Heritage Scammer Jamake Highwater
Heritage Scammer Jamake Highwater
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Name: |
Jamake Highwater |
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Born: |
1931 |
Died: |
2001 |
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writer and journalist, born Jackie Marks into a European Jewish family who later claimed he was a Cherokee American Indian |
Biography :
Jamake Highwater, born as Jackie Marks, and also known as Jay or J Marks, was an American writer and journalist of eastern European Jewish ancestry who passed as a Cherokee. In the late 1960s, Marks assumed a false American Indian identity as Cherokee and used the name "Jamake Highwater" for his writings.
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