Jesse Bowman Bruchac and Magaret A. (nee: Bruchac) Kennick Developments Regarding Bowman Genetic Results

Back in the day, I began researching as much as I could about the Bruchac's. I've bought many of their books, talking occasionally with Jesse Bruchac prior to 2016,

As some may be aware (or not, until now), I have been doing a Bowman genetic study since January 2016, where, I communicated with a Bruchac related Bowman direct-male-line-descendant. He and I, with his permission, began testing at Family Tree DNA (FTDNA) and later, AncestryDNA. As follows is some of the research findings based on genetic testing, genealogical research, etc.

On September 13, 2017, Jesse Bowman Bruchac, son of Joseph Edward Bruchac III created yet another webpage/ blog and entitled a section "Bowman Haplogroup"

http://jbruchac.com/bowman-haplogroup/#comment-28

You can read more in that particular Bruchac-Bowman Time Line here:

http://reinventedvermontabenaki.blogspot.com/2016/03/lewis-henry-bowman-and-joseph-edward.html

Jesse Bowman's OPINION/ BELIEF/ PERCEPTION:
"This is an extremely complicated and speculative field with most of the information especially concerning Native Americans not yet in."

Let's do a Basic Review of what Y-DNA is:

Actually, genetic research, for some folks, can be complicated and speculative, IF one doesn't know what the genetic results are showing and telling us. Y-DNA is quite uncomplicated, and it is not speculative whatsoever. It is simple.

Y-DNA follows a genetic pathway, from the contemporary direct male descendant, through his father, to his grandfather, and straight back through the paternal lineage.

I could see that "mbruchac" had tested with Family Tree DNA (atDNA testing) as well. For a long time, I thought naively that it was Marge's sister, Mary A. (Bruchac) Lynch, who had done the testing. Recently, I discovered that it was not Mary that did the DNA testing, but rather it was Margaret (Bruchac) Kennick who had done the testing. Both in FTDNA and in AncestryDNA, but Marge had created and submitted a genealogical tree, starting with Mary, her sister. WHY?

"mbruchac" was'visible' on FTDNA nor on AncestryDNA (up until a few months ago but I guess now she's "hiding-in-plain-sight") in comparative to Mr. Bowman or his first cousin, etc. because Marge doesn't want anyone to detect that she did the DNA testing herself in the hopes of securing 'proof' of her alleged "Abenaki" narrative. Like I said, when I tested Mr. Bowman, that dynamic became 'hostile' to the Bruchac - Bowman narrative, that has been created, perpetuated and promoted since at least 1975 into the present by the Bruchac's and those that have allied with them, over the years. National Geographic Corporation, HarperCollins Publishers, etc etc etc. right on down to the local libraries across America and even Europe!

The INITIALLY PREDICTED Y-Haplogroup of R. Bowman was R1b-M269.

Haplogroup R-M269, also known as R1b1a1a2, is a sub-clade of human Y-chromosome haplogroup R1b. 

R1b is the most common Y-haplogroup in Western Europe, the most common group defined by the SNP M269. It consists of more than 50 subclades, and further SNP testing is necessary to determine which of these one belongs to. A Deep Clade test at Family Tree DNA is recommended.

And that is EXACTLY what I proceeded to do, with the permission of Mr. Bowman, in FTDNA, is do the DEEPER STR/ SNIP testing. And doing a R1b-M343 Backbone SNP Pack, the determined and CONFIRMED Haplogroup was R-Z2109.

https://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_R1b_Y-DNA.shtml

As one can see and review in the above image, Y-DNA CONFIRMED Bruchac's relative Bowman Haplogroup R-Z2109 comes from Europe. It is a branch off from R1b. R1b is from the Indo-Europeans, in the Eurasia, not Native Americans. It is very specific and not complicated at all.

Joseph Bruchac III, the author, nor his sons Jesse and James (nor Marge) or ANY of the Lewis Bowman Sr. and Alice Van Antwerp descendant are descendants of the Obomsawin's as implied repeatedly by Joe Bruchac III.

Obomsawin's Haplogroup is Q1a3a1.

Sorry Joe, you're not an Obomsawin descendant as you have implied all these years in your publications.

"Haplogroup Q is thought to have originated in Central Asia or North Asia during of shortly after the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM, 26,000 to 19,000 years ago). Q descends from haplogroup P, which is also the ancestor of haplogroups R1a and R1b. Haplogroup Q quickly split into two main branches: Q1a and Q1b. The northern Q1a tribes expanded over Siberia as the climate warmed up after the LGM. Some Q1a crossed the still frozen Bering Strait to the American continent some time between 16,500 and 13,000 years ago. Q1b tribes stayed in Central Asia and later migrated south towards the Middle East." SOURCE: https://www.eupedia.com/europe/Haplogroup_Q_Y-DNA.shtml

Haplogroup R1b is a general designation. It is not 'deep' enough to make a determination of where Lewis Bowman Sr.'s paternal line of ancestors came from.In essence, it's like looking at a footprint that is months old, and trying to locate where the animal or person is today. With R1b, it just isn't going to happen. Geographically, ancestrally, that paternal ancestor could be anywhere.

With R-Z2109, we're looking at a genetic 'footprint' that is not as broad or spread out across some of humanity. We know it is somewhat rare. We know the Haplogroup is ONLY FOUND IN EUROPE ancestrally-speaking.

In Jesse Bruchac blog he did not do any follow-up on this genetic research into his Bowman relatives. He most certainly did not ask me as to where I was at with the research, as it progressed.

He simply 'jumped' (just like he did in Aug-Sept 2015) after my communication with him that summer, about researching HIS Bowman ancestry. He's been going in every direction, except the direction he should have gone in the first place, which is to genetically test his Bowman relative(s), to see what the genetic results have to say, to give further points of direction. Then again, it wouldn't have served the Bruchac purpose to do because the Bruchac's have been spinning a tale about their Bowman grandfather, and great-grandfather, that they did not validate, and eventually they had to 'defend' their "Abenaki" Bowman tales.

All this http://westernabenaki.com/bowman.php Bowman's in the Indian Records, that Jesse has done, doesn't serve any real legitimate purpose to get at the FACTS and ancestry of Jesse's specific Bowman ancestors. In fact, what he's done in several areas of his website regarding Bowman's is perpetuated several points of distortion and outright falsehood.

Joseph Edward Bruchac III attempted to fill in the gaps or voids of his Bowman grandfather's history with an unfounded, unsubstantiated bunch of invalidated (to put it bluntly) his "oral crap" ... because it served Joe's purposes.

To my thinking, when the African American Folklore endeavor didn't work out when Alex Haley's book ROOTS came out, in 1976, Joe had to quickly come up with some other ethnicity attachment, using his grandfather Jesse E. Bowman. Instead of being a Black descendant, he suddenly appears as an "Indian / Abenaki descendant" himself. "Black as an Abenaki" blah blah blah. Getting a membership card in 1978 helped promote the Indian/ Abenaki created persona of this author. He promoted himself as an "Abenaki" based on what exactly? A mysterious unseen 1980 written letter from John Jack Bowman's wife Katherine?

Jesse Bowman (and James) were raised on a MYTH and SPECULATION, that Joe helped solidify by talking with Maurice Denis etc and visiting Homer Walter St. Francis Sr. etc. and getting a membership card from the "chief" of that fake "Abenaki" "tribe"...

It's difficult to let go of the Styrofoam cup of "Abenaki" Cool-Aid and the roll of Sacajawea dollar coins, because its been quite profitable (and still is) for the Bruchac's to BELIEVE and PROMOTE that they are "Abenaki" allegedly according to their perpetuated myth making over the years, "of being from the Obomsawin's" and from "St. Francis"... blah blah blah.

Mary Ann (Bruchac) Lynch - 1978

And let's not forget Jack Lynch's posting in 2001

Again, Joe and Marge Bruchac's great-grandfather Lewis Bowman Sr. was not derived genetically, ancestrally or genealogically from any Abenaki whatsoever, least of all, not the Obomsawin's (who are Abenakis).

So, with that said, now we move on to their ancestor, Lewis Bowman Sr.'s mother: "Sophie" Sénécal dit Laframboise  / Rasberry. 

Who was she? Where did she come from? Who were her relatives?

Through genetic atDNA (autosomal) genetic testing in FTDNA, we detected a match to a lineage in Sénécal dit Laframboise surname, within Washington County, Vermont, in the contemporary. His ancestry, paternally goes back to a Jean Baptiste Sénécal dit Laframboise, who married twice. His parents are documented clearly within Quebec Parish records. Jean's descendant not only migrated down into Rutland County, Vermont, but also a branch or two interacted and are detected within Greenfield, Saratoga County, New York per the Federal and State Census records. Multiple genetic descendants of Jean Baptiste Sénécal dit Laframboise and either of his two spouses are matching to Mr. Bowman and his cousins. Hmm, interesting ...

Using AncestryDNA testing, there are two genetic matches to Mr. Bowman, of which helped me determine WHO and WHERE Élisabeth Sophié Sénécal dit Laframboise belonged to and was located from 1850 until her death in 1901.

Her name was actually Élisabeth Sophié (nee: Sénécal dit Laframboise) and she resided with a George Rhemond/ Raymond from about 1850 until his death, and then she lived with her daughter.

After Margaret (Bruchac) Kennick obtained the Civil War Pension Records of Lewis Bowman from the National Archives, subsequently Marge (and her brother Joe), "took creative license" and began myth-making some more about their ancestors.

Élisabeth Sophié (nee: Sénécal) was NOT AN INDIAN nor did "Sophie" speak Abenaki either, as Marge implied in her writings in 2002. (see Dreamning Again: Algonkian Poetry by Margaret Bruchac 2012 Bowman Books nativeauthors.com Page 24 through 27 as well as in Dawnland Voices: An Anthology of Indigenous Writing from New England 1st Edition
by Siobhan Senier (Editor) 2014)

https://dawnlandvoices.org/featured-writer-joseph-bruchac-issue-5/
https://dawnlandvoices.org/marge-bruchac-issue-2/
https://dawnlandvoices.org/abenaki-historian-marge-bruchac-speaking-july-23/
https://dawnlandvoices.org/joseph-bruchac-and-bowman-books/

I too, obtained the Pension Record myself directly from National Archives Lewis Bowman Sr. Civil War Pension Records and began evaluating what the Bruchac's had been saying had allegedly come from within that Pension Record, vs. what is actually IN that Pension record material.

Their narratives, published or not, were not substantiated. There is no marriage record, there is no mention of "St. Francis" within the Pension Record.

They were hoping, apparently, that no one would look to validate their storytelling, and indeed Marge does state "... re-imagines historically ... "

 

Yet where does Marge Bruchac's 're-imagining' end ... and the facts begin? 

  

Margaret (Bruchac) Kennick

Margaret (Bruchac) Kennick and Rhonda Lou (nee: Besaw) Grimes - True

Or where do the facts end ... and her distorting and embellishing begin?

Why the myth-making storytelling, and not getting strictly the facts genealogically and genetically? Why these attempts to 'blur' and be a revisionist historian of their Bowman ancestry?
Why did Jesse Bowman Bruchac do that "Bowman Indian History Timeline" specifically in September 2015 ... AFTER I had communicated my interest in researching the Bowman's of which he is descended specifically from?

It is interesting to note that the genetic results specific to Bruchac's Bowman relatives have literally turned up several previously unknown pieces of the genealogical puzzle.

First, is that Lewis Bowman (like my father and I) was the child of a Non-Paternity-Event. He wasn't really a genetic descendant Bowman at all. (Just like I am not descended from the Buchholz, I am actually descended from the Smith's, and my father took the surname Buchholz in Oct. 1963 because that was the family that his mother married into in 1942 and raised my father into adulthood)

Lewis Bowman Sr.'s Y-DNA is matching very clearly NOT to Bowman's at all.

At 12 markers, Lewis Bowman's direct-male-descendant "Mr. Bowman" matched on July 19, 2017 to a Carlton LaBeff. https://www.ancestry.com/boards/thread.aspx?mv=flat&m=5&p=surnames.labeff

Later still, a VAUDRY at 37 markers matched to Mr. Bowman, with a slight 2 'fast' marker mutation on September 15, 2017. I subsequently upgraded Mr. Bowman's Y-DNA test to 67 marker Y-DNA testing, which added an additional marker mutation, yet still a Y-DNA match.

This Vaudry descendant, is from a Jacques Vaudry who married Jeanne Rénaud (sometimes spelled Rénault) on February 14, 1661 in  Trois-Rivières, St. Maurice County, Québec, Canada; he having been born abt. 1636. Jacques had come from Notre Dame de Lamberville, Bacqueville, Eure, Haute-Normandie, France. His parents were Andrién Vaudry and Marthe Deschamps of the same geographical location in France.

As research progressed in 2017 and 2018, yet another LaBeff 25-marker match (with 3 marker mutations) happened on August 15, 2018. Clearly 'something' was going on.

Studying these two LaBeff matches, the original surname of LaBoeuf and that the lineage ancestors were Thomas LeBeuf and Nicole Gazeau (nee: Gazelle) of La Rochelle, France, whom had came to "New France" / Quebec, Canada. Their descendants entered into the fur trade, in Montreal (usually) or Chambly, and descendant went into the Michigan area, down into Louisiana, and descendants were in Arkansas, and later, Texas where these LaBeff's are today.

What is interesting even more so, is that these LaBeff's ancestors over in Louisiana definitely were inter-associating with the Vaudry lineage (i.e. Michel Vaudry and or Peter Vaudry). Thus another very likely dynamic of NPE being genetically detected.

Using atDNA testing (i.e. FTDNA's Family Finder, and AncestryDNA as well as MyHeritage), we find that Mr. Bowman matches to a daughter "B" of a Veaudry mother "A", but even though this mother "A" tested, this mother does not match to Mr. Bowman. Only the daughter "B" matches to him.

Yet, finding genetically a N-P-E daughter of John Jack Bowman (1893-1973)'s older sister Eva May (nee: Bowman) through her grandson, and testing his mother, and maternal uncle ... that uncle matches to "A" but not to her daughter "B" ...
(Two further Veaudry direct-male-descendants are being Y-DNA tested, ETC presently speaking)

Margaret (nee: Bowman) ... 8mm film

Jesse Bruchac, may learn to speak and teach Western Abenaki; his father may copyright and publish Abenaki stories in books and they both do presentations and now Jesse is teaching at the Southern University of Maine; Marge may have taught at University of MA-Amherst etc, and published occasionally, but that does not make the Bruchac's "Abenakis" at all. Having an ancestor in the 1600's doesn't make these Bruchac's (or anyone else) an Abenaki either. Having a membership card from Homer Walter St. Francis Sr. of Swanton, Vermont, does not, and did not substantiate that the Bruchac's were or are "Abenakis" whatsoever.

So let's look at what Jesse Bowman Bruchac did in his blog:

WHERE is Jesse getting his information from? WHY is Jesse 'pushing' defensively against the genetics research I and the Bowman's are doing?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haplogroup_R1

Wikipedia?! Really?

Most colleges and universities (Especially in some high schools and private schools) have a policy that prohibits students from using Wikipedia as their source for doing research papers, essays, or anything equivalent. This is because Wikipedia can be edited by anyone at any moment.

Why is a college-educated Abenaki-speaking Jesse B. Bruchac using Wikipedia as his SOURCE for his blog information regarding R1b Haplogroup? WHY is he selectively copying and pasting?

Do the math, the homework, whatever you want to call it, but please, by all means, do the comparatives ...

Here, let me kindly do it for you readers of this blog:

Jesse's version:
September 13, 2017
http://jbruchac.com/bowman-haplogroup/
By Jesse Bowman Bruchac
Bowman haplogroup
"In the ongoing search for the origins of my Bowman family, DNA has most recently entered the equation. This is an extremely complicated and speculative field with most of the information especially concerning Native Americans not yet in. Based on what is known, my great grandfather Jesse Bowman’s Y line is R-M269 (R1b). While this is common in Europe and elsewhere around the globe, it is also the second most common Native American haplogroup, and among Northeastern Native peoples, it is by far the most common, found among overwhelming 79% of Great Lakes/Algonquian-speakers."

From Wikipedia:
It is now the most common haplogroup after the various Q-M242, especially in North America, highest worldwide R1 rates among Great Lakes/Algonquian-speakers, in Ojibwe people at 79%, Chipewyan 62%, Seminole 50%, Cherokee 47%, Dogrib 40% and Papago 38%. 97% of R1 had the M269 SNP (Single Nucleotide Polymorphism), which defines haplogroup R1b1b.[7] indicating that most of it came from the settlement of the Americas by Europeans.

R1b reaches high frequencies in the Americas and Australasia, due largely to immigration from Western Europe. There is an ongoing debate regarding the origins of R1b subclades found at significant levels among some indigenous peoples of the Americas, such as speakers of Algic languages in central Canada.

I know genetics is sometimes confusing for some people, but this what these people do. They pretend like they know what they are talking about, but they don't really know what they are talking about, and yet continue to speak, trying to influence, manipulate and deceive.

My point is this: People who are this desperate, have something to hide. 
This man is teaching at the Southern University of Maine now. His father's sister is teaching at the Penn State University, with not a drop of Abenaki ancestry in them, claiming to be "Abenaki".

And for your listening pleasure: https://soundcloud.com/darryl-leroux/self-made-metis 

June 19, 2018


Again, IF (hypothetically-speaking) the Bowman (and his other relatives) genetic testing was/ is "fake", PLEASE scroll up and look at the "mbruchac" match to Mr. Bowman within AncestryDNA. How come Marge matched genetically to him? I screen-captured images from within FTDNA, that proves Marge Bruchac - Kennick matches to her relative Mr. Bowman in FTDNA as well.

This is Jack (John) Bowman with Betty Bowman on his right, and Ida Smith (oh his right)
Then WHY do I have this photograph? (I have plenty more where this one came from here).
And there is a PUBLIC Tree on AncestryDNA as well, mapped out by my person regarding the Bowman's. Funny, how Marge Bruchac implies that I don't have data given to me by her Bowman relatives.

Let's see here, hmm, I got this from Mr. Bowman too:

Again, per the Civil War Pension Record, one cannot rely on just that Pension Record, but what is the merits of the statements and data therein, with physical substantiation of the data. WHERE is there mentioned "St. Francis" for Lewis Bowman Sr. birth, eh Joe? Or is he making that up too?

Remember: Saint-François Xavier de West Shefford, Bromont, Shefford County, Québec, Canada.

Now look in that Parish Records for Angéle (Angelina) Rémon dit Raymond baptized July 12, 1850 who married James McWillliams ... or her sister, Marie Délina (Adélina) Rémon dit Raymond who married Jean Baptiste Castonguay in Feb. 1877 in the same Saint-François Xavier de West Shefford, Bromont, Shefford County, Québec, Canada!

Recorded in the Notre Dame de Granby Parish:

May 25, 1852 Baptismal Record:

On the twenty-fifth day, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-two, serving as missionary of Granby, did baptize, Marie Delina, on this day, the twenty-fifth of May, of the legitimate marriage of George Raymond  and Sophie Laframboise of the Township of Farnham.
Godfather Joseph Raymond Godmother Marguerite Goulet; the Godfather does sign. The father signs and the godmother does not sign.

NOT St. Francis ... as in Odanak, as Joe Bruchac III, the author has tried to imply in his books etc.

Oh that's right, according to Marge to a Penobsot, on Face Book June 19, 2018, my research results are "fake" and that I haven't got the data on people who have never given me their genetic DNA samples" ... For all the Bruchac education in college etc, sure seems that some Bruchac's are in a serious case of cognitive dissonance and denial state of being, regarding the research being done, and made public!

Varied Lewis Bowman Sr. descendants via his children's descendants are matching genetically to Mr. Bowman and his cousins... There are now 4 Bowman descendants actively tested on my behalf within either FTDNA, or AncestryDNA or both. None of the Bruchac's wanted to be a part of this study.

Clarification: Lewis Bowman Sr. (b. 1844 - d. 1918) has a CONFIRMED Haplogroup being KMS67 now, based on testing at FTDNA and YSEQ.

It just takes a simple Google Search ...

IF the Bowman DNA is so "fake", as stated by Margaret (nee: Bruchac) Kennick, as a Professor of Penn State http://upenn.academia.edu/mbruchac why does this woman's own DNA Results match to Mr. Bowman and his cousins in FTDNA/ and AncestryDNA?

And she's teaching at Penn State?

"Ojibwe" Grey Owl
"Cree/Cherokee" Iron Eyes Cody
"Black" Rachel Dolezal
"Cherokee" Elizabeth Warren
Etc.

... and then from 1975 - to present ... we have the Bruchac's ...

Father and son, Joe and Jesse Bruchac

James Edward Bruchac

Oh that's right ...

Bruchac's get a free pass, or a 'get out of scrutiny' card?

Abenaki Ancestry? Really? Prove it ...

It's technically 'not illegal' what the Bruchac's have done and are doing, but it IS unethical (to my thinking) what they have done and are continuing to do. Native People's, Universities, Libraries, and Publishing Companies help PERPETUATE and PROMOTE the Bruchac's (then and now) as being "Abenakis" and they are not. Genetics and Genealogical Research PROVES this out.

TRUTH makes the Bruchac's cultural appropriators and Abenaki ethnic frauds.

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=4830.0 (for further discussions)

And here they are, members of the Nulhegan group in Vermont:

http://www.jamesbruchac.com/pages/home.php
http://www.jamesbruchac.com/pages/bio/adult-oriented-biography.php
http://jbruchac.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/06/Jesse.Bruchac.bio_.pdf

Ok, so this brings up a whole new dynamic! James (Jim) and his brother Jesse Bowman Bruchac are members of the group in Orleans County, Vermont that came of the Clan of the Hawk, Inc. in 2004?
https://abenakitribe.org/

https://img1.wsimg.com/blobby/go/1ebc3e2b-6eca-4a7e-a94a-1a8b35f2525b/downloads/1cgs79qjd_179282.pdf

To be considered for Nulhegan enrollment, you must provide documentation establishing direct kinship to Nulhegan and/or other Abenaki/Coosuk families.  Applications that do not include this documentation will not be considered.

Please note that it may take between three and six months to process your application. 

When sending in your application, it is necessary to provide documentation to prove your relationship to the Abeanki ancestor. This would include your birth certificate. Also include other documentation such as a copy of your genealogy or other proofs of origin, such as marriage certificates of ancestors, birth and death certificates, or other items that tie you to such ancestor(s). 

Ok ... so through one and or the other, "Chief" Donald Warren Stevens Jr. and Michael Descoteaux, apparently "approved" Bruchac's who have NO ABENAKI ANCESTORS whatsoever, and these two brothers got membership into the Nulhegan group.

Non-Indian (WHITE) people are becoming "Abenakis" based on what exactly, genealogically-speaking in Vermont? Based on belief and perception?

So is Don Stevens Jr. and Mike Descoteaux now acting/ doing much like Homer Walter St. Francis Sr. and April did along with Mike Delaney did over in Swanton, wherein if one SAYS or BELIEVES they are "Abenaki" they can gain membership and all the State and Federal (Grant) perks by having that membership card in this group? If this group is allowing this, are the other groups allowing this dynamic as well? 15,000+ "Abenakis" in Vermont now, according to one newspaper article!

Clearly, I smell "BS" in N'dakinna !!

Are Joe and his sister Marge now Nulhegan members of Don's group too; hop, skip and click of the shoes from Homer's "Missisquoi" group, (much like Don migrated from Homer's group) over to the Nulhegan group?

Just because someone has a Vermont "Abenaki" membership card, doesn't mean that person is actually descended from the Abenaki.

Recently FOUND Burlington Newspaper article... regarding Antoine Phillips Sr.

November 11, 1865

Peter Phelps, a colored man, who has lived in St. Albans for nearly a half century, died recently at the advanced age of 111 years.

According to the 1850 St. Albans, Franklin County, Vermont Federal Population Census, Peter Phelps was 70 years of age, thereby making his estimated birth year as ca. 1780.

We know that his children William Phelps Sr. (who married Rosanna Prince) and Lewis Phelps (who married Frances Caroline Parkis) were identified throughout their lives as persons of color (Black, Mulatto, Negro, etc). 

Antoine Philips Sr. himself was identified as B for Black in the 1850 Highgate, Franklin County, Vermont Federal Population Census as well. Married to a French Quebec woman (Catherine Emery dite Coderre of Ste. Hyacinthe Parish) their children were identified in that same household as being 'Mulatto'. 

Phelps - Phillips Time Line

Interestingly enough, looking at Peter Phelps Death Record per Nov. 1865 in St. Albans Town Records:

 

Peter Phelps was not identified as Black or White or even any ethnicity whatsoever, interestingly enough. Even more interesting is this Death Record does not imply any age at the time of his death.

But the Burlington Sentinel Newspaper does ... as do other Vermont and outlying newspapers do as well ... as see in this posts first image of such Death Announcement.

And how do we KNOW that this Peter Phelps is the father of Antoine Philips / Phillips Sr. (?)

Surprisingly, the answer is within the Vermont Eugenics SURVEY records for this Phillips family in the 20 Page SUMMARY.

Now, you may be already asking yourselves, what does this have to do with Abenakis? Well it has a lot to do with Vermont's so-called "Abenakis" and the process of Recognition by the State of Vermont, as well as Frederick M. Wiseman Ph.D. as well as a Phillips descendant, Donald Warren Stevens Jr. of the "Nulhegan" group up in Orleans County, Vermont.

Following up on the Phelps and Phillips Time Line research that's been done, recently I ran into this Burlington newspaper article:

September 11, 1885

Antoine Phillips, (colored) who died last week in this town, was undoubtedly the oldest man in this neighborhood. As near as can be ascertained his age was, at the time of his death, 100 years. He has been a resident of this town for about sixteen or seventeen years.

Obviously, doing the research, we have found that very likely, Antoine (Phelps) Philips / Phillips Sr. was born ca. 1812-1814.

Doing Y-DNA research with two direct-male-descendants of this Antoine Phillips Sr. we have ascertained the confirmed Haplo-group of B-M181 ... through both Family Tree DNA (FTDNA).

Haplo-group Y-DNA B-M181 originates from and of AFRICA. After the dynamics of slavery of African People's to the West Indies into Connecticut (etc) within the United States of America, we see that this Haplo-group is found in descendants of those enslaved. 

So how is it that Donald Warren Stevens Jr. of this "Nulhegan" group in Orleans County, Vermont can sit there and claim as he has about his ancestors, the Phillips family of Franklin and Chittenden County, Vermont, being "Abenakis" when in FACT, both socially, historically, genealogically and genetically, it is PROVEN beyond any shadow of a doubt, that his Phillips ancestors were paternally African and maternally French?!

How can Mr. Don Stevens sit there in the Wabanaki Confederacy Meetings claiming he is "Abenaki" ... when he's not? Same dynamics for that Italian and French descendant Mr. Tomo Wounded-Bear / Thomas Snizek

Apparently the State of Vermont is so thoroughly complicit in creating and maintaining this FRAUD (which is against the Abenaki Peoples, both ancestrally and the contemporary Abenaki Communities of Odanak and Wôlinak whose people are living throughout the United States today), that the likes of Don Stevens Jr. can put on his bastardization and appropriate the Abenaki persona and no one bats an eyelash or questions the basis or foundation of his claims and merits, not even the Wabanaki Confederacy?! 

Recently, Vicki Garrison, in the SevenDays Article spoke of "promoting ...the erasure of people of color within Vermont."

Ok, so what about the promotion of the erasure of Abenaki People and appropriation of Abenaki culture and language, dances and songs within Vermont etc. by those who are of color, who 'pass' as "Abenaki" such as Donald Warren Stevens Jr. and some of his Phillips family relatives? 

Recent Online Statement by the Nulhegan "Chief" Donald Warren Stevens Jr.

February 08, 2018
WAMC Northeast Public Radio
By Pat Bradley
City Councilors Consider Action on Controversial Downtown Mural
A 124-foot long mural near Burlington’s downtown shopping mall has become a controversial subject. At the most recent city council meeting, a resolution was put forward to remove the artwork, arguing it does not reflect the city’s diversity.

The “Everyone Loves a Parade” mural along the Marketplace Alley, which connects the shopping district to the parking garage, was painted in 2012 to showcase the history of Burlington and the state of Vermont.  The mural was vandalized in October and called racist, prompting communities of color in the city to urge its removal.
Ward 7 Democrat/Progressive Councilor Ali Dieng, the only individual of color on the council, proposed looking into the legal ramifications of its removal.  “I did not see the many New Americans as well as African Americans and people with disabilities represented. It is really important for us to take the mural down. But knowing that there are some legal ramifications I am asking for the city attorney to get back to the council by March 12, 2018.”
His efforts were supported during the public comment period by several individuals including Annie Lawson.  “This issue is about a mural that proposes to tell the story of our community. Folks who are Abenaki, disabled, Black, Latino, New American, immigrant, LGBTQ, other people of color are not shown on this mural.”
 “I’m Chief Stevens. I’m the Chief of the Nulhegan Abenaki tribe. I want to make it clear.  We are a sovereign nation. We are not victims. We would like to promote education and cultural opportunities which I think Burlington has a unique position to be able to afford that including the mural.  It’s problematic just from the fact that it doesn’t represent Abenaki people. But I want to find ways to work with you guys in promoting our culture in a positive manner.”
East District Councilor Democrat Richard Deane says the community needs time to work together to resolve the underlying issues the mural debate highlights.  “I don’t believe that the mural accurately or fully reflects who we are as a community or the history of all of us as immigrants to this place, because we are all immigrants other than the First Nations peoples. Taking the mural down without a robust process doesn’t support or motivate the opportunity for open dialog and deeper understanding.”
Mayor Miro Weinberger said the mural was a well-intentioned effort to upgrade the alleyway when it was envisioned in 2009 and 2010.  “There are issues of artist rights and public art values and issues of government overreach here.  It’s not even clear what the city owns and there’s a lot to be sorted through here. And I think we should support the idea that as a next step we get this counsel from the city attorney.  We can continue parallel to that having some additional communication about how we move forward.”
Clauses ordering the mural removed were deleted and councilors approved on a 7 to 5 vote a resolution asking the city attorney to report back to the council by March 12, 2018 on the legal ramifications of removal.

My thoughts: 

Here is a "Chief" who claims and implies that he is an Abenaki descendant, and yet ... (wait for it) no Abenaki ancestry can be detected in his ancestry. As for their group's "founding document" (the Philippe - Louie Métallic Land Deed of mid-1796) that's BS too. This group was created in 2003-2004 and is not "historical" whatsoever, other than the reality that 2004 is before 2018.

But how I digress ...

Donald Warren Stevens Jr. implies that his group, (The Nulhegan Abenaki Tribe was afforded State Recognition on April 22, 2011) is sovereign...

Apparently, this "Chief" is having delusions of grandeur, and his Highness has his BS backed up clear to his brain.

NOWHERE in S.222 nor in Act 107 does it imply or state that ANY GROUP within Vermont, (that claims fraudulently to be an "Abenaki" "Tribe"), that they are sovereign nations whatsoever!

Check for yourselves:
https://legislature.vermont.gov/assets/Documents/2010/Docs/ACTS/ACT107/ACT107%20As%20Enacted.pdf

If you look and evaluate closely, NONE of these groups were recognized officially as Abenaki Tribes whatsoever either. They were officially recognized at Native American Tribes, generically because the State needed to create a generic Native American "tribe" for minority status, so they could tap into Federal Monies, with these "new" "tribes" created since 2009. It's that simple.

The group that Don Stevens' is "Chief" of claiming to be connected with the afore-said Land Deed (Surrender) in ca. 1796 doesn't apply to him or his ancestors the Phillips Family of Vermont. Genealogically and Genetically this is proven over and over again. (Of course, he would deny that this is the reality, because he doesn't operate in reality apparently).

So, yeah, whatever floats their boats in Vermont, implying they are a sovereign nation. I am sure the Vermont Legislature and Governor's Office including the Attorney General's Office would politely conclude differently! Then again, Vermont's Legislature was gullible and naive more than once or twice with these self-declared /self - identifying "Abenakis" and their incorporation's-created, giving them an inch or two.

Now they want to claim they are sovereign nations in Vermont ... and take a mile ... or two ... or three.

A bit of a thought about the Bruchac Narrative, etc. on this fine Monday afternoon ...

"Penn State has hired multiple tenured fast-track Native American professors. In 2013, when the University hired Assistant Professor of Anthropology Margaret Bruchac, she was the third tenured fast-track Native American professor to be hired by Penn."

https://www.sas.upenn.edu/anthropology/people/bruchac

The Bruchac's narrative doesn't fit the genealogical and genetic research into their Bowman ancestors. So what does this say about their WHITE PRIVILEGE in gaining the positions that they have ... based on their false yet repeatedly perpetuated ancestral narrative?

They are not descendants of the O'Bomsawin's of Odanak ... that they pimped and pushed to the na(t)ive and non-native public for years.

The genetic Y-DNA proves this false ancestral narrative to the reality for what it is. And since that is the reality, what about everything else that Marge Bruchac - Kennick and her brother Joe Burchac has embellished and pawned out there in her or his writings, (or should I say their "historical imagination"!)

This point ALSO APPLIES TO FREDERICK MATTHEW WISEMAN of then-Johnson State College, and many others.

Let's take a look at the reality here:

1. Ots Toch - married a Dutchman VanSlyck (she was 100% Mohawk Indian woman allegedly)

2. Elizabeth VanSlyck - married a VanBuren so she would be 50% Mohawk Indian woman

3. Cornelius VanBuren - married a Dutch woman he would be 1/4% Mohawk Indian man

4. Aaltje VanNess VanBuren - she would be 1/8th Mohawk Indian woman

5. Hendrikje Fonda VanBuren - 1/16th Mohawk Indian woman (if #1 were full-blood Mohawk)

6. Douwe VanAntwerp - 1/36th Mohawk Indian        

7. Winant Van Antwerp – A drop 1/64th = "Damn near nothing"

8. Daniel Wynet Van Antwerp - 1/128th = "Tiny Drop"

9. Alice Van Antwerp - 1/256th - Her was husband Lewis H. Bowman Sr.

10. Jesse Elmer Bowman - He ain't no Mohawk or an Abenaki! - 1/512th

11. Marion Flora Bowman - 1/1024th - She swore up and down she weren't no Indian!

12. Joseph Edward Bruchac III - 1/2048th - There ain't no NDN drops left!

13. Jesse Bowman Bruchac - 1/4096th - “Abenaki” based on Beliefs, Theories, and Stories…

So ... what are these Colleges and University's really pimping out there to naive students in their education seeking? Are the University's and Colleges getting on the band wagon of making and pimping FAKE Native "professors" of questionable dubious Native Ancestry and or Status? 

You do remember Iron Eyes Cody?

You do remember Ward Churchill?
You do remember Mariella Squire - Hakey?

You do remember Rachel Dolezal?

You do remember Susan Taffe Reed?

You do remember Elizabeth Warren?
You do remember Donna (Carvalho) Charlebois - Moody?

How about Joseph Edward Bruchac III?

How about Margaret (nee: Bruchac) Kennick?

How about Jesse Bowman Bruchac?

How about James Edward Bruchac?

In conclusion ... about Marge Bruchac and her "tenured fast-track Native American professor" ... it is based on what exactly? Other than creating FAKE / FALSEHOODS that the Bruchac's themselves have created about their ancestors and themselves (repeatedly) for their own status and profit.

(P.S. I am sure this will be ignored by the 'feel-good' Native People's in many communities ... because the truth and the facts are difficult to look at, to acknowledge and accept ... the Bruchac's DEPEND on that ignorance ... to gain what they have and continue to seek).

They are so DESPERATE to be Indians ... Jesse Bowman Bruchac created a website (quick as he could) in September 2015 when he heard I was researching his ancestors ...

WHY is it that the Y-DNA Haplogroup genetically tested and confirmed as R-Z2109 FROM EUROPE for Jesse Elmer Bowman and his brothers, and their father Lewis Bowman Sr.? 

We know who Sophie Senecal dit LaFramboise / Rasberry' ancestors now and ALL OF HER ANCESTORS came from FRANCE. Joe Bruchac is a wonderful storyteller ... just like Iron Eye's Cody (the 100% percent Italian) and other Non-Native People's PLAYING INDIAN, whether in Hollywood or as authors ... and as presenters in public engagements.

http://westernabenaki.com/bowman.php

ARE THEY PLASTIC or ARE THEY REAL?

THINK ABOUT IT

Question is: 

Was Lewis Bowman Sr. actually of the Bowman family in reality, or was he genetically from a different surname altogether? (Stay tuned boys and girls ... ) 

M-269 > R-Z2109 is the Bowman Y-DNA Haplogroup and more testing is being done, to ascertain whether or not (further down the phylogenetic tree IF that Haplogroup Y-DNA R-Z2109 will change into a smaller more defined haplogroup, such as KMS67 and or FGC6444.

Fake is Fake and Lies are Lies

TRUTH is what I am hunting ... 

Thomas F. Snizek ("Tomo Woundedbear") Documentation

I haven't posted on the blog in a while, so it's now time to do so.

Recently, I have been looking at how various person's who claim to be "Abenaki" or who self-identify as "Abenaki" have (since the mid-1970's) gone from being a member of one group claiming to be an "Abenaki" "tribe" within Vermont, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, etc and become a member of another group, and another group, and another group, gaining membership cards over time, much like 'stamp collecting' ...

So, my first of many entries, is pertaining to a man who calls himself "Tomo Woundedbear" ...

He claims to be an Abenaki Chief, and an Abenaki himself. I met him in Port Cartier, (near Sept-Îles, Québec, Canada up on the Gaspé Peninsula area) in July of 2002. I was going to the Midewiwin or the Grand Medicine Society ceremonies, a first for me, since my Elder was traveling from the Olympic Peninsula to this ceremony as well. I traveled with Thomas Dostou and Thomas Snizek, both of the Fall River, MA area. We met with Kanucas Littlefish [Kenneth Durant] in Montreal, where he had arrived by airline, and we drove in a van driven by Tom Dostou, along one side of the St. Lawrence River, and cross over and headed toward the mouth of ... an interesting trip to say the least ... 

Myself and Gilles Francoeur / Truheart in Sept-Îles, Québec, Canada in July 2002

Unnamed (on the right) Innu Firekeeper of the Mide Lodge -  Robin Robert Greene, Sr., Iskatewizaagegan #39 Independent First Nation, Ontario ... Mauchibinance (Ma-Chi-Biness) Moose Dotem (May 16, 1932 - April 25, 2009) and his wife Kee-way-tin-abek Kathleen Greene. The Innu People I remember kindly, whom I had met while up there the two days ... this young man of the community was committed in his tending the sacred Mide fireplace. The young people all help in their community.

Robin Robert Greene Sr.Obituary
Robin Robert Greene Sr. Obituary #2

Denis "Wolfsong" Desrosiers from Lachute, Québec, Canada - Anahee and Gilles.

"Danny?" - Denis "Wolfsong" Desrosiers - Anahee Francoeur / Truheart

[Both Gilles Truheart and his wife Anahee were wonderfully kind]

During this event, Mr. Thomas Snizek a.k.a. "Tomo Woundedbear" pronounced that he was an Abenaki Chief, that he himself was an Abenaki ... stood right there in front of that Midewiwin sacred fireplace ...

In April of 2014 I received an email from a person who was from Québec, Canada inquired after they had read this blog, and encountered my previous mention about Thomas Snizek of Fall River, MA and Somerset, MA.

They provided a genealogical mapping of Mr. Snizek, showing that he had NO NATIVE ANCESTRY. 

(I was not shocked, considering this research on this blog since 2009) but I didn't really concern myself with the man, until this previous week.

Recently encountering two letters from Vermont Archives (within the Petition for Federal Recognition by the Abenaki Nation of Vermont of / at the Missisquoi, St. Francis - Sokoki Band group, led by the now-deceased Homer Walter St. Francis Sr. and his daughter April (St. Francis) Rushlow - Merrill of Swanton, Franklin County, Vermont) regarding Mr. Thomas F. Snizek Jr. of Somerset, MA, I began to evaluate his claims, assertions and so on, over a span of years 1992 - 2017. 

First, I began evaluating the genealogical mapping that was shared with me back in November 2014.

Thomas F. Snizek on nosorigins.qc.ca

So this isn't "just me" having a hair across my arse, "attacking" someone who "claims" to be and who "self-identifies as" an "Abenaki" I am not the only person who has had questions and concerns about this particular person's claims and assertions of being an "Abenaki Chief" and an "Abenaki" person.

So let us go down this "Abenaki" rabbit-hole regarding "Tomo Woundedbear" and see where it takes you, the reader(s) of this blog ... 

December 04 1992

Northeast Woodlands – Coos Band Abenaki Republic – Algonkian Confederation

Pisowakamigw Wobanakiak Membership List

Howard Franklin Knight Jr. Group based in Orleans County, Vermont (apparently, Thomas F. Snížek and family (wife Paula and son Joshua) Snížek were members of this pseudo-"Abenaki" group within Vermont.

Card# 701 Thomas Snížek

Card# 702 Paula Snížek

Card# 703 Joshua Snížek

So, Mr. Tomo Woundedbear went from Howard F. Knight Jr.'s group, into the Paul Pouliot's group in ca. Dec. 1992  (right about the time that shit began to the fan, with the Sherry DeVee child custody situation out in California, that involved Paul Rene Tamburro, Howard Knight Jr, Paul Pouliot, and Homer St. Francis Sr. etc)

December 02, 1994

Cowasuck Band – Abenaki People – Leadership (led by Paul Wilson Pouliot)

Regional Representatives –

Massachusetts:

Thomas Snizek

2211 Riverside Avenue

Somerset, MA 02726

(508) 673-9051

 August 12, 1996
From: Mr. Thomas Snížek
To: Mr. Paul Wilson Pouliot
Dear Mr. Pouliot,
As a result of our discussion at the Attleboro POWWOW, I am sending this formal letter demanding to be removed from the Register of the Cowasuck-Pennacook Band of Abenaki People. This demand for myself and my family is to be considered binding and effective as of the date of your receipt of this letter.
I sent an earlier statement of position and request for removal, but received no acknowledgement from your office that my name and my family member’s names were in fact removed from your register. Your lack of response has prompted me to respond with this formal letter of demand.
I hope we can accept each other’s views with mutual respect and part amenably, but at this juncture in the history of the Abenaki, I believe this choice to be the correct one for me and my family.
Sincerely Yours, Mr. Thomas Snížek (Chief Wounded Bear)
Thomas Snížek (Chief Wounded Bear)
Please remove me from the register of the Cowasak-Pennacook Band of Abenaki Thomas Snížek (Chief Wounded Bear)
Please remove me from the register of the Cowasak-Pennacook Band of Abenaki: Paula Snížek
Please remove me from the register of the Cowasak-Pennacook Band of Abenaki: Joshua Snížek (Joshua White Fox)

September 13, 1996 

[Received by the above date] Ms. Holly Reckord, Bureau of Indian Affairs / BAR

1849 C. Street, N.W. Washington, District of Columbia

“Dighton Intertribal Indian Council – The Council Oak” Letterhead stationary

The Dighton Intertribal Indian Council, P.O. Box 34, Dighton, MA 02715

From: Thomas Snížek [also known as Tomo “Wounded Bear”]

Dear Ms. Reckord,

Enclosed you’ll find a copy of a formal letter [SEE LETTER dated August 12, 1996] that was sent Paul Wilson Pouliot (Spirit Hawk, Sagamore of the Cowasuck Band of the Abenaki, which is based in Franklin, Massachusetts).

My family and I have asked to be taken off their rolls because we now belong to a band of Abenaki in Vermont (Mazipskwik).

So my family and I would appreciate not being considered when and if they petitioned the B.I.A. for federal status.

Thanking you in advance,

Chief Thomas Wounded Bear (Thomas Snížek)

[The Traditional Mazipskwik & Related Bands Inc., led by Connie Brow and David Gilman, a spin-off group from the Abenaki Nation of Vermont, of/at Missisquoi, St. Francis-Sokoki group Homer Walter St. Francis Sr – led in Swanton, Franklin County, Vermont … this group is now defunct, as the 501(c)3 organization ‘went belly up” … the membership list of this group was transferred to the Abenaki Tribe at Nulhegan ~ Memphremagog / Nulhegan Band of the Coosuk Abenaki Nation led by Luke Andrew Willard and now Donald Warren Stevens Jr. group (the latter group that came into being in ca. 2004 out of the Clan of the Hawk, Inc. members based out of Brownington, Orleans County, Vermont)]

For your consideration and thought:

So, after examining these two documents, of which Mr. Thomas Snížek submitted in August and September 1996, it would appear that he joined one group based in Franklin, MA led by Paul Wilson Pouliot and Paul’s wife Linda (nee: White), then left that group, while at the same time (or before his resignation) joined with his family, to another group based in Franklin County, Vermont, led by Constance Brow and David Gilman, which was a spin-off of Connie’s cousin, Homer Walter St. Francis Sr.’s group in the same town … 

Evaluation: 

What Mr. Snizek had done back in the fall of 1996 is not unusal for faux "Abenakis" of Vermont or it's surrounding states. Created incorporation's by person(s) claiming and self-identifying "Chief's" "Medicine men" etc has been like opening up a shop on the corner to sell their BS concoctions to anyone that will listen, is desperate, or is gullible, then or today in 2017. Mr. Snizek went "Band" shopping ... like one would do stamp collecting, in which to legitimize his "Abenaki" created persona. He was re-enacting (playing a role) of an Indian/ Abenaki at Fort Ticonderoga and now he needed a membership card in an faux "Abenaki" group claiming to be a "tribe" for those who were and are naive and gullible as to the merits of his created "Abenaki" persona, and the integrity of that group's membership card(s). Raymond "Looking Glass" Lussier had evaluated his genealogy and "cooked the books" and subsequently "approved" Mr. Snizek's genealogy for membership into Howard Knight's pseudo "Abenaki" group of frauds in Orleans County, Vermont. Mr. "Looking Glass" Lussier must not have done much research or looking into Mr. Snizek's genealogical background.

July 2002 -

Mr. Gilles Francoeur in Sept-Îles, Québec, Canada (to the very left in the photograph).

Thomas F. Snizek "Tomo Woundedbear" in the center of the photograph.

April 05, 2007

Henry Richard Snizek "had a strong spirit of adventure and delighted in stories of pirates plying local waters and tales of Native American history even more, especially considering our family's Abenaki Indian ancestry. A member of the Dighton Intertribal Council, he served as keeper of the fire at annual powwows. He was also proud of his role and fond of the camaraderie he experienced as a member of the Wolf Tail Drum." 

[written by Rick Snizek, son of Henry R. Snizek, nephew of Thomas F. Snizek Jr.]

April 16, 2009
PRESERVATION OF EASTERN ALGONKIAN CULTURE AND EDUCATION, LTD.
REGISTERED BUSINESS
Business code: 000999725
Officers:
Registration: April 16, 2009
State ID: 000999725
Business type: Nonprofit Corporation
Members (6):
Robert Ernest Charlebois (President)
153 Plymouth St., Carver, MA 02330
Paula J. Snizek (Treasurer) 
2211 Riverside Ave., Somerset, MA 02726
Thomas F. Snizek (Clerk)
2211 Riverside Ave., Somerset, MA 02726
Frank Cochise Zerambo (Director)
1 Valley St., Providence, RI 02909
Coo Teh Hey (Director)
12 Ella St., Westerly, RI 02891

Evaluation: 
Robert E. Charlebois was in fact Donna Louise (Carvalho) - Moody's first husband whom she divorced 1995; she's now married to John Scott Moody of Sharon, Vermont, and both Donna and John created and operate the "Winter Center for Indigenous Traditions" Incorporated.

Thomas F. Snizek a.k.a. Tomo Woundedbear

August 28, 2011 - 

Thomas F. Snizek at the Nulhegan event August 2011

August 2013 –

Nulhegan Powwow in Vermont.

[Now a member of the Nulhegan group?]

On what genealogical documented basis?

APTN Video by Brian Francis

2014 -

Chief Thomas Woundedbear
Panawampskewi (Penobscot Person)

"Penobscot Person" ?

Summer 2015 -

Donald Warren Stevens Jr. and Thomas Snizek (seated)

At the Wabanaki Confederacy in Shelburne, Chittenden County, Vermont

(where apparently these two like to pretend they are Abenakis)

(Photo by Josh Snizek)

"Tomo Woundedbear" Thomas F. Snizek tattoo's

Apparently the Mt. Kearsarge Museum in Warner, N.H.

(likes to exhibit non-Native "self-identifying / self-proclaiming "Abenakis")

March 19, 2016
Amazon.com Review
Abenaki Warrior: The Life and & Times of Chief Escumbuit
By Alfred Kayworth

 

Thomas Snizek stated “Very informative, great deal of dates and other information. 

Things that an Abenaki myself did not know about.”

September 23, 2016 

Donald Warren Stevens Jr. and Thomas F. Snizek

Wabanaki Confederacy

Campobello, NB

[Don Stevens former member of the Swanton, VT group]

Wale Idris Ajibade - Chief Red Eagle - Chief Tomo Woundedbear

Campobello, New Brunswick, Canada

2016 Annual Wabanaki Confederacy Conference

Wale Idris Ajibade and Thomas F. Snizek 

Wale Idris Ajibade and Donald Warren Stevens Jr.

Jim Taylor Swift Fox El-Nu "Cherokee / Abenaki" Wanabaki 2016

February 21, 2017
https://issuu.com/african-views/docs/african_views_report_on_the_his_imp.

CREDITS & ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS We thank the following: We thank the Ooni of Ife, His Imperial Majesty Oba Ada Okika: In charge d’ Affaires Permanent Mission of Nigeria to the Tomo Wounded Bear, Condoled Chief of the Abenaki people of New England United Nations Indigenous peoples and Tribes of the Americas to the United Nations.

Chief Tomo Wounded Bear of the Abenaki Federation were joined by other African Kings and other native chiefs to perform a ceremonial welcome to their ancestral shores out of respect and honor for His Imperial Majesty, Oba, Dr. Adeyeye Enitan Ogunwusi, Ojaja II, the Ooni of Ife (in picture above) on June 10, 2016 at the African Union Permanent Observer to the United Nations in New York. The program was organized by African Views in partnership with the United Indigenous peoples and Tribes of the Americas to the United Nations and supported by various partners including UNESCO and CARICOM. 

NOW, that you have followed this man, Thomas F. Snizek this far, let us delve even deeper, into his genealogical background ... which was mapped out by a researcher in Québec, Canada, and subsequently (again) document-for-document, mapped by my person last week.

1. Jacques Richot b: about 1683, South Berwick, York County, Maine
d: April 8, 1729, Ste. Michel d' Yamaska, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada
married Elizabeth Dubois b: February 21, 1683, Cap de la Madeleine, Champlain County, Québec, Canada m: September 23, 1703, Ste. François du Lac, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada
d: January 17, 1742, Ste. Michel d' Yamaska, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada
[Jacques Ritchot was the son of Richard Nason and Shuah Colcord. He was born in South Berwick, ME In 1682, a group of French militiamen and Abenaki Indian warriors raided Sturgeon Creek where the Nason family lived and brought many villagers to Canada as hostages. Jacques was among them. His father was killed, his mother later remarried to John Douglas in ME. He was baptised Jacques Ritchot in 1691 (he was about 8 or 9 years old). His name was a french translation of his father's first name. His mother was called Suzanne Calquet in the baptism record. Naturalized French May 1710.
He grew up in Ste. Francois-du-Lac, probably in the Crevier family who employed him and married Elisabeth Dubois-dit-Brisebois.]
His Father: Richard Nason b: 1649 in South Berwick, York, ME 
His Mother: Shuah Colcord b: 12 JUN 1660 in Hampton, Rockingham
2. Joseph François Richot b: March 27, 1713, Ste. François du Lac, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada d: August 1, 1748, Ste. François du Lac, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada
married Marie Anne Giroux b: August 12, 1717, Beauport, Montmorency County, Québec, Canada
m: October 14, 1737, Laprairie, Laprairie County, Québec, Canada d: June 16, 1789, Ste. Michel d' Yamaska, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada
3.  Joachim Michel Richot b: August 12, 1743, Ste. Michel d' Yamaska, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada d: December 30, 1819, Ste. Michel d' Yamaska, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada
married Charlotte Couturier b: March 18, 1745, Ste. François du Lac, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada m: Ste. Michel d' Yamaska, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada d: December 28, 1776, Ste. Michel d' Yamaska, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada
4. Joachim Richot b: July 14, 1770, Ste. Michel d' Yamaska, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada
married Thérèse Victoire Joyal dit Lafrenière b: December 30, 1773, Ste. François du Lac, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada m: February 11, 1793, Ste. Michel d' Yamaska, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada
5. Joseph Richot b: October 6, 1799, Ste. Michel d' Yamaska, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada d: November 1, 1886, Ste. Germain de Grantham, Drummond County, Québec, Canada
married Geneviève Chapdelaine dit Larivière b: November 16, 1798, Ste. Michel d' Yamaska, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada m: February 5, 1821, Ste. Michel d' Yamaska, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada d: December 15, 1868, Ste. Michel d' Yamaska, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada
6. Narcisse Richotte b: January 16, 1835 Ste. François du Lac, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada d: June 7, 1920
married Clarisse Marotté dit Labonté b: May 8, 1838, Ste. François du Lac, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada m: November 22, 1859, Ste. François du Lac, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada d: July 1, 1892, Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts
7. Joseph Richotte b: November 21, 1865, Ste. François du Lac, Yamaska County, Québec, Canada d: February 20, 1934, Cranston, Providence County, Rhode Island
married Philomène Kirouac b: September, 1869, Province of "French" Québec, Canada m: January 19, 1892, Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts d: March 11, 1934, Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts
8. Wilfred Richotte b: October 10, 1900, Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts
married Alfeda Gagné b: January 9, 1901, Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts m: September 6, 1919, Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts d: August 23, 1965, Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts
8. Lillian Richotte b: December 12, 1921, Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts d: October 20, 2013, Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts

She married Thomas F. Snížek Sr. b: October 26, 1915, Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts m: July 28, 1938, Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts d: January 6, 1972, Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts
8a. Barbara Phyllis Snížek b: March 10, 1939, Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts d: November 18, 1988, Worcester, Worcester County, Massachusetts
married Bruce (Beava) Arthur Burton b: December 25, 1937, Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts d: February 18, 2007, Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts
8b. Thomas F. Snížek Jr. b: May 26, 1944, Fall River, Bristol County, Massachusetts

Thomas F. Snizek Tomo Woundedbear Completed Ancestral Mapping Chart

Thomas F. Snizek Tomo Woundedbear Narrative Ancestral Mapping

As anyone can review, evaluate and investigate themselves, none of Mr. Thomas Snizek's ancestors lead back to Abenakis, or even Native Wabanaki People's along this land. Rather, they go to Austria (probably Hungarian or Polish), and his late mother Lillian (nee: Richot)

September 05, 2017
Face Book Conversation from Thomas F. Snizek and Douglas Lloyd Buchholz:

"I spent my whole like involved in Native life."
"All I can say in my defense is what I've been told my whole life."
"I was a chief of an Inter Tribal group and was made a Chief in a Ceremony in a Mide'wnwim Lodge Ceremony … Traditional Chief (Spiritual Chief)."
"I will travel to see you when I come back, is that good enough? I was elected a Chief in Dighton in 1995 and was made a Chief in Ceremony 2012 thereabout."
"All I know it what I have been told by my Mother."

Douglas Buchholz: I would like to confirm that Lillian Richot was in fact your mother, and that Thomas F. Snizek Sr was your biological father as well … genealogically speaking....

"They are and were."

"Well my friend ... Like I said, I will contact you when I get back home. And if what you say is true, then I have been lied to my whole fucking life … really fucking great. See you then."

As a SIDE NOTE:

July 1988 -
White Wolf (Lee Maddox), Chippewa Elder Obituary:
White Wolf (Lee Maddox), a member of the Sault Sainte Marie Chippewa, passed away at the age of 65 years of age He was born on the Chippewa reserve, and was a graduate of La Salle High School in Michigan and the Rhode Island School of Design. During the Korean War, he was a Master Chief Petty Officer and served with the Navy "Seabees" (Construction Battalion) for thirty years.
He was also a civil engineer for the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, a position from which he retired in 1996 due to his heart condition. In addition, he served for two terms on the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Commission of Indian Affairs. He founded the Dighton Intertribal Council in l989, was its Acting Chief until l997 and has continued as Elder Chief. During his term, the Council was given the Town Hall Building on Rte 138.
White Wolf gave many lectures to civic organizations regarding Native American culture and frequently visited classrooms of children throughout the New England area. He is survived by his wife Libby, three daughters, Lisa, Lee and Debra and a son Anthony. He was to be a grandfather in September.
His funeral will be held on Monday July 13, 1998 at eleven in the morning at: Birchcrest, 189 Gordon Neck Road, Swansea, Massachusetts, followed by burial at Dighton Cemetery.
In lieu of flowers, contributions may be made to St Joseph's Indian School in Chamberlain, South Dakota, 57325.

If the late Lee "White Wolf" Maddox was the founder of the Dighton Intertirbal Council in 1989, and was that organization's Acting Chief until 1997 ... how could Mr. Thomas F. Snizek be elected as that organization's Chief, all while being a member of Howard Franklin Knight Jr's group in Vermont, and subsequently, Paul Wilson Pouliot's group based in Franklin, MA [now based where the Pouliot's live in Alton, NH], and then the Swanton, VT, based Mazipskwik group, and very likely the Nulhegan group based in Orleans County, Vermont now ?


Mr. Snizek claims he was made a Chief in a Ceremony in a Mide'wnwim Lodge Ceremony … Traditional Chief (Spiritual Chief) ca. 2012." 

NO GENEALOGY, NO COMMUNITY, NO ABENAKI, and he's a "Chief of the Abenaki"?

Does anyone in N'dakinna SMELL the BULL SH** yet?

Does anyone in N'dakinna SEE the CREATED "ABENAKI" PERSONA yet?

In conclusion, per this evaluation, it would appear that with the sacred ceremonies of the Midewin, as well as the Wabanaki Confederacy, wherein apparently ANYONE can present themselves as an "Abenaki" and or an "Abenaki Chief" ... and with a click of the heels and wave of the hand ... taaah daaaaah ... 

NOW they are entering into Native Museum's across N'dakinna.
NOW they are entering into the United Nations across N'dakinna.
NOW they are entering the Sacred Spiritual Lodges across N'dakinna.

REPRESENTING the WABANAKI.
REPRESENTING the ABENAKI.
REPRESENTING themselves.

Yet another INTERESTING newspaper document from 1873 regarding the Phillips Family

Awhile back I began exposing my research of the Antoine Phelps/ Philips/Phillips SR. and his wife Catherine Emery / Coderre family as well as the Bowman/Bruchac research ... etc.

Please see and review the Phelps - Phillips Time Line: 

http://reinventedvermontabenaki.blogspot.com/2015/08/more-details-genealogically-accurate.html

"that they were or are descendants of either Chief Philippé of the Upper Coos, New Hampshire area ca. 1796 ... and or Louie Métallic of the same time up to 1847 who died in West Stewartstown, Coos County, New Hampshire."

The Phillips family of both Franklin County, Vermont and Chittenden County, Vermont CAN NOT be from either Chief Philippé nor of Luie Métallic paternally speaking. 

January 22 1859
Vermont Phoenix Brattleboro, VT Newspaper
Two colored men, father [Antoine Sr.] and son [Peter Sr.], surnamed Phillips and a Frenchman [Peter Trueheart], nephew of the elder [Antoine Sr.] Phillips, were committed to jail at Burlington on Friday, for a murderous assault upon Peter Goulding of Hinesburgh, fracturing his skull with a cart rung and otherwise bruising him in a shocking manner. Peter Phillips Sr. has been dealt with once before, for biting a man’s nose nearly off.

Now, very recently, yet another newspaper article has come to my attention.

Dated January 13, 1873 in Burlington, Chittenden County, Vermont, the article is shown herein and subsequently transcribed:



Michael Phillips, SR. colored Frenchman, was brought up in the City Court this forenoon for gross intoxication on Saturday evening.
Himself and brother Peter Phillips SR. had been about town all day, and were "how came you so" when evening came on.
About 8 o'clock they emerged from the saloon of Peter Rivard on Church street, when brother Peter endeavored to get Michael, who works at Alderman Shedd's farm in South Burlington, to go home.
Considerable difficulty ensued, in placing Michael in his sleigh, and there was a great outcry, which soon brought together a crowd of spectators.
Policeman Bliss interfered, and the brothers were taken to jail where they spent the Sabbath in sobering off. 
Michael was fined $5 and costs by Judge Noyes.
He testified to purchasing his "poison" of Peter Rivard, who will doubtless be brought up when found by the officers.

Two colored French men ... their father was "Black" in the 1850 Highgate, VT Census. 
Peter Phillips SR. when he went to Windsor State Prison in April 1859 was "Mulatto" 

... and their mother Catherine Emery dit Coderre was a french woman from Saint Hyacinthe per the Notre Dame d' Rosaire Parish records.

I'll let this article "sit" here and stare back at whoever reads this blog, but especially for the likes of Dr. Frederick Matthew Wiseman, Ph.D., Donald Warren Stevens, Jr., right along with VT Governors' Jim Douglas and Peter Shumlin, along with VT Senator's Illuzzi, Hinda Miller, and Diane Snelling, as well as Eloise Beil, and others that were "involved" in creating these false "Abenaki Tribes" within Vermont, post - 2006.

The REALITY and TRUTH ... is what it is. 

And it will be posted, layer after layer, document for document about these so-called "Abenakis" of Vermont.

There's a difference between KNOWING and merely believing ...