"Queen Chief Warhorse, Tchufuncta Nation, Chahta Tribe" Elwin Green Gillum

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That is her name - Elwin Green birth name, Gillum married.

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A collection of links to help with research & fact checking:

Unfinished web site:http://tchefunctanation.org/

Domain Name:TCHEFUNCTANATION.ORG
Created On:01-Mar-2012 19:01:23 UTC
Last Updated On:01-May-2012 03:50:58 UTC
Expiration Date:01-Mar-2013 19:01:23 UTC

Admin Name:Elwin Gillum
Admin Organization:Chahta Tribe
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Ms Gillum refers in videos to her work with Southern Christian Leadership Conference.
She is listed as one of several honorary members:

Chief Elwin Gillum
Little Rock, Arkansas
http://sclctoday.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=14&Itemid=9

She's done civil rights work with them at least as far back as 1997 http://policecrimes.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=12&t=180
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Save The St Tammany Chahta Tribe in Slidell, LA is a private company which is listed under community affairs and services. Current estimates show this company has an annual revenue of $310,000 and employs a staff of 6.

http://www.manta.com/g/mw2fhwq/elwin-gillum
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described as "revered Chief of the Chahta Indians" 2010 http://www.huffingtonpost.com/georgianne-nienaber/cyril-neville-joins-voice_b_582832.html
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... serves as a true Voice of the Peoples of the Wetlands; Queen/Chief Elwin Warhorse Gillum. You can Google her name and be enlightened about many things that have yet to make it to press.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/georgianne-nienaber/cyril-neville-joins-voice_b_582832.html
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According to Chief Warhorse Elwin Gillum of the Tchefuncta tribe, "It's not an issue of illiteracy. It's not because my people cannot read. It's because BP has structured the rules so that no one can qualify as a fisherman."

BP’s Gulf Oil Spill: Are Native Americans a “forgotten people?” http://www.alevelbeyond.com/oilclaims/blogs/bp%E2%80%99s-gulf-oil-spill-are-native-americans-%E2%80%9Cforgotten-people%E2%80%9D
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Past business company: LABAYOU RECORDS INC. http://www.bizapedia.com/la/LABAYOU-RECORDS-INC.html
   

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Search results on SAVE THE ST TAMMANY PARISH CHAHTA TRIBE via http://www.guidestar.org/
Category: P60 (Emergency Assistance (Food, Clothing, Cash))
EXEMPT STATUS REVOKED ( details )

This organization's exempt status was automatically revoked by the IRS for failure to file a Form 990, 990-EZ, 990-N, or 990-PF for 3 consecutive years. Further investigation and due diligence is warranted.

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Secretary of State Louisana http://www.sos.la.gov/tabid/819/default.aspx
Business:    SAVE THE ST. TAMMANY CHAHTA TRIBE
Charter Number:    35772407 N
Registration Date:    9/2/2004
Status:    Active
Annual Report Status:    In Good Standing
File Date:    9/2/2004
Last Report Filed:    2/3/2012
Type:    Non-Profit Corporation
Agent:    ELWIN GILLUM
Officer:    PERCY C. GILLUM Title:    Director
Officer:    BERNADETTE JOHNSON Title:    Director
Officer:    NOREEN DEBLANC Title:    Director

Several inactive non profits listed with Elwin G Gillum as director, including “R.E.A.C.H. RECREATIONAL EDUCATIONAL APPREHENSIBLE COMMUNITY HEALING CORP.”

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Just found this: Chief Warhorse Online Tee-Pee for Society Chiefs http://64.38.12.138/boardx/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=32089 2008

Oh yeah! we know who they are, they tried using their situation in LA to gather donations here in arkansas so they could buy their own community as Indians. The LR news kept putting them out there w/ a picture of an actual indian...seems the news quit doing it after we brought to their attention what they were encouraging by misrepresenting who these people are.

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From archived web page Feb 21 2003 http://web.archive.org/web/20030221164930/http://members.aol.com/chiefwarhorse/myhomepage/club.html?mtbrand=AOL_US

Welcome to Chief  Warhorse
Tee-Pee  Online

My Online Tee-Pee for Society Chief's

We were Indians then, and we are Indians Now!
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The St. Tammany Parish Native American Tribe, descendents of a mixture of Cherokee, Creek, Chahta, “Choctaw”, an important tribe or confederacy of Muskogean stock, formerly holding most of Southern Alabama and Mississippi, with adjoining portion of Louisiana.

The Chahta Indian was Pioneers of the old Florida Parishes, they were formerly connected with the Chickasaw and crossed the Mississippi together from the West, Their first appearance in history was in 1550, when De Soto’s march in what was perhaps the most terrible Indian battle ever fought in Eastern United States.

They made their first treaty with the United States in 1786, since which time they have never been at war with the Government, and was documented by: Abbe Rouquette in Bayou Lacombe in 1845-1887.

The Chahta Indians of St. Tammany Parish, have been historically documented, as Bayou Bonfouca Choctaw, Bayou Lacombe Choctaw, Northshore of Ponchartrain Choctaw and St. Tammany Choctaw and the Florida Parishes Choctaw, all still the same Indians, and many of these settlement are present today.

It is documented that the Ducre’s of Bayou Lacombe, is the last of the Bayou Lacombe Chahta’s, the inventors of fi’le, used in today’s Creole and Cajun gumbo.

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CHAHTA POWER

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About Chief Warhorse

I have been A leader in St.Tammany Parish for Human Rights for over half of my life, which is 20 plus years.

For the Past 5 years I have been fighting for the rights of my tribe as Chief, still holding my seat as President of the St. Tammany Parish SCLC and now holding a National seat as National Board Member for the Southern Christian Leadership Conference "SCLC"; founding President Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, founding Board Member, Rev. Avery C. Alexander of New Orleans.

One thing I have learn is that you only get that which you fight for, or the squeaking Wheel gets the grease.

As an Indian I have to fight to get the right just to be "Indian", you can be what ever race you please but not Indian.

[Defend the Sacred]

A lot of what Gillum and her group are saying is also discussed in threads we have on related groups:

Discussion of Gillum's claim that Africans are the real NDNs, and that NDNs are actually "Chinese" (or something) and "perpetrating" on the lands in the US: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=590.0

Compare Gillum's statements with the platforms and writings of these groups:

"Yamassee Nation"  http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=3706
Yamassee "tribe" in trouble with IRS  http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=590.0
Searching the forum will bring up many threads on the Nuwaubians. Here are two:
United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors: Georgia Sect Dwindles With Leader Jailed  http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=19.0   
Former Nuwaubian Writes Expose  http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=432.0

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A lot of what Gillum and her group are saying is also discussed in threads we have on related groups:

Discussion of Gillum's claim that Africans are the real NDNs, and that NDNs are actually "Chinese" (or something) and "perpetrating" on the lands in the US: http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=590.0

Compare Gillum's statements with the platforms and writings of these groups:

"Yamassee Nation"  http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=3706
Yamassee "tribe" in trouble with IRS  http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=590.0
Searching the forum will bring up many threads on the Nuwaubians. Here are two:
United Nuwaubian Nation of Moors: Georgia Sect Dwindles With Leader Jailed  http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=19.0   
Former Nuwaubian Writes Expose  http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=432.0

This explains so much! Thank you for making this connection clear.

Looks like Gillum is following the playbook of Empress Verdiacee "Tiari" Washitaw-Turner Goston El-Bey http://www.splcenter.org/get-informed/intelligence-report/browse-all-issues/1999/spring/born-on-the-bayou?page=0,0 and related groups.

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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ljFSvqEZUA&feature=relmfu

Interesting bit here said by Ms. Gillum /Chief Warhorse, early in video about 0:10 mark paraphrased:

"Another thing I'm fighting for is that we as a nation have a place of governing that is represented and recognized by the United States goverment.

They say well that's federal recognition.

And I say no that's not. That is a god given right A god given right."

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Gillum and group refer to the "Jim Ducre clan" often as a claim to NDN heritage. Gillum also says that they don't have any French heritage. http://boards.ancestry.com/surnames.ducre/39/mb.ashx

It is possible to piece together the genealogy of the man they are referring to. There is French heritage from the 1700s. That heritage was even discussed in a 1938 Louisiana court case Sunseri v. Cassagne- the case is directly related to this Ducre family lineage.

Gillum makes quite a few genealogy claims that can sound legit but with some research are found to not hold up at all. I think she has an audience who wants to be NDN and so they buy what she tells them.

As for her historical claims of being a tribe, some of what she says sounds like it is her own spin on http://www.unitedhoumanation.org/node/12

This combined with what Kathryn identified earlier in this thread as related groups who claim Africans were the real NDNs - hopefully will help people think twice before joining Gillum's group. Or giving them money. Or buying everything they say without doing any research.

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Quality Management Services Inc does program and grant management for them: http://qmsinc.biz/?p=174

Tchefuncta Nation, Chahta Indian Tribe

Provides grant proposal writing and management assistance to the Tchefuncta Nation, Chahta Tribe. Queen Chief Warhorse, the Queen of the Nation and Chief of the Chahta Tribe has numerous programs (i.e. education, agriculture, disaster preparedness, economic development, health to name a few) that benefit not only the tribe but the local community as well. The Tribe works closely with local, state and federal agencies to implement, monitor and facilitate the flow of information and ensure that assistance and technical support get to the people and communities that need it.  QMS provides grant and program management in support of various tribal programs located in Louisiana, Mississippi and Arkansas.

The American Chahta Indians have a rich history and culture dating back thousands of years in the southeast region of the country.  As in ancient times, the Chahta focus on agriculture, fishing, hunting and most recently solar technology and green projects.  Grant emphasis surround these key areas with the Department of Health and Human Services, U.S. Department of Agriculture, Department of Interior, Center for Disease Control, as well as the State of Louisiana.  Another key emphasis of programming surrounds youth and cultural awareness and preservation of the rich traditions of the tribe with the next generation.

For more information on the Tribe contact QMS at (985) 649-2603.

ST. TAMMANY NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBE OF THE OLD FLORIDA TERRITORY registered Arkansas http://www.sos.arkansas.gov/corps/search_corps.php?DETAIL=286386&corp_type_id=&corp_name=&agent_search=Gillum&agent_city=&agent_state=&filing_number=&cmd=

Gillum's group has plans for a subdivision in Little Rock Arkansas named Chahta Yakni Falama http://www.littlerock.org/BoardOfDirectors/MeetingAgendas/Agendas/2007%20-%20Agenda%20-%2001-16-07/BC%20-%20HWY365-ChahtaYakni%20Deferral%2012-11-06.pdf

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If they were awarded a minority grant or contract, they are Black community org passing itself off as a Native tribe. At the very least the state should not be posting inaccurate information that legitimizes their nonsense claim.

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She still is posing as tribal chief of the Chahta tribe.

http://theadvocate.com/news/6896191-123/small-communitys-hope-for-sewer

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Oct 20, 2013 event in New Orleans:

Queen Chief Warhorse of the Tchefuncta Nation Chahta Tribe, whose community is just north of New Orleans, came to speak about the discrimination they have faced historically and still face today.

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Currently in Arkansas:

Corporation Name    SAVE THE ST. TAMMANY CHAHTA TRIBE
Fictitious Names    
Filing #    800087067
Filing Type    Nonprofit Corporation
Filed under Act    Dom Nonprofit Corp; 1147 of 1993
Status    Good Standing
Principal Address    3221 BARROW RD STE B
LITTLE ROCK, AR 72204
Reg. Agent    ORVILLE ABRAMS JR
Agent Address    3221 BARROW RD STE B

LITTLE ROCK, AR 72204
Date Filed    06/15/2006
Officers    CHIEF ELWIN "WARHORSE" GILLUM, Incorporator/Organizer
BERNADETTE JOHNSON , Principal
BERNADETTE JOHNSON , Director
PERCY C. GILLUM , Principal
PERCY C. GILLUM , Director
NOREEN DEBLANC , Principal
NOREEN DEBLANC , Director
ORVILLE ABRAMS , Treasurer

(search https://www.sos.arkansas.gov/corps/search_all.php )

Corporation Name    ST. TAMMANY NATIVE AMERICAN TRIBE OF THE OLD FLORIDA TERRITORY
Fictitious Names    
Filing #    800087047
Filing Type    Nonprofit Corporation
Filed under Act    Dom Nonprofit Corp; 1147 of 1993
Status    Good Standing
Principal Address    
Reg. Agent    CHIEF ELWIN "WARHORSE" GILLUM
Agent Address    3600 SPRINGER BLVD., APT. 221

LITTLE ROCK, AR 72206
Date Filed    06/15/2006
Officers    CHIEF ELWIN "WARHORSE" GILLUM, Incorporator/Organizer

[Sparks]

Add into this discussion mix a great comment by Gyasi Ross
http://www.racialicious.com/2012/05/02/dont-know-much-about-indians-but-i-let-non-indians-speak-for-them-anyways-point/

The site is gone, but the text is preserved in the first post in this thread:

http://www.newagefraud.org/smf/index.php?topic=3691.0 [Don't Know Much About Indians]