Wednesday, March 28, 2007
Apocalypto star Rudy Youngblood's Comanche roots are being questioned as a Native American group plans to honor the actor. Youngblood, who played central character Jaguar Paw in Mel Gibson's Mayan history epic, has spoken out about his heritage in interviews, boasting that his ancestors fought at Little Big Horn.
But Comanche leaders and Native American historians are questioning his claims. One historian, David Yeagley, tells the Los Angeles Times, "He has no Indian blood in him that anyone can validate."
Youngblood, who will be honored at next month's First Americans In The Arts gala in Beverly Hills, admits he can't understand why Yeagley is questioning his heritage. The actor says, "It's very hateful and very negative. He stalks me like he knows me."
According to the actor's website, Youngblood hails from the Tahchawwickah Comanche family and is adopted Cree. In his defense, Comanche Nation spokeswoman Jolene Schonchin accepts Youngblood's claims to her tribe: "He does have Comanche blood... from his father's side."
But even that is being questioned by members of theTahchawwickah family, who claim they've never heard of Youngblood, stating the actor wasn't among family members who attended tribe elder Preston Tahchawwickah's funeral in 2005. Youngblood claims Preston Tahchawwickah as his father.
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David Yeagley is hardly the authority on anything Indian. He is a fraud, he is a fake and he is barely Indian. He is only 1/15. He was enrolled on lies and continues with the lies. The only thing that man is a doctor of is: deception, manipulation and hatred.
What ON EARTH gives you the idea that the man is a "historian"? He has a lower degree in divinity (whatever that is) and a doctorate in musicology (whatever that is).
Everything he writes about Youngblood is a discharge of his putrid hatred of what he considers "Negro" or "darkie" and mankind in general.
That is the same Yeagley who said: "The sexual aggression of the Negro, particularly when surrounded by those not of his race, is well known."
Or: "The darkness of the Negro has always repulsed other races."
Or: "I suppose the word "nigger" means everything that the Negro feels uncomfortable with about himself, inner and outer."
Or: "These days the white woman is expected to humble herself before the darkie."
Not enough? Here is more. Just click on each quote to go to the source.
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