This Blog is to Inform, to Discuss, and to Show/Provide as Truthful of an Accurate Awareness Documentarily of what has been and is happening in N'dakinna (Vermont, N.H. etc), by those claiming to be Allegedly Vermont or New Hampshire Abenaki, etc.
"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!
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...
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.
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.
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.
In addition to this detection within AncestryDNA etc, of triangulating the descendants of Louis Bowman (1844-1918) and that of the Vaudry/Beaudry/Voudry/Veaudry descendants from Charles Vaudry/Beaudry (1820-1896), Douglas Buchholz transparently sought ‘another-set-of-eyeballs’ i.e., more academically-genealogically and genetically inclined expert, via email communications with Jacques Beaugrand, PhD., of Dunham, Brome-Missisquoi, Qc., on May 04, 2023.
In conclusion of Beaugrand’s own evaluation based on the genetic and genealogical data (presented to him by Buchholz), Jacques sent email on June 18, 2023 to Douglas Lloyd Buchholz, the following:
According to the sharing of segments and the Thrulines generated by AncestryDNA, Simon VAUDRY is the most recent common ancestor of the contemporaries who were tested by this company.
Based on the total of autosomal DNA segments shared between Brianna Rae SCHMELZER (through her mother Donna Lee WASHBURN) or Michael LAUZON or Jean Pierre BEAUDRY and the BOWMANs, it appears that the BOWMANs are also descendants of Charles VAUDRY. In other words, the presence of autosomal DNA from Simon VAUDRY in the Louis BOWMAN (1844-1918) lineage can only be explained by the fact that Louis BOWMAN's father was one of Simon VAUDRY's sons. The fact that the autosomal DNA of Michael LAUZON, Jean Pierre BEAUDRY and the BOWMANs all converge onto son Louis Pierre “Charles” VAUDRY (1820-1896) strongly supports that Charles VAUDRY was also the genetic-contributing father of Louis BOWMAN (1844-1918).
The equation must take into account the fact that the BOWMAN men have the Y chromosome (yDNA) of the VAUDRY men who descend from Jacques VAUDRY (1636-1688) m. 1661 Jeanne RENAUD (1642-1714), which line includes descendants of Simon VAUDRY. This signature has been triangulated at https://bit.ly/46c7Uwr
The yDNA signature of this VAUDRY/BOWMAN line of men has a clear European origins, and absolutely no pre-Columbian Amerindian ones.
In conclusion, the documentary information compiled by Douglas Lloyd Buchholz, as well as the results of the multiple DNA tests carried out by relatives of the VAUDRYs and the BOWMANs, clearly demonstrate that one of Simon VAUDRY's sons -- most likely Charles -- was the biological father of Louis/Lewis BOWMAN (1844-1918), from whom descend the BOWMANs tested in the present study.
Jacques P. BEAUGRAND, Ph.D.,
retired professor and researcher at UQAM,
Founder of the French Heritage DNA project and DNA consultant
Throughout the Vaudry/Beaudry/Voudry and Bowman DNA Study, transparency and evaluation was necessary. Nothing is infallible or 'set-in-stone' or 'absolutes', yet the genetic results do not lie.
Only beliefs & perceptions distort the results to fit-one’s-agenda(s), politically, or otherwise.
As pathological "Abenaki" Pretendians, the Bruchac's in essence, pulled their loving grandfather Jesse Bowman out of his grave, and stuck a feather in his grandfather's scalp. It didn't matter what the REALITY and TRUTH of his grandfather Jesse, and great-grandfather Louis's histories were. Because Bruchac changed his grandfather's ethnicity, posthumously, and used his grandpa's life experiences and rebranded Jesse Bowman into an "Abenaki". ... making a career out of the lies he spewed about his Grandpa.
"Well, I'm a person of mixed ancestry. I was raised by my grandparents, who were actually on the English and American Indian side.
My grandfather, Jesse, was Abenaki Indian but was one of those people who in his generation did not talk about being Native American.
About as far as he would go would be to talk about things like the fact that he left school in fourth grade because they kept calling him a dirty Indian and so he jumped out the window and, as he put it, never come back again.
Yes, going straight for the stereotypes. Joe picked this up and applied it to his grandfather, to make his grandfather BECOME an Indian, I surmise, AFTER Jesse Bowman had died.
His wife, my grandmother, was a highly literate woman, a graduate of what later became Skidmore College and had a house full of books.
And her ancestry, she proudly traced it back to the Mayflower, although there's some interesting things about that ancestry too, which are uncertain, but really somewhat colored as you might say.
On my dad's side of the family it's Slovak from a little place called – or not so little community called Trnava in Slovakia, not far from Bratislava.
And as a child I was aware of these ancestries, but wasn't really given a lot of information about them.
[How could Joe Bruchac III be aware of the Bowman ancestry of his grandfather Jesse' paternal father's ancestors, when in fact, Jesse Bowman's father was illegitimate at birth according to the June 11, 1845 Baptismal Record recorded in the parish of Notre Dame de Granby, Quebec, Canada?]
I was kind of in a state of ethnic denial because the Slovak side wanted you to be good Americans, and the Native American side wanted you to fit in with everybody else and not draw attention.
And then the English side, which is sort of there and not really paying much attention to history.
It was a period when I was born in 1942, during the war and after the war, of sort of American triumphalism and people wanting to think of the melting pot as really being a positive thing."
Jack Lynch (Joseph and Marge Bruchac's brother-in-law) even on March 07, 2002 stated, "There presently is a family group from this line that is circulating unfounded genealogical information for their personal economic benefit, so be careful."
Louis (1844-1918) Bowman was NEVER the child of Francois-Louis O'Bomsawin (1801-1888) and Agnes-Anne (Onlinass). Marge (Bruchac) while in Amsterdam, sought to imply her great-grandfather was an O'Bomsawin, by creating fraudulent pseudo "proof" by 'connecting' her great-grandfather Louis to an O'Bomsawin family in Odanak.
I asked myself WHY (when I ran into this nosorigins.qc.ca entry in the summer of 2009) would Marge (Bruchac) do this after Vermont's waterfront 'Quad' Celebration (that she had attended with her brother and nephews) to her grandfather's father Louis?
The Bruchac's 'shit' on their families and ancestors for what, their respective careers predicated on a lie, that Louis Bowman (1844-1918) was an O'Bomsawin from "St Francis" (Odanak). What a gift / legacy to give to their Bruchac descendants. Such a shame.
Why do I say the above? Because I have spent from 2003 and in particular focus, since 2015, seeking to secure the parentage of Louis Bowman, father of Jesse E. Bowman.
Initially in good faith I had solicited the Bruchac's to work with me in this Bowman DNA Study, but they rebuffed my endeavor, after I'd given the Wampanoag's the public chronologically formatted newspaper timeline regarding Bruchac's articles that I had compiled. Bruchac told his son Jesse, that they couldn't trust me. I was looking for a Bowman anyway, not a Bruchac to do a Y-DNA test.
In January 2016, I'd sought out a male Bowman descendant descended from Louis Bowman (1844-1918) and found Brady Sherlock on AncestryDNA, followed by Mark D. Sherlock his father, and wonderfully was informed by Mark through his son, of their neighbor, Robert Howard Bowman of Queensbury, NY.
Robert Howard Bowman
son of
Howard Leroy Bowman
son of
John Jack Bowman
son of
Louis (1844-1918) Bowman Sr.
This was a Bowman who carries the Y-DNA from his great-grandfather, inherited (passed down) through the direct-male-lineage. So whatever the Y-DNA results would be, would be passed down from Louis Bowman (1844-1918) Sr.'s unknown genetic-contributing father.
As per previous posts in this blog and on social media Facebook, when I wasn't even really entertaining the endeavor of finding Louis Bowman's Baptismal record one evening, I actually did find it. Per his Civil War Pension Record of his own testimony, he had stated he was born July 20, 1844 in East Farnham, Quebec, Canada, but had declared that he could not find a birth record in East Farnham, Qc.
Louis Bowman's genetic-contributing father remained elusive for some years to my awareness, yet one day in FTDNA, a Peter W. S. Vaudry, matched to Robert H. Bowman and I emailed him in mid-September 2017 inquiring of his Vaudry paternal ancestry.
Followed by Y-DNA matches to Robert Bowman in FTDNA:
I myself sought out DNA samples from Thomas LaBeff, George Veaudry and Edward Veaudry, and well as autosomal DNA samples from other Bowman relatives of Robert Bowman in the ensuing years, seeking detection of the correct Vaudry paternal lineage of which the Bowman's seemed to have descended from. Robert Bowman is currently a confirmed Haplogroup R-FT94529, in France. The Vaudry lineage predominately was located in and around Lamberville, Normandy, France ca. 1600s until Jacques Vaudry immigrated into what has become Canada at Trois-RiviĂšres, Quebec, having married there in 1661 to Jeanne Renaud.
I explain some of these developments and findings in the above file folders as well in the above URL's, so I won't bore anyone with that data explanation. I am still seeking a Direct-Male-Voudry Descendant to test their Y-DNA in comparative to that of the Bowman's and Vaudry's, including that of LeBoeuf/LaBeff's as well.
In late April 2023, I began creating a mapping of the Bowman ancestral linage, as I have detected it objectively, based on the DNA and genealogical research I've conducted.
CORRECTION: Marge retired from Penn (University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia), an Ivy League University.
The Van Antwerp lineage of which Jesse E. Bowman descended maternally, has one single Ots-Toch, "the Mohawk Indian Princess" (much like Pocahontas) in the 1600s and seemingly a lineage that descends from a Montauk Indian ancestress as well, also in the 1600s. Consistently, the Van Antwerp's were identifying themselves as White European descendants, and they were not intermarrying back into Native Community, though the daughters of Ots-Toch were Mohawk interpreters. The descendants married into White families, not Indian families. The Dunham's were consistently White identifying, derived from White families as well, and were seemingly a 'well-to-do' progeny of which Jesse E. Bowman (1886-1970) married into, (after having married Katherine (Gray) Bowman in Dec. 1911 and having (seemingly) four children with him).
Resulting in a divorce in a Special Session of the Court in November 1917, it was Katherine (Gray) 1m. Ritchie 2m. Bowman, who seems to have subsequently married a third time to Jesse's brother John Jack Bowman (1893-1973), taking her 4 children by Jesse, to be raised by his brother Jack Bowman! Whereupon Jesse Bowman remarried, into the Marion Edna Dunham family in 1917, eventually raising "Sonny" (Joseph Edward Bruchac III), son of his daughter, Marion Flora (Bowman) Bruchac (1921-1999).
END OF STORY.
I did the research, and no, it was not 'cyber-stalking' or 'bad-jacketing' as Marge Bruchac assumes. I haven't communicated with the Bruchac's (any of them) since December 2015).
It was just good old sleuthing research by someone without any credentials or PhD attached to their name, and nor was I seeking 'authority' or permission from the Bruchac's or anyone else, to do this research. Bruchac's didn't help me because they have always had something to hide (their lies and manipulations) ... while in contrast ... the Bowman's, Vaudry's and LaBeff's helped because they had something to share, and sought out the reality and truth of their ancestors.
The research is never done, as there are a few more steps to take genetically-testing speaking, but soon it will be completed, regarding the Bowman's and the Vaudry's, from Charles, Louis's genetic-contributing father.
Bruchac's perpetuated 'Stolen Valor' tactics on Odanak First Nation, to a naive public, to benefit themselves, for anyone who would listen to their storytelling about the grandfather and great-grandfather they descend from.
With Stolen Valor, there are criminal and societal consequences; in contrast, there ought to be consequences for what he and his sister have done against Odanak First Nation, and to other Tribal Communities.
Whose been gatekeeping Children's literary works all these years, with hundreds of Native books in every classroom? With the "I'm an Abenaki too" blurb therein.
Answer: Joseph Edward Bruchac, III.
Whose been gatekeeping the Wampum Belts? And invited a non-Status Pretendian group of Vermont into Sotheby's Auction House, when such group (Elnu) had NO LEGAL STANDING whatsoever to be there or involved in such matters? Thus giving the Elnu group of Pretendians "legitimacy" ... Did anyone consult with Akwesasne? Did she consult with Darren Bonaparte? (Doesn't seem neither were consulted whatsoever, and I have to ask why not?)
Who knew actually who "Sophie" really was, or that her son Louis had two half sisters?!
I sincerely thank Bob Bowman and E. J. Bowman Sr and Jr., Mark Sherlock, Carol and Walter Jones, Bruce Geroux, and so many others for helping me. I also thank the Bruchac's themselves, for without their 'resistance' in their snark, their arrogance and denials, and storytelling about their familial roots, I would never have noticed Jack Lynch's post in Genforum or the nosorigins.qc.ca stunt by Marge, etc.
Marge insinuated that I am a cyber-stalker, and that I have lied about their Bowman ancestor Louis, but she has NOTHING to substantiate her claims.
JUNE 19, 2018
Fake DNA results from people who have never given my person their samples?
Does this look FAKE to anyone?
If the Bowman's had not provided their swabs or spit for the DNA testing, then this particular post would not be viable in SHOWING the DNA results.
Even to Marge Bruchac herself! As she did in fact, test in FTDNA and AncestryDNA, matching to Robert Bowman, BEFORE January 2016.
IF I didn't have the Bowman DNA that Bruchac's are descended from and related to, how was it that I screen-captured Marge Bruchac genetically atDNA matching to Bowman Bowman in FTDNA and AncestryDNA when Bob had tested in both genetic-testing companies in January 2016?
My research has been very open (transparent) with both the Bowman's and the Bruchac's throughout.
Yet, Marge Bruchac whined and decried my research on social media January 17, 2021 on January 24, 2021.
It didn't take a rocket scientist nor a PhD Academic
or anyone with professional credentials whatsoever
to locate Louis' 1845 Baptismal or map the genealogical
And Marge Bruchac, just before she hastily retired from Penn State with full retirement benefits, but still a "volunteer" to Penn State, stated this in June of 2023 about my person libelously, and also about Leroux and Watso:
"The identity attacks on my family, over three decades, have been driven in large part by the work of a cyber-stalker and amateur internet researcher who goes by the aliases "Salmon Raven Deer" and Mark Leckie, but his given name is Douglas Lloyd Buchholz. He used to falsely identify himself as Abenaki, and he began this slander campaign after he was ousted from the Missisquoi Abenaki community in the 1990s for being a convicted pedophile and stalker. He (Douglas Lloyd Buchholz) has no academic, genealogical, tribal, or other credentials whatsoever. His website - called "The Reinvention of the Alleged Vermont and New Hampshire Abenaki" - and his Facebook pages mix true and false genealogical data with innuendo and slander, much of it intensely focused on my family, illustrated by photos and cherry-picked documents, twisted genealogical chains, distorted conclusions, and outright lies.
Then there is the fraught "research" conducted by Dr. Darryl Leroux, Associate Professor of Social Justice at St. Mary's University, whose book "Distorted Descent: White Claims to Indigenous Identity" (University of Manitoba Press 2019) focused on investigations of the newly sprung "Algonquin" groups in Canada made up of white people (many of them white supremacists) who have self-identified as "Metis" to claim First Nations lands and rights. This was a very necessary critique, but it had unexpected ripple effects when Leroux expanded his theoretical grouping into the United States. Relying on a number of fraught, racially biased, non-scholarly sources - including Buchholz's website - Leroux collectively, and inaccurately, identified all of the Vermont and New Hampshire Abenaki nations as "Eastern Metis Organizations." His argument was constructed, in part, around an unauthorized anti-Vermont-Abenaki "Council Resolution" that did not actually come from the Tribal Council at Odanak First Nation. It was released by Odanak citizen Jacques Theriault Watso, without the approval or sanction of Odanak Chief Rick Obomsawin."
My Response to her vile diatribe of falsehoods:
1. How and when was I ever determined to be a "pedophile" by any psychiatrist and or doctors (and I have been evaluated by many in retrospective) and/or convicted of any crime whatsoever?
Now ask yourselves this question:
2. If I was falsely identifying myself as Abenaki, then why did I do so (AFTER I got the membership card signed by Michael Delaney of Homer St. Francis' group in Swanton), before traveling 3,000+ miles across the United States? If I were falsifying my self-identity, ought it not to be the responsibility of said "tribe" / group to discern the truth BEFORE issuing said membership card to an applicant, who claims they are "Abenaki"? No one was validating objectively whether I had Abenaki ancestry in 1994. But that also applies to 1978 when Marge's brother Joe Bruchac obtained his "Abenaki" Card from the same group as well, does it not?
I live in HUD Housing (Section 8), and Federal and State Law states that one cannot be a convicted felon or convicted of sexual offense, and reside in HUD Housing. So how have I ever been a convicted pedophile. Take all the time one needs (including Marge) to realize how stupidly unfounded the accusation is, coming from Marge Bruchac herself.
Marge Bruchac is an educated academic and yet, she's too stupid or arrogant to realize the fallacy of her accusations against my person, and that such are explicitly unfound BS "spoon-fed to her" by her fellow WHITE pretendian "Abenakis" of Vermont. It's blatantly absurd the idiocy of Marge's rant of June 2023.
Coincidentally, or not, she spewed this vitriol AFTER my May 30, 2023 Facebook postings 'outing' the genetics results that Louis Bowman (1844-1918) being the son of Charles Vaudry / Beaudry (ca. 1820-1896).
As for Marge's further accusations against my person, I surmise that anyone worth their salt or merit, reviewing the URL's above in this post, can indeed ascertain the merits of my research, and that of the DNA results that match the Bruchac's cousin's the Bowman's to the specific Vaudry ancestor, father of Louis (1844-1918), being Charles Vaudry / Beaudry (1820-1896).
Marge & Joe can keep believing their are Abenaki descendants. But this Salmon knows the truth of their lies. Is Marge Bruchac going to deny that she herself tested at FTDNA and AncestryDNA? Is she going to say that the DNA results of Earl John Bowman Sr. and Jr., and Bob Bowman et al are merely lies too?
Her dismissiveness of the research and genetic results connecting Louis Bowman (1844-1918) to Charles Vaudry SHOWS the Bruchac arrogant denialism, due to inflated egotistical self-importance.
5. Does one gain the indication whatsoever that he relied on anything I have ever done on this blog or otherwise, directly or indirectly? The same applies to Jacques T. Watso or anyone else in or from Odanak First Nation, or any other for that matter.
Simply take what Marge or Joseph Bruchac have claimed as "facts" about their grandfather and that of his father Louis, over the years, and compare it to the results of genetic DNA, both yDNA and atDNA, including the genealogical research mappings, and arrive at one's own conclusions as to the truthfulness or fallacy of the data itself. Who's lied and whose sought out the objective truth about Jesse Bowman and his father Louis? Call me a "convicted pedophile", and "a liar"; such slander or libel matters not to me. Reality and TRUTH and FACTS will always 'trump' the Pretendians / grifters vitriol lies and smear campaign against my person, or of anyone else doing the necessary research.
6. Did Marge or Joe ever actually bother to look for the reality and truth of their Bowman ancestor Louis's parentage, after Marge obtained Louis' Pension record from National Archives pre-2006 after Odanak Chief Gilles O'Bomsawin sent them these two letters? I think not.
Communications with the Pretendians in the USA by Odanak Chiefs Walter G. Watso &
Rick O'Bomsawin retrospectively with Paul Pouliot and others, gave the "Abenaki" Pretendians in the States "legitimacy" and "platform" retrospectively-speaking.
Odanak First Nations Chief Gilles O'Bomsawin fought (as he could) against the fallacies of legitimacy
of the "Abenaki" Pretendians in bothVermontand New Hampshire.
Gilles O'Bomsawin began seriously detecting the Vermont "Abenaki" fallacies.
The chief of the "Abenaki Nation of New Hampshire" was also sent a letter from Gilles, requesting kindly objective evidence of Charles Francis True Jr.'s "Abenaki" ancestry. I surmise that Odanak Chief Gilles was met with the same 'snark' and arrogance from Mr. True, as Gilles received from the Bruchac's.
6. Remember/recall what Jack Lynch said in March of 2002 about his brother-in-law Joseph and sister-in-law Margaret Bruchac, and Joe's two sons James and Jesse Bruchac.
Marge Bruchac SHOWS no objective evidence that I was ever convicted of anything in a Court of Law, nor any evidence that I am a pedophile, or that I have (as she put it) mixed true and false genealogical data with innuendo and slander, much of it intensely focused on her Bruchac family, illustrated by photos and cherry-picked documents, or that I twisted genealogical chains, distorting conclusions, and outright lied.
To claim that I hold no academic, genealogical, tribal, or other credentials whatsoever, is again, her and their assumptions. No one knows my training, my skills, my affiliations or my credentials. Just because I don't tout a "Dr." at the beginning of my name nor a "PhD" at the end of such, does not necessarily mean I am without training or credentials. But that is here nor there, my EGO is not as inflated as Dr. Marge Bruchac PhD.'s eh.
So, yes, I was mandated by Richard "Skip" Bernier in 2011 onward, to do as I have, genetically and genealogically, socially and historically, to evaluate and document the Pretendian groups of "Abenakis" in Vermont and New Hampshire, and the memberships thereof.
I have the documentation of MANY THOUSANDS of Pretendian "Abenakis" and their doings. As one can review, I also have Gilles O'Bomsawin's 2003 letters to the Pretendians, such as Joseph and Marge Bruchac, et al.
Objectively, I would say that if anyone is spewing innuendo and slandering / libeling, it is Marge Bruchac herself, et al. which has been documented, screen-captured and archived as well over the years since the smear-campaign began by these Pretendian "Abenakis". It has been she and her brother, including his son Jesse who have cherry-picked documents and twisted genealogical tidbits, distorting conclusions and outright lied, IMHO.
Answer: Nulhegan's membership (so I have been told by a Vermont Nulhegan member) are merely A-3, meaning that within the group Bruchac's have no voting rights, and that (quote) Don Stevens gave the Bruchac's just something to give them a home while they complete their research". Yet, Bruchac claims he's on the Nulhegan Elder's Council. (Well, he is 80 years old ...). Don Stevens (Nulhegan ... formerly of Homer's group) and the Bruchac's joined hands, in "legitimizing each other" ... go figure ...
Jesse Bruchac, Joe's son speaks Abenaki. That MUST make Jesse a Nulhegan Abenaki? Or does that simply give him "legitimacy" in his BECOMING an "Abenaki" to further the Bruchac agendas?
If I buy Rosetta Stone learning to speak German, does that make me a German? If I decided to wear Lederhosen when I go shopping does that make me a German? If I have the surname Buchholz, does that make me German? Perhaps naive people would conclude YES! But I am actually descended from a Seattle-based SMITH family that descended from Sweden that came over to this country in the 1630s paternally. Or better yet, I can pretend I am a Scots because of course, my birth certificate indicates my father was born in Bellshill, Scotland adjacent to Motherwell, below Glasgow eh?! But how I digress...
Oh that's right, the 4 groups in Vermont implying their groups are "tribes" based on the State of Vermont politic legislature, imply that CULTURE trumps actually CONNECTION ANCESTRALLY to the Historical Abenakis.
Did the Bruchac's too get a 'letter of deficiency' (for not having objectively proven descent from the Abenakis) from Carol (born GROMATSKI) Nepton? Or was it because they also received membership cards, due to Homer St. Francis Sr. or Mike Delaney favoring them in a dynamic of "you-pat-my-back, and Homer patted theirs", thus mutually "legitimizing" each other through the years? So the Bruchac's jumped from the one group to another, where they could get more favor, more "legitimacy" more benefits? Now they are post 2004-Nulhegan "Abenaki".
What does this say and show about the Nulhegan group formed in 2004 and their membership criteria? Or that of any of the other 5-6 "Abenaki" groups in VT-NH etc?
That they are bringing in members who are not Abenakis at all? Who are getting Vermont State benefits over other citizens of the state based on FRAUD? Because they are bringing in WHITE PEOPLE who are Playing Indian? The list is long who are members of these groups who are actually NOT Abenakis. That's the point isn't it? Creating FAKE "Abenaki" members ...
Genealogy and DNA Results prove this out (FINALLY) 100% percent, that Louis Bowman (1844-1918) was the child of two 100% French Canadian people. When Jesse Elmer Bowman stated he was French, he wasn't lying.
In April 2023, Joseph Bruchac, stated, "Know yourself. Know your roots. Know your stories, before you begin to borrow or take someone else's."
Well, what has Joseph Bruchac and Marge (his sister) done but take other people's stories and made them their own. Taken someone else's roots (O'Bomsawin ancestors) and made them their own.
Recently, per the September 30, 2023 in the Times Union Newspaper by Chris Churchill article entitled "Churchill: Is Joseph Bruchac truly Abenaki?" (URL at the top of this post), Joseph Bruchac III, stated defensively, that (quote) ...
"Native heritage is not only about blood and ancestry". He suggested cultural membership can be learned and earned with hard work and sincere attention, comparable in some respects to his mastery of karate.
“Am I not a black belt because I wasn’t born as one?” he asked.
Mr. Thompson explained that "We get so many people calling for genealogy. They want to do this, and I tell them, I say "You can spend years trying to track down your ancestry to prove that you're a Cherokee. Now why don't you learn the Cherokee language? Why don't you learn the Cherokee history? Why don't you do the Cherokee culture? Why don't you really become Cherokee? (October 22, 2003).
In other words blood ties (genealogical descent) and their documentation have their place, but real Cherokeeness comes from walking the walk and talking the talk, both of which can be learned at almost any stage of life by anyone who claims they are Cherokee, and wants to become Cherokee.
Thompson felt that to "become Cherokee" someone must be willing to put in the hard work of learning about Cherokee history and culture.
So, in essence, becoming Cherokee or Abenaki, is today, like putting on a coat, hat, and footwear, to 'look' authentic, and pulling 'culture' from books, CDs or DVDs, museums and powwows etc. and grasping the ability to say O-Si-Yo? (Hello is O-Si-Yo in Cherokee)
Merry Cherokee Christmas Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Chuck Hoskins Jr., my Grandmother SAID ... đ ... that her father-in-law James Corby Woodard, of Norton-Stuttgart, Phillips County, Kansas "was a Cherokee Chief" does that now make me a Cherokee too? I think not.
Guess who this is in the early 1980s at 12-13 years of age?
If I go to a Cherokee gathering as a guest, or go to a powwow held by a Cherokee Nation sponsor, does that make me Cherokee? I think not. If I learn how to speak Cherokee from a Cherokee speaker, does that make me a Cherokee Indian? I think not. I am not naive as I was as a younger person. I educated myself, evaluating beliefs/perceptions vs. truths and realities.
And yet, the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma brings in (allows) less than 1% descendants of Cherokee ancestry, who's descendants dye their hair black, and who pontificate how 'super Cherokee' they were/are, having never been raised within Cherokee Nation Community, whose ancestors consistently married White men from the 1700s into the present time.
Does 'culture' trumping actual Cherokee "blood" genealogical connections? Just thinking out loud here. I myself am not Cherokee (never claimed to be whatsoever) and neither was my mother, or her father or his father, James C. Woodard, or his ancestors! But hey, my Grandma Said So!
Bruchac's aren't the only FAKE "Abenaki" of Vermont-New Hampshire ...
And they hoodwinked Wabanaki First Nations as well ...
MORE FAKE "ABENAKI" in New Hampshire ...
Paul Wilson Pouliot became a member of Howard Knight Jr.'s "Abenaki" "Cowasuck" group in the summer of 1992, as a "Laurentian Iroquois" per his application, and by December 1992, he had become a "chief" of the "Abenaki Nation of Vermont" INCORPORATED (created by an "Abenaki" fraud, the late Howard Franklin Knight, Jr., et al.), because he and they were and are FRAUDULENT "Abenakis" of Vermont-New Hampshire!
Paul W. Pouliot's "Cowasuck Band of the Pennacook-Abenaki" Incorporate headquarters "tribe" is in Alton, New Hampshire, what with Paul and his second wife, having moved from Massachusetts, to gain "legitimacy" and platform. Staging for better benefit$ ... in their "I'm an Abenaki too" grifting/scheming persona's.
The "Abenaki Nation of New Hampshire" Incorporated in Whitefield, N.H ... and MANY groups in New Hampshire were created and organized by Pretendians / "Abenaki culture vultures"...
Joseph Paul Bunnell's group is in Alstead, New Hampshire
His group are a mere SPIN OFF from another FRAUDULENT "tribe"
in Vermont Created by the late Nancy (Millette) in 2006.
Same old song and dance by FRAUDULENT "Abenakis"
I mean seriously, do the Wannabiiak (Pretendians)
and
Race Shifters Believe their own BS?
Of course they do.
Paul Bunnell claims he has HUNDREDS of Native Ancestors.
They all IGNORE their 99.9999% of their WHITE Ancestors ...
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