My grandmother on my mother's side maiden name was Meeks and she was from Oklahoma.
@DB I agree Warren must have checked her DNA and found it wasn't true. I heard Warren speak of this Indian connection yesterday or day before and she sounded like me as she said it was family history her family spoke of for years that the Indian connection was in Oklahoma and she gave some details. Maybe she said she was born in Oklahoma, I don't remember for sure about that.
My family history is that a great great grandfather from England, living in Arkansas, married an Indian woman of a tribe going through Arkansas on the way to Oklahoma during the Trail of Tears. The tribe stayed in Arkansas for a while before heading to Oklahoma again and that is how he met her. I also had family members living in Oklahoma as Warren says she did, in fact my mom and dad who married in Arkansas, lived in Oklahoma for a while and my brother was born there, then they came to Texas with the Sun Oil Company. I was born in Texas.
Both sides of my family knew that Indian woman story was true. I need to do that DNA thing but can't decide which group to choose to do that. I don't want to get connected to one that you have to keep paying for over time. I want a one shot deal.
Certainly if I was going to use that Indian connection as she did, I would absolutely have done the DNA thing before I brought it up. Maybe she didn't do that at first and now knows it isn't true. I can't believe she hasn't done that test now.
On my mother's side, I am related to a great grandfather who came from England, lived in North Carolina and fought on the side of England in the Revolutionary war - rats, I was not on George Washington's side. All you rebels make me sick - Hail, England!