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Elvis Presley

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Birth Name:

Elvis Aaron Presley

Birth Place:

Tupelo, Mississippi, USA

Ethnicity:

German, Scottish, French, and Cherokee Indian

The Legendary rock n roll singer’s ancestry has been researched by many. It is said that the Presley name originated from Scotland when a man named Andrew Presley moved to America in the 1700s. In addition to this, German, French, (on his mothers side) and Cherokee also make up his heritage.

His great-great-great grandmother was said to be a full blooded Cherokee. A site listed below states that his maternal great grandmother was said to be a Jewish woman.

Source:

  1. http://www.wolflodge.org/visibiliti/metis/theking.htm
  2. http://www.elvispresleynews.com/ScottishElvis.html

Celebrities with similar heritage:

  1. Val Kilmer
  2. Charisma Carpenter
  3. Johnny Depp
  4. Robert Downey Jr
  5. Boris Kodjoe
  6. Gary Dourdan
  7. Sarah Larson
  8. Danica McKellar
  9. Fred Astaire
  10. Jack Black
  11. Glenn Danzig
  12. Robert De Niro
  13. Lou Diamond Phillips
  14. Julia Louis Dreyfus
  15. David Duchovny

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20 Responses to “Elvis Presley”

  1. Comment by lis

    elvis looks more native than anything else. sorry but he does. are he and priscella 2nd cousins? they resemble one another

  2. Comment by ethnic

    I havent heard about that, but it would be a little odd if it were true.

  3. Comment by dakota

    Elvis and Priscilla looked alike only because she dyed her hair black. He liked black hair. They are NOT cousins. Also his mother was a Christian woman and Elvis believed in Jesus as his Lord and Saviour. He repeatedly told others that he was not the king and that their was only one KING and that was JESUS.

  4. Comment by Tania

    his hair is dyed black. if you’ve ever watched a documentary about him. you’d know that. he said he dyed his hair because he thought it made him look more like Tony Curtis.

    Elivis was weird, had too many issues.

  5. Comment by Eli

    Elvis was not weird he was an addict and a little bit of a religious freak. which explains a lot. he also never gave credit to the true artists an lyricists that made all his music he just re did it and made it popular because he was white…but his music was noy…and he can NOT play guitar…

  6. Comment by Sven

    Regardless of what his hair colour is, Elvis is a very Native American looking man.

  7. Comment by Morene

    I have loved Elvis since I was 14 years old. He does the Cherokee Indians proud.
    I to, am part Cherokee, and proud of it. There will never be another Elvis–he was one of a kind!!!!! A good Christian man, that stupid, gready Doctors took advantage of by giving him additive drugs- to loose weight on, to stay awake and to go to sleep with. Just so they could line the greedy pockets.

  8. Comment by Chief_Mulatto_Native

    Elvis was Melungeon.

    http://www.eclectica.org/v5n3/hashaw.html

  9. Comment by BlackMON

    He looked good ,nice mix

  10. Comment by Fuzzybear

    To Chief_Mulatto_Native,

    Yes, my mother and aunt told me that when I was a kid.They also said he was in love with this black girl,but she turned him down and he acted cold toward black people after that.I think he was in Louisiana at the time,but can’t prove it . Oh yeah never call a Melungeon black,in the old days they went out their way to hide that fact

  11. Comment by Fuzzybear

    MY fault she died,not turned him down

  12. Comment by thetruth

    Elvis was NOT RACIST! You want a list of racist people i’ll give you a list of ACTUAL racist people:

    Kanye West
    Malcolm X
    Huey P. Newton
    Jamie Foxxx
    John Wayne
    Hitler
    MOST OF YOU WHITE-HATING BASTARDS!

    people to hold in esteem:

    Ghandi
    Mother Thereasa
    Pope John Paul the Second
    Martin Luther King WHO ACTUALLY WANTED UNITY!
    Charles Darwin
    George Washington
    The Dalai Lama
    Indira Ghandi
    Sammy Davis Junior WHO DIDN’T LET THE FACT THAT THE WOMAN HE WAS IN LOVE WITH WAS WHITE GET IN THE WAY YOU RACIST PATHETIC HATE-MONGERS!

    YOU ARE THE RACIST ONES AND YOU PREVENT RACIAL HARMONY AND UNITY!

  13. Comment by thetruth

    Oh and i forgot one more for the racist list:

    GEORGE LOPEZ THE MOST HATEFUL MAN WHO SHUNS ANYTHING THAT ISN’T LATINO OR BLACK SORRY EXCUSE FOR A HUMAN HATE-FILLED AND PART OF THE PROBLEM!!

  14. Comment by Fuzzybear

    To the truth

    Well I do agree Elvis was not racist

  15. Comment by Tshegofatso

    To: thetruth…I really wonder where you got your list from? Gosh u stupid…It’s very annoying…do u even know anything about Ghandi? Well I do because I am South African and Ghandi is part of our history. Ghandi spent a long time in South Africa fighting for the right of all human beings…black, white, indian, chinese, purple or green…whatever u can imagine…to be treated equally…how the hell is that racist? why is that some white people with some serious issues like to accuse anybody who opposed white supremacy and idolised the idea of a society in which all people are treated the same…black, white or green of being racist? Racist is your white ancestors who treated black people like animals not Ghandi or Martin Luther king. Judging from ur list its clear that you are the racist one…u need help!

  16. Comment by Fuzzybear

    To the truth

    I see you mention George Washington,if he was so great,why didn’t he free his slaves?It’s also rumored that he had a bi-racial child which he left enslaved.So how is this a great man?Also as far as the rumor,it’s most likely true,seeing how they loved to jump in bed with their property.Also as far as (Malcolm X and Huey P. Newton)they both had reasons to hate white people.You didn’t go through what they did,so into you do, you can’t call them anything.

  17. Comment by Fuzzybear

    Meant to say until you do, you can’t call them anything

  18. Comment by Gandhi

    To Tshegofatso,

    Actually Gandhi didn’t like black people.

    “Gandhi’s early struggle in south Africa was predicated on the idea that Europeans should treat Indians better than they did because the Indians were better than Blacks.”

    Just Google Gandhi black people. There’s a ton of quotes on how racist Gandhi was towards blacks.

  19. Comment by Fuzzybear

    To Gandhi

    Well that’s something I didn’t know

  20. Comment by Tshegofatso

    To Gandhi…If you into heavy readings…by that I mean journals…not wikipedia or some silly website you found on the net, I mean real academic work that will actaually give you the right information…please visit this site http://www.jstor.org/stable/161593?cookieSet=1 …we have one of the busiest places in Johannesburg…the biggest city in Africa named after Gandhi…do you think we would name a place after a man who was racist… black people in South Africa wiould protest like nobody’s business…they are the majority…so the name would have to be changed…actually after Apartheid in South Africa…thats racial segregation…most places in south Africa that were named by the apartheid regime were renamed…and new names were given to them…most were given names of liberation fighters such as Nelson Mandela…Gandhi being one of them. if you cant access that site plz invest on this book: The Journal of Modern African Studies, Vol. 34, No. 4 (Dec., 1996), pp. 643-660
    Published by: Cambridge University Press
    written by: Brian M. du Toit
    Then AFTER you have read it…we can talk! when you actually know what you talking about. I mean that in the nicest possible way

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