Is this who you mean, with a slightly different spelling?
Chief Humble Penn
http://shadowwolf.org/readersforum.htmlCut and paste is disabled. The site also gives you a cheesy casio type of keyboard playing America the Beautiful.
The article says he's a man who always thought he was a light skinned Black man finding out very late in life he's mostly Cherokee with some Black ancestry. Now he leads the "United Cherokee Indian Tribe of West Virginia" and gives talks at schools.
An article at an academic set of essays mentions that they were involved in a repatriation case, where they filed along with two archeologist societies.
http://books.google.com/books?id=n1p33TtkSVEC&pg=PA199&lpg=PA199&dq=%22united+cherokee+indian+tribe+of+west+virginia%22&source=web&ots=jyEM7Pjdz_&sig=8XCZLr6ZRdVD87ts6JTzbTrhd-g#PPA199,M1Agreement: Cotiga Burial Mound, Mingo County, 1991
Found a cached article on the case.
http://216.239.51.104/search?q=cache:hkJ2y_7ROVsJ:findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1430/is_n9_v17/ai_18077131/pg_3+%22Cotiga+Burial+Mound&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=3&gl=us"One of the points in the Cotiga burial mound dispute was a request by the Native American group that female researchers working at the site not handle the burial materials-the human remains and related funeral objects - while they were menstruating. "My immediate reaction," says Farrar, "was, well, you can ask, but I'm not going to enforce it, and I don't know if anyone will agree to that."
The issue was resolved, however, without conflict. The spokesperson for the Native American group (a woman) talked it over with the head of the archaeological team (also a woman), and she agreed to honor their request. "She said she'd been in that situation on several reservation digs," Farrar recalls. "That it wouldn't interfere with their work, and it would foster good relations, so no sweat."
