David Yeagley is the great-great-grandson of Comanche leader Bad Eagle. 
by David Yeagley"/>
Heart Hays (Katheryan Shay Greer) is not Indian. She likes playing Indian. She is just beginning her career as an “Indian” singer, model, and who knows, actress? BadEagle.com has already offered suggestions about how to interpret and how to handle the situation. She is not significant as a professional, yet, but the critical elements are burgeoning: fraud, disrespect (for Indians), and defiance. For this cause, we again assert solutions, as well as warnings.
Katheryan Shay Greer in an early, party photo, apparently
inebriated, to the pretty “play” Indian, Heart Hays.
Katheryn Shay Greer is not Comanche, not enrolled, and, to our current knowledge, is not related to anyone who is. Her family genealogy, by name anyway, has been traced by those who object to her pretenses, and there are no members on either side of her family (mother or father’s grandmother as she apparently claimed) who are related to any Comanche people–that we know of. Inside sources say she claimed lineage to Comanche (Quanah Parker) through her father, and she actually claimed to be half Comanche. She claimed to have received an enrollment card, etc., and defied any questioning about her blood line. As BadEagle.com stated before, there is no such name as “Katheryan Shay Greer” on the Comanche rolls (as of April 4, 2012).
So, for starters, if she is going to claim Indian, she’d best claim to be of a different tribe, a tribe without federal recognition, like the Lumbee, the Ramapo, or the even the American Yakki. That way it wouldn’t really matter. She might claim, say, Apache. That tribe never followed the enrollment process other southwest tribes did. Usually, when someone out in that area wants to claim Indian, it is easiest to claim Apache. That way, you can think you don’t have to provide any evidence of your claim. Even the Mexican Al Carroll has claimed that tribe. (No disrespect meant to Apache–whom we all love and admire. But, the record keeping history is what it is. Unanticipated false claimants are a result of certain tribal choices made many years ago.)
Jana, famous female Indian singer, songwriter,
actress, author, philanthropist, etc.
Those in the entertainment business in Los Angeles (or anywhere else) are fantasy-minded, of course, and except for the real Indians in that business, the white professionals are inclined to accept anything anyone says. They know the Indian thing is a good sell. After all, they had great success with “Jana,” the girl who says she is Lumbee and Tuscarora. Of course, Lumbee is not federal recognized, and is a historical mix of Negro, white, and some Cherokee. It never was considered a legitimate identity by other Indians, but just an aggrandized “Ramapo” bit. There are bands of Tuscarora people scattered in the Carolinas, but none are federally recognized. Only the New York group has that status. It is a long, complex history for the Tuscarora. But none of that mattered with Jana. The entertainment industry scooped her up quick. She certainly and obviously looked more Indian than many who claimed to be. Jana is quite attractive.
So why can’t Heart Hays get by with claiming to be Comanche? First of all, she doesn’t in any way look Indian. Secondly, she has provided no historical evidence that she is. Yet, she is already modelling for an Indian store in Texas–the same store that promotes Jana, by the way. That a white girl from Texas should have a career as an Indian, knowing she is not Indian, when there are real Indian girls who might want a shot at that same career, is a serious offense. Even if there were no Indian girls in the market, Katheryn and her manager(s) would still be grossly offensive.
Being Indian is not something you can just make up. It is not an identity up for grabs. Professional fantasy land (Los Angeles entertainment) can never accomplish that, much as it may want to.
It is remarkable, to Indians, that such a statement would ever have to be made! Is identity that fluid? Is identity theft that rudimentary in America? Has Negro hysteria and racism opened the door for any person not black to claim to be anything besides black?
Yes, the American liberal media is willing to call Indians white, but that doesn’t mean it can call whites Indian!
To whip up black emotions into hysteria, the media is willing to call anyone “white” who is not black; this helps minimize the overwhelming black crime statistics against whites. But the media in entertainment business is willing to call anyone Indian who wants to be, if it means a hit, or success. Both of these circumstances reveal the utter fraud of what we call media. It is an inevitably biased business, and there should no longer be any doubt that, as a free enterprise effort, media is basically irresponsible. Much like law and politics, media has a choice of but two sides. It chooses whichever side is financially more successful.
In a sense, media shows one of the most corrupting aspects of capitalism. Yet, any alternative appears worse.
Finally, I say, again, let Katheryan express all the love for Indians she wants (if she really has any). Let it be known that a white woman loves to play Indian. She reaches for the roots of the land. She wants that ultimate sex appeal: mother nature. On this continent, the American Indian woman holds that place, psychologically. Let Katheryan be known as a woman honest enough to demonstrate that, and not fraudulent enough to claim to be Indian.
I thus present to her manager Andrew Gora (at 818 919 6404 or electrade@earthlink.net, or hearthays@earthlink.net) a marketing plan that promises far, far more success than any scheme of fake-Indian identity could every bring. Katheryn could become a kind of white, female cultural hero, if properly manged. As it stands, in due time, she will crash, suddenly. The truth will see to that.
White girl Katheryan Shay Greer, as “Heart Hays,”
the “Comanche Indian” girl. Not a good thing.
16 responses so far ↓
1 Maharishi of Mayhem // Apr 13, 2012 at 1:31 pm
OK, it’s time for the Maharishi to fess up.
I’m not really an Indian.
I’m Pakistani.
Somehow I don’t feel any better.
2 David Yeagley // Apr 13, 2012 at 2:10 pm
(Thou Hindu slug!)
3 Quartermain // Apr 13, 2012 at 2:12 pm
For some reason, this makes me think of your post “What’s Up With White Women”.
Could Katheryan Shay Greer be claiming to be American Indian out of white guilt?
4 Maharishi of Mayhem // Apr 13, 2012 at 2:13 pm
But even better…
If I’m not a Boon (Black), then I must be White!
I knew there must be a honky in the woodpile.
5 David Yeagley // Apr 13, 2012 at 4:11 pm
QM, it could be that she has a missionary streak in her. Most white women do. I don’t knock that at all. It is a great race, the white race. Magnificent, really.
It’s just that, with all the mix in America, the deeper psychological elements of the white race seem to be coming to the surface.
Probably, this is a good thing.
6 David Yeagley // Apr 13, 2012 at 4:14 pm
MM, your exotic identity has charmed us all from the beginning.. We knew you were a non-descript darkie, looking for identity amongst the red heads. Your patience had been rewarded. The media has honored you with your true identity.
7 Quartermain // Apr 13, 2012 at 4:52 pm
The reason I came to that conclusion, is I remember when the movie Billy Jack came out, one half to three fourths of my classmates were all of a sudden half indian when they looked, well, white.
With all the white guilt being pushed by the media and academia, I think some whites chose to declare themselves American Indian as a way to resign from the White race.
Honoring the American Indian is fine, but I don’t lying about ancestry is the way to do it.
Feeding children of all races a steady diet of black anger and white guilt like liberals tend to do, in my opinion is psychological child abuse.
What happened to teaching children courage and virtue not to mention the Golden rule?
8 Maharishi of Mayhem // Apr 13, 2012 at 5:37 pm
“The reason I came to that conclusion, is I remember when the movie Billy Jack came out, one half to three fourths of my classmates were all of a sudden half indian when they looked, well, white.” Quartermain.
Looked awful white, but Billy Jack was a Badass…I love that movie.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ks2SXmI4Njc&feature=g-vrec&context=G270277eRVAAAAAAAAAA
9 Quartermain // Apr 13, 2012 at 5:52 pm
Maharishi of Mayhem
It was fun to watch even when it oozed 1970′s dorkiness, it reflected the time it was made.
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10 nettles // Apr 13, 2012 at 7:34 pm
Light skinned black people used to sometimes pass for white. They probably thought it would make for an easier life.
And Isn’t it said in the entertainment industry you need a gimmick to get noticed?
It’s all very sad. And here in America there are plenty of whites,blacks and Mexicans all claiming that Indian ancestor. Everyone wants that something special that says you are entitled to be here!
11 Greg H // Apr 13, 2012 at 8:27 pm
Maybe this young woman needs psychiatric help. Who knows. It’s strange that the media will not give American Indian actors any kind of positive publicity and there are some good ones out there. A member of the Menominee tribe of Wisconsin by the name of Apesanahkwat is a very talented actor who was in a few episodes of Northern Exposure in the early 1990′s. In those episodes he stole the show, so to speak. I loved his performances. I don’t know if you know of him Dr. Yeagley. Americans seem to be drawn to a fraud over the genuine all the time.Oh well, that is Hollyweird.
12 Maharishi of Mayhem // Apr 14, 2012 at 3:44 pm
I guess we live in a world of phoney-baloneys.
I just learned that the “Indian” who paddled his canoe through a polluted stream and then had the “tear” run down his face in the TV commercial from the 70′s wasn’t even an Indian (though he claimed to be and married an Indian woman).
He was Iron Eyes Cody, and according to the info I could find, he was a Dago, not an Indian.
As a kid, I thought that he was a true Indian. Liberal lies win again!
13 Maharishi of Mayhem // Apr 14, 2012 at 3:46 pm
Oh, the “tear” was fake too. It was glycerin.
14 David Yeagley // Apr 14, 2012 at 8:25 pm
A lot of white people, liberal and conservative, are weary of a real Indian having success. This is terribly disturbing to white people. Not sure why. It is much safer to give success to a white man, or at least a half-white, like Quanah Parker. Success is for white people (or the black people to whom they give it, like Oprah Winfrey, Al Sharpton).
Success for an American Indian? Not in the psyche of the collective conscious just yet. The sudden success of casinos really turned all whites off–even liberals.
15 ELIAKIM // Apr 15, 2012 at 7:30 pm
Do you know this great guy David? He looks Indian.
‘You are a slave to the government.’
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q4ey-d13Tgw&feature=g-u-u&context=G200f664FUAAAAAAAEAA
16 Heart Hays // Jun 6, 2012 at 6:09 am
Please “LIKE” the Heart Hays is a liar fan page!
http://www.facebook.com/katheryanshaygreer
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