NAFPS Forum

KrazyKraut thanks for all your ongoing work, much appreciated.

I'm struck by how much Dr. Pyle doesn't seem to know about their heritage. Or how to do accurate genealogy.

Look at how much Advanced Smite has been able to work up.

I'm following along with what Smite has posted and also what I find on Ancestry, Family Search, and Wisconsin Historical Society.

Dr. Pyle says they aren't able to find a great grandfather's birth certificate. But I can see that it is available for purchase online.

I think the main thing is that its time to for Dr. Pyle to hire a professional genealogist. This needs to be done without trying to prove anything other than the facts. One step at a time.

Maybe this is a case of family stories that are inaccurate. That can be cleared up. Dr. Pyle is motivated to "find" Native American heritage. They are trying to prove something that may not be true. Accurate genealogy doesn't work that way.

Dr. Kai Pyle identifies as a Two-Spirit person. They've published research on Two-Spirit themes, from their own claimed identity as Two-Spirit.

Two-Spirit = "a contemporary pan-Indian umbrella term used by some Indigenous North Americans to describe Native people who fulfill a traditional third-gender (or other gender-variant) social role in their communities" (Wikipedia source).

If a person is not actually Native American, can they rightfully claim "Two-Spirit" identity?

If I was Dr. Pyle's student, I'd be concerned. And upset.

If an academic is trans and an outsider (not Native American) - that is what I'd want to know. I'm perfectly fine with that. That academic can publish on Two-Spirit themes if they are clear on who they are and who they are not.

Because Dr. Pyle makes confusing and flaky claims about their heritage, I'd not have much trust in their scholarship.

(Claimed identity: "Kai Pyle is a Two-Spirit Métis and Sault Ste. Marie Anishinaabe interdisciplinary scholar from Green Bay, Wisconsin" https://shekonneechie.ca/biographies/kai-pyle/ )

The mail system is still broken, which is why notifications dont work. EMail the most difficult part to set up and will get us quickly blacklisted if something goes wrong. This is why we would prefer email as a service, I am doing research on that.

Even more important is the topic of backups which also will require some research to find a good&modern solution.

From my perspective, the version of SMF is of little importance- this one works for now. It was chosen because my attempts to update to the most current one pathetically failed, so after some wasted tiem I gave up and tried the one in use now, which worked just fine.

These are three screenshots from KP's social media that make specific claims:

1: KP claims a specific ancestor received treaty payments.
2. KP claims their grandmother has "one Ojibwe parent from Sault Ste Marie and one Michif parent from Winnipeg."
3. KP claimed to be going through their great-aunt's genealogy files to pursue enrollment. Claims their great-uncle attended an "Oneida Indian boarding school" for a year.

These are very specific claims which KP should be able to prove.   

This article was in the Sheboygan Press on January 28, 1929. It's about Rose Catherine Keller La Plante being reunited with her birth mom and sister.

KP's ancestor Theotiste Beaudoin was born in Mackinaw City, Michigan. Little Chute Historical Society has the parents of Theotiste Beaudoin as being born in Quebec. This makes it highly unlikley there is any Sault Ste Marie Anishinaabe or Metis ancestry through this line.

PARENTS OF THEOTISTE BEAUDOIN
Francois Beaudoin
b. 06 Apr 1785, Repentigny, Québec, Canada
d. 01 Feb 1850, Green Bay, Brown, Wisconsin
Marie Catherine Gauvreau
b. 25 Nov 1791, Québec, Canada   
d. 25 May 1864, Bay Settlement, Brown, Wisconsin

SOURCE: https://littlechutehistory.org/genealogy/getperson.php?personID=I334470&tree=lc

Interestingly, this couple had a child in Wisconsin in 1834. The Wisconsin birth record lists the child as "white" despite the full sibling (Theotiste) going on to have children marked as "half breed" on the same record type.

Husband of Theotiste Beaudoin, John Baptiste La Plante, was born in Quebec.

This is the actual foster care article split into three parts. It appeared in the Green Bay Press Gazette on September 1, 1953.

This is KP's Tumblr post in which they claim an article was written praising their paternal grandmother's abusive foster parents taking in "sad little Indian kids." I'm going to try to attach the actual article (which doesn't say anything about race) in a separate post due to size.

Two screenshots of one of the social media post referenced in the previous post are attached. It's KP claiming to be descended from Mrs. Battise Plant.