Lucas is their chief as well as an actor. Whether he or they are legit are completely tied together. Here's what their site says:
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http://notoweeganation.org/index.php/about-ushe Notoweega or Norwards, also known as, Andatses, Hurons, Susquehannocks and Mingos, are an inter-tribal grouping of Southeastern tribes, that were one fire with the Delaware, Iroqouis, and warred Tutelo/Catawba/Saponi's of South Carolina and Virginia. The Notoweega consisted of mainly, the Cusabo(Wapoo), Nottoway, Shawnee(Showanose), Meherrins, Cherokee(Tsalagi), Delaware(Lenape), Conastogas, Tuscaroroa's, Mingo-Seneca and eventually the Tutelo, Saponi, Catawba.
Through, war disease, and intermarriage, the various tribes banded together to retain their culture, land and traditions....
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Some of those are very distinct from each other, and some are still very much around. Mingos mostly became the Seneca Cayuse. Huron mostly became Wyandotte. Susquehannock and Andatses were wiped out, extinct. And that sentence "The Notoweega consisted..." goes on to list one people after another I think wpuld be very surprised to hear they are or were part of this group.
The group calling itself Notoweega seems to have only been around a few decades. They didn't file for state recognition until 2012, federal earlier. Then there's this:
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http://notoweeganation.org/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&layout=edit&id=116[
Retired Hereditary Chief of the Notowega Band of Chickamauga Creeks
Written by Sachem Great Elk Dancer Published in Hereditary Sachems
Was Head & Hereditary Sachem of the Chigamaugua Notoweega Creeks, whose Councils at the time were held in Staten Island, N.Y. until the year 2000. He was the signer of our Federal Petition with the United States Government. The Council was then moved to the ancestral homelands of the Ohio Valley under then, New Principle Sachem Sylvester Myrick and Original Council Member, War Sachem Great Elk Dancer For His Elk Nation.
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So the "tribe" was based in NYC because one leader lived there? Then they all declared themselves moved to Ohio. And at one point they petitioned Maryland for state recognition.
Lucas has been pretty active. He tried to have a casino in Ohio which was also accused of being a head shop, selling marijuana paraphernalia. I don't support the War on Drugs by any means, but doing this is just asking for people to consider your group a bunch of flakes.
Then he tried an online casino. He's filed suit against the city of Logan, state of Ohio, and federal gov't. You can find the long list of news accounts about that on their own site, alongside cultural events.
http://notoweeganation.org/index.php/news/notoweega-newsNot sure how many are part of this group. FB page lists 923 followers, but in the photos you rarely see more than a few together. Their supposed tribal forum is really empty.
http://notoweeganation.org/index.php/forum/indexThere are several online obituaries for members who passed on who are listed as chiefs or other ranks. Can't help notice many mixed ancestry Black people. There are references to Notoweega as Qarsherskiy. Looking that up turns up this site and others:
https://qarsherskiy.simdif.com/faqs.htmlhttps://micronations.wiki/wiki/Draft:Qarsherskiyanshttps://www.instagram.com/qarsherskiy/https://www.waivio.com/@koudeiland4news/islamic-sultanate-of-qarsherskiyAnd dozens more.
Describing themselves as mixed race Creoles, Muslims and others. There was a strange offshoot, a supposed sultanate.
https://www.reddit.com/r/micronations/comments/1mdsia9/the_dark_truth_about_the_islamic_sultanate_of/
