@@DeidresStuff that's right. You went by what family told you and you didn't doubt it. My granny was part Cherokee. I can't imagine if she was still here and I accused her of being a liar. She'd probably punch me in the mouth. And I'd probably deserve it. I think whomever is taking the word of DNA over Johnny Cash maybe should be punched in the mouth as well. I think most Cherokee folk would agree with that too. Miss you granny Dot ❤️ Rip Johnny Cash.
True, I was told we have Native American Blood in my (maternal grandmother's) family as well. Also my aunt said she was able to trace my maternal grandmother's family back to the Stevens, Baily, and Aldridge families who came over on the Pilgrim Ships, but I find no Aldridge on the Pilgrim Ships so maybe I misunderstood her. My Grandma does have all three of those names in her family. I would be proud to be Native American, I wish it were true. Instead I will simply be proud to support Native Americans by Boosting to my Representatives & Senators and Voting For every single Bill that supports them and their way of life as they ask us to.
It's an extremely-common family story of the 'Cherokee grandmother' that never seems to actually get any more distant a relative over the generations. I expect in the South it was often just to 'explain' any not-white-enough-traits even if that wasn't really necessary. Wouldn't want to be 'Black Irish' or something, for one where people were mostly Protestant, etc, if there was black hair in the family, for instance. But a lot of people pass on these stories, whatever their origin or reality, without any reason to question their grandparents' accounts. Doesn't mean they're trying to fool anyone. (My particular ancestors pretty much arrived in the later 19th century and didn't move far from port a long time, so no such stories for us, but people still tended to guess such about an uncle of mine, who kinda did look the part at least by Western TV show standards. )
They are NOT Native Americans. They are The People, the First Nations. The ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, from Europe, murdered between 60 and 100 million of the indigenous people, 4 of your states still have laws in which it is legal to kill any People who are in a town centre, in a group of four or more, and therefore considered a WAR PARTY. They still kill The People these days. Look at what Trumpanzees first Executive Order was in his first term. Stole land from the Lakota Sioux. Biden sold private land, a Reservation, to RTZ for mining. The persecution, courtesy of the blasphemous "Manifest Destiny", is rife in the Ultra Secure Asylum.
DNA is a curious thing. My grandmother was Cherokee. In this day and age of testing some of her children have tested out as having Cherokee DNA and some have not, yet she birthed all of them. This is possible because our parents can only contribute so much DNA each time a child is conceived and obviously this means not all of their DNA will translate to the max 50% they can contribute. My mom was crushed she tested as having no Cherokee DNA. But that doesn’t mean her ancestors are any different than her siblings and this is documented in the census rolls they use to determine native bloodlines. So she does have Cherokee ancestry and she is registered with the tribal council. So don’t let anyone misinterpret what can be documented by birth records. If it’s paternal lines it might be shaky but not when the bloodlines are maternal. All my grandmothers births were witnessed and her being the mother is not in question. Genetics is a lottery.
It's because the test are garbage and the science isn't what they say. One man sent two samples to every testang facility and didn't get back the same results twice. It's junk. I've seen a twins also get completely different results. Like they weren't even related. It's nonsense. They can't tell you where you came from. They just want the DNA for cloning experiments.
So you have honorary Cherokee heritage? It sounds like you have no Cherokee DNA to pass on. Quite confusing. Like Johnny Cash I also have African ancestry, I.e. one half of one percent. Who knew? None of my grandparents, parents etc. We were “all Italian “.
In case people in other areas of the country don't know, everyone in the Appalachia area has part Cherokee in their ancestry. How or why it started, I don't know but it is a thing that is said in every family. I don't believe they are, but people are very adamant about it. And Roseann's mother had African American blood so no shock she is half her mother.
@TheSuspira There was actually a study (Cornell I believe) that determined nearly all the claims turned out as African markers. It seems that a lot of Scotts irish worked alongside slaves during their seven year endentured servatude and apparently produced offsprings that needed plausible deniability to slip past the "one drop" laws. I was sold the cherokee story my entire youth, but refuted it and had no interest in NA culture. They always mentioned my cheekbones, But turn out I had no markers at all.
@@BeccaJoyDowdaBriscoeMoorehead It turns out that DNA testing can produce different results each time you take it. There's even a case of identical twin sisters having different DNA test results. DNA testing is not 100% fool proof.
@@maxi-me The DNA testing for consumers isn't fool proof and different companies and the same companies with identical twins may give different results...so you may still be a Red Injun!
The Cherokee were one of the tribes that often adopted colonials into the tribe. They lived with the tribe, following tribal ways, but would have had no "Native American" DNA. They were still considered Cherokee by the Cherokee. That's where all this claiming of Cherokee ancestry comes from, and why it cannot be proved or debunked using a DNA test. People today are so preoccupied with blood and DNA but in colonial times many Native American cultures didn't look at the concept of belonging in that way.
@@seanhewitt603 unlike you, it had nothing to do with appearance. Once you where adopted into a tribe, you where of that tribe. It wasn't a DEI thing.
@jamesstrozier8571 I wasn't adopted into any tribe, greyskin, that's be you planetkiller liars tricking the Cherokee into thinking you were human enough to be one of them... I'm full blooded Inuvialuit... You Fuckin colonist settler trash serf squatter...
Met the man when I was a teen. I was dating his cuz and he walked in thanksgiving with June. They both were about the most down to earth folks you could ever meet.
I think we sat in front of him at the Metropolitan Theatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba when we went to the movies. Of course we were really young and unaccompannied so it could have be someone else. But He was supposedly in town that night.
Waylon DID have Indian blood. I lived near a Navajo reservation in Farmington NM. Waylon came at least 4 times a year to perform for them. They dressed up very well to see him.
My grandma was Cherokee, and I've never respected Cash, until later on in his life, when he finally wised up. Throughout his career, he glorified and promoted adultery, drunkenness, theft, carousing, prison sentences, and licentiousness.
Am Jamaican n have ALWAYS LOVED his music…n he loved Jamaica…. Cash and second wife, June Carter, actively supported the construction of an SOS Children’s Village in Jamaica, on a plot of land in Barrett Town not far from their own holiday home. The country music star later dedicated one of his songs, “The Ballad of Annie Palmer,” to the children of the village, donating all royalties from the song to the SOS Children’s Village. When discussing his decision to make this contribution, Cash said, "It will mean that more abandoned children can have hope, find love and have a future." As often as possible, Johnny and June would visit the village, Cash usually bringing his guitar and singing with the children.
@@cattaylor7031maybe he was trying to make up for it in his own weird way. It doesn't really matter anyway. Nobody knows why anyone does what they do good or bad. Just be thankful for the good.
It takes until approx 13:33 for this video to address the issue of Cashs' ancestry. He (or rather his daughter) didn't have any Cherokee/Native American markers but did have distant African heritage. However none of that alters his legacy, or his love for the Cherokee people. EDIT...this has nothing to do with the video but for those interested, researchers have found that Native Americans have genetic markers only found in the Jewish people. One of the earliest European explorers found that a particular tribe (who had never seen white men before) could not understand any language but Hebrew. Food for thought? 🤔
Johnny, and her mom, both could have African ancestry. I didn't believe it, until I saw a picture of Eisenhowers mother If a man, has straight hair, it's easier to look non black..if they keep hair SHORT
@@tonypastor705 He only claimed it because his mother told him they had Cherokee ancestry, and he grew up thinking he was. It’s probably why he was so passionate about Native Americans.
In these days to claim to be part Cherokee was in deed a brave and good thing to do. Nowadays are different times and it would be stupid to judge him with nowadays rules.
Lol.. my father was 'arrested' with Mr Cash picking those flowers over in Starkville. The reason it was such a fuss was they were picking them on the Dean's lawn at Mississippi State & his wife just freaked out. I heard that story more times than I can remember. My Papa was in this organization called the JayCees & they had sponsored the concert Mr Cash had done. My family still brews moonshine over in Alabama & that's what they were drinking that night. My family used to put Jimson Weed in their shine. It adds a very hallucinogenic property to the shine. Basically, Mr Cash & my Papa were tripping ballz that night
😂 Cool story and I totally believe it. My family is the same and they have had some bizarre but memorable experiences that most people don't believe simply because they don't have real family and haven't experienced life southern style. Work hard, party hard. That's my family motto. We've had some good times just like you described. My family brews shine and grows flowers too. Specifically of the Mary Jane variety. Makes for some interesting adventures. ❤🙏
What a great story keep it going through your family hun my dad used to get compared to Johnny cash as he looked like him his friends called him the man in black 😂 he passed at 48 😢 i was the youngest 13 such a loss it’s not till you get older you realise how young that is
Roseann Cash inherited talent & also took after her father in looks, imo. I am a fan of her music & grew to appreciate Johnny Cash too. His last recordings are heartbreakingly poignant, oh- how they make me weep.
I was wondering about that; I can't think of an easy way to cut myself in half with my table saw. Nonetheless, I only use it when there is no practical alternative; I know a few people who've lost fingers to them. I can't imagine how it would be to loose a brother to a sawmill accident; poor guy.
Those huge open blade timber cutting blades are still in common use around the world. The creation of band saw cutting largely replaced the open blades. As a teenager I worked on smaller open blade multi blade "gang saws" which cut differing angles on a single length of wood.
I wasn’t knocking either of them, I was just so surprised by the Waylon Jennings addiction. We loved him to death in the late 70s when I was in school. Jerry Jeff Walker, Willie Nelson, oh they were all a bit younger and their voices and lyrics took you back to their country roots.
Many from Sicily have African gene markers. The Aghlabids conquered the island in the 800s and brought more diversity into the gene pool from North Africa. While Johnny had no gene markers seen in Native American populations, due to the way genes are assorted, other relatives might have them. Many people from the area he came from can trace ancestry to Appalachian melungeons.
Very good points. Also Cherokee membership is not a blood quantum requirement; it is derived from lineage. They have full-blood Whites enrolled thru inter-marriage of Whites to Indians. A blood test proves nothing.
This is b.s There's a old clip where Johnny cash is in front of native Americans. He said.."I have very little Indian blood'. Except 100% here in my heart for you!! He went on to sing the way only Johnny Cash could!!
That's not how it works, bro. Thanks, from a US Army Veteran who is also a Citizen of a Sovereign Native Nation. Legally speaking: You cant claim it if you aren't legally tied to it in documentation.
Dad a full tribal member and mom 1/2 native, her father was German. In fact America is all about a native north American native because if you use the 3r method of making your m ie rrr (pushed together) and see a small / at the start of the America, the put ot together and it is /Arrrerica a puppy love story where if you look for the roots of the name erica it is like a German princess while /Arrr(/arry) is Me. Guess I might of inherited some of Grandpa's gene's because 2 Canada day's ago I was called a colonizer despite being a member of the First Nation.
@nonamemcgillicutty9585 well, excuse me! And I'll have you know that there is native American on both sides of my family, and what I meant was, to have the spirit of native American in your heart is an honor, I didn't say that made them one! So no reason for you to be insulting.
Just because there is an absence of native american dna markers in Roseanne Cash’s DNA doesn’t mean she didn’t have Native American ancestry. Ancestry is a whole other thing to actual individual DNA. If Johnny Cash’s cherokee ancestors went back many generations, and if it was only one ancestor, there is a huge chance his dna would not show native american ancestry. Given where he grew up it is very likely he has a few Native American Ancestors if his people went back many generations like mine. My great grandmother was a North Carolinian Cherokee but I only have a tiny little sliver of Native American genetic markers. Geneology is really important in establishing ancestry. Looking at your DNA can help understand migrations and regions of origin but it isn’t the whole picture. Mad respect for the man in black, I grew up listening to my family cover Cash songs, and we would dance and sing along - his music is a huge memory of my childhood. Rest in Peace Johnny.
Had an full blood Apache friend many years ago. He went to the happy hunting grounds after a deadly car crash. He could play guitar and sing better than most. RIP Ross Dosela
One can have Native American ancestry but not have any native DNA. Just mathematically, even if one has a full blooded native ancestor, by 6 generations you have about 1 percent DNA from that ancestor which may not be able to tell as a distinct race. If conservatively, there’s a new generation every 25 years, by 150 years your full blooded ancestor may not show up on DNA test. Family history may have been a person with a quarter native blood was your ancestor in the distant past, but after many generations this distant ancestor was still talked about as “grandpa” even though it’s been over 100 years. Another way is many whites were taken captive by natives as prisoners but later became integrated or adopted by the tribe. These people thought of themselves as natives and passed on stories to their descendants saying they were tribal (which may have been true) but the history became garbled and the descendants just thought they had a full blood native ancestor when in fact their ancestor was just adopted.
@@gj1234567899999 Ross was born in Bylas,Az. On the San Carlos Indian rez. Ross was full blood fierce Apache. He would scalp you and sing a song over your grave beautifully! I miss him and his beautiful voice.
If you feel like throwing rocks at Mr. Cash, go watch the video of him doing the song "Hurt". Nothing you can say will ever come close to what Johnny put himself through. He was a good but tortured man, and he always stood up for others. And he had a remarkable wife who stood beside him. I miss his presence in the world.
No one is throwing rocks at him. Most of us knew about his issues with drugs for many decades. As for him mistakenly belief he was Cherokee, that belief was extremely common and he wasn't being deceitful. It was simply a family myth that was passed down over the decades and centuries.
I think Johnny can be remembered as a Native American. DNA of one child does not say that he was not. DNA is complicated stuff. Thanks for the music, Johnny. Rest easy ❤
I BELIEVE THAT ANCESTORY DNA TESTING IS NOT ALWAY QUITE 100 %. THEY WOULD HAVE NEEDED TO TEST FROM EVERY INDIAN TRIBE, ETC.. MY FATHERS MOTHER HAD CLAIMED THAT THEY WERE CHEROKEE, CHOCTAW AND IRISH. MY MOTHERS PARENTS (GRAND PARENTS) WERE " LITHUANIAN AND BOHEMIAN" THEY BOTH SPOKE THIS LANGUAGE. BUT ANCESTRY DIDN'T QUITE SHOW ALL OF THE DNA. WE ARE ALL WHO WE ARE, WE ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD..
😂😂😂😂😂😂 Let's smooth over the fact that his parents or grandparents covered up his African American heritage by using that same old lie, "we're part Indian." 😂😂😂😂😂😂
Try tri racial. Many people whose family go back to 1776 are no matter what they look like. Choices were more limited back in the day and how dare they not live by today's ideas.! ....jesus.. @@RevSinkiller
“My Darling Vivian” (2020) is a great documentary from Vivian’s viewpoint; the production does a wonderful job building the foundation of who Cash was before and during his career’s beginnings and what role his success and drug addiction had on his marriage and family life. The film is enhanced with their daughters and many other close friends giving firsthand accounts of Johnny and Vivian’s relationship. If you are interested in learning about Cash from a fresh perspective, I highly recommend watching it. Unlike June and Johnny, Vivian was the one voice without a microphone, stage, and national audience to present her side of their affair…which she was too devastated and hurt to even consider speaking about the matter with others outside her immediate family. The documentary is a very engaging and moving account that is well-researched and presented.
She wrote a book presenting her side of the story called I Walked The Line…yes she was a private person but she loved her family fiercely and found some peace later in life thanks to her daughters.
I wonder if he could have been an undiagnosed Bipolar. Who knows? But the trauma in his childhood without doubt was a part of his dysfunction in life. His trauma was severe. It was a concentration camp level trauma. Kids experience trauma on a whole different level. It can break their brain. It can cause one to believe in their core they feel condemned, worthless and doomed, thus decisions are fraught with a fatalistic feeling of already being worthless so why even try to do the right thing. I know this by my own experience. You get to live life falling in holes abusers dug for you when you were most vulnerable. It’s not an excuse. It’s just a fact.
well said. except for some dirty deeds he did when he was an adult (you can look them up). At some point, you have to stop making others suffer for what happened to you, because then their life is ruined.
My first 45 record was ring of fire. I remember watching the Johnny Cash show. Have loved his music my entire life. Rodney Crowell’s I walk the line tribute is outstanding.
I am from the south, and many hordes of white people claimed to have Cherokee DNA. My family had that same idea - old great-grandpa married a Cherokee. When he did, the other brothers turned on him and ostracized him. This is a common story from the mid-1800’s. I am a genealogist, and have researched my family history thoroughly. There is absolutely no Cherokee ancestry in my tree at all. I have my lines all the way back to Europe. Lately, I have had a lot of extended family do their DNA. There is no Native American DNA in any of us. It is a story concocted by many families back in the mid-1800’s to win a Native American land lottery and other perceived benefits. A very high percentage of these stories are just that, stories. There are several sites on the Internet documenting these concocted legends.
The same story with our family. The family genealogist, my Dad's first cousin even had pictures of a Native American everyone swore was on of our ancestors. But, when the family genealogist turned in a same to 21 and me, she discovered that she had zero Native American blood, and so, either would I nor anyone else in our family. Less than 10 years ago, there was a RUclips video out explaining about how this myth is prevalant in the south. I started suspecting then, that the claim that our family had Native American blood was a farce.
Have you watched Candace Owens investigation into K Harris's ancestry. No African blood what so ever and although her mother was Indian (east Asian) her ancestry is heavily into Irish and Syrian Jew...LOL!.
My Great Grandmothers maiden was Cash, her father and Johnny's cash Grandfather were brothers. They lived in Virginia. The sad part the records in Virginia were destroyed in a fire. My Great Grandmother was a wonderful person and could talk you to death. I enjoyed sitting on the porch and watch her with her bonnet on.
I come from southern Missouri, near the Trail of Tears. My dad's mom always claimed that she was 1/4 Cherokee and I was very proud of that my entire life. When I was 63 one of my nieces had a DNA test to check out our ancestry. It turns out that gramma was 1/4 Irish but she was ashamed to tell my grandpa. Top of the mornin'
Well that's the problem with mindlessly accusing people of cultural appropriation. Most of the people who went to America had tragic histories of their own but were made to feel ashamed. Imagine if you had Scottish ancestors that lived through the Highland Clearances. However that experience is retold in families, if their descendants are introduced to the story of the Trail of Tears they will identify with it. Most importantly, they will honour the memory of the Trial of Tears much more than people whose ancestors didn't have similar experiences.
@@CaptainCautious When I was little (mid-1950s), my adoptive mum was always saying crap about the Irish--like they were drunks, eyc.. Then it turned out that I'm like 20% Irish. lol I guess it was a thing at the time.
@@GlasPthalocyanine I'm part Scots, and embarrassed to say, I never heard of that. I will have to check that out since some of my DNA is from the Highlands. Thank you for posting this.
I have recently researched my dad's family, and I have found that the information I was told by my mother was just not true, we take what we are told by people we trust without question, but it doesn't mean the info is correct.
Your Mom didn't lie to you, it's just what she was told. And it maybe true, what she said DNA kits are not reliable... They keep changing my lineage every 6 months. So I'm not sure where my family came from. DNA isn't reliable at all.
Not every single bit of information provided by DNA researchers is guaranteed to be 100% perfect. There are several serious ongoing issues and legal investigations into the DNA results and authentication processing by some of these companies.
Like New Zealanders. They all claim to be part Maori. But this means their ancestors, every white settler, men and women, must have had sex with the Maoris, and produced kids. I dont think so.
Yes, it is. I am "supposedly" 1/64 Cherokee. My husband's great grandmother was full blooded. His entire family all used to speak of her. Apparently, she married the great grand father, stayed with him until the kids were older, then left the family and moved back to her people. She refused to wear shoes for any reason. My husband had brilliant blue eyes yet his sister didn't. Nor did his father who died decades before I ever met my husband. Who knows. My husband has been dead for 10 years now so I can't question him about the connection.
A "Cherokee grandmother" was a common way to explain dark skin/hair and different facial features among mixed people in the days of segregation. He likely had an ancestry from the mixed tri-racial Melungeon peoples.
My grandmother was half Cherokee. Its far enough back that i don't know if it would show up in my DNA but I still feel a connection through my grandmother
It will go back hundreds of generations. I believe if an ancestor had the bubonic plague and survived and had children, it shows up and there might be a natural biological defence that you have against it.
Roseanne Cash's mother was Vivian Liberto Cash, and as you stated in the video had some African roots in her heritage, that is where the DNA came from, her mother not her father Johnny Cash!
@@tratneyHe could have since his DNA wasn't tested we will never know. DNA is random you don't always pass down the same genetic material to your children. We only know Roseanne DNA didn't show any.
Side note… I wish you did all the narration for this channel. Your articulation, dialect, tone, pitch, and projection is perfect; you’re so easy to listen to. I love when you’re the one covering my favourite celebrities! I rarely listen to the “country” music of today. So many of the artists have become too intertwined with pop. IMHO There’s just no comparison to the real deal classic country greats like Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams (and Jr.) Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, John Prine… there are some, but not many. They just don’t make ‘em like they used to 😉
I'm 65 and my mother-in-law is 89. She has dark eyes, dark hair, and olive skin. She always tells everyone that she is part Cherokee. While showing me the family photo album, she showed me her Great Uncle Woodrow "Woody" and some of her cousins and aunts and uncles and her parents. Some of them, were very white, some of them were very tanned and Uncle Woody looked straight up black with a great big afro and wide nose. She tells everyone that uncle Woody was a half blooded Cherokee Indian. So my wife and I had DNA tests done and my wife found out that she was a small percentage of African heritage but no Native American / Indian.
Well the Cherokee did let some run aways stay with them and live life as a Cherokee. So I’m sure those people probably told their kids that they were Cherokee as well.
African Americans believe we have Cherokee in us as well. My dad told me that when I was a kid. Took a DNA test, no Native American on his side, but distant European ancestry. So maybe "Cherokees" were really mixed race African/Europeans who tried to pass for anything other than Black.
It’s the way trends go, back when I was socializing about 10 or 15 years ago all the white dudes pretended to have Viking heritage, go back to the 1990’s and everyone was Irish. There I was with red hair and freckles able to trace my surname and family tree back to Ireland and I just said I was American. It’s the only culture I knew and liked at the time. Just American. No need for trends or DNA tests. I am not going to sit in a pub drinking black beer syrup that begins with a G and whine about The British or indentured servitude. I am just going to do something fun and productive like Americans do.
I read that June Carter pursued him relentlessly while he was on tour. His children suffered im sure. I love his daughter Rosanne Cash singing. Very talented.
Rosanne is still close friends with her ex-husband, Rodney Crowell, and they've recorded together several times since their divorce. Some people are better as friends than marriage partners. Marriage is friggin _hard!_
My great grandmother was a Métis and her mother was a full Cree. She married a Scotsman. Both my grandmother and mother refused to acknowledge their native ancestry as at the time it was considered to be having bad blood and if you wanted to be white then you did not let on you were part native. My mother could have passed for native. She had black hair, dark brown eyes and native features but she was at the tail end of Métis as she was 3rd generation. My brother and I could have claimed status but we were blue eyed and fair skinned. My father was of Irish descent, my grandfather was English and my great grandfather was Scots. Even in our DNA white won out. It wasn’t until my great aunt did our genealogy I learned we had a smidgen of Cree in us. Too late to be considered Métis. You do inherit all of your parents DNA but some traits are recessive and some dominate. To get blue eyes both parents must have the same gene able to express depending on how the strands align. If brown eyes combine with blue you get brown eyes. A DNA test may not show native genes as they have been overpowered by white or black genes because of how they combined.
Your ancestors must have come from the same area mine do. N. Dakota where many metis lived. My grandfather spoke Cree and had both native and Scottish ancestry. He married an Irish/Scottish woman who had pale skin and red hair which did lighten our branch of the family but people from that area still recognize our Metis features when we visit. Turtle Mt. reservation in Belcourt ND is where my father was raised until moving to the West Coast. Another interesting thing about Native American dna is that people who take tests in Eastern Europe sometime get a Native American reading. That is because most Native Americans descended from people who lived in the Mongolian region of Asia. They crossed the land bridge and colonized America 10's of thousands of years ago. The Mongols invaded much of Eastern Europe at various times and left a strong genetic imprint so sometimes East European gene markers line up more with native americans than people in their own region or even Mongolia.
My gg grandpa was born in Moose Factory, Ontario. His mother was Cree and his father was from Scotland and worked for HBC. They traveled from there to the Red River region before crossing into the US and settling in Ohio.
@@hilaryb8807 I'm not sure if my grandpa had legal status in Canada as a Metis but he and other members of his tribe would spend part of the year in Canada and the other part in N. Dakota. However, I do think they were primarily considered resident of the US and was a member of the Pembina and of Indian of N. Dakota. When the government allocated some land to the Pembina band, he was in Canada and didn't get an allocation, when he and the others went back to N. Dakota, the government gave them some land in Montana instead of N. Dakota because the allotments were used up. We still have some of that land which became oil producing land.
Yeah it also explains why everyone out here is driving around in new SUVs and trucks with Indian tags to this day. It’s a big problem because the state doesn’t recognise all but 2 tribes that are also part of the “official “ state tag for automobiles but everyone is driving around with non official Indian tags only allowed for the reservation. To get out of paying for “state” tags and taxes for the vehicle. So yeah everyone is “Indian “ out here.
My mother, born in the early 1930's, used to say that she was some small fraction of an American Indian. I think that must have just been a popular thing back in that time period.
In case people in other areas of the country don't know, everyone in the Appalachia area has part Cherokee in their ancestry. How or why it started, I don't know but it is a thing that is said in every family. I don't believe they are, but people are very adamant about it.
Her sister Anita was one of the greatest singers ever and her older sister Helen was an excellent singer and great musician. June was an OK singer, her main act was doing comedy, corny at that, I saw live three times and the act never changed. Her mother, Maybelle Carter, was a member of the original Carter Family, the first superstar group in Country music. They were discovered at the "Big Bang" that started country music at Bristol Tennesee in 1927. Maybelle Carter was also the first "Guitar Hero", she invented a style of playing that moved the guitar to the front of the band, from the rhythm section, this was before the advent of the electric guitar.
I grew up in the Arkansas Ozarks. The Trail of Tears passed through our area, avoiding malarial swamps further south. The number of people I knew back then claiming Cherokee heritage was crazy. Half the natives were kin to some runaway Cherokee brave.
I rarely watch Finding Your Roots although it is interesting. However, depending on how many generations have passed since, it IS possible for your parent to have some Native American genetic markers, even if you don't. There's also a slim possibility in cases of full blooded siblings for one to carry Native American markers while the other one doesn't. That is due to the randomness of inherited autosomes. If Cash's yDNA was NA, it could only have been detected by testing his son, Carter. If his mtDNA was NA, as a male he would have been unable to pass that down to his children; but his sisters children would inherit it.
FYI many blacks are part of the Cherokee nation they were former slaves that became part of the tribe after the Civil War so John R Cash may have had half the story from his kin. Or as many have mentioned he didn't inherit the DNA marker from his parents for Native American. Whichever the case Johnny Cash was proud of the Native Americans and believed he was one of them :)
Most people dont know about the five civilized tribes, called civilized because they adopted the white man ways. They also owned african slaves, and waited a whole year to release them after American relseased ours in 1865, They would wait to August 1866.
FYI: The surname is pronounced Presley, not Prezley. The King of Rock's German ancestor was named Pressler. EP had Cherokee ancestry (Morning White Dove) but also a Dutch forefather named Hoed.
I did a DNA test a couple of years ago and found out that Johnny Cash is my sixth cousin on his mother side.My paternal grandmother is a quarter Native American and I also have Native American ancestors on my mother side. No Native American showed up in my DNA test. I was very upset .That was the reason I did a DNA test was to see how much Native American I was and none showed up. You can look at my family and tell we are all Native American
My Mom meet Johnny and June when she was waitressing at the Carolina Inn which any music act back in the 70’s and 80’s came to Columbia, SC. She said the couple was very nice and humble. I love Johnny and June❤
I remember seeing him in a B&W movie... Just checked... called 5 minutes to live or Door to door Maniac. I don't remember the plot but he was a mean one and scary. Think it was on TCM or something similar.
He wanted the Hollywood lifestyle, that and drugs lead him to dump his wife and kids. His wife Vivian also broke up a marriage, by getting with her 2nd husband.
My family is basically Irish-my mum's family came from Islemacgee- is from Antrim, but left in the 17th century and eventually made their way to Australia. My dad's family came from Aughrane, Roscommon, But in the 18th century were told they had to CONFORM! They dropped the O', stopped speaking Gaelic but kept their lands an being Catholic! By joining the Diplomatic Corps, would you believe! They were stationed in Lima, Peru, where they maried into to the Aliaga family. They were descended from some of Pizarro''s band of Conquistadors! During the Napoleonic wars, when South America sought independence from Spanish rule. The Aliaga-Kellys helped the merchants of Lima and were expelled from the Diplomatic Corps, would you believe. They lost their lands and had to move to Dublin. My sister-in law was partially Cherokee, from St Louis, but possibly a bit French as well.... Being partly descended from a native American nation is fine, but descended from Spanish Conquistadores is not so good? In any case, the direct line of the family emigrated to the USA, where the work for Aer Lingus. I was born in England, but have spent most of my life in Scotland..... And so it goes. As the late Kurt Vonnegut put it...
I saw that. Of course I never miss Dr. Gates “Finding your Roots” ever. He was my inspiration for having my DNA test done. According to my results my DNA spans 21 regions. All over Africa, Europe, and the Americas. I’m proud of that. Clint Black also found out the unexpected as well as several other high profile figures. Just proves to me mankind is closely related. Starting with Adam & Eve. Cannot refute the Bible
I am Southern Cheyenne and Cherokee and I don't understand the big deal about Johnny Cash's claim about being part Cherokee. Many people were told they had Cherokee blood, especially folks born in middle of United States. Cash did tremendous good for Native Pride !
My late mom was 80 years old passing in 2006. All our life's we thought her late mother was part Cherokee giving her children a piece than their children. What I thought was strange because DNA apps hadn't came up yet. So I decided to go to large libraries looking up my family that my late mom was not happy about. I asked mom's oldest sister about family she talked about Irish, Sweden etc. no Indian by this time my mom got me to stop. Many stories passed through our family by early 2000's at a family funeral we found out we had black in the family coming in mom was gone by then. No one in the family that was left believed it we just had feelings. My twin brother had a DNA during the time people was asked to put DNA in sights my brother wasn't sure. I told him why not to help families of crime. So he did he said we had European, Irish and Sweden etc. like that but no Indian or black of course I didn't believe him because he was very prejudice. I had him read me out numbers. About a year later I had my DNA done by another site . Again no Indian or black. We my older sister's granddaughter with the site went with no Indian or black. Now we will give a twist to this my oldest brother who passed in 1998 daughter said she wanted to take one she grew thinking her mother had Cherokee (she passed in 2018) she always said she had because of her skin color and high cheeks . So bottom line if some how my twin brother & I was just a fulk adding in my great niece granddaughter of my oldest sister it maybe different with my oldest brother's daughter (who he said wasn't his for most her life) She had the test done coming back no Indian or black - on both her parents sides. So bottom line people may say it and it gets passed down by some who believes others won't. I even had people say it's in books in the library or in a large family Bible. Sorry you got to have that DNA.
My sister was sure we had black African heritage as well even though all of us have pale skin and blue and green eyes. Many of us are redheaded with freckles. We did the DNA. We were 99.7% white European with a smattering of Lebanese ancestry. I was going to be happy with whatever came back. I had a friend‘s wife who was telling everyone she was native American because she was from Oklahoma. She has blonde hair, very pale skin and blue eyes. They did the DNA. She has zero Native American heritage and it’s all European. I don’t know why people hate themselves and wanna be somebody else.
One thing my daughter pointed out when she did her DNA test, not a lot of indigenous or First Nations have taken the DNA tests because they know their family and history, so they don't need to do it. Thus, there isn't much DNA in the data banks from those groups to compare to. I know my kids have a small percentage because I've seen the family records for my late spouse's side of the family and while Cherokee tends to be laughter inducing, there was a seminole woman direct line to my kid's grandfather, as was the Cherokee. Now, I don't have the records, and I didn't have a smart phone for taking pictures when I did see the records, but they do exist. So, just not getting a DNA match may also mean there isn't enough DNA in the data banks to give you the match. I'd check family records, church records and census records through a genealogy organization to confirm the DNA readings.
Havent had mine done.We are Hungarian and German..Daf,s relatives in Nuremberg keep the family history book.I found outthat the state Library in Hamberg has a copy along witj those of othet famulies.
I just remembered something embarrassing, but hilarious that happened to me about 18 years ago. I had my frequent phone numbers saved in my phone with particular ringtone songs so I would know who was calling without having to look. My husband's ringtone was the refrain of this song, so when he called, my phone sang: "I fell into a burnin' ring of fire, and it burns Burns, BURNS! That ring of FIRE!"... then it would repeat until I answered. Well, one day I was taking a leak in the Walmart restroom, when some poor woman was wrecking the toilet at the far end of the room, probably suffering with IBS, which I would never make fun of! However, as I'm in the stall, my phone went off after her loudest "bowl blast" and another lady who was washing her hands couldn't help but laugh! I fled the restroom before that poor woman with intestinal issues left her stall. She may still be there, for all I know! I explained to the hand-washing lady why I had that ringtone, and that I will change it now that it likely humiliated a lady who didn't need any more to deal with. That lady told me, "Don't you dare change it! I haven't laughed this hard in a long time!"
Most people don’t know their full heritage. My grandma was left in an orphanage at 3. We thought we were Native Americans for decades. Nope, actually Scottish-Irish. 🤷🏻♀️
Not all commercial DNA tests produce the same results. Ancestry said I am 50% Irish and 50% Finnish. 23andMe was more detailed. It said I’m 50% Finnish, 25% English, 17% Irish and 8% Spanish.
Stealing flowers is not the same as "picking flowers". I remember people stealing apples and plums from our little garden when I was a child. The garbage truck had made a hole in the hedge after the drunk driver forgot to activate the parking brake. Our little family depended on what we could grow in that garden. The priest was one of the thieves.
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Like many of us I too listened and bought my 45 boy name sue as a kid in the 1960's. I then got the chance to see Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash in 1992 @ the old Santa Maria fair grounds.. RIP Johnny & June Cash...
My family spent decades hiding it. The children had been so afraid someone would find out because of indian removal act still being a thing. You would be surprised how many of those family stories are true but yes, some are not.
Some friends of my middle kid in high school basically said Cherokee is a laugh, although there are actually family records that support the marriage to a Cherokee woman in the 1800s. However, they thought the Seminole was cool. Many of her friends were Hispanic mixed with indigenous. Funny thing is, they also thought my daughter was adopted 'cause she looked more Hispanic than her brother and sister who look like they just stepped off the boat from Ireland ... tons of Irish in both sides of the family.
@@scloftin8861 Yes, tons of Irish is a sign that the native part might be true. The Irish came with nothing as immigrants and figured out real fast that the Cherokee, and others were a matrililial society where the women owned the property so by marrying a native woman they could become a land owner in the eyes of the white society. The tribes out west did not own land as it was all communal, but the south east tribes actually allotted land. So women were the owners and men were the defenders as warriors. The Irish immigrants figured that out real fast. One of the reasons we have so many lines of red headed Cherokee.
When Jack got cut in half it affected Johnny deeply because it was the the worst case of being cut in half that the doctor had ever seen❤ I love walk hard what is the best movie?❤
Just FYI. Merle Kilgore was a man. He was Hank Williams Jrs manager for years. The Ring of fire gold record was on his wall at this home in Paris TN. 😊 his son Duane was a good friend of mine in my college days
On Finding My Roots Roselyn Cash found out that her mother indeed had a Black great great grandmother. She also found out that Johnny also had Black DNA. That COULD be where the tale of the Cherokee ancestry came to be part of the dna tale.
The tone and intentions of this video seem kind of negative. However, Johnny's claims about his Cherokee ancestry were probably honest. He could of easily had Melungean Ancestors, who were an admixture of African American, Native American and Middle Eastern ancestry, that seeked refugee in the Appalachian mountains in the south eastern states, and had families there during the time of slavery. The mixed children who had tan skin claimed Cherokee ancestry, which was partly true because of their African/Indian heritage.
My Mom meet Johnny and June when she was waitressing at the Carolina Inn which any music act back in the 70’s and 80’s came to Columbia, SC. She said the couple was very nice and humble.
The man who pressed the " record " button at Sun records, for the " Million Dollar Quartet " session was in fact Jack " Cowboy " Clement ... a noted producer and song-writer in his own right. Elvis was signed to RCA records, so the tapes could not be released, but when interviewed many years later, he just winked and smiled, " I thought it would be remiss of me not to do so ! " ...
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Back then, you just went by what you were told by your family. He was extremely dedicated to the cause of justice for Native Americans.
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that's right. You went by what family told you and you didn't doubt it.
My granny was part Cherokee.
I can't imagine if she was still here and I accused her of being a liar.
She'd probably punch me in the mouth.
And I'd probably deserve it. I think whomever is taking the word of DNA over Johnny Cash maybe should be punched in the mouth as well.
I think most Cherokee folk would agree with that too.
Miss you granny Dot ❤️
Rip Johnny Cash.
True, I was told we have Native American Blood in my (maternal grandmother's) family as well. Also my aunt said she was able to trace my maternal grandmother's family back to the Stevens, Baily, and Aldridge families who came over on the Pilgrim Ships, but I find no Aldridge on the Pilgrim Ships so maybe I misunderstood her. My Grandma does have all three of those names in her family. I would be proud to be Native American, I wish it were true.
Instead I will simply be proud to support Native Americans by Boosting to my Representatives & Senators and Voting For every single Bill that supports them and their way of life as they ask us to.
It's an extremely-common family story of the 'Cherokee grandmother' that never seems to actually get any more distant a relative over the generations. I expect in the South it was often just to 'explain' any not-white-enough-traits even if that wasn't really necessary. Wouldn't want to be 'Black Irish' or something, for one where people were mostly Protestant, etc, if there was black hair in the family, for instance.
But a lot of people pass on these stories, whatever their origin or reality, without any reason to question their grandparents' accounts. Doesn't mean they're trying to fool anyone. (My particular ancestors pretty much arrived in the later 19th century and didn't move far from port a long time, so no such stories for us, but people still tended to guess such about an uncle of mine, who kinda did look the part at least by Western TV show standards. )
@@JessieI You can do both dna and paper trails. Easier that way too.
They are NOT Native Americans. They are The People, the First Nations. The ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, from Europe, murdered between 60 and 100 million of the indigenous people, 4 of your states still have laws in which it is legal to kill any People who are in a town centre, in a group of four or more, and therefore considered a WAR PARTY. They still kill The People these days. Look at what Trumpanzees first Executive Order was in his first term. Stole land from the Lakota Sioux. Biden sold private land, a Reservation, to RTZ for mining. The persecution, courtesy of the blasphemous "Manifest Destiny", is rife in the Ultra Secure Asylum.
DNA is a curious thing. My grandmother was Cherokee. In this day and age of testing some of her children have tested out as having Cherokee DNA and some have not, yet she birthed all of them. This is possible because our parents can only contribute so much DNA each time a child is conceived and obviously this means not all of their DNA will translate to the max 50% they can contribute. My mom was crushed she tested as having no Cherokee DNA. But that doesn’t mean her ancestors are any different than her siblings and this is documented in the census rolls they use to determine native bloodlines. So she does have Cherokee ancestry and she is registered with the tribal council. So don’t let anyone misinterpret what can be documented by birth records. If it’s paternal lines it might be shaky but not when the bloodlines are maternal. All my grandmothers births were witnessed and her being the mother is not in question. Genetics is a lottery.
It's because the test are garbage and the science isn't what they say. One man sent two samples to every testang facility and didn't get back the same results twice. It's junk. I've seen a twins also get completely different results. Like they weren't even related. It's nonsense. They can't tell you where you came from. They just want the DNA for cloning experiments.
All Native Americans have western Eurasian dna. Google it. They're Caucasian; white and asian. Whites are caucasoid.
So you have honorary Cherokee heritage? It sounds like you have no Cherokee DNA to pass on. Quite confusing.
Like Johnny Cash I also have African ancestry, I.e. one half of one percent. Who knew? None of my grandparents, parents etc. We were “all Italian “.
Same with my family
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Why all the debates about racial heritage? If Johnny stood up for Native Americans and advocated for their rights, that’s what truly matters to me
I have a great native American heritage in one line of my family. YET, I HAVE NO MEASURABLE DNA. Such is the luck of the draw!
In case people in other areas of the country don't know, everyone in the Appalachia area has part Cherokee in their ancestry. How or why it started, I don't know but it is a thing that is said in every family. I don't believe they are, but people are very adamant about it. And Roseann's mother had African American blood so no shock she is half her mother.
@TheSuspira There was actually a study (Cornell I believe) that determined nearly all the claims turned out as African markers. It seems that a lot of Scotts irish worked alongside slaves during their seven year endentured servatude and apparently produced offsprings that needed plausible deniability to slip past the "one drop" laws.
I was sold the cherokee story my entire youth, but refuted it and had no interest in NA culture. They always mentioned my cheekbones, But turn out I had no markers at all.
@@BeccaJoyDowdaBriscoeMoorehead It turns out that DNA testing can produce different results each time you take it. There's even a case of identical twin sisters having different DNA test results. DNA testing is not 100% fool proof.
@@maxi-me The DNA testing for consumers isn't fool proof and different companies and the same companies with identical twins may give different results...so you may still be a Red Injun!
The Cherokee were one of the tribes that often adopted colonials into the tribe. They lived with the tribe, following tribal ways, but would have had no "Native American" DNA. They were still considered Cherokee by the Cherokee. That's where all this claiming of Cherokee ancestry comes from, and why it cannot be proved or debunked using a DNA test. People today are so preoccupied with blood and DNA but in colonial times many Native American cultures didn't look at the concept of belonging in that way.
Just because one of them is good enough to forgive his appearances, does not mean his great grand kids can claim to be good too...
@@seanhewitt603 unlike you, it had nothing to do with appearance. Once you where adopted into a tribe, you where of that tribe. It wasn't a DEI thing.
@jamesstrozier8571 I wasn't adopted into any tribe, greyskin, that's be you planetkiller liars tricking the Cherokee into thinking you were human enough to be one of them... I'm full blooded Inuvialuit... You Fuckin colonist settler trash serf squatter...
Correct. Cherokee is a nation. Being Cherokee is a matter of citizenship, not blood. By that standard, Cash wasn't Cherokee, regardless of ancestry.
@jamesstrozier8571 some paleface squatters, like you, think everyone is just like you, a liar, cheater, thief, and squatter...
Met the man when I was a teen. I was dating his cuz and he walked in thanksgiving with June. They both were about the most down to earth folks you could ever meet.
I think we sat in front of him at the Metropolitan Theatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba when we went to the movies. Of course we were really young and unaccompannied so it could have be someone else. But He was supposedly in town that night.
Wow!
He shot me in Reno ,Nevada , but I didn't know why .
@@robertclark972 😂😂😂
@@robertclark972 he told me about that, you were the guy huh? he said you pissed him off so he shot you just to see you die.. you made it though.
AS A NATIVE AMERICAN ,I CAN TELL YOU MOST OF US HAVE ALWAYS RESPECTED JOHNNY CASH! THANK YOU FOR STICKING UP FOR US , JOHNNY !!!!❤❤❤❤
Waylon DID have Indian blood. I lived near a Navajo reservation in Farmington NM. Waylon came at least 4 times a year to perform for them. They dressed up very well to see him.
You got that right
My grandma was Cherokee, and I've never respected Cash, until later on in his life, when he finally wised up. Throughout his career, he glorified and promoted adultery, drunkenness, theft, carousing, prison sentences, and licentiousness.
@ my mother was a Blackfoot Indian. I don’t think cash was any part Indian. And you are right about him promoting drunkenness and adultry.
Johnny Cash stuck up for everyone who had gotten a raw deal.
Although Mr. Cash didn't have a squeaky clean life, he still commands respect and honor.
Am Jamaican n have ALWAYS LOVED his music…n he loved Jamaica…. Cash and second wife, June Carter, actively supported the construction of an SOS Children’s Village in Jamaica, on a plot of land in Barrett Town not far from their own holiday home.
The country music star later dedicated one of his songs, “The Ballad of Annie Palmer,” to the children of the village, donating all royalties from the song to the SOS Children’s Village. When discussing his decision to make this contribution, Cash said, "It will mean that more abandoned children can have hope, find love and have a future."
As often as possible, Johnny and June would visit the village, Cash usually bringing his guitar and singing with the children.
Ironic he built so kids when he practically abandoned 3 of his own 🤡🎉
@@cattaylor7031maybe he was trying to make up for it in his own weird way. It doesn't really matter anyway. Nobody knows why anyone does what they do good or bad. Just be thankful for the good.
Thanks for this. I knew that he had a vacation home in Jamaica but didn't know anything else. Great story!
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Cinnamon Hill, his home in Jamaica
It takes until approx 13:33 for this video to address the issue of Cashs' ancestry. He (or rather his daughter) didn't have any Cherokee/Native American markers but did have distant African heritage. However none of that alters his legacy, or his love for the Cherokee people. EDIT...this has nothing to do with the video but for those interested, researchers have found that Native Americans have genetic markers only found in the Jewish people. One of the earliest European explorers found that a particular tribe (who had never seen white men before) could not understand any language but Hebrew. Food for thought? 🤔
Johnny, and her mom, both could have African ancestry.
I didn't believe it, until I saw a picture of Eisenhowers mother
If a man, has straight hair, it's easier to look non black..if they keep hair SHORT
Thanks. I get tired of click bait.
African roots. Well, we can all find African roots of one kind or another.
Thank you! 14:02
I think her mom probably has the african heritage.
Why all the arguments about racial heritage? If Johnny spoke up for Native Americans, that’s good enough for me.
Trotsky's nocturnal emissions for destroying the fabric of a culture. There's only one genetic strain they go after ....
quixote5844-Well, it’s good to speak up for Native Americans- but NOT to claim to be one when you’re not.
@@tonypastor705 He had no way of knowing he wasn't. He believed what he was told.
@@tonypastor705 He only claimed it because his mother told him they had Cherokee ancestry, and he grew up thinking he was. It’s probably why he was so passionate about Native Americans.
In these days to claim to be part Cherokee was in deed a brave and good thing to do. Nowadays are different times and it would be stupid to judge him with nowadays rules.
When Native People are very fond of someone they have an Adoption Ceremony. The person is then considered family and part of the Nation.
Lol.. my father was 'arrested' with Mr Cash picking those flowers over in Starkville. The reason it was such a fuss was they were picking them on the Dean's lawn at Mississippi State & his wife just freaked out. I heard that story more times than I can remember. My Papa was in this organization called the JayCees & they had sponsored the concert Mr Cash had done. My family still brews moonshine over in Alabama & that's what they were drinking that night. My family used to put Jimson Weed in their shine. It adds a very hallucinogenic property to the shine. Basically, Mr Cash & my Papa were tripping ballz that night
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Cool story and I totally believe it.
My family is the same and they have had some bizarre but memorable experiences that most people don't believe simply because they don't have real family and haven't experienced life southern style.
Work hard, party hard. That's my family motto.
We've had some good times just like you described.
My family brews shine and grows flowers too.
Specifically of the Mary Jane variety.
Makes for some interesting adventures. ❤🙏
What a great story keep it going through your family hun my dad used to get compared to Johnny cash as he looked like him his friends called him the man in black 😂 he passed at 48 😢 i was the youngest 13 such a loss it’s not till you get older you realise how young that is
Interesting!
I absolutely believe this 😂 it made me think of that infamous picture of him in a bush eating cake 😂😂
I love this story, thanks for sharing. Johnny Cash was truly a man of the people.
His first wife was beautiful, stunning. His daughter looked like her mother. Lucky her!
Yes, she was very pretty 💜
I agreee, she was pretty yet so miserable in the marriage after being left alone for months to raise the four girls. You can see it in her face.
Roseann Cash inherited talent & also took after her father in looks, imo.
I am a fan of her music
& grew to appreciate Johnny Cash too.
His last recordings are heartbreakingly poignant, oh- how they make me weep.
Roseanne strongly favors her dad. Still see some of her mom in her. Very talented and beautiful lady.🎉
@@poorthing "Hurt". 🎶 "I hurt myself today...."
Wasn't a table saw. It was a huge saw from a sawmill that cuts lumber from trees. What a horrific injury!!
So tragic.
I was wondering about that; I can't think of an easy way to cut myself in half with my table saw. Nonetheless, I only use it when there is no practical alternative; I know a few people who've lost fingers to them. I can't imagine how it would be to loose a brother to a sawmill accident; poor guy.
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Those huge open blade timber cutting blades are still in common use around the world. The creation of band saw cutting largely replaced the open blades. As a teenager I worked on smaller open blade multi blade "gang saws" which cut differing angles on a single length of wood.
Hoosier here, one of the Amish in our community was cut in half by one of those open blades. He was young. It was probably about 10 years ago.
Sometimes it's just better to remember him for his music.
He who is perfect cast the first stone.
Yes indeed. All our heroes eventually knock themselves from the pedestals on which we place them.
When he was living with Waylon Jennings, Waylon had a huge heroin habit. That was said by Cash’s daughter in a video.
Never get to know your heroes they say, or something like that
I wasn’t knocking either of them, I was just so surprised by the Waylon Jennings addiction. We loved him to death in the late 70s when I was in school. Jerry Jeff Walker, Willie Nelson, oh they were all a bit younger and their voices and lyrics took you back to their country roots.
Many from Sicily have African gene markers. The Aghlabids conquered the island in the 800s and brought more diversity into the gene pool from North Africa. While Johnny had no gene markers seen in Native American populations, due to the way genes are assorted, other relatives might have them. Many people from the area he came from can trace ancestry to Appalachian melungeons.
Melungeons... haven't seen that word in many years
Very good points. Also Cherokee membership is not a blood quantum requirement; it is derived from lineage. They have full-blood Whites enrolled thru inter-marriage of Whites to Indians. A blood test proves nothing.
Thought it was the Moors
She was half black . She was also stunningly beautiful no matter what 👍
Poor woman being hounded
Roy Rogers was part Choctaw. That's why he and wife Dale Evans were able to adopt an orphan from the Choctaw tribe.
This is b.s There's a old clip where Johnny cash is in front of native Americans. He said.."I have very little Indian blood'. Except 100% here in my heart for you!! He went on to sing the way only Johnny Cash could!!
Johnny Cash The Ballard of Ira Hayes/ As long g as the grass will grow
I listen to the whole thing and I found more than one untruth in it. So I will not spread it anymore.
If he was native American in spirit, than he was, and that is a special gift! Native American on both sides of my family and I am proud of that!
I'm White and i'm so proud of that.
That's not how it works, bro. Thanks, from a US Army Veteran who is also a Citizen of a Sovereign Native Nation. Legally speaking: You cant claim it if you aren't legally tied to it in documentation.
@AmyC28713 I just meant him choosing the spirit of the native American is an honor, I didn't mean that made him a native American.
Dad a full tribal member and mom 1/2 native, her father was German. In fact America is all about a native north American native because if you use the 3r method of making your m ie rrr (pushed together) and see a small / at the start of the America, the put ot together and it is /Arrrerica a puppy love story where if you look for the roots of the name erica it is like a German princess while /Arrr(/arry) is Me. Guess I might of inherited some of Grandpa's gene's because 2 Canada day's ago I was called a colonizer despite being a member of the First Nation.
@nonamemcgillicutty9585 well, excuse me! And I'll have you know that there is native American on both sides of my family, and what I meant was, to have the spirit of native American in your heart is an honor, I didn't say that made them one! So no reason for you to be insulting.
Just because there is an absence of native american dna markers in Roseanne Cash’s DNA doesn’t mean she didn’t have Native American ancestry. Ancestry is a whole other thing to actual individual DNA. If Johnny Cash’s cherokee ancestors went back many generations, and if it was only one ancestor, there is a huge chance his dna would not show native american ancestry. Given where he grew up it is very likely he has a few Native American Ancestors if his people went back many generations like mine. My great grandmother was a North Carolinian Cherokee but I only have a tiny little sliver of Native American genetic markers. Geneology is really important in establishing ancestry. Looking at your DNA can help understand migrations and regions of origin but it isn’t the whole picture. Mad respect for the man in black, I grew up listening to my family cover Cash songs, and we would dance and sing along - his music is a huge memory of my childhood. Rest in Peace Johnny.
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Had an full blood Apache friend many years ago. He went to the happy hunting grounds after a deadly car crash. He could play guitar and sing better than most. RIP
Ross Dosela
One can have Native American ancestry but not have any native DNA. Just mathematically, even if one has a full blooded native ancestor, by 6 generations you have about 1 percent DNA from that ancestor which may not be able to tell as a distinct race. If conservatively, there’s a new generation every 25 years, by 150 years your full blooded ancestor may not show up on DNA test. Family history may have been a person with a quarter native blood was your ancestor in the distant past, but after many generations this distant ancestor was still talked about as “grandpa” even though it’s been over 100 years. Another way is many whites were taken captive by natives as prisoners but later became integrated or adopted by the tribe. These people thought of themselves as natives and passed on stories to their descendants saying they were tribal (which may have been true) but the history became garbled and the descendants just thought they had a full blood native ancestor when in fact their ancestor was just adopted.
@@gj1234567899999 Ross was born in Bylas,Az. On the San Carlos Indian rez. Ross was full blood fierce Apache. He would scalp you and sing a song over your grave beautifully! I miss him and his beautiful voice.
@@freedomvideo995 Wow...racist much? Scalp? Did you know the French and Dutch brought scalping here?
Everyone in Southern Appalachia has a tale of a great, great, great, great Indian Princess grandmother.
And there is no such thing as an Indian Princess
@ exactly
Back in the day everyone said they had Indian ancestors, I think they thought it made them cool.
@ well, it definitely would have!
It seems like it's widely been claimed by many in an attempt to declare deeper heritage to this land beyond their ancestors' "colonization".
If you feel like throwing rocks at Mr. Cash, go watch the video of him doing the song "Hurt". Nothing you can say will ever come close to what Johnny put himself through. He was a good but tortured man, and he always stood up for others. And he had a remarkable wife who stood beside him. I miss his presence in the world.
No one is throwing rocks at him. Most of us knew about his issues with drugs for many decades. As for him mistakenly belief he was Cherokee, that belief was extremely common and he wasn't being deceitful. It was simply a family myth that was passed down over the decades and centuries.
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Yeah that's a rough gut wrenching song. So sad.
It’s a cover of nine inch nails Hurt. But a very good one nonetheless.
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Cash first wife was very pretty😊
She was very pretty.
Vivian had real class, despite being done dirty by him hooking up with June. The film "My Darling Vivian", narrated by his children, is a must see.
She was pretty. June was not pretty at all. They did Vivian wrong.
Johnny's daughter, Rosanne Cash is one Hell of a talent herself!
You're just saying that because it's true.
@@RobertOlds.630 You got that right!
I heard her name. I wonder what she's doing now? She does have a great talent.
I think Johnny can be remembered as a Native American. DNA of one child does not say that he was not. DNA is complicated stuff. Thanks for the music, Johnny. Rest easy ❤
I BELIEVE THAT ANCESTORY DNA TESTING IS NOT ALWAY QUITE 100 %.
THEY WOULD HAVE NEEDED TO TEST FROM EVERY INDIAN TRIBE, ETC..
MY FATHERS MOTHER HAD CLAIMED THAT THEY WERE CHEROKEE, CHOCTAW AND IRISH.
MY MOTHERS PARENTS (GRAND PARENTS)
WERE " LITHUANIAN AND BOHEMIAN" THEY BOTH SPOKE THIS LANGUAGE. BUT ANCESTRY DIDN'T QUITE SHOW ALL OF THE DNA.
WE ARE ALL WHO WE ARE, WE ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD..
Johnny Cash can be remembered as Johnny Cash. His actual DNA is less important than the beliefs that fueled his music and actions.
😂😂😂😂😂😂 Let's smooth over the fact that his parents or grandparents covered up his African American heritage by using that same old lie, "we're part Indian." 😂😂😂😂😂😂
@RevSinkiller No, don't let smooth over it. But if he went down the Native American route, that is his call.
Try tri racial. Many people whose family go back to 1776 are no matter what they look like. Choices were more limited back in the day and how dare they not live by today's ideas.! ....jesus..
@@RevSinkiller
“My Darling Vivian” (2020) is a great documentary from Vivian’s viewpoint; the production does a wonderful job building the foundation of who Cash was before and during his career’s beginnings and what role his success and drug addiction had on his marriage and family life. The film is enhanced with their daughters and many other close friends giving firsthand accounts of Johnny and Vivian’s relationship. If you are interested in learning about Cash from a fresh perspective, I highly recommend watching it. Unlike June and Johnny, Vivian was the one voice without a microphone, stage, and national audience to present her side of their affair…which she was too devastated and hurt to even consider speaking about the matter with others outside her immediate family. The documentary is a very engaging and moving account that is well-researched and presented.
She wrote a book presenting her side of the story called I Walked The Line…yes she was a private person but she loved her family fiercely and found some peace later in life thanks to her daughters.
Very good doc 👍 I think first wives get overlooked in many relationships.
she was a beautiful soul... incredibly strong.
Rodney Crowell was a class act in the movie.
@@Ziggimomspal68 It was a good yet heartbreaking book. She never stopped loving Johnny.
I wonder if he could have been an undiagnosed Bipolar. Who knows? But the trauma in his childhood without doubt was a part of his dysfunction in life. His trauma was severe. It was a concentration camp level trauma. Kids experience trauma on a whole different level. It can break their brain. It can cause one to believe in their core they feel condemned, worthless and doomed, thus decisions are fraught with a fatalistic feeling of already being worthless so why even try to do the right thing. I know this by my own experience. You get to live life falling in holes abusers dug for you when you were most vulnerable. It’s not an excuse. It’s just a fact.
well said. except for some dirty deeds he did when he was an adult (you can look them up). At some point, you have to stop making others suffer for what happened to you, because then their life is ruined.
@@carlariggs525 TRUE it was up to him to break that chain.
No such thing as bipolar
@ lol
@ Yep
Johnny Cash's Hurt says it all. ❤️ What a gift!
Hurt is a cover. Not his song.
Hurt was written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails
Michelle didn't say
"he wrote it" We're not talking about Hank Sr. or Haggard !! even they grabbed / recorded other's material........ smh
Trent Reznor wrote that song in '94.
@@slane6967Exactly.That's what i've been telling some others here
My first 45 record was ring of fire. I remember watching the Johnny Cash show. Have loved his music my entire life.
Rodney Crowell’s I walk the line tribute is outstanding.
I am from the south, and many hordes of white people claimed to have Cherokee DNA. My family had that same idea - old great-grandpa married a Cherokee. When he did, the other brothers turned on him and ostracized him. This is a common story from the mid-1800’s. I am a genealogist, and have researched my family history thoroughly. There is absolutely no Cherokee ancestry in my tree at all. I have my lines all the way back to Europe. Lately, I have had a lot of extended family do their DNA. There is no Native American DNA in any of us. It is a story concocted by many families back in the mid-1800’s to win a Native American land lottery and other perceived benefits. A very high percentage of these stories are just that, stories. There are several sites on the Internet documenting these concocted legends.
The same story with our family. The family genealogist, my Dad's first cousin even had pictures of a Native American everyone swore was on of our ancestors. But, when the family genealogist turned in a same to 21 and me, she discovered that she had zero Native American blood, and so, either would I nor anyone else in our family. Less than 10 years ago, there was a RUclips video out explaining about how this myth is prevalant in the south. I started suspecting then, that the claim that our family had Native American blood was a farce.
Have you watched Candace Owens investigation into K Harris's ancestry. No African blood what so ever and although her mother was Indian (east Asian) her ancestry is heavily into Irish and Syrian Jew...LOL!.
Interesting! I always wondered how this myth perpetuated. Thank for both for sharing.
That's why so many have no evidence. Pretendians.
@@indigenousboriqualol!
My Great Grandmothers maiden was Cash, her father and Johnny's cash Grandfather were brothers. They lived in Virginia. The sad part the records in Virginia were destroyed in a fire. My Great Grandmother was a wonderful person and could talk you to death. I enjoyed sitting on the porch and watch her with her bonnet on.
Awesome 😎
That’s really neat.
We may be related. My great grandma and Johnny's grandma were sisters.
My great grandmother was a Cash girl and that Johnny was my fifth cousin once removed via my dad’s side.
@@leannblalock9787 My mom's dad ( my grandfather) his mother was a cash girl. We have Blevins Snyder and McCool surnames also.
I come from southern Missouri, near the Trail of Tears. My dad's mom always claimed that she was 1/4 Cherokee and I was very proud of that my entire life. When I was 63 one of my nieces had a DNA test to check out our ancestry. It turns out that gramma was 1/4 Irish but she was ashamed to tell my grandpa. Top of the mornin'
no shame in being Irish...they chased the serpents out of their land in the 1500's, but the devil has been giving them hell ever since.
Seems crazy to be ashamed of Irish heritage now.
Well that's the problem with mindlessly accusing people of cultural appropriation. Most of the people who went to America had tragic histories of their own but were made to feel ashamed. Imagine if you had Scottish ancestors that lived through the Highland Clearances. However that experience is retold in families, if their descendants are introduced to the story of the Trail of Tears they will identify with it. Most importantly, they will honour the memory of the Trial of Tears much more than people whose ancestors didn't have similar experiences.
@@CaptainCautious When I was little (mid-1950s), my adoptive mum was always saying crap about the Irish--like they were drunks, eyc.. Then it turned out that I'm like 20% Irish. lol I guess it was a thing at the time.
@@GlasPthalocyanine I'm part Scots, and embarrassed to say, I never heard of that. I will have to check that out since some of my DNA is from the Highlands. Thank you for posting this.
I have recently researched my dad's family, and I have found that the information I was told by my mother was just not true, we take what we are told by people we trust without question, but it doesn't mean the info is correct.
Your Mom didn't lie to you, it's just what she was told. And it maybe true, what she said DNA kits are not reliable... They keep changing my lineage every 6 months. So I'm not sure where my family came from. DNA isn't reliable at all.
Not every single bit of information provided by DNA researchers is guaranteed to be 100% perfect.
There are several serious ongoing issues and legal investigations into the DNA results and authentication processing by some of these companies.
@@judithsixkiller5586 I didn't have a DNA test, my research is the old-fashioned way, looking up registries of births, marriages and deaths.
I was lucky to meet him at Paramount studio when he was on the set of Little House on the Prairie. He was surprisingly very shy.
Maybe tired of trying to be nice to strangers.
We all have a dark side and none of us are anything close to perfect.
Honey, everybody in the south says they have Cherokee heritage, it's just a thing.
Yeah. Like Elizabeth Warren.
Like New Zealanders. They all claim to be part Maori. But this means their ancestors, every white settler, men and women, must have had sex with the Maoris, and produced kids. I dont think so.
Yes, it is. I am "supposedly" 1/64 Cherokee. My husband's great grandmother was full blooded. His entire family all used to speak of her. Apparently, she married the great grand father, stayed with him until the kids were older, then left the family and moved back to her people. She refused to wear shoes for any reason.
My husband had brilliant blue eyes yet his sister didn't. Nor did his father who died decades before I ever met my husband.
Who knows. My husband has been dead for 10 years now so I can't question him about the connection.
@@missinginbc you can always tell a magat in the room, they just can't keep their mouth's shut or their fingers quiet. Traitor
The North too 😂
The claim of a Cherokee ancestor originated in the slavery days of the South. It was rarely true but most Southern families had at least one .
I took a saliva DNA test and found I am 100% Taco Bell.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
A "Cherokee grandmother" was a common way to explain dark skin/hair and different facial features among mixed people in the days of segregation.
He likely had an ancestry from the mixed tri-racial Melungeon peoples.
My grandmother was half Cherokee. Its far enough back that i don't know if it would show up in my DNA but I still feel a connection through my grandmother
If your great-grandparent was Cherokee, that is about 12.5% of your DNA and it’s enough that it should definitely show up.
One of my 3rd great grandmothers was German. 3-4% German showed up in my DNA analysis
I did a DNA test and I came out 25.8% native American from South America. If it's there it will show up.
It will go back hundreds of generations. I believe if an ancestor had the bubonic plague and survived and had children, it shows up and there might be a natural biological defence that you have against it.
My Neanderthal heritage showed up.
Roseanne Cash's mother was Vivian Liberto Cash, and as you stated in the video had some African roots in her heritage, that is where the DNA came from, her mother not her father Johnny Cash!
It was also told that johhny had some as well go back and watch that episode
@@tratney Never heard that , just his ex wife.
@@tratney " Told " doesn't automatically = Was.
@JustJoe711 well he ain't Indian either
@@tratneyHe could have since his DNA wasn't tested we will never know. DNA is random you don't always pass down the same genetic material to your children. We only know Roseanne DNA didn't show any.
Side note… I wish you did all the narration for this channel. Your articulation, dialect, tone, pitch, and projection is perfect; you’re so easy to listen to. I love when you’re the one covering my favourite celebrities!
I rarely listen to the “country” music of today. So many of the artists have become too intertwined with pop. IMHO There’s just no comparison to the real deal classic country greats like Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams (and Jr.) Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, John Prine… there are some, but not many. They just don’t make ‘em like they used to 😉
Fully agree- you have an outstanding voice. Please do more!
Yeah, back in the 50's, rock-a-billy and rock 'n roll were totally distinct. No overlap at all.
Nice Scottish accent!👍
I'm 65 and my mother-in-law is 89. She has dark eyes, dark hair, and olive skin. She always tells everyone that she is part Cherokee. While showing me the family photo album, she showed me her Great Uncle Woodrow "Woody" and some of her cousins and aunts and uncles and her parents. Some of them, were very white, some of them were very tanned and Uncle Woody looked straight up black with a great big afro and wide nose. She tells everyone that uncle Woody was a half blooded Cherokee Indian. So my wife and I had DNA tests done and my wife found out that she was a small percentage of African heritage but no Native American / Indian.
Lots of people in Europe have a smudge on of African dna
That's hilarious.
Well the Cherokee did let some run aways stay with them and live life as a Cherokee. So I’m sure those people probably told their kids that they were Cherokee as well.
African Americans believe we have Cherokee in us as well. My dad told me that when I was a kid. Took a DNA test, no Native American on his side, but distant European ancestry. So maybe "Cherokees" were really mixed race African/Europeans who tried to pass for anything other than Black.
U do reslize indian tribes had some blacks and whites in the tribe.im part cherokee and choktaw and dark dutch french german and scottish
I remember growing up in the south in the 1970’s. Every child claimed to be part Cherokee then. It was some sort of trend.
Growing up as an African-American we had some of that going on in our community as well. It was really weird.
@@josron6088I use to think my family was making it up, but I learned it was actually true when I got my ancestry results.
It’s the way trends go, back when I was socializing about 10 or 15 years ago all the white dudes pretended to have Viking heritage, go back to the 1990’s and everyone was Irish. There I was with red hair and freckles able to trace my surname and family tree back to Ireland and I just said I was American. It’s the only culture I knew and liked at the time. Just American. No need for trends or DNA tests. I am not going to sit in a pub drinking black beer syrup that begins with a G and whine about The British or indentured servitude. I am just going to do something fun and productive like Americans do.
Now they're all 'a little bit autisitic'... trends...
@@josron6088 There are a LOT of Black Indigenous people. They very well may have been right.
This is my favorite narrator always enjoy listening to him and his Scottish accent
Me too!
Same here
@@Lkydog8165 I could listen to him all day. I wish I could get him to read me a bedtime story. 😌
Don't hold your breath waiting for a response from this Scottish narrator.
Always so refreshing to listen to a human instead of a computer
I read that June Carter pursued him relentlessly while he was on tour. His children suffered im sure. I love his daughter Rosanne Cash singing. Very talented.
She oozes loveliness❤
Rosanne is still close friends with her ex-husband, Rodney Crowell, and they've recorded together several times since their divorce. Some people are better as friends than marriage partners. Marriage is friggin _hard!_
ilk i cannot stand her voice
I read she didn’t. So much for that
I thought it was the other way around, pursuit....
My great grandmother was a Métis and her mother was a full Cree. She married a Scotsman. Both my grandmother and mother refused to acknowledge their native ancestry as at the time it was considered to be having bad blood and if you wanted to be white then you did not let on you were part native. My mother could have passed for native. She had black hair, dark brown eyes and native features but she was at the tail end of Métis as she was 3rd generation. My brother and I could have claimed status but we were blue eyed and fair skinned. My father was of Irish descent, my grandfather was English and my great grandfather was Scots. Even in our DNA white won out. It wasn’t until my great aunt did our genealogy I learned we had a smidgen of Cree in us. Too late to be considered Métis. You do inherit all of your parents DNA but some traits are recessive and some dominate. To get blue eyes both parents must have the same gene able to express depending on how the strands align. If brown eyes combine with blue you get brown eyes. A DNA test may not show native genes as they have been overpowered by white or black genes because of how they combined.
Your ancestors must have come from the same area mine do. N. Dakota where many metis lived. My grandfather spoke Cree and had both native and Scottish ancestry. He married an Irish/Scottish woman who had pale skin and red hair which did lighten our branch of the family but people from that area still recognize our Metis features when we visit. Turtle Mt. reservation in Belcourt ND is where my father was raised until moving to the West Coast.
Another interesting thing about Native American dna is that people who take tests in Eastern Europe sometime get a Native American reading. That is because most Native Americans descended from people who lived in the Mongolian region of Asia. They crossed the land bridge and colonized America 10's of thousands of years ago. The Mongols invaded much of Eastern Europe at various times and left a strong genetic imprint so sometimes East European gene markers line up more with native americans than people in their own region or even Mongolia.
I have green eyes. Husband has brown eyes. 5 of our 6 kids have blue eyes. 2 are lefties.
@@jeremiahjohnson1513I would have guessed he’s from Canada. You can’t get status in the USA as Metis.
My gg grandpa was born in Moose Factory, Ontario. His mother was Cree and his father was from Scotland and worked for HBC. They traveled from there to the Red River region before crossing into the US and settling in Ohio.
@@hilaryb8807 I'm not sure if my grandpa had legal status in Canada as a Metis but he and other members of his tribe would spend part of the year in Canada and the other part in N. Dakota. However, I do think they were primarily considered resident of the US and was a member of the Pembina and of Indian of N. Dakota. When the government allocated some land to the Pembina band, he was in Canada and didn't get an allocation, when he and the others went back to N. Dakota, the government gave them some land in Montana instead of N. Dakota because the allotments were used up. We still have some of that land which became oil producing land.
Millions of people claimed they were part Cherokee after oil was found in Oklahoma. It was wild how quickly the country became Indians.
Yep
However, when blacks were freed, in 1866, many went to OK territory
Some stayed with blacks, others went with non blacks
Yeah it also explains why everyone out here is driving around in new SUVs and trucks with Indian tags to this day. It’s a big problem because the state doesn’t recognise all but 2 tribes that are also part of the “official “ state tag for automobiles but everyone is driving around with non official Indian tags only allowed for the reservation. To get out of paying for “state” tags and taxes for the vehicle. So yeah everyone is “Indian “ out here.
You don't have to be Native American to stick up for the original keepers of this land. We celebrate Thanksgiving and they mourn.
Not all
Some natives celebrate thanksgiving 🦃 too
I live near a reservation
Most people are remembering the destruction of the native Americans while giving thanks for their family nowadays. Thanksgiving is evolving.
The man is dead for God's sake. let him rest in peace. worry about your own life and what you are going to live by
Most of us have an uneventful life,we need to find weakness in other people's idols.
AMEN TO THAT,SISTER !!!❤❤❤
@@weemac4645HOW TRUE !
Thank you
My mother, born in the early 1930's, used to say that she was some small fraction of an American Indian. I think that must have just been a popular thing back in that time period.
In case people in other areas of the country don't know, everyone in the Appalachia area has part Cherokee in their ancestry. How or why it started, I don't know but it is a thing that is said in every family. I don't believe they are, but people are very adamant about it.
If you want a real treat for your ears look up June's mother she can sing and so can her sister. Her mother is an awesome talent.
Her sister Anita was one of the greatest singers ever and her older sister Helen was an excellent singer and great musician. June was an OK singer, her main act was doing comedy, corny at that, I saw live three times and the act never changed. Her mother, Maybelle Carter, was a member of the original Carter Family, the first superstar group in Country music. They were discovered at the "Big Bang" that started country music at Bristol Tennesee in 1927. Maybelle Carter was also the first "Guitar Hero", she invented a style of playing that moved the guitar to the front of the band, from the rhythm section, this was before the advent of the electric guitar.
Maybelle was also famous for playing the autoharp. Some musicians castigated her for this, considering it "cheating".
Momma may Bell Carter
Carlene🎉
She was Mother Maybelle Carter.
I grew up in the Arkansas Ozarks. The Trail of Tears passed through our area, avoiding malarial swamps further south. The number of people I knew back then claiming Cherokee heritage was crazy. Half the natives were kin to some runaway Cherokee brave.
I love this narrator’s voice! In several other videos, his subtle sense of humor is an absolute delight. ❤
Seems pretty much everyone claims Cherokee heritage in the Southern USA.
What you dont know is the Negroe and Indian are the same people.
Seems everyone claims native heritage period.
Yes this is true.
Everyone wants to be part Cherokee, but the fact is Andrew Jackson and America treated them horribly
Cherookees was the lartgest owners of African slaves out of all the southern tribes!
Johnny Cash is still a legend
And will most likely always be.
I rarely watch Finding Your Roots although it is interesting. However, depending on how many generations have passed since, it IS possible for your parent to have some Native American genetic markers, even if you don't. There's also a slim possibility in cases of full blooded siblings for one to carry Native American markers while the other one doesn't. That is due to the randomness of inherited autosomes. If Cash's yDNA was NA, it could only have been detected by testing his son, Carter. If his mtDNA was NA, as a male he would have been unable to pass that down to his children; but his sisters children would inherit it.
We all have the same ancestors…Adam & Eve
FYI many blacks are part of the Cherokee nation they were former slaves that became part of the tribe after the Civil War so John R Cash may have had half the story from his kin. Or as many have mentioned he didn't inherit the DNA marker from his parents for Native American. Whichever the case Johnny Cash was proud of the Native Americans and believed he was one of them :)
Good evening! 23 & Me found Native American as my biological mother was adopted!
Most people dont know about the five civilized tribes, called civilized because they adopted the white man ways. They also owned african slaves, and waited a whole year to release them after American relseased ours in 1865, They would wait to August 1866.
Everyone and their brother was claiming Native American ancestry back in the 60s and 70s. It was a big deal.
😂😂😂😂yes it was
FYI: The surname is pronounced Presley, not Prezley. The King of Rock's German ancestor was named Pressler. EP had Cherokee ancestry (Morning White Dove) but also a Dutch forefather named Hoed.
Most people that claim native dna in the south, actually have African dna. It's very common in the south. They don't like to admit it though.
I did a DNA test a couple of years ago and found out that Johnny Cash is my sixth cousin on his mother side.My paternal grandmother is a quarter Native American and I also have Native American ancestors on my mother side. No Native American showed up in my DNA test. I was very upset .That was the reason I did a DNA test was to see how much Native American I was and none showed up. You can look at my family and tell we are all Native American
DNA tests can produce different results each time you take it.
I don't know if he was Cherokee or not but he sure stood up for debauchery
My Mom meet Johnny and June when she was waitressing at the Carolina Inn which any music act back in the 70’s and 80’s came to Columbia, SC. She said the couple was very nice and humble.
I love Johnny and June❤
Cash was never a hardened criminal in real life, but in the 1970s he played a cold-blooded murderer in an episode of "Colombo".
I remember seeing him in a B&W movie... Just checked... called 5 minutes to live or Door to door Maniac. I don't remember the plot but he was a mean one and scary. Think it was on TCM or something similar.
OJ thought that episode was a how to video ❤
Thank you once again for your beautiful narration!
I didn't care for Johnny Cash after he dumped his wife and kids for June Carter
Same here.✌️
He wanted the Hollywood lifestyle, that and drugs lead him to dump his wife and kids. His wife Vivian also broke up a marriage, by getting with her 2nd husband.
Wow, his first wife was Gorgeous
Fans love his incredible voice and heartfelt music; gossip mongers prefer the back streets of his private life.
I agree. But he did come to find forgiveness in Christ Jesus, and I know that they reconciled.
My family is basically Irish-my mum's family came from Islemacgee- is from Antrim, but left in the 17th century and eventually made their way to Australia. My dad's family came from Aughrane, Roscommon, But in the 18th century were told they had to CONFORM! They dropped the O', stopped speaking Gaelic but kept their lands an being Catholic! By joining the Diplomatic Corps, would you believe!
They were stationed in Lima, Peru, where they maried into to the Aliaga family. They were descended from some of Pizarro''s band of Conquistadors! During the Napoleonic wars, when South America sought independence from Spanish rule. The Aliaga-Kellys helped the merchants of Lima and were expelled from the Diplomatic Corps, would you believe. They lost their lands and had to move to Dublin.
My sister-in law was partially Cherokee, from St Louis, but possibly a bit French as well....
Being partly descended from a native American nation is fine, but descended from Spanish Conquistadores is not so good?
In any case, the direct line of the family emigrated to the USA, where the work for Aer Lingus.
I was born in England, but have spent most of my life in Scotland.....
And so it goes. As the late Kurt Vonnegut put it...
His first wife looked like she definitely had black ancestors.......I don't understand how they can tell what parent had the black ancestors.
Johnnny had a black wife, Vivian liberto. It was probably more auspicious to say he was part Indian than to say he was part black.
I saw that. Of course I never miss Dr. Gates “Finding your Roots” ever. He was my inspiration for having my DNA test done. According to my results my DNA spans 21 regions. All over Africa, Europe, and the Americas. I’m proud of that. Clint Black also found out the unexpected as well as several other high profile figures. Just proves to me mankind is closely related. Starting with Adam & Eve. Cannot refute the Bible
The Bible is a fairytale that has ruined civilization
I am Southern Cheyenne and Cherokee and I don't understand the big deal about Johnny Cash's claim about being part Cherokee. Many people were told they had Cherokee blood, especially folks born in middle of United States. Cash did tremendous good for Native Pride !
It's not a big deal. It was just a hook to reel us into the video.
When serving, Cash didn't fly; he worked on the ground for the US Air Force Security Service (USAFSS).
Sticking in a clip of Reese Witherspoon playing June Carter in a movie is a ridiculous move.
Joaquin Phoenix is clipped in throughout.
At 14:15 finally gets to the point.
My late mom was 80 years old passing in 2006. All our life's we thought her late mother was part Cherokee giving her children a piece than their children.
What I thought was strange because DNA apps hadn't came up yet.
So I decided to go to large libraries looking up my family that my late mom was not happy about. I asked mom's oldest sister about family she talked about Irish, Sweden etc. no Indian by this time my mom got me to stop.
Many stories passed through our family by early 2000's at a family funeral we found out we had black in the family coming in mom was gone by then. No one in the family that was left believed it we just had feelings.
My twin brother had a DNA during the time people was asked to put DNA in sights my brother wasn't sure. I told him why not to help families of crime. So he did he said we had European, Irish and Sweden etc. like that but no Indian or black of course I didn't believe him because he was very prejudice. I had him read me out numbers. About a year later I had my DNA done by another site . Again no Indian or black.
We my older sister's granddaughter with the site went with no Indian or black.
Now we will give a twist to this my oldest brother who passed in 1998 daughter said she wanted to take one she grew thinking her mother had Cherokee (she passed in 2018) she always said she had because of her skin color and high cheeks . So bottom line if some how my twin brother & I was just a fulk adding in my great niece granddaughter of my oldest sister it maybe different with my oldest brother's daughter (who he said wasn't his for most her life)
She had the test done coming back no Indian or black - on both her parents sides.
So bottom line people may say it and it gets passed down by some who believes others won't.
I even had people say it's in books in the library or in a large family Bible.
Sorry you got to have that DNA.
I understand turned out I was 87% Scottish and no Indian other was European and I knew that from my name...
My sister was sure we had black African heritage as well even though all of us have pale skin and blue and green eyes. Many of us are redheaded with freckles. We did the DNA. We were 99.7% white European with a smattering of Lebanese ancestry. I was going to be happy with whatever came back. I had a friend‘s wife who was telling everyone she was native American because she was from Oklahoma. She has blonde hair, very pale skin and blue eyes. They did the DNA. She has zero Native American heritage and it’s all European. I don’t know why people hate themselves and wanna be somebody else.
One thing my daughter pointed out when she did her DNA test, not a lot of indigenous or First Nations have taken the DNA tests because they know their family and history, so they don't need to do it. Thus, there isn't much DNA in the data banks from those groups to compare to. I know my kids have a small percentage because I've seen the family records for my late spouse's side of the family and while Cherokee tends to be laughter inducing, there was a seminole woman direct line to my kid's grandfather, as was the Cherokee. Now, I don't have the records, and I didn't have a smart phone for taking pictures when I did see the records, but they do exist. So, just not getting a DNA match may also mean there isn't enough DNA in the data banks to give you the match. I'd check family records, church records and census records through a genealogy organization to confirm the DNA readings.
Havent had mine done.We are Hungarian and German..Daf,s relatives in Nuremberg keep the family history book.I found outthat the state Library in Hamberg has a copy along witj those of othet famulies.
😅😊
I've always loved Johnny Cash regardless❤
I'm sorry they didn't use "Ring of Fire" for a hemorrhoid commercial, it's really the perfect song!
They did in the UK.. it advertised Anusol....IE, anus hole.
😂😂😂😂😂
I just remembered something embarrassing, but hilarious that happened to me about 18 years ago. I had my frequent phone numbers saved in my phone with particular ringtone songs so I would know who was calling without having to look. My husband's ringtone was the refrain of this song, so when he called, my phone sang: "I fell into a burnin' ring of fire, and it burns Burns, BURNS! That ring of FIRE!"... then it would repeat until I answered.
Well, one day I was taking a leak in the Walmart restroom, when some poor woman was wrecking the toilet at the far end of the room, probably suffering with IBS, which I would never make fun of!
However, as I'm in the stall, my phone went off after her loudest "bowl blast" and another lady who was washing her hands couldn't help but laugh! I fled the restroom before that poor woman with intestinal issues left her stall. She may still be there, for all I know!
I explained to the hand-washing lady why I had that ringtone, and that I will change it now that it likely humiliated a lady who didn't need any more to deal with. That lady told me, "Don't you dare change it! I haven't laughed this hard in a long time!"
@@LazyIRanch😂😂😂😂😂😂
Wow, this was quite in-depth, nicely done. Thank you.
Most people don’t know their full heritage. My grandma was left in an orphanage at 3. We thought we were Native Americans for decades. Nope, actually Scottish-Irish. 🤷🏻♀️
Not all commercial DNA tests produce the same results. Ancestry said I am 50% Irish and 50% Finnish. 23andMe was more detailed. It said I’m 50% Finnish, 25% English, 17% Irish and 8% Spanish.
A lot of the company’s out there have been shown to be second rate, but the programme uses their own private medical labs.
23&Me just has British & Irish. Where did you get 25% English and 17% Irish. It does have Genetic Groups but you won't get percentages.
Stealing flowers is not the same as "picking flowers". I remember people stealing apples and plums from our little garden when I was a child. The garbage truck had made a hole in the hedge after the drunk driver forgot to activate the parking brake. Our little family depended on what we could grow in that garden. The priest was one of the thieves.
Priests would do the same in Canada. Ask the Metis.
ב''ה, was it in a shmita year?
I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Like many of us I too listened and bought my 45 boy name sue as a kid in the 1960's. I then got the chance to see Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash in 1992 @ the old Santa Maria fair grounds.. RIP Johnny & June Cash...
But what was the 'bizarre' part of his ancestry? I watched the entire video without finding that out.
He wasn’t part Cherokee he was a descendant of black people
@@thomasshepard6030the black came from his 1st wife Vivian did you even watch this?
He was Scottish and Irish. No Cherokee at all. Elvis Presley actually haf some Native Americans in his ancestors.
Not Melungean? (spelling?)
european, native american, african.
@@CareyKuhlmey-qj5viMelungeon is the correct spelling
Thank you James! ✌🏼😊
I thought his name is Francis?? No??
I ❤ Johnny Cash still listen to his music to this day. Fan for life ❤❤❤
After the song Cherokee Nation came out, nearly everyone claimed they had Cherokee ancestry.
My family spent decades hiding it. The children had been so afraid someone would find out because of indian removal act still being a thing. You would be surprised how many of those family stories are true but yes, some are not.
Some friends of my middle kid in high school basically said Cherokee is a laugh, although there are actually family records that support the marriage to a Cherokee woman in the 1800s. However, they thought the Seminole was cool. Many of her friends were Hispanic mixed with indigenous. Funny thing is, they also thought my daughter was adopted 'cause she looked more Hispanic than her brother and sister who look like they just stepped off the boat from Ireland ... tons of Irish in both sides of the family.
@@scloftin8861 Yes, tons of Irish is a sign that the native part might be true. The Irish came with nothing as immigrants and figured out real fast that the Cherokee, and others were a matrililial society where the women owned the property so by marrying a native woman they could become a land owner in the eyes of the white society. The tribes out west did not own land as it was all communal, but the south east tribes actually allotted land. So women were the owners and men were the defenders as warriors. The Irish immigrants figured that out real fast. One of the reasons we have so many lines of red headed Cherokee.
It was claimed b4 then.
He was a lovely compassionate man with great talent,kindness and generosity 💯♥️🎖️🙏🎄
When Jack got cut in half it affected Johnny deeply because it was the the worst case of being cut in half that the doctor had ever seen❤
I love walk hard what is the best movie?❤
CASH was open about his mistakes and regrets.
He was a flawed man and never hid that.
Did he ever mention his drunk butt starting a fire that wiped out a whole clan of Condors?
@@totallynieve7108 Haha! I don't know. I don't know if he specifically mentioned every single event!
Who of you hasn’t thought of “Ring of Fire,” after a night of hot wings? Come on, Preparation H was a no-brainer.
Just FYI. Merle Kilgore was a man. He was Hank Williams Jrs manager for years. The Ring of fire gold record was on his wall at this home in Paris TN. 😊 his son Duane was a good friend of mine in my college days
On Finding My Roots Roselyn Cash found out that her mother indeed had a Black great great grandmother. She also found out that Johnny also had Black DNA. That COULD be where the tale of the Cherokee ancestry came to be part of the dna tale.
The tone and intentions of this video seem kind of negative. However, Johnny's claims about his Cherokee ancestry were probably honest.
He could of easily had Melungean Ancestors, who were an admixture of African American, Native American and Middle Eastern ancestry, that seeked refugee in the Appalachian mountains in the south eastern states, and had families there during the time of slavery. The mixed children who had tan skin claimed Cherokee ancestry, which was partly true because of their African/Indian heritage.
Well, he had his faults, we all do.
Speak for yourself Regina! I'm nearly perfect!
If Johnny Cash were half martian, I'd still love his music... Now that I think about it, I might like it even more.
My Mom meet Johnny and June when she was waitressing at the Carolina Inn which any music act back in the 70’s and 80’s came to Columbia, SC. She said the couple was very nice and humble.
The man who pressed the " record " button at Sun records, for the " Million Dollar Quartet " session was in fact Jack " Cowboy " Clement ... a noted producer and song-writer in his own right. Elvis was signed to RCA records, so the tapes could not be released, but when interviewed many years later, he just winked and smiled, " I thought it would be remiss of me not to do so ! " ...