Heritage Scammer Jamake Highwater 

Heritage Scammer Jamake Highwater 

Details

Name: Jamake Highwater
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Born: 1931
Died: 2001
Claim: 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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