Johnny Cash Hurt A Lot More Than Himself

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[@user-og1de7dd3d]

What black hole you from? Or is it just others?

[@DeidresStuff]

Back then, you just went by what you were told by your family. He was extremely dedicated to the cause of justice for Native Americans.

[@jimig399]

@@DeidresStuff that's right. You went by what family told you and you didn't doubt it. My granny was part Cherokee. I can't imagine if she was still here and I accused her of being a liar. She'd probably punch me in the mouth. And I'd probably deserve it. I think whomever is taking the word of DNA over Johnny Cash maybe should be punched in the mouth as well. I think most Cherokee folk would agree with that too. Miss you granny Dot ❤️ Rip Johnny Cash.

[@JessieI]

True, I was told we have Native American Blood in my (maternal grandmother's) family as well. Also my aunt said she was able to trace my maternal grandmother's family back to the Stevens, Baily, and Aldridge families who came over on the Pilgrim Ships, but I find no Aldridge on the Pilgrim Ships so maybe I misunderstood her. My Grandma does have all three of those names in her family. I would be proud to be Native American, I wish it were true. Instead I will simply be proud to support Native Americans by Boosting to my Representatives & Senators and Voting For every single Bill that supports them and their way of life as they ask us to.

[@OllamhDrab]

It's an extremely-common family story of the 'Cherokee grandmother' that never seems to actually get any more distant a relative over the generations. I expect in the South it was often just to 'explain' any not-white-enough-traits even if that wasn't really necessary. Wouldn't want to be 'Black Irish' or something, for one where people were mostly Protestant, etc, if there was black hair in the family, for instance. But a lot of people pass on these stories, whatever their origin or reality, without any reason to question their grandparents' accounts. Doesn't mean they're trying to fool anyone. (My particular ancestors pretty much arrived in the later 19th century and didn't move far from port a long time, so no such stories for us, but people still tended to guess such about an uncle of mine, who kinda did look the part at least by Western TV show standards. )

[@TedH71]

@@JessieI You can do both dna and paper trails. Easier that way too.

[@Demun1649]

They are NOT Native Americans. They are The People, the First Nations. The ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS, from Europe, murdered between 60 and 100 million of the indigenous people, 4 of your states still have laws in which it is legal to kill any People who are in a town centre, in a group of four or more, and therefore considered a WAR PARTY. They still kill The People these days. Look at what Trumpanzees first Executive Order was in his first term. Stole land from the Lakota Sioux. Biden sold private land, a Reservation, to RTZ for mining. The persecution, courtesy of the blasphemous "Manifest Destiny", is rife in the Ultra Secure Asylum.

[@user-neo71665]

Met the man when I was a teen. I was dating his cuz and he walked in thanksgiving with June. They both were about the most down to earth folks you could ever meet.

[@LarryStevenson-s7g]

I think we sat in front of him at the Metropolitan Theatre in Winnipeg, Manitoba when we went to the movies. Of course we were really young and unaccompannied so it could have be someone else. But He was supposedly in town that night.

[@joebudi5136]

Wow!

[@robertclark972]

He shot me in Reno ,Nevada , but I didn't know why .

[@lindastrang8703]

​@@robertclark972 😂😂😂

[@ThomasMilner]

@@robertclark972 he told me about that, you were the guy huh? he said you pissed him off so he shot you just to see you die.. you made it though.

[@NativeDaughterDialogues]

I'm Native American and I adore CASH.

[@npadiscoveryy]

Why all the debates about racial heritage? If Johnny stood up for Native Americans and advocated for their rights, that’s what truly matters to me

[@BeccaJoyDowdaBriscoeMoorehead]

I have a great native American heritage in one line of my family. YET, I HAVE NO MEASURABLE DNA. Such is the luck of the draw!

[@TheSuspira]

In case people in other areas of the country don't know, everyone in the Appalachia area has part Cherokee in their ancestry. How or why it started, I don't know but it is a thing that is said in every family. I don't believe they are, but people are very adamant about it. And Roseann's mother had African American blood so no shock she is half her mother.

[@maxi-me]

​@TheSuspira There was actually a study (Cornell I believe) that determined nearly all the claims turned out as African markers. It seems that a lot of Scotts irish worked alongside slaves during their seven year endentured servatude and apparently produced offsprings that needed plausible deniability to slip past the "one drop" laws. I was sold the cherokee story my entire youth, but refuted it and had no interest in NA culture. They always mentioned my cheekbones, But turn out I had no markers at all.

[@robertkarp2070]

@@BeccaJoyDowdaBriscoeMoorehead It turns out that DNA testing can produce different results each time you take it. There's even a case of identical twin sisters having different DNA test results. DNA testing is not 100% fool proof.

[@brianpeck4035]

@@maxi-me The DNA testing for consumers isn't fool proof and different companies and the same companies with identical twins may give different results...so you may still be a Red Injun!

[@rasempress9724]

Am Jamaican n have ALWAYS LOVED his music…n he loved Jamaica…. Cash and second wife, June Carter, actively supported the construction of an SOS Children’s Village in Jamaica, on a plot of land in Barrett Town not far from their own holiday home. The country music star later dedicated one of his songs, “The Ballad of Annie Palmer,” to the children of the village, donating all royalties from the song to the SOS Children’s Village. When discussing his decision to make this contribution, Cash said, "It will mean that more abandoned children can have hope, find love and have a future." As often as possible, Johnny and June would visit the village, Cash usually bringing his guitar and singing with the children.

[@cattaylor7031]

Ironic he built so kids when he practically abandoned 3 of his own 🤡🎉

[@waitaminute2015]

​@@cattaylor7031maybe he was trying to make up for it in his own weird way. It doesn't really matter anyway. Nobody knows why anyone does what they do good or bad. Just be thankful for the good.

[@kaydenpat]

Thanks for this. I knew that he had a vacation home in Jamaica but didn't know anything else. Great story!

[@rasempress9724]

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[@rasempress9724]

Cinnamon Hill, his home in Jamaica

[@andreacagle208]

DNA is a curious thing. My grandmother was Cherokee. In this day and age of testing some of her children have tested out as having Cherokee DNA and some have not, yet she birthed all of them. This is possible because our parents can only contribute so much DNA each time a child is conceived and obviously this means not all of their DNA will translate to the max 50% they can contribute. My mom was crushed she tested as having no Cherokee DNA. But that doesn’t mean her ancestors are any different than her siblings and this is documented in the census rolls they use to determine native bloodlines. So she does have Cherokee ancestry and she is registered with the tribal council. So don’t let anyone misinterpret what can be documented by birth records. If it’s paternal lines it might be shaky but not when the bloodlines are maternal. All my grandmothers births were witnessed and her being the mother is not in question. Genetics is a lottery.

[@theoryofpersonality1420]

It's because the test are garbage and the science isn't what they say. One man sent two samples to every testang facility and didn't get back the same results twice. It's junk. I've seen a twins also get completely different results. Like they weren't even related. It's nonsense. They can't tell you where you came from. They just want the DNA for cloning experiments.

[@Hatbox948]

All Native Americans have western Eurasian dna. Google it. They're Caucasian; white and asian. Whites are caucasoid.

[@silverstuff182]

So you have honorary Cherokee heritage? It sounds like you have no Cherokee DNA to pass on. Quite confusing. Like Johnny Cash I also have African ancestry, I.e. one half of one percent. Who knew? None of my grandparents, parents etc. We were “all Italian “.

[@carolynsilvers9999]

Same with my family

[@lisagonzalez1032]

@@silverstuff182

[@RobertWindedahl]

AS A NATIVE AMERICAN ,I CAN TELL YOU MOST OF US HAVE ALWAYS RESPECTED JOHNNY CASH! THANK YOU FOR STICKING UP FOR US , JOHNNY !!!!❤❤❤❤

[@dianakidd4219]

Waylon DID have Indian blood. I lived near a Navajo reservation in Farmington NM. Waylon came at least 4 times a year to perform for them. They dressed up very well to see him.

[@SharonCaldwell-b2c]

You got that right

[@MamaKalash]

My grandma was Cherokee, and I've never respected Cash, until later on in his life, when he finally wised up. Throughout his career, he glorified and promoted adultery, drunkenness, theft, carousing, prison sentences, and licentiousness.

[@SharonCaldwell-b2c]

@ my mother was a Blackfoot Indian. I don’t think cash was any part Indian. And you are right about him promoting drunkenness and adultry.

[@Ken-sc3gx]

Johnny Cash stuck up for everyone who had gotten a raw deal. Although Mr. Cash didn't have a squeaky clean life, he still commands respect and honor.

[@sarahmcbride4518]

Can we all just enjoy his amazing voice and songs... PLEASE? RIP, Cash! Your real fans will always love you and miss you terribly.

[@BrianVMoore-ze2ek]

Yes, just embrace the lies in this, as good feels are just as valid as facts, as so many ignorant morons claim!

[@MasterPoucksBestMan]

The Cherokee were one of the tribes that often adopted colonials into the tribe. They lived with the tribe, following tribal ways, but would have had no "Native American" DNA. They were still considered Cherokee by the Cherokee. That's where all this claiming of Cherokee ancestry comes from, and why it cannot be proved or debunked using a DNA test. People today are so preoccupied with blood and DNA but in colonial times many Native American cultures didn't look at the concept of belonging in that way.

[@seanhewitt603]

Just because one of them is good enough to forgive his appearances, does not mean his great grand kids can claim to be good too...

[@jamesstrozier8571]

​@@seanhewitt603 unlike you, it had nothing to do with appearance. Once you where adopted into a tribe, you where of that tribe. It wasn't a DEI thing.

[@seanhewitt603]

@jamesstrozier8571 I wasn't adopted into any tribe, greyskin, that's be you planetkiller liars tricking the Cherokee into thinking you were human enough to be one of them... I'm full blooded Inuvialuit... You Fuckin colonist settler trash serf squatter...

[@velovoice47]

Correct. Cherokee is a nation. Being Cherokee is a matter of citizenship, not blood. By that standard, Cash wasn't Cherokee, regardless of ancestry.

[@seanhewitt603]

@jamesstrozier8571 some paleface squatters, like you, think everyone is just like you, a liar, cheater, thief, and squatter...

[@davidmorris9596]

This is b.s There's a old clip where Johnny cash is in front of native Americans. He said.."I have very little Indian blood'. Except 100% here in my heart for you!! He went on to sing the way only Johnny Cash could!!

[@brigittea5110]

Johnny Cash The Ballard of Ira Hayes/ As long g as the grass will grow

[@my6pack50]

I listen to the whole thing and I found more than one untruth in it. So I will not spread it anymore.

[@KatherynInc.]

Thanks for the real story. Stupid ai made video trash.

[@pamelaplumb112]

Lol.. my father was 'arrested' with Mr Cash picking those flowers over in Starkville. The reason it was such a fuss was they were picking them on the Dean's lawn at Mississippi State & his wife just freaked out. I heard that story more times than I can remember. My Papa was in this organization called the JayCees & they had sponsored the concert Mr Cash had done. My family still brews moonshine over in Alabama & that's what they were drinking that night. My family used to put Jimson Weed in their shine. It adds a very hallucinogenic property to the shine. Basically, Mr Cash & my Papa were tripping ballz that night

[@jimig399]

😂 Cool story and I totally believe it. My family is the same and they have had some bizarre but memorable experiences that most people don't believe simply because they don't have real family and haven't experienced life southern style. Work hard, party hard. That's my family motto. We've had some good times just like you described. My family brews shine and grows flowers too. Specifically of the Mary Jane variety. Makes for some interesting adventures. ❤🙏

[@JeanDavies-d8h]

What a great story keep it going through your family hun my dad used to get compared to Johnny cash as he looked like him his friends called him the man in black 😂 he passed at 48 😢 i was the youngest 13 such a loss it’s not till you get older you realise how young that is

[@juneyshu6197]

Interesting!

[@nannylegday5808]

I absolutely believe this 😂 it made me think of that infamous picture of him in a bush eating cake 😂😂

[@chiaralistica]

I love this story, thanks for sharing. Johnny Cash was truly a man of the people.

[@quixote5844]

Why all the arguments about racial heritage? If Johnny spoke up for Native Americans, that’s good enough for me.

[@dsoule4902]

Trotsky's nocturnal emissions for destroying the fabric of a culture. There's only one genetic strain they go after ....

[@tonypastor705]

quixote5844-Well, it’s good to speak up for Native Americans- but NOT to claim to be one when you’re not.

[@leeneufeld4140]

@@tonypastor705 He had no way of knowing he wasn't. He believed what he was told.

[@watchr740]

@@tonypastor705 He only claimed it because his mother told him they had Cherokee ancestry, and he grew up thinking he was. It’s probably why he was so passionate about Native Americans.

[@taghiabiri3489]

In these days to claim to be part Cherokee was in deed a brave and good thing to do. Nowadays are different times and it would be stupid to judge him with nowadays rules.

[@ChantePierce-kp3uf]

When Native People are very fond of someone they have an Adoption Ceremony. The person is then considered family and part of the Nation.

[@karenporritt2569]

Not true

[@ChantePierce-kp3uf]

@@karenporritt2569 I am of mixed decent and got Spiritually adopted by an elder man as his niece. I was given a Spiritual name and was invited to participate and eventually lead Ceremonials. You OBVIOUSLY know Nothing about Native Culture or Ceremonies !

[@All.Natural.]

They didn't want Johnny Cash to have Charley Pride on his show but cash showed them!😂😂😂😂 Respect!

[@Mimi73161]

Charley Pride helped my mom get me off of a plane when I was just 6 weeks old!! So sweet and down to earth my momma said and I have always loved Johnny Cash. The man in Black🖤🖤🖤

[@CircaBEFORE]

Just because there is an absence of native american dna markers in Roseanne Cash’s DNA doesn’t mean she didn’t have Native American ancestry. Ancestry is a whole other thing to actual individual DNA. If Johnny Cash’s cherokee ancestors went back many generations, and if it was only one ancestor, there is a huge chance his dna would not show native american ancestry. Given where he grew up it is very likely he has a few Native American Ancestors if his people went back many generations like mine. My great grandmother was a North Carolinian Cherokee but I only have a tiny little sliver of Native American genetic markers. Geneology is really important in establishing ancestry. Looking at your DNA can help understand migrations and regions of origin but it isn’t the whole picture. Mad respect for the man in black, I grew up listening to my family cover Cash songs, and we would dance and sing along - his music is a huge memory of my childhood. Rest in Peace Johnny.

[@noorgonzalez1076]

♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️♥️ Revelation 12:12 Revelation 21:3 ,4 John 5:28 Isaiah 35:5,6 Isaiah 65:21 Isaiah 45:18

[@Fa1thfulGod]

True. Both my grandmothers were part Native American and told us so. Their grandparents were indigenous. My dna results showed Asian not Native American.

[@jayceew.rabbit9358]

If he was native American in spirit, than he was, and that is a special gift! Native American on both sides of my family and I am proud of that!

[@EQOAnostalgia]

I'm White and i'm so proud of that.

[@AmyC28713]

That's not how it works, bro. Thanks, from a US Army Veteran who is also a Citizen of a Sovereign Native Nation. Legally speaking: You cant claim it if you aren't legally tied to it in documentation.

[@jayceew.rabbit9358]

@AmyC28713 I just meant him choosing the spirit of the native American is an honor, I didn't mean that made him a native American.

[@LarryStevenson-s7g]

Dad a full tribal member and mom 1/2 native, her father was German. In fact America is all about a native north American native because if you use the 3r method of making your m ie rrr (pushed together) and see a small / at the start of the America, the put ot together and it is /Arrrerica a puppy love story where if you look for the roots of the name erica it is like a German princess while /Arrr(/arry) is Me. Guess I might of inherited some of Grandpa's gene's because 2 Canada day's ago I was called a colonizer despite being a member of the First Nation.

[@jayceew.rabbit9358]

@nonamemcgillicutty9585 well, excuse me! And I'll have you know that there is native American on both sides of my family, and what I meant was, to have the spirit of native American in your heart is an honor, I didn't say that made them one! So no reason for you to be insulting.

[@katr8756]

Wasn't a table saw. It was a huge saw from a sawmill that cuts lumber from trees. What a horrific injury!!

[@websurfer5772]

So tragic.

[@pcno2832]

I was wondering about that; I can't think of an easy way to cut myself in half with my table saw. Nonetheless, I only use it when there is no practical alternative; I know a few people who've lost fingers to them. I can't imagine how it would be to loose a brother to a sawmill accident; poor guy.

[@yukonsusie]

😮😢😢

[@MakerBoyOldBoy]

Those huge open blade timber cutting blades are still in common use around the world. The creation of band saw cutting largely replaced the open blades. As a teenager I worked on smaller open blade multi blade "gang saws" which cut differing angles on a single length of wood.

[@t.h.8475]

Hoosier here, one of the Amish in our community was cut in half by one of those open blades. He was young. It was probably about 10 years ago.

[@Scout686]

My first 45 record was ring of fire. I remember watching the Johnny Cash show. Have loved his music my entire life. Rodney Crowell’s I walk the line tribute is outstanding.

[@lancewalker1999]

Sometimes it's just better to remember him for his music.

[@bud5084]

He who is perfect cast the first stone.

[@annabellelee180]

Yes indeed. All our heroes eventually knock themselves from the pedestals on which we place them.

[@melindadurchholz3738]

When he was living with Waylon Jennings, Waylon had a huge heroin habit. That was said by Cash’s daughter in a video.

[@pf100andahalf]

Never get to know your heroes they say, or something like that

[@melindadurchholz3738]

I wasn’t knocking either of them, I was just so surprised by the Waylon Jennings addiction. We loved him to death in the late 70s when I was in school. Jerry Jeff Walker, Willie Nelson, oh they were all a bit younger and their voices and lyrics took you back to their country roots.

[@rongarrett1366]

Roy Rogers was part Choctaw. That's why he and wife Dale Evans were able to adopt an orphan from the Choctaw tribe.

[@freedomvideo995]

Had an full blood Apache friend many years ago. He went to the happy hunting grounds after a deadly car crash. He could play guitar and sing better than most. RIP Ross Dosela

[@gj1234567899999]

One can have Native American ancestry but not have any native DNA. Just mathematically, even if one has a full blooded native ancestor, by 6 generations you have about 1 percent DNA from that ancestor which may not be able to tell as a distinct race. If conservatively, there’s a new generation every 25 years, by 150 years your full blooded ancestor may not show up on DNA test. Family history may have been a person with a quarter native blood was your ancestor in the distant past, but after many generations this distant ancestor was still talked about as “grandpa” even though it’s been over 100 years. Another way is many whites were taken captive by natives as prisoners but later became integrated or adopted by the tribe. These people thought of themselves as natives and passed on stories to their descendants saying they were tribal (which may have been true) but the history became garbled and the descendants just thought they had a full blood native ancestor when in fact their ancestor was just adopted.

[@AhNee]

@@freedomvideo995 Wow...racist much? Scalp? Did you know the French and Dutch brought scalping here?

[@hallitoff3883]

Johnny Cash is one of the greatest Country Western singers of all times. He and June Carter, together, are one of the finest duets of that gendre. I was at the Johnny Cash show the night Marty Robbins made a racist remark about a Japanese singer who had just paid tribute to Cash and his music. Cash came back on stage and would not let Robbins proceed until he apologized. One helluva of a great and courageous act! The narrator could have taken every fact in the video and seen & presented Johnny Cash as someone who struggled - sometimes against long odds - to make something of himself AND TO PRODUCE GREAT AND HEARTFELT MUSIC!!

[@janethammond5925]

It takes until approx 13:33 for this video to address the issue of Cashs' ancestry. He (or rather his daughter) didn't have any Cherokee/Native American markers but did have distant African heritage. However none of that alters his legacy, or his love for the Cherokee people. EDIT...this has nothing to do with the video but for those interested, researchers have found that Native Americans have genetic markers only found in the Jewish people. One of the earliest European explorers found that a particular tribe (who had never seen white men before) could not understand any language but Hebrew. Food for thought? 🤔

[@kathleenking47]

Johnny, and her mom, both could have African ancestry. I didn't believe it, until I saw a picture of Eisenhowers mother If a man, has straight hair, it's easier to look non black..if they keep hair SHORT

[@jemase7931]

Thanks. I get tired of click bait.

[@jemase7931]

African roots. Well, we can all find African roots of one kind or another.

[@norman5340]

Thank you! 14:02

[@emileecleaver8247]

I think her mom probably has the african heritage.

[@Mr.SharkTooth-zc8rm]

Johnny's daughter, Rosanne Cash is one Hell of a talent herself!

[@RobertOlds.630]

You're just saying that because it's true.

[@Mr.SharkTooth-zc8rm]

@@RobertOlds.630 You got that right!

[@debbie4503]

I heard her name. I wonder what she's doing now? She does have a great talent.

[@minirth.maggie]

Seven Year Ache is still one of my favorite songs!

[@deirdreyearwood3383]

I think Johnny can be remembered as a Native American. DNA of one child does not say that he was not. DNA is complicated stuff. Thanks for the music, Johnny. Rest easy ❤

[@caroljohnson9230]

I BELIEVE THAT ANCESTORY DNA TESTING IS NOT ALWAY QUITE 100 %. THEY WOULD HAVE NEEDED TO TEST FROM EVERY INDIAN TRIBE, ETC.. MY FATHERS MOTHER HAD CLAIMED THAT THEY WERE CHEROKEE, CHOCTAW AND IRISH. MY MOTHERS PARENTS (GRAND PARENTS) WERE " LITHUANIAN AND BOHEMIAN" THEY BOTH SPOKE THIS LANGUAGE. BUT ANCESTRY DIDN'T QUITE SHOW ALL OF THE DNA. WE ARE ALL WHO WE ARE, WE ARE ALL HUMAN BEINGS MADE IN THE IMAGE OF GOD..

[@vapoet]

Johnny Cash can be remembered as Johnny Cash. His actual DNA is less important than the beliefs that fueled his music and actions.

[@RevSinkiller]

😂😂😂😂😂😂 Let's smooth over the fact that his parents or grandparents covered up his African American heritage by using that same old lie, "we're part Indian." 😂😂😂😂😂😂

[@deirdreyearwood3383]

@RevSinkiller No, don't let smooth over it. But if he went down the Native American route, that is his call.

[@CT-uv8os]

Try tri racial. Many people whose family go back to 1776 are no matter what they look like. Choices were more limited back in the day and how dare they not live by today's ideas.! ....jesus.. ​@@RevSinkiller

[@littlebrookreader949]

His first wife was beautiful, stunning. His daughter looked like her mother. Lucky her!

[@aananimity]

Yes, she was very pretty 💜

[@lolaislost]

I agreee, she was pretty yet so miserable in the marriage after being left alone for months to raise the four girls. You can see it in her face.

[@poorthing]

Roseann Cash inherited talent & also took after her father in looks, imo. I am a fan of her music & grew to appreciate Johnny Cash too. His last recordings are heartbreakingly poignant, oh- how they make me weep.

[@suzysmith7280]

Roseanne strongly favors her dad. Still see some of her mom in her. Very talented and beautiful lady.🎉

[@katyelder.5]

​@@poorthing "Hurt". 🎶 "I hurt myself today...."

[@PCHSeattle]

In 1976, a fellow Peace Corps volunteer was hitchhiking to her Jamaican home when a couple in a Jeep stopped to give her a ride. She tossed her stuff in the back and jumped in. Then she looked at the driver. "Jeez," she said. "You look just like Johnny Cash!" He smiled and laughed. "I can't help that." Next to him sat June Carter. They dove miles out of their way to see her safely home.

[@rwizard]

If you feel like throwing rocks at Mr. Cash, go watch the video of him doing the song "Hurt". Nothing you can say will ever come close to what Johnny put himself through. He was a good but tortured man, and he always stood up for others. And he had a remarkable wife who stood beside him. I miss his presence in the world.

[@vapoet]

No one is throwing rocks at him. Most of us knew about his issues with drugs for many decades. As for him mistakenly belief he was Cherokee, that belief was extremely common and he wasn't being deceitful. It was simply a family myth that was passed down over the decades and centuries.

[@joanmurray4032]

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[@tessw9744]

Yeah that's a rough gut wrenching song. So sad.

[@elabbi22]

It’s a cover of nine inch nails Hurt. But a very good one nonetheless.

[@richardfrankel6102]

P6 3:01 j

[@ricenglish4556]

We all have a dark side and none of us are anything close to perfect.

[@pamjames9077]

My Mom meet Johnny and June when she was waitressing at the Carolina Inn which any music act back in the 70’s and 80’s came to Columbia, SC. She said the couple was very nice and humble. I love Johnny and June❤

[@samuelogden6706]

Many from Sicily have African gene markers. The Aghlabids conquered the island in the 800s and brought more diversity into the gene pool from North Africa. While Johnny had no gene markers seen in Native American populations, due to the way genes are assorted, other relatives might have them. Many people from the area he came from can trace ancestry to Appalachian melungeons.

[@tbam994]

Melungeons... haven't seen that word in many years

[@whowahska]

Very good points. Also Cherokee membership is not a blood quantum requirement; it is derived from lineage. They have full-blood Whites enrolled thru inter-marriage of Whites to Indians. A blood test proves nothing.

[@ricksaunders8074]

Thought it was the Moors

[@Xhxifkfy4748]

She was half black . She was also stunningly beautiful no matter what 👍

[@Xhxifkfy4748]

Poor woman being hounded

[@lindacosta3265]

Cash first wife was very pretty😊

[@All.Natural.]

She was very pretty.

[@vickiedavis183]

She was pretty. June was not pretty at all. They did Vivian wrong.

[@elkaydoug8863]

Viv was a beautiful black woman

[@carolyearsley]

@@elkaydoug8863 She was Italian. My full blood Italian step-dad's nickname was "Blackie" because his skin became very dark when out in the sun.

[@carolyearsley]

@@elkaydoug8863 She was Italian. My full blood Italian step-dad would become so dark in the sun that his friends called him "Blackie".

[@yerdua1st]

“My Darling Vivian” (2020) is a great documentary from Vivian’s viewpoint; the production does a wonderful job building the foundation of who Cash was before and during his career’s beginnings and what role his success and drug addiction had on his marriage and family life. The film is enhanced with their daughters and many other close friends giving firsthand accounts of Johnny and Vivian’s relationship. If you are interested in learning about Cash from a fresh perspective, I highly recommend watching it. Unlike June and Johnny, Vivian was the one voice without a microphone, stage, and national audience to present her side of their affair…which she was too devastated and hurt to even consider speaking about the matter with others outside her immediate family. The documentary is a very engaging and moving account that is well-researched and presented.

[@Ziggimomspal68]

She wrote a book presenting her side of the story called I Walked The Line…yes she was a private person but she loved her family fiercely and found some peace later in life thanks to her daughters.

[@lisamartin3734]

Very good doc 👍 I think first wives get overlooked in many relationships.

[@CarefulSteps1]

she was a beautiful soul... incredibly strong.

[@rjkubr]

Rodney Crowell was a class act in the movie.

[@lolaislost]

@@Ziggimomspal68 It was a good yet heartbreaking book. She never stopped loving Johnny.

[@robertanderson5092]

I took a saliva DNA test and found I am 100% Taco Bell.

[@lovidas6297]

🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣

[@davegibbs6423]

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[@hankhillsnrrwurethra]

I grew up in the Arkansas Ozarks. The Trail of Tears passed through our area, avoiding malarial swamps further south. The number of people I knew back then claiming Cherokee heritage was crazy. Half the natives were kin to some runaway Cherokee brave.

[@Mochathesquishycat-ik3sm]

I have recently researched my dad's family, and I have found that the information I was told by my mother was just not true, we take what we are told by people we trust without question, but it doesn't mean the info is correct.

[@Laffy1345]

Your Mom didn't lie to you, it's just what she was told. And it maybe true, what she said DNA kits are not reliable... They keep changing my lineage every 6 months. So I'm not sure where my family came from. DNA isn't reliable at all.

[@judithsixkiller5586]

Not every single bit of information provided by DNA researchers is guaranteed to be 100% perfect. There are several serious ongoing issues and legal investigations into the DNA results and authentication processing by some of these companies.

[@Mochathesquishycat-ik3sm]

@@judithsixkiller5586 I didn't have a DNA test, my research is the old-fashioned way, looking up registries of births, marriages and deaths.

[@snugglyshadow2049]

I remember a news-entertainment show several years ago did a test of DNA research companies. They sent the blood of identical triplets to the top three businesses. The results didn't match exactly. All of them came back as Western European, but the percentages that they were labelled as were off. For example, they all thought that favored their Swedish heritage (very blonde and blue-eyed) but their Swedish heritage was listed as 11%, 18% and 22%. It is impossible for identical twins to have different dna; the different companies had different algorithms for the same dna sequences. Not that any of the companies were lying, they were just using scientific tables augmented with different statistical databases. Also, not everyone inherits the same traits as their brothers and sisters; that means we each get different combinations of DNA, some of which completely excludes a grandparent and others farther back in our family tree. That doesn't mean we aren't related to them, just that we don't have their red hair, U blood type, etc.

[@m.c.5459]

Everyone in Southern Appalachia has a tale of a great, great, great, great Indian Princess grandmother.

[@JamesWilliams-ii7yv]

And there is no such thing as an Indian Princess

[@m.c.5459]

@ exactly

[@christinehutchins123]

Back in the day everyone said they had Indian ancestors, I think they thought it made them cool.

[@m.c.5459]

@ well, it definitely would have!

[@InnumerableStars]

It seems like it's widely been claimed by many in an attempt to declare deeper heritage to this land beyond their ancestors' "colonization".

[@patward5099]

My Great Grandmothers maiden was Cash, her father and Johnny's cash Grandfather were brothers. They lived in Virginia. The sad part the records in Virginia were destroyed in a fire. My Great Grandmother was a wonderful person and could talk you to death. I enjoyed sitting on the porch and watch her with her bonnet on.

[@jeanlawson9133]

Awesome 😎

[@ToniMBullock]

That’s really neat.

[@backwoodsgeorgiagirl5594]

We may be related. My great grandma and Johnny's grandma were sisters.

[@leannblalock9787]

My great grandmother was a Cash girl and that Johnny was my fifth cousin once removed via my dad’s side.

[@backwoodsgeorgiagirl5594]

@@leannblalock9787 My mom's dad ( my grandfather) his mother was a cash girl. We have Blevins Snyder and McCool surnames also.

[@athanksgivingbaby570]

A "Cherokee grandmother" was a common way to explain dark skin/hair and different facial features among mixed people in the days of segregation. He likely had an ancestry from the mixed tri-racial Melungeon peoples.

[@prosperity8]

He was a lovely compassionate man with great talent,kindness and generosity 💯♥️🎖️🙏🎄

[@robiny.4395]

I was lucky to meet him at Paramount studio when he was on the set of Little House on the Prairie. He was surprisingly very shy.

[@cathcolwell2197]

Maybe tired of trying to be nice to strangers.

[@davidprovance6609]

I come from southern Missouri, near the Trail of Tears. My dad's mom always claimed that she was 1/4 Cherokee and I was very proud of that my entire life. When I was 63 one of my nieces had a DNA test to check out our ancestry. It turns out that gramma was 1/4 Irish but she was ashamed to tell my grandpa. Top of the mornin'

[@Sharonnecs]

no shame in being Irish...they chased the serpents out of their land in the 1500's, but the devil has been giving them hell ever since.

[@CaptainCautious]

Seems crazy to be ashamed of Irish heritage now.

[@GlasPthalocyanine]

Well that's the problem with mindlessly accusing people of cultural appropriation. Most of the people who went to America had tragic histories of their own but were made to feel ashamed. Imagine if you had Scottish ancestors that lived through the Highland Clearances. However that experience is retold in families, if their descendants are introduced to the story of the Trail of Tears they will identify with it. Most importantly, they will honour the memory of the Trial of Tears much more than people whose ancestors didn't have similar experiences.

[@harrietharlow9929]

@@CaptainCautious When I was little (mid-1950s), my adoptive mum was always saying crap about the Irish--like they were drunks, eyc.. Then it turned out that I'm like 20% Irish. lol I guess it was a thing at the time.

[@harrietharlow9929]

@@GlasPthalocyanine I'm part Scots, and embarrassed to say, I never heard of that. I will have to check that out since some of my DNA is from the Highlands. Thank you for posting this.

[@marcime174]

The claim of a Cherokee ancestor originated in the slavery days of the South. It was rarely true but most Southern families had at least one .

[@davidwatts5876]

I'm 65 and my mother-in-law is 89. She has dark eyes, dark hair, and olive skin. She always tells everyone that she is part Cherokee. While showing me the family photo album, she showed me her Great Uncle Woodrow "Woody" and some of her cousins and aunts and uncles and her parents. Some of them, were very white, some of them were very tanned and Uncle Woody looked straight up black with a great big afro and wide nose. She tells everyone that uncle Woody was a half blooded Cherokee Indian. So my wife and I had DNA tests done and my wife found out that she was a small percentage of African heritage but no Native American / Indian.

[@lizroberts1569]

Lots of people in Europe have a smudge on of African dna

[@StoicNature444]

That's hilarious.

[@GHG_513]

Well the Cherokee did let some run aways stay with them and live life as a Cherokee. So I’m sure those people probably told their kids that they were Cherokee as well.

[@aleqrobinson2876]

African Americans believe we have Cherokee in us as well. My dad told me that when I was a kid. Took a DNA test, no Native American on his side, but distant European ancestry. So maybe "Cherokees" were really mixed race African/Europeans who tried to pass for anything other than Black.

[@ryangulley2051]

U do reslize indian tribes had some blacks and whites in the tribe.im part cherokee and choktaw and dark dutch french german and scottish

[@barbarahurst8654]

I love this narrator’s voice! In several other videos, his subtle sense of humor is an absolute delight. ❤

[@4estdweller4ever]

I wonder if he could have been an undiagnosed Bipolar. Who knows? But the trauma in his childhood without doubt was a part of his dysfunction in life. His trauma was severe. It was a concentration camp level trauma. Kids experience trauma on a whole different level. It can break their brain. It can cause one to believe in their core they feel condemned, worthless and doomed, thus decisions are fraught with a fatalistic feeling of already being worthless so why even try to do the right thing. I know this by my own experience. You get to live life falling in holes abusers dug for you when you were most vulnerable. It’s not an excuse. It’s just a fact.

[@carlariggs525]

well said. except for some dirty deeds he did when he was an adult (you can look them up). At some point, you have to stop making others suffer for what happened to you, because then their life is ruined.

[@JustJoe711]

@@carlariggs525 TRUE it was up to him to break that chain.

[@lm1275]

No such thing as bipolar

[@4estdweller4ever]

@ lol

[@4estdweller4ever]

@ Yep

[@nibornnyw3185]

Honey, everybody in the south says they have Cherokee heritage, it's just a thing.

[@missinginbc]

Yeah. Like Elizabeth Warren.

[@abigailfoster2467]

Like New Zealanders. They all claim to be part Maori. But this means their ancestors, every white settler, men and women, must have had sex with the Maoris, and produced kids. I dont think so.

[@cwavt8849]

Yes, it is. I am "supposedly" 1/64 Cherokee. My husband's great grandmother was full blooded. His entire family all used to speak of her. Apparently, she married the great grand father, stayed with him until the kids were older, then left the family and moved back to her people. She refused to wear shoes for any reason. My husband had brilliant blue eyes yet his sister didn't. Nor did his father who died decades before I ever met my husband. Who knows. My husband has been dead for 10 years now so I can't question him about the connection.

[@HandyMan657]

@@missinginbc you can always tell a magat in the room, they just can't keep their mouth's shut or their fingers quiet. Traitor

[@CarolShook-yg9nn]

The North too 😂

[@michelleadams1212]

Johnny Cash's Hurt says it all. ❤️ What a gift!

[@robynconway1286]

Hurt is a cover. Not his song.

[@roxannemoser]

Hurt was written by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails

[@Sam-e7b4t]

Michelle didn't say "he wrote it" We're not talking about Hank Sr. or Haggard !! even they grabbed / recorded other's material........ smh

[@slane6967]

Trent Reznor wrote that song in '94.

[@BRYANTYLER-w7r]

​@@slane6967Exactly.That's what i've been telling some others here

[@patriciaberkley3674]

Johnny Cash is not the only person who thought they had Native American ancestry. I always thought I did. My mother was a new englander and a really good person told us stories of our native ancestors. Why she thought there were some I don't know and I was seriously disappointed to find out I had none.

[@marietgagliardi]

My grandmother was half Cherokee. Its far enough back that i don't know if it would show up in my DNA but I still feel a connection through my grandmother

[@kck9742]

If your great-grandparent was Cherokee, that is about 12.5% of your DNA and it’s enough that it should definitely show up.

[@TheHalfBlackReaper]

One of my 3rd great grandmothers was German. 3-4% German showed up in my DNA analysis

[@juancardenas7101]

I did a DNA test and I came out 25.8% native American from South America. If it's there it will show up.

[@DudeSilad]

It will go back hundreds of generations. I believe if an ancestor had the bubonic plague and survived and had children, it shows up and there might be a natural biological defence that you have against it.

[@wildthing3455]

My Neanderthal heritage showed up.

[@suitejodi]

Side note… I wish you did all the narration for this channel. Your articulation, dialect, tone, pitch, and projection is perfect; you’re so easy to listen to. I love when you’re the one covering my favourite celebrities! I rarely listen to the “country” music of today. So many of the artists have become too intertwined with pop. IMHO There’s just no comparison to the real deal classic country greats like Johnny Cash, Waylon Jennings, Kris Kristofferson, Loretta Lynn, Patsy Cline, Emmylou Harris, Lucinda Williams, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams (and Jr.) Willie Nelson, Kenny Rogers, John Prine… there are some, but not many. They just don’t make ‘em like they used to 😉

[@rafaellewis4528]

Fully agree- you have an outstanding voice. Please do more!

[@maggienorris7833]

Yeah, back in the 50's, rock-a-billy and rock 'n roll were totally distinct. No overlap at all.

[@boondoggy2]

Nice Scottish accent!👍

[@jesamindee6783]

Roseanne Cash's mother was Vivian Liberto Cash, and as you stated in the video had some African roots in her heritage, that is where the DNA came from, her mother not her father Johnny Cash!

[@tratney]

It was also told that johhny had some as well go back and watch that episode

[@SuperAnimelover100]

@@tratney Never heard that , just his ex wife.

[@JustJoe711]

@@tratney " Told " doesn't automatically = Was.

[@tratney]

@JustJoe711 well he ain't Indian either

[@user-ft9tf5tw6l]

​@@tratneyHe could have since his DNA wasn't tested we will never know. DNA is random you don't always pass down the same genetic material to your children. We only know Roseanne DNA didn't show any.

[@elijahhodges4405]

Millions of people claimed they were part Cherokee after oil was found in Oklahoma. It was wild how quickly the country became Indians.

[@kathleenking47]

Yep However, when blacks were freed, in 1866, many went to OK territory Some stayed with blacks, others went with non blacks

[@patrickg2577]

Yeah it also explains why everyone out here is driving around in new SUVs and trucks with Indian tags to this day. It’s a big problem because the state doesn’t recognise all but 2 tribes that are also part of the “official “ state tag for automobiles but everyone is driving around with non official Indian tags only allowed for the reservation. To get out of paying for “state” tags and taxes for the vehicle. So yeah everyone is “Indian “ out here.

[@DrSanity7777777]

The "million dollar quartet" meant that they were worth million dollars together.

[@ltdarling3]

I did a DNA test a couple of years ago and found out that Johnny Cash is my sixth cousin on his mother side.My paternal grandmother is a quarter Native American and I also have Native American ancestors on my mother side. No Native American showed up in my DNA test. I was very upset .That was the reason I did a DNA test was to see how much Native American I was and none showed up. You can look at my family and tell we are all Native American

[@robertkarp2070]

DNA tests can produce different results each time you take it.

[@tonileenemanick727]

Sticking in a clip of Reese Witherspoon playing June Carter in a movie is a ridiculous move.

[@roseharvey2664]

Joaquin Phoenix is clipped in throughout.

[@oldretireddude]

My mother, born in the early 1930's, used to say that she was some small fraction of an American Indian. I think that must have just been a popular thing back in that time period.

[@TheSuspira]

In case people in other areas of the country don't know, everyone in the Appalachia area has part Cherokee in their ancestry. How or why it started, I don't know but it is a thing that is said in every family. I don't believe they are, but people are very adamant about it.

[@barbaras8562]

I read that June Carter pursued him relentlessly while he was on tour. His children suffered im sure. I love his daughter Rosanne Cash singing. Very talented.

[@tedarndt6254]

She oozes loveliness❤

[@LazyIRanch]

Rosanne is still close friends with her ex-husband, Rodney Crowell, and they've recorded together several times since their divorce. Some people are better as friends than marriage partners. Marriage is friggin _hard!_

[@ILoveWoolerbear]

ilk i cannot stand her voice

[@debbylou5729]

I read she didn’t. So much for that

[@DavedaRios]

I thought it was the other way around, pursuit....

[@lorilee698]

Look at the man! You can tell he is Native American!!

[@littlesisgreentree6901]

Most people don’t know their full heritage. My grandma was left in an orphanage at 3. We thought we were Native Americans for decades. Nope, actually Scottish-Irish. 🤷🏻‍♀️

[@raycooper3269]

Many families, including mine, have mistaken ideas of genetic background. " Irish" can actually be Scandinavian. My father claimed my mother's people were Laplanders. She was just Danish.

[@MrTL3wis]

Whether or not Cash had native American blood, he spoke for Native people.

[@faroutgolf3650]

I thoroughly enjoyed this video. Like many of us I too listened and bought my 45 boy name sue as a kid in the 1960's. I then got the chance to see Johnny Cash and June Carter Cash in 1992 @ the old Santa Maria fair grounds.. RIP Johnny & June Cash...

[@bitterbeauty6144]

Everyone and their brother was claiming Native American ancestry back in the 60s and 70s. It was a big deal.

[@lingra1438]

😂😂😂😂yes it was

[@timpike4515]

First, it wasn't a table saw; it was a sawmill. Also, all Johnny Cash fans know he was never in prison; and he never claimed to have been. As for the Cherokee claims, many people, including myself, were told as children we had native blood, only to discover in recent years, through DNA testing that we do not. J.C. was a huge advocate for American Indians.

[@pamjames9077]

My Mom meet Johnny and June when she was waitressing at the Carolina Inn which any music act back in the 70’s and 80’s came to Columbia, SC. She said the couple was very nice and humble.

[@RobertEldonHickertyDDS]

My great grandmother was a Métis and her mother was a full Cree. She married a Scotsman. Both my grandmother and mother refused to acknowledge their native ancestry as at the time it was considered to be having bad blood and if you wanted to be white then you did not let on you were part native. My mother could have passed for native. She had black hair, dark brown eyes and native features but she was at the tail end of Métis as she was 3rd generation. My brother and I could have claimed status but we were blue eyed and fair skinned. My father was of Irish descent, my grandfather was English and my great grandfather was Scots. Even in our DNA white won out. It wasn’t until my great aunt did our genealogy I learned we had a smidgen of Cree in us. Too late to be considered Métis. You do inherit all of your parents DNA but some traits are recessive and some dominate. To get blue eyes both parents must have the same gene able to express depending on how the strands align. If brown eyes combine with blue you get brown eyes. A DNA test may not show native genes as they have been overpowered by white or black genes because of how they combined.

[@jeremiahjohnson1513]

Your ancestors must have come from the same area mine do. N. Dakota where many metis lived. My grandfather spoke Cree and had both native and Scottish ancestry. He married an Irish/Scottish woman who had pale skin and red hair which did lighten our branch of the family but people from that area still recognize our Metis features when we visit. Turtle Mt. reservation in Belcourt ND is where my father was raised until moving to the West Coast. Another interesting thing about Native American dna is that people who take tests in Eastern Europe sometime get a Native American reading. That is because most Native Americans descended from people who lived in the Mongolian region of Asia. They crossed the land bridge and colonized America 10's of thousands of years ago. The Mongols invaded much of Eastern Europe at various times and left a strong genetic imprint so sometimes East European gene markers line up more with native americans than people in their own region or even Mongolia.

[@ellenturnage6912]

I have green eyes. Husband has brown eyes. 5 of our 6 kids have blue eyes. 2 are lefties.

[@hilaryb8807]

@@jeremiahjohnson1513I would have guessed he’s from Canada. You can’t get status in the USA as Metis.

[@gemarbejb]

My gg grandpa was born in Moose Factory, Ontario. His mother was Cree and his father was from Scotland and worked for HBC. They traveled from there to the Red River region before crossing into the US and settling in Ohio.

[@jeremiahjohnson1513]

@@hilaryb8807 I'm not sure if my grandpa had legal status in Canada as a Metis but he and other members of his tribe would spend part of the year in Canada and the other part in N. Dakota. However, I do think they were primarily considered resident of the US and was a member of the Pembina and of Indian of N. Dakota. When the government allocated some land to the Pembina band, he was in Canada and didn't get an allocation, when he and the others went back to N. Dakota, the government gave them some land in Montana instead of N. Dakota because the allotments were used up. We still have some of that land which became oil producing land.

[@brasherd]

I am from the south, and many hordes of white people claimed to have Cherokee DNA. My family had that same idea - old great-grandpa married a Cherokee. When he did, the other brothers turned on him and ostracized him. This is a common story from the mid-1800’s. I am a genealogist, and have researched my family history thoroughly. There is absolutely no Cherokee ancestry in my tree at all. I have my lines all the way back to Europe. Lately, I have had a lot of extended family do their DNA. There is no Native American DNA in any of us. It is a story concocted by many families back in the mid-1800’s to win a Native American land lottery and other perceived benefits. A very high percentage of these stories are just that, stories. There are several sites on the Internet documenting these concocted legends.

[@phaedrus2633]

The same story with our family. The family genealogist, my Dad's first cousin even had pictures of a Native American everyone swore was on of our ancestors. But, when the family genealogist turned in a same to 21 and me, she discovered that she had zero Native American blood, and so, either would I nor anyone else in our family. Less than 10 years ago, there was a KZbin video out explaining about how this myth is prevalant in the south. I started suspecting then, that the claim that our family had Native American blood was a farce.

[@Mercmad]

Have you watched Candace Owens investigation into K Harris's ancestry. No African blood what so ever and although her mother was Indian (east Asian) her ancestry is heavily into Irish and Syrian Jew...LOL!.

[@gapenisbruzas]

Interesting! I always wondered how this myth perpetuated. Thank for both for sharing.

[@indigenousboriqua]

That's why so many have no evidence. Pretendians.

[@jstu8]

@@indigenousboriqualol!

[@rawschri]

The man who pressed the " record " button at Sun records, for the " Million Dollar Quartet " session was in fact Jack " Cowboy " Clement ... a noted producer and song-writer in his own right. Elvis was signed to RCA records, so the tapes could not be released, but when interviewed many years later, he just winked and smiled, " I thought it would be remiss of me not to do so ! " ...

[@miriamhavard7621]

One thing I know, he sure was handsome. He's probably part Cherokee.

[@richardcollins4235]

It is so easy to judge someone for their behavior. How many of us could deal with watching our brother sliced by a table and not have behavial problems. We would all handle in different ways.

[@Lkydog8165]

This is my favorite narrator always enjoy listening to him and his Scottish accent

[@Holly-z2i]

Me too!

[@ElaineWood-f2t]

Same here

[@4estdweller4ever]

@@Lkydog8165 I could listen to him all day. I wish I could get him to read me a bedtime story. 😌

[@allan9603]

Don't hold your breath waiting for a response from this Scottish narrator.

[@cwavt8849]

Always so refreshing to listen to a human instead of a computer

[@thedeathwobblechannel6539]

If you want a real treat for your ears look up June's mother she can sing and so can her sister. Her mother is an awesome talent.

[@rph111745]

Her sister Anita was one of the greatest singers ever and her older sister Helen was an excellent singer and great musician. June was an OK singer, her main act was doing comedy, corny at that, I saw live three times and the act never changed. Her mother, Maybelle Carter, was a member of the original Carter Family, the first superstar group in Country music. They were discovered at the "Big Bang" that started country music at Bristol Tennesee in 1927. Maybelle Carter was also the first "Guitar Hero", she invented a style of playing that moved the guitar to the front of the band, from the rhythm section, this was before the advent of the electric guitar.

[@philipethier9136]

Maybelle was also famous for playing the autoharp. Some musicians castigated her for this, considering it "cheating".

[@kaydeedid]

Momma may Bell Carter

[@matthewbudzinski8320]

Carlene🎉

[@EuniceStone-s9j]

She was Mother Maybelle Carter.

[@davidkramer6585]

At 14:15 finally gets to the point.

[@johnliberty3647]

I remember growing up in the south in the 1970’s. Every child claimed to be part Cherokee then. It was some sort of trend.

[@josron6088]

Growing up as an African-American we had some of that going on in our community as well. It was really weird.

[@Meganthamac]

@@josron6088I use to think my family was making it up, but I learned it was actually true when I got my ancestry results.

[@johnliberty3647]

It’s the way trends go, back when I was socializing about 10 or 15 years ago all the white dudes pretended to have Viking heritage, go back to the 1990’s and everyone was Irish. There I was with red hair and freckles able to trace my surname and family tree back to Ireland and I just said I was American. It’s the only culture I knew and liked at the time. Just American. No need for trends or DNA tests. I am not going to sit in a pub drinking black beer syrup that begins with a G and whine about The British or indentured servitude. I am just going to do something fun and productive like Americans do.

[@gavanwhatever8196]

Now they're all 'a little bit autisitic'... trends...

[@AhNee]

@@josron6088 There are a LOT of Black Indigenous people. They very well may have been right.

[@rexbeavers6746]

Just FYI. Merle Kilgore was a man. He was Hank Williams Jrs manager for years. The Ring of fire gold record was on his wall at this home in Paris TN. 😊 his son Duane was a good friend of mine in my college days

[@captainknapton]

Johnny and June didn't put their feelings on hold , their relationship was the most celebrated affair and it is actually really sad . Also he wrote walk the line for his fist wife not June .

[@CwL-1984]

Johnny Cash is still a legend

[@ThomasAtkinson-t8r]

And will most likely always be.

[@cookshackcuisinista]

Thank you once again for your beautiful narration!

[@Sherbert89]

Johnny never claimed to have never hurt others.

[@starrywizdom]

Loved the Starkville, MS info. One of my favourites.

[@merewynyard5813]

I've always loved Johnny Cash regardless❤

[@charlotteanderson2619]

I ❤ Johnny Cash still listen to his music to this day. Fan for life ❤❤❤

[@gwae48]

Seems pretty much everyone claims Cherokee heritage in the Southern USA.

[@bernadettesemple9301]

What you dont know is the Negroe and Indian are the same people.

[@Deanna-f7l]

Seems everyone claims native heritage period.

[@ScottShedd123]

Yes this is true.

[@marklittle8805]

Everyone wants to be part Cherokee, but the fact is Andrew Jackson and America treated them horribly

[@OntheWingsofDoves]

Cherookees was the lartgest owners of African slaves out of all the southern tribes!

[@AceOfSpades-rv8jo]

Johnny Ray Cash is an American icon. RIP Man in Black

[@tee-yim8664]

CASH was open about his mistakes and regrets.

[@chuckhouse5179]

He was a flawed man and never hid that.

[@totallynieve7108]

Did he ever mention his drunk butt starting a fire that wiped out a whole clan of Condors?

[@tee-yim8664]

@@totallynieve7108 Haha! I don't know. I don't know if he specifically mentioned every single event!

[@michelledillman6381]

I saw him twice at the Houston Rodeo back in the 70’s ….. my parents took me ……

[@rosslynhoerst6306]

He made a movie in Cincinnati years ago. My first husband was in it. I key him. He walked up to me and said...Hello I’m Johnny Cash the walked away. I yelled ..yes you are..lol

[@rosslynhoerst6306]

Should’ve said I met him ...not I key him...lol

[@atlasgunther8947]

Wow, this was quite in-depth, nicely done. Thank you.

[@CatBeck-lg7gp]

Well the best part is we're all human❤ we all bleed red❤

[@kathyhouston9428]

1-13-25 AMEN AMEN AMEN

[@ernee100]

"Johnnt Cash hurt many more than just himself." So has every human who has walked this earth longer than a fortnight. Our misdeeds are just not in the news.

[@MaLiArtworks186]

Both he and his wife look mulatto. As a black woman, I can tell you being black is wonderful! We look young forever! We are very creative and smart! We are strong resilient people!

[@homelandyDK]

But what was the 'bizarre' part of his ancestry? I watched the entire video without finding that out.

[@thomasshepard6030]

He wasn’t part Cherokee he was a descendant of black people

[@user-ft9tf5tw6l]

​@@thomasshepard6030the black came from his 1st wife Vivian did you even watch this?

[@gwae48]

He was Scottish and Irish. No Cherokee at all. Elvis Presley actually haf some Native Americans in his ancestors.

[@CareyKuhlmey-qj5vi]

Not Melungean? (spelling?) european, native american, african.

[@tbam994]

​@@CareyKuhlmey-qj5viMelungeon is the correct spelling

[@tdhawk167]

Good to keep in mind that these tests, even the better ones, can be inaccurate at times

[@henryashley9945]

I was 1/4 Cherokee until I had a DNA test. Can’t spell families without lies.

[@Nigelsmom2136]

Let the man rest in peace. This isn't news.

[@javajive01]

He absolutely has african DNA, and so does Vivian as they were cousins. I am a DNA cousin of Cash, and I am Black.

[@margrietpetersen2396]

How can a sister have an affair with her brother in law? That is some betrayal!

[@christopheraliaga-kelly6254]

My family is basically Irish-my mum's family came from Islemacgee- is from Antrim, but left in the 17th century and eventually made their way to Australia. My dad's family came from Aughrane, Roscommon, But in the 18th century were told they had to CONFORM! They dropped the O', stopped speaking Gaelic but kept their lands an being Catholic! By joining the Diplomatic Corps, would you believe! They were stationed in Lima, Peru, where they maried into to the Aliaga family. They were descended from some of Pizarro''s band of Conquistadors! During the Napoleonic wars, when South America sought independence from Spanish rule. The Aliaga-Kellys helped the merchants of Lima and were expelled from the Diplomatic Corps, would you believe. They lost their lands and had to move to Dublin. My sister-in law was partially Cherokee, from St Louis, but possibly a bit French as well.... Being partly descended from a native American nation is fine, but descended from Spanish Conquistadores is not so good? In any case, the direct line of the family emigrated to the USA, where the work for Aer Lingus. I was born in England, but have spent most of my life in Scotland..... And so it goes. As the late Kurt Vonnegut put it...

[@Non-Serviam300]

He still looks like he’s part Cherokee