any desire to get into any of this Vermont Indian crap. We thought recognition would be nice and Nathan thought it would be good for his family. We offered our genealogies to this process, but they fought that suggestion, just relationships. I knew why they took this position because you and I know all the holes many of them have in their genealogies, and though there are Abenaki Metis living in Vermont, there is no Vermont Abenaki ancient ancestors that have been recorded there yet. All the Abenaki I have found, including my several eventually all come from Quebec, Maine, New Brunswick, Nova Scotia."

So, let's take a look at Nathan Elwin Pero and his late father Elwin Merle "Joe" Pero's Native Ancestral Connection:

1. Chief Atsena Du Plat 8endat Attign8stan and Annengthon HURON

2. “Catherine” 8enta Plat (Pillard) HURON

3. Marie Catherine (nee: Charon) Chagnon dit Larose

4. François Louis Chagnon

5. Christophe Chagnon

5. Jean Chagnon dit Larose

6. John Baptiste Chagnon dit Shonyo

7. Clarrisa Cook (nee: Shonyo) Pero

8. Henry Cook Pero

9. Elwin Merle “Joe” Pero

10. Nathan Elwin Pero

1. Chief Atsena Du Plat 8endat Attign8stan and Annengthon HURON

2. “Catherine” 8enta Plat (Pillard) HURON [great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandmother]

3. Pierre Charron [great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather]

4. Charles Charron Sr. [great-great-great-great-great-grandfather]

5. Charles Charron Jr. [great-great-great-great-grandfather]

6. Marie Françoise (nee: Charron) Chagnon dit Larose [great - great-great-grandmother]

7. John Baptiste Chagnon dit Shonyo [great-great-grandfather]

8. Clarrisa Cook (nee: Shonyo) Pero [great-grandfather]

9. Henry Cook Pero [grandfather]

10. Elwin Merle “Joe” Pero [father]

11. Nathan Elwin Pero

Now, obviously I KNOW how Nathan Elwin Pero descends from this Huron woman. How many generations down? 10 and 11 generations.

So a 7th great-grandmother, makes the 7th great grandson a Huron Indian or a Metis person? Or a Koasek Abenaki, from and of Vermont?

Ok, so WHAT COMMUNITY does that lineage come from and has retained up to and after 1974 within Vermont? Claiming as Nate does that his father, and his father, and his father, and his father were Chiefs.... of a Cowasuck Tribe or Band within Vermont?

Of what discernible COMMUNITY of native peoples? How did those alleged "Chief's" conduct their "chief-ly" status and position?

You see, without a discernible/externally observable community foundation that FUNCTIONS through time, I conclude that Nathan Pero is merely a DESCENDANT and not Huron nor Abenaki/Cowasuck.

Why? Because his ancestors CHOSE to live in an ENGLISH COMMUNITY, and or his ancestors CHOSE to live in a FRENCH COMMUNITY and identified as ENGLISH and or FRENCH from two generations down from Catherine Pillard to Nathan's grandfather, up to 1974, that's why.

It is absurdity to imply that Nathan Pero or his father were Chiefs of a Cowasuck Tribe of and from Vermont or New Hampshire prior to 1980.

And to use the term Metis, as if it were a catch-all everyone's-an-NDN simply because of a 1-drop-rule ideation, or construct, is again absolutely distorting the history of the Metis' and appropriation of their culture and histories as Metis Communities.

While I know you don't adhere to or think as what I have described here Paul respectfully said, it is the truth. Your group is no more Abenakis, than any of the others that already have recognition within the State of Vermont right now.

This group (through a trickle-down dynamic) has incorporated under Vermont State Law, through the Secretary of State's Office, through the machinations of Howard Franklin Knight, Jr. etc. since the early 1980's, beginning with "Richard Blackhorse" Phillips and several others like Emerson Bidwell Garfield, and Wayne Hoague.

I have retrospectively mentioned within this blog these machinations and scheming tactics to "create" out of thin-air "Abenaki" "Tribes".....

Accordingly:

Chief Paul J. Bunnell, UE, Author, Professional Genealogist

Gwilawato (He looks For Something)

Chief, Koasek Abenaki Nation & Tribal Genealogist

http://bunnellgenealogybooks.citymaker.com

Koasek Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation

For Koasek Business contact: Koasek@yahoo.com

Here's the "Chief" of the 5th groups seeking Vermont State Recognition, claiming to be KOASEK, COWASUCK, KOASUK etc ...

An Abenaki Tribe from and of Vermont.... through the Vermont Commission of Native American Affairs (VCNAA)? ...

Here's what "Chief" Paul Bunnell stated:

"I agree that many native lines exist in most NH & VT members. I have always said that there are no pure Vermont or New Hampshire Abenakis. In fact, every Native American in New England and the Maritime's are really Metis. Many if not most Vermont Natives have Huron blood. It's just the way the migrations went from Montreal/Quebec."

"The Abenaki blood that does run in our veins, comes from outside Vermont beyond c. 1700's."

"The native Vermont and New Hampshire communities [the now VT State Recognized "Tribes" ... the "Missisquoi-Sokoki" of Franklin County, the Nulhegan-Coos Band of Orleans County, VT, the El-Nu of Jamaica, VT, and the "Koasek of the Koas" of the Newbury, VT area] .... have old roots, which is fine to claim the areas they are from, but they are ALL METIS. I feel the native culture is good to revive and claim ... as long as it lays in the area of our Algonquin common heritage. "

So, in conclusion the 5th group, of which was retrospectively a part and parcel of the late Nancy Lee (nee: Millette) Cruger-Lyons-Doucet and Brian Chenevert and of course, Howard Franklin Knight, Jr. concoction in mid-2006 recreation, having a tangled web of incorporate connections all the way back to 1980... are merely METIS?

Again, mis-appropriaton of the Metis history and culture, to allow themselves to also appropriate the Abenaki identity and status..... to my thinking. 

Over 180 years of Tribal Chiefs.

1. Nolka (Deer) Clan – Chief John (Jean) Shinnio 1832 to 1865

2. Cowasuck of the Coos – Chief Clarissa Shinnio 1865 to 1915

3. Cowasuck of the Coos- Chief George Harry Pero 1915 to 1947

4. Cowasuck of the Coos- Chief Elwin (Joe) Pero Chief 1947 to 1981

5. Nolka Clan Chief Nathan Pero 1981 to 2010

6. Chief Howard Knight Jr. 1981 to 2006 Koasek (Cowasuck) Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation (and under previous names) Retired

7. Chief Brian Chenevert 2006 to 2010 Koasek (Cowasuck) Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation

8. Co-Chief Nancy Millette Lyons 2006 to 2007 Koasek (Cowasuck) Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation

9 Sub-Chief Leo Descoteaux .2007 to 2009 (passed over) Koasek (Cowasuck) Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation

10. Sub-Chief Paul Bunnell 2009 to 2010 Koasek (Cowasuck Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation

11 Chief Nathan Pero of Koasek (Cowasuck) Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation 2010 to Present

12. Co-Chief Paul Bunnell Koasek (Cowasuck) Traditional Band of the Sovereign Abenaki Nation 2010 to Present.

Really? Let's see the EVIDENCE clear and convincingly, from either this group calling itself the "Koasek Traditional Band Of The Sovereign Abenaki Nation" .... or from the State of Vermont itself ... instead of IMPLYING kinship and relation and or contemporary members of this group, who do have Abenaki ancestry, having joined the group in contemporary time, like the Boles family members.

And btw, if as I suspect, the late Nancy Lee (nee: Millette) Cruger-Lyons-Doucet does have an ancestor Christopher Shawney b. abt. the late 1700's who married Orinda/ Olinda Marden or Marsten ... she and her cousins would have a distant HURON Ancestor; NOT ABENAKI. NOT SHAWNEE either.

Could Shawney be a distortion of Shonyo or Shinnio? 

Shonyo was a dit name for Chagnon. 

So perhaps when the late Nancy Lee (nee: Millette) came back to Vermont from a NY Mohawk Community, and subsequently created her "Tribe" and then, in an attempt to be Chief-For-Life like the late Homer Walter St. Francis Sr. turned himself into, years before up in Swanton, VT ... and didn't get her way and managed to 'create' the now-State-Recognized group calling itself the
Koasek of the Koas" Abenaki "Tribe" ... and got National Genographic to do her alleged DNA testing ... 

Could she also be a descendant of a HURON woman, Catherine 8enta Plat (Pillard) who married Nicholas Pierre Charron dit Ducharme in 1665? I bet the odds are she was!

But what difference would it have made, really, if she was a descendant?

Nathan Elwin Pero is a 7th Great Grandson of this Huron woman, Catherine 8enta Plat (Pillard).

Ever heard of "RECOMBINATION" in DNA Genetic Genealogical Research?

Each generation gets generally a variable of near or a little more than 50% from each parent, and generally some from each parents Grandparent etc. etc.

This means that by the time, that 'recombination' dynamic hits dear old Nathan Elwin Pero, the percentile of HURON ancestral DNA is pretty much nearly 'gone' and undetectable by today's DNA technological testing processes (autosomal DNA).

Then again, these group's advocate the appropriation and acceptance of their claims and assertions, that they are Vermont's ABENAKIS and or COWASUCK/KOASEK ABENAKIS, with historical merit, continuance, and coherency.

Nathan Elwin Pero nor his father, were not part of a HURON COMMUNITY, so even if they have a HURON Ancestor 7 generations back in their genealogy, it does not make them HURON INDIANS.

It does in fact, show that they have Huron Ancestors.

NOT ABENAKIS, NOT ABENAKI ANCESTRY. 

1. Chief Atsena Du Plat 8endat Attign8stan and Annengthon HURON

2. “Catherine” 8enta Plat (Pillard) HURON

3. François Charron dit Ducharme

4. Marie Charlotte Charon dit Ducharme

5. Jean Baptiste Frechet

6. Marie Louise Branconnier

7. Sara LaDurantaye

8. Wilfred David (or Foster) Robert

9. Lillian Dorothy Roberts

10. Donna Louise (nee: Carvalho) “Roberts” 1. Charlebois  2m. Moody

11. Chrestien Michel Charlebois

12. Ozalie Charlebois

1. Chief Atsena Du Plat 8endat Attign8stan and Annengthon HURON

2. “Catherine” 8enta Plat (Pillard) HURON

3. Marie Catherine Charon

4. Marie Angelique Chagnon

5. Paul Benoit dit Livernois

6. Joseph Simeon Benoit dit Livernois

7. Peter Mitchell Benoit dit Livernois

8. Joseph Benoit dit Livernois

9. Proper Benoit dit Livernois

10. Elaine Clara Benoit dit Livernois

11. Brian Andrew Chênevert

1. Chief Atsena Du Plat 8endat Attign8stan and Annengthon HURON

2. “Catherine” 8enta Plat (Pillard) HURON

3. Marie Catherine Charon

4. Marie Angelique Chagnon

5. Genvieve Benoit dit Livernois

6. Françoise Amable Tétreault dit Ducharme

7. Louis Beaudry

8. Marie Charlotte Beaudry

9. Adélaide Adèle Fornier dit Prefontaine

10. Austin Lambert dit Lumbra

11. Austin Lumbra

12. Lillian May Lumbra

13. Cedric Henry Brooks

14. Brian Basil Brooks

15. Lisa Tonyo (nee: Brooks) Pouliot

Eloise Beil is a Lumbra descendant as well, from the same ancestry as Lisa Tonyo (nee: Brooks) Pouliot.

1. Chief Atsena Du Plat 8endat Attign8stan and Annengthon HURON

2. “Catherine” 8enta Plat (Pillard) HURON

3. Marie Catherine Charron dit Ducharme

4. Pierre Chagnon dit Larose

5. Joseph Chagnon dit Larose

6. Gabrielle (nee: Chagnon dit Beloeil) Lalime

7. Christopher Lalime

8. Jean Beoni Lalime

9. Jean Baptiste Eugene Lalime

10. Marie Joseph Arthur Lalime

11. Joseph Granville Leger Lelime

12. Jeanne Antoinette (nee: Lalime) 1m. Lincoln  2m. Kent

1. Joachim Ouentouen Arontio & Cecile Arendaeronnon Arenhatsi HURON

2. Marie Felix Arontio Aneneontha Ouentouen HURON

3. Jean Baptiste Dubuc I

4. Jean Baptiste Dubuc II

5. Jean Baptiste Dubuc III

6. Marie Rosalie Dubuc

7. Charles Poitras

8. Prosper Poitras

9. Joseph George Ozias Poitras

10. Eucilide Poitras

11. François Eucilide Poitras

12. Francine “Dancing Bluewolf” (nee: Poitras) Jones

Again, NOT ABENAKIS ... from and of Vermont!!

What Abenaki Community do these people live in? What Abenaki Community did their ANCESTORS live in?

The CONTEMPORARY DESCENDANT(S) chose post-1974 to dig around in their genealogical garbage can's looking for any scrap of Indian Ancestry they could find, subsequently INCORPORATED UNDER VERMONT or NH etc STATE LAWS, created GROUPS they now CLAIM TO BE "TRIBES"

And appropriated an "Abenaki" Identity that does not belong to them, with the help of course, from naive Politicians and Anthropologists etc. and a BLIND PUBLIC in and surrounding Vermont's machinations to this agenda to re-create alleged "Abenaki" Tribes" ...

When in reality and FACT, these groups are merely METIS groups claiming to be "Abenaki Tribes" ....

Just like "Chief" Paul Bunnell has asserted.

But that doesn't stop him from claiming their group is the "Koasek Abenaki Nation" or the "Koasek Traditional Band Of The Sovereign Abenaki Nation" ... now does it? 

Again, this whole State Recognition Process, was created out of Ego - Power - and CONTROL, and GREED by the State of Vermont and the groups who today claim to be "Abenakis" and "Abenaki Tribes" as well as about "status" and "identity"...

Why are Eloise Beil and John Scott Moody going to be reviewing this 5th group's Application(s) for VT State Recognition? Isn't that an absolutely conflict of interest?

Each of which has had and does continue to have a "Working Relationship" with these so-called "Abenaki" groups claiming to be "tribes" ... and has and continues to have a vested financial interest as a well as a personal interest, that these groups of alleged "Abenakis" gain Vermont State Recognition, to my thinking.

This whole dynamic is that these people are claiming an Abenaki Identity that does not belong to most of these group's members! 

Stay tuned, I am not done yet ...