Bruchac's:
"Is it our story to tell? Search for your own ancestors (if you're actively policing someone else's genealogy, you're doing it wrong). Unless someone hires you to help them search for their ancestors, that's their story to research and tell.
In addition to the stated above, it is essential to realize that crowd-sourced non-academic sites like Wikipedia and Ancestry allow members to add their "facts." Although they have some "safeguards," heavily biased and untrue information often gets through."
Confirmation bias (also confirmatory bias, myside bias, or congeniality bias) is the tendency to search for, interpret, favor, and recall information in a way that confirms or supports one's prior BELIEFS or values.
First off, the Bruchac's, years ago, were published in newspapers, as stating that Carol (Worthen) Bruchac's ancestry was merely ENGLISH.
For over 50 years + there was not a peep or squeak by the Bruchac son's or her husband Joe. about HER ancestry being other than derived from EUROPEANS.
WHY all of-a-sudden does Joseph Bruchac bring up Louis Cook and that of Timothy Bedel and Susannah (Willard) Johnson on that blog? Bait? Dangling a carrot? Or do the Bruchac's realize that their narrative about their Louis Bowman not work anymore for their "Abenaki" "legitimacy" so they have to go on other genealogically fishing expeditions, scrounging around in their ancestral garbage cans looking for any scrap of ancestral 'proximity and associations' to the Abenakis in order to "legitimize" the Bruchac's themselves.
Bruchac's have no Abenaki ancestry. Bowman's have no Abenaki ancestry. Neither did Carol (Worthen), Joe's wife, and mother to her own two son's James and Jesse ...
It's NOT about "Indigenous" or "Native American" or "Indian" descent.
It is about the FACT that the Bruchac's have no Abenaki Ancestry. It's NOT about their ancestors proximity or associations or captivity of two months by the historical Abenakis either.
Bowman's On The Record September 2015 THIS is "confirmation bias" perpetuated by the one who is accusing other's of confirmation bias and "fueling racist hate speech".
Be MINDFUL to the ways in which Pretendians / Race Shifters speak and write. They do in fact, deceive, lie by omission, and play trickery with the language they use, intentionally with their usage of particular words.
Case in point: an OPINION "hit" piece in which Donald Warren Stevens Jr. of the 2004 concocted Pretendian group, the Nulhegan Coosuk group (that came out of the Clan of the Hawk Pretendians by deceit and lies and extractions) claims that Darryl Leroux and other experts have inaccurate information.
Does not the chief of the Nulhegan, formerly a member of the Swanton, VT-based St. Francis-Sokoki group, not realize that Leroux has simply cited the State's own published findings on group of Pretendians he himself was formerly a member of, from Eve Jacobs-Carnahan commissioned by the Attorney General's Office of Vermont in 2002? Or how about the Bureau of Federal Acknowledgement Dept. of the B.I.A.'s Proposed Findings of November 2015 and subsequent Final Decision of July 2017?
Or the THOUSANDS of documents from within these groups, including email communication(s) etc., membership lists, and cards, Youtube videos, newspaper articles, etc., that Donald Warren Stevens Jr. seems to FORGET ABOUT pertaining to his group and that of the group he formerly belongs to.
Don "Juan" LOVES to use that word "uplift" but behind closed doors, he's "tearing down" Odanak and anyone else to disagrees with his beliefs, that he's an Abenaki.
Actually Leroux as does Christopher Roy, both fine academic scholars, have an understanding (awareness) of the Vermont Abenaki Experience and both have experience in doing this type of research. So what if Don "Juan" Stevens Jr. has their own "experts" like Sherry (Blanchard) Gould or Randy Kritkausky, a retired academic, who promote Pretendians and Race Shifting Vermont "Abenaki".
The documents from WITHIN these groups etc have been OUTSOURCED, and academics are LOOKING AT and REVIEWING the merits of these Vermont "Abenaki" right along with the genealogies of those claiming to be "Abenaki" by the THOUSANDS today. Don Stevens touts the narrative that his maternal grandmother Lillian/ Pauline / Delia was "hiding" for fear of Eugencial Sterilization in her lifetime, yet this narrative has been debunked.
Importantly, Don "Juan" implies that the Eugenics SURVEY Records were State Records, That such records "clearly shows that his Phillips family were Indians." He likes to point at those records as PROOF but that is also debunked 100%. Those insinuations inside the VES study of the Phillips Family were merely subjective claims made by those descendants "passing" as having implied ancestors allegedly of the Caughnawaga Mohawk Indians .... NOT ABENAKIS. And we know about the Kickapoo Identity Hijacking in Danville, Vermont back in the day, by Gypsy Devil Jake Way of Paradise Alley along with some of the Phillips' too.
Mr. Don Stevens, in his OPINION "hit" Piece against Odanak and Leroux et al. simply doesn't address the nagging questions. HOW are they of the Nulhegan group or any other ACTUALLY ABENAKIS when they have been undocumented being Abenakis for over 300 years?! They are in FACT documented as French-Canadian or Black Descendants in those 300 years. Genetic testing proves this out 100%.
Richard "Skip" Bernier testifying on his own behalf, nor Timothy De LaBruere or even Jeanne (Deforge) Brink ever officially testified or acted on the behalf of Odanak First Nation. Don Stevens Jr. KNOWS this. Stevens is lying because I have the documentation.
Again it s not about "Native" ancestry. I know that Don Stevens descends from a "Native" ancestor.
Or "Native American" or "Indian" or "Indigenous". What Don "Juan" omits from his diatribe of a VTDigger opinion "hit" piece is that they are NOT ABENAKI DESCENDANTS, they do not descend objectively from ANY KNOWN ABENAKI HISTORICAL COMMUNITY OR TRIBE OR NATION.
NOR does he actually have ABENAKI ANCESTORS. Marie Sylvestre was an ALGONQUIN HURON. But like Sherry (Blanchard) Gould and a THOUSAND other Pretendians, they have turned Marie Sylvestre Prevost into an "Abenaki" for their own purposes and agendas. Just as Rhonda (Besaw) Grimes - True has attempted to do, in their lust for personal and political "legitimacy".
Taken in part or in whole, Don Stevens really hasn't proven objectively anything. He omits that he was on the Board of Directors as a member of the Homer St. Francis Sr. group in Swanton, Vermont, and that he jumped over to the Nulhegan "as chief" in 2010 so as to manipulate the VCNAA being "stacked" with these Pretendians so they could grant themselves approval of their own group's petitions for fraudulent state recognition. That it was NON ABENAKI Pretendian/ Johnson State College Professor Frederick M. Wiseman who had constructed those petitions. That these groups had Odanak descendants within their ranks, which provided the pseudo "legitimacy" of these groups of Pretendian "Abenakis" / race shifters.
Homer's group: Jeanne (Deforge) Brink (Obomsawin), John Sherwin, Mali Keating (Sadoques) et al.
Elnu group: Ron and Norm Sadoques (Sadoques) et al.
Koasek group: Trudy (Call) Parker (Toxus) et al.
Nulhegan group: Raymond Norbert Bernier (Obomsawin) et al. (Skip Bernier's brother)
Of whom, NONE of these people had the ability to gain First Nation's STATUS at Odanak, from when their Abenaki ancestors came from, back into Vermont and other states!
Who's genealogies did these group's point to for their "legitimacy" to those Vermont politicians, in order to shit all over Richard "Skip" Bernier and other actual Abénakis from or of Odanak First Nation?!
That's what Don Stevens omits in his diatribe rant of "legitimacy" in the recent VTDigger OPINION "hit" piece.
ALSO Be ATTENTIVE to the institutional agencies in which give the DECEIT and LIES room to flourish without qualification, and objective evidence. These agencies and institutions, including some within Native Communities and persons who ALSO often prop up and promote Pretendians to the point of "protecting" the dynamics that afflict those same Native communities.
Joseph Edward Bruchac III
INSISTING
that his Grandfather Jesse Elmer Bowman
and his Great-Grandfather Louis Bowman
were Abenakis. đ
Really? Cause where I am sitting, having done the research ...
Just like I done "Buffy's" research on her lies ...
and gave my research to CBC Canada
I have also been doing the research too on the Bowman's, the Vaudry's and the Bruchac's...
Y-DNA results and Genealogical Documents
SHOW OBJECTIVELY otherwise.
Notre Dame de Granby Parish, Shefford County, Québec, Canada:
English: June 11th, eighteen hundred and forty-five, we the priest undersigned have baptized Louis, born July 20th, eighteen hundred and forty four, at/of Ely, of unknown parents.
Godparents: Louis Sénécal (maternal grandfather) and Josephte Vincent (dit Jarret) (maternal grandfather's second wife), who could not sign.
The Roman Catholic priest who signed this particular baptism record was Jean-Fleury Baudrand.
Jean-Pierre Beaudry matches multiple Louis (1844-1918) Bowman descendants in AncestryDNA, MyHeritage, 23&Me and Family Tree DNA.
Since January 2016, having tested Robert H. Bowman, we have tested the Y-DNA and evaluating the atDNA (autosomal) results over days, weeks, months and years. First Robert matched at M269, with no results on the Y-DNA. But one day, he matched to PWS Vaudry. That tester and I communicated, evaluated respective genealogical paternal lineages, and I encouraged PWS Vaudry to begin a Vaudry Surname Project within FTDNA, and I began looking for other Vaudry male surnamed potential testers at my own expense. Edward Vaudry, George Vaudry and Ernest Vaudry, et al.
LeBoeuf matches to the Vaudry's because of a NPE (meaning: Non Paternal Event) happened in the 1700s between a male Vaudry and a female LeBoeuf in Quebec, Canada.
So when the Bruchac's INSIST that their Great Grandfather Louis (1844-1918) Bowman was an Abenaki, and that his son Jesse Elmer Bowman was an Abenaki too, PAUSE for a minute or two, review what I just shared with you kind folks in America, here in this blog, what the Y-DNA of the Bowman's is telling not only the Bowman's and the general Public, but also what the Bruchac's are DENYING, as of June 10, 2024.
Now ask yourselves WHY are they in DENIAL as to the Baptismal Record and that of the DNA results?
WHY haven't the Bruchac's NOT mentioned ANY of this on their blog that began on October 01, 2023.
September 30, 2023:
October 1991: "My brother Joe and I researched Jesse Bowman's background 'because of his physical appearance and found that he was part-Native American. Ultimately, Jesse Bowman's sister-in-law (Katherine née Gray who had married Dwight E. Ritchie in 1907 and then Jesse Bowman in December 1911, and later to John Jack Bowman in November 1917) wrote a letter (to Joe) "confirming" that Jesse (her former husband Jesse as well as Jack, has been part-Native American.
How can that alleged letter be anything but subjective, probably written 'under duress & pressure', and written by allegedly Katherine, when in FACT, Louis Bowman Sr. (1844-1918) was illegitimate, of two French-Canadian parents? NOT from "St. Francis = Odanak First Nation" ...
It takes a simple GOOGLE SEARCH to collect the pieces of the puzzle ... to detect a prominent Pretendian, much like "Buffy" (Beverley Jean Santamaria). Doesn't take a rocket-scientist at all.
But DENIALISM by Pretendians is much like the denial river that Rachel Dolezal has been swimming in too.
Pretendian-ism is very much like the fraud referred to as STOLEN VALOR. It's just as damaging to Abenakis and other Native Peoples as it is to the Soldiers who fought and died, or been maimed and traumatized, who have to confront FAKE pretend people who 'dress' up and lie about their service records, if they have such in first place.
It isn't about Indigenous, or Native American, or Indian, or whatever. Bruchac's and THOUSANDS of other Pretendians DO NOT HAVE ABENAKI ANCESTORS.
Pretendians/ Race Shifters constantly be digging through their ancestral garbage cans looking for any scrap of Native ancestry, even back 200 to 340+ years ago, in the hopes of putting on an 'air' of "legitimacy" for Profit$$$$$$$$. If they find one 300+/- years ago, it's like winning the Lottery these days.
