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"Empress" Verdiacee "Tiari" Washitaw-Turner Goston El-Bey of the Washitaw de Dugdahmoundyah (the article missed aa few of her names or self proclaimed honorifics). Now thats a name I haven't heard in probably two decades(and one she continued to add onto and embellish throughout her life), but reading the article immediately made me remember just how absolutely batshit crazy she was. I grew up in Northeast Louisiana and remember her stirring up problems at various civic meetings for years. I can't believe anybody would ever take anything she said as serious, because she was so clearly mentally ill that even as a kid I picked up on it. But somehow they did, and she even led a movement for the "town" of richwood to secede from the city of Monroe, taking with it a good portion of the more densely populated areas but almost none of the tax base to support the basic civic infrastructure. You can probably figure out how the next two decades plus looked for residents there.

Thanks, I always wondered about the Moor connection.

Point of contention: just because they're not recognized doesn't mean they don't exist, clearly they do, and if they officiate their own documents as well this is a bit different than SovCits I think about, this sounds like a group of people attempting to assert rights that aren't recognized which is a little less unhinged.

Nope, there is no such tribe and never was. This is a grift and it's very popular. Steal the name of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma, for example, add some gibberish and attempt to get federal funds designated for real tribes. It actually hurts real tribal citizens with real IDs, because they get rejected by jaded, ignorant bank employees who have encountered the fake bullshit too many times. You know how else to tune in your bullshit meter? He'a wearing a hat. You can't wear a hat in a photo for any type of ID. Not tribal, not federal.

It's a forgery..