Talk:Walter Ashby Plecker

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Plecker's position was that many of the Virginians claiming to be Indians were in fact "mulattos", or primarily white and black ancestry. Plecker collected copious evidence of this in census records and other old documents. Clearly Plecker's position is debatable. However, this article does not even present Plecker's position, and instead simply presents the opposing side as if it were uncontested fact. I am proposing to rewrite this article in order to incorporate Plecker's own views of what he was doing, and his own rationale.Verklempt 23:13, 2 September 2007 (UTC)