Proof that Patrick Del Percio Rochford is not Cherokee, a TAAF page

13/02/2024

Ancestor chart.

20/10/2023

And Patrick is STILL lying about being Cherokee! At YALE UNIVERSITY!!

Patrick, we have proven you have ZERO American Indian ancestry whatsoever. Prove us wrong!

04/05/2023

Yale: We respectfully invite you to do better than a disrespectful unrepentant pretendian fraud.

02/05/2023

Visit our website, where the evidence against pretendian frauds is permanently housed.

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02/05/2023

Patrick is completely unrepentant and is counting on the Cherokee friendships he has very intentionally cultivated to protect him. He has ignored the Cherokees asking him to do what is right and go forward being honest and authentic.

He has caused division and pain among the Cherokees he claims to love and falsely claims to BE by centering himself. He doesn't care.

A lot of Cherokee children who didn't have Patrick's white privilege would have loved to have had the privileged opportunities that Patrick was given to have access to Cherokee first language speaking elders and teachers too. Must be nice.

That is NOT the behavior of an ally. Not every Cherokee trusts you, Patrick. Far from it.

26/04/2023

This kind of centering is not ok, claiming to be Cherokee.

24/04/2023

https://caodanak.com/en/indigenous-sovereignty-race-shifting-and-university-responsibility/

“Playing Indian” is as old as the Boston Tea Party, when the Sons of Liberty dressed up as Mohawks to toss tea into Boston Harbor. Since the 1970s a rapidly growing share of Canadians and Americans have gone beyond play to identify themselves as Indigenous, many with

24/04/2023

Patrick identifies as an "Indian boy"..... STILL up on Twitter, even after being called out. See below.

24/04/2023

Quote from Cherokee elder David Cornsilk, with permission:

Patrick has been accepted as a second language speaker and friend. He was never, never adopted by any Cherokee speaker. He was taken under their wing and taught the language more than he had learned on his own.

There’s nothing wrong with anyone learning our language. In fact we can’t stop anyone from learning it. But speaking a language does not change one’s race.

Patrick is white and a talented teacher and speaker. Durbin Feeling told me himself about Patrick and how amazed he was at his skill, but he never once said speaking Cherokee made Patrick a Cherokee. By falsely claiming to BE Cherokee Patrick is besmirching the actual relationship he had with Durbin and other speakers.

If Patrick was saying he was taken in, adopted or whatever term that implied a strong relationship with elder speakers, it would not be so offensive and would show respect for what happened and the people involved.

That is not what he is doing. Patrick is falsely claiming to have a Cherokee grandmother. That is a lie and he knows it. So why do that?

Because he is trading in the currency of ethnic identity politics the academic ivory tower demands and abuses. Instead of being honest about his relationship to our elder speakers, he has tossed them aside for a more marketable but false claim of having Cherokee ancestry.

His behavior is disrespectful to the Cherokee people and certainly disrespectful to the memory of Durbin Feeling and the elders who took him in."

24/04/2023

Genealogy
Patrick Del Percio
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24/04/2023

On the topic of "adoption", by David Cornsilk:

"Historically speaking, there is a reason “adoption” was taken from individual Cherokees and vested in a centralized government process where the Council was vested with all identity questions.

During the early years of interface between Cherokees and wh!tes it was common practice for Cherokee men to take white men as brothers, adopting them into their clan. This adoption was binding on the whole nation and brought with it full rights of citizenship. Many of the adopted white men married Cherokee women further strengthening their rights in the tribe.

The practice became so common that Cherokee leadership became alarmed at the number of wh!te men having full rights in the tribe. In 1827 the Council abolished adoption and took that right from the individuals and vested in the Council itself.

The concept of adoption conferring any rights beyond a relationship with a particular family is nonexistent. The members of the Language Consortium have no more right to adopt someone than any other Cherokee. That doesn’t mean it can’t happen within a family or even a circle of friends, but it meaning beyond that circle is negligible if at all. Certainly, no one has any rights outside that very small bubble

There is an article I read many years ago in the Journal of Cherokee Studies about this very topic. Unfortunately I don’t recall the author, title or date. But if someone had time to look for it, the information provided would be timely in regard to how the Language scholars, at least some, have behaved."

24/04/2023

Patrick has chosen to completely ignore the people whose ancestry he claims to share

23/04/2023

Yale University:
Where is Patrick's personal and academic integrity?

22/04/2023

The goal is NOT to get Yale to rescind Patrick's job (although that may be the result). It is to get Patrick to come clean and do better. To be an honest ally, not a pretendian. The Cherokees who love him are coming out of the woodwork to defend him. So be it. There are just as many Cherokees who want him to do the above so that we CAN support him. But we will simply not support pretendians.

21/04/2023

Who is TAAF?
See the comments.

19/04/2023

Cherokee and other NDN scholars are writing to Yale about this.

19/04/2023

We invite Patrick to do better.
They can start here is they wish to.

19/04/2023

Don't ignore the red flags. Don't let the pretendians frauds ignore or bully you into submission. When you see something, say something. This is not ok. Patrick can turn it around, if they choose to.

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