I use to read an article of native american of european descent years ago,any one knows the name of the tr?

i've forgot about the details of the tribe, so any sites, books related? not sure whether it is pseudo-history or not ), answers are highly appreciated

I use to read an article of native american of european descent years ago,any one knows the name of the tr?
You may be thinking of Archibald ("Archie") Belaney, who was no Native American but an Englishman born in Hastings. He went to Canada in 1906 and adopted the name Grey Owl, applied fake tan to his skin and pretended to be a native. Although the name he adopted was Anishnaabe (Ojibwa) he claimed to be half Apache, although his story was inconsistent. He married an Ojibwa woman and after working as a fur trapper he became a conservationist, saving beavers and eventually lecturing about preserving the wilderness and the animals.





Real Native Americans saw through his disguise at once when he was asked to perform traditional song and dance - his attempts were ridiculous, but he nevertheless continued to write books and lecture, even coming back to England wearing a Lakotah warbonnet.





He was a fake in one respect, but also an important early advocate of conservation and protecting species.





see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grey_Owl





Alternatively, you may be thinking about the Mandan (Miwatani, Mawatani, or Seepohskahnumahkahkee) tribe of North Dakota, who were a branch of the Siouan stock and related to the Crows and Hidatsa. Their language is recorded and belongs to the Hokan-Sioux linguistic group.





In the early 19th century a story emerged that some people had traced words like Welsh in their language; put together with other coincidental similarities, it was claimed that these people were descendants of one Prince Madoc, a 12th century Welshman for whom there is no historical evidence at all who (it is claimed) sailed several times between Wales and the Gulf of Mexico - his followers (the myth says) eventually moved north along the Mississippi-Missouri rivers to North Dakota. The idea is completely impossible since the Welsh at that time had no sea-going ships capable of such a voyage.





The Mandans were practically wiped out by smallpox in the 1830s and only a very few remained - they became absorbed by the Hidatsas, but still attempted to maintain their own dialect and customs. Even modern descendants reject the idea of Welsh settlers as their ancestors as complete garbage.





See http://www.languagegeek.com/siouan/manda...