Question: Ask The Nuwaupians, Was Malachi York Really "Kin" To Ben York?

Answer: They won't know how to answer this question.

                           

Before addressing York's claims to being related by blood to Ben York of the Lewis and Clark expedition, it's also relevant to demonstrtae York's fallacy of being Shoshoni/Yamasse.  Malachi York taught his followers back in 1990 that he was a direct descendant of "Ben York" (on his mother's side) making him at first in 1990, "Shoshoni", which he later switched it to the "Yamassee" Native Americans in 1994.  

This claim from York has never been proven and none of his followers have ever challenged him to verify the claims, buy as you read on, you'll see this, like so many other statements from Malachi York was a lie.

York released several publications and small "Nuwaubian Moors Newsletters" on this and other issues, which were repeated assertions that he was a Native American tribal leader. York took on the title, "Chief: Black Eagle" not long after he relocated his headquarters from Brooklyn, N.Y. to Monticello, N.Y. in the Catskill mountains circa 1990-91, and then periodically while in Eatonton, Ga.

York's claims of being a born native American (Shoshoni then Yamassee), via his mother's side has an inconsistency within the narrative, on one hand he released a publications stating that,

"...The Ansaar Allah Community has always been involved with the Seminole tribe in particular.  They have ADOPTED ME with the ceremony ritual given on our land Upstate N.Y. 1992 A.D. 

-Malachi York: 360 Questions To Ask The Israeli Church pg. 137

Then on the other hand he says,

"...the name York had a greater meaning and significance than the Muslim name.  It ties him directly to a native American tribe , the Yamassee tribe of Black Native Americans and Seminoles, through his grandfather Ben York who married a Washo woman, making him a Washita..."

-Malachi York: Let's Set The Records Straight pg. 10

 

He says that he was adopted by the Seminoles, (1992) which doesn't make him a native American by blood as he claimed later in other publications.  

In York's claim to to have been adopted by the Seminoles, he nor his followers have ever worn the traditional attire of the Seminoles.  York does however adorn himself with the feathered War bonnet of the midwestern plains tribal leaders, a headdress the Seminoles do NOT wear.  You would think that York would have known the difference.

Traditional Seminole attire below.

 

York went on record declaring his ancestry and information about the Yamassee to be a fact and that it can't be proven otherwise, but it was challenged.

"...the orthodox Sunni Muslims will have to try and find some Native Americans to, to disprove that he is a Native American, which they won't be able to do, because it's on record in this country..."

-Malachi York: Let's Set The Records Straight pg. 10

 

The burden of proving that he was a Yamasse/Seminole/Creek or Cherokee is on Malachi, and he failed to meet that challenge.  York's Yamasse claim and argument was challenged which left many wondering if York was lying about that too.

                                                              

 

 

The above photo was another production of Malachi York, using some of the female cult to help magnify and promote the fallacies associated with his pseudo Yamassee tribe. 

Before York attempted to pass himself as a Yamassee Native American, Chief Black Thunderbird Eagle, he claimed to have been of the Shoshoni, even selling patches, jackets and baseball caps with the banner, "Shushuni Nubian Tribes", but by 1996 it was completely abandoned.

 

York modeling his "Shushuni" jacket.

 

 

Even in 2015, the mental instability of Malachi York is alive and well and afflicting the minds of some leftover Nuwaupians.  A splinter group of Nuwaubians are still using the old Shushuni patch logo, but removed the plains Indian chief that York originally used and added a cartoon illustration of York himself minus the white beard.  And according to them the Yamassee are in the South East America, which doesn't explain why there's still 2 white Buffalo's on both sides of the faces in the center.

 

 

 

In the Let's Set The Records Straight publication, York writes,

"This name York tied him directly into the Native American bloodline of this great man named Ben York, son of old York, a direct descendant of the Yamassee Native American, with Moorish Malian family.  Ben York also married a Shoshoni woman named Sacajawea, thus you have the Shoshoni Nubian tribes."

-Malachi York: Let's Set The Records Straight pg. 10-11

 

York was literally trying to rewrite history with his nonsense.  By the time of the revised edition of Let's Set The Records Straight, York was  attempting to fill in the gaps and inconsistencies from his previous statements, but it only helped to dig himself a deeper hole.  At this point York claims Sacajawea to be the link to his Yamassee bloodline, but there exists NO evidence cited from Native American scholars, historians of Native American ancestry, No documents nor primary sources that mentions Ben York ever marrying Sacajawea.  She became pregnant by Toussaint Charbonneau and in Meriwether Lewis' journal he recorded that she gave birth to a son, Jean Baptiste Charbonneau on February 11, 1805.

"About five o'clock this evening one of the wives of Charobono was delivered of a fine boy.  It is worthy of remark that this was the first child this woman had born, and as common in such cases her labor was tedious and the pain violent"

-Meriwether Lewis Journal February 11, 1805

 

- LIE: Ben York married Sacajawea

- LIE: Diana Fletcher the daughter of Ben York 

- LIE: Washakie was son of Ben York and Sacajawea

Malachi York has never produced any documentation supporting these claims, and when you fail or refuse to supply evidence, this is how York interprets you, your motives and your intent;

"When You Begin To Investigate Each Of These Names And Investigate The Leaders And Their Knowledge Of The Language Of The Groups Which They Say They Belong; You'd Find Charlatans, Hypocrites, And Just Down Right Phonies; They Are Star Struck. It's Just Another Way Of Performing Before A Large Crowd, Feeling Important, Massaging Their Own Ego. It's The "Look Important" Syndrome. You Don't Need That Anymore; You Need The Facts. You Need Your Leaders To Do Research And To Back Up Everything They Say With Documents, Not Just Words That Sound Good. Make Them Produce Documents To Prove It With Ancient Documents, Pictures, Slabs, Tablets, Carvings, Engravings, Records, Documents, And Scriptures. You'll Find In Most Cases They Can't Do It."

-Malachi York: Let's Set The Record Straight pages 2-3

"They make statements about events and time, but they don't produce the evidence, or the document to support what they say, which leaves the reader in the same state they are in religion, to believe, but not have facts"

-Malachi York: Let's Set the Records Straight pg. 239

Malachi York couldn't produce a single document connecting him to Ben York, not even on the Dawes Rolls, (final rolls of the citizens and freedmen of the five civilized tribes in Indian territory) at the National Archives in Washington D.C.

 

Malachi York's shift from Islam into a quasi absorption of Native American culture was briefly mentioned at his trial, short but relevant to the topic.

Nicole Lopez: We went from Muslims to Christians to Hebrews to Native Americans, one time we had a Powwow where different Indians came.

Nicole Lopez: We did the one with the Indian feathers, it was when we had a Native American base and added them to the books...it was done then typed words over the top using a computer.

-York Trial: January, 2004 

In a recent conversation with Nichole on the issue of York wearing the War Bonnet of a Plains Chief, she indicated that,

"yea, all that stuff we photo shopped, he would pose and we do the touch ups..."

-Nichole Lopez 5/31/15

This is confirmed and verified with the multiple images where York's face is neatly placed onto a body or a photo cut out and background.

DIANA FLETCHER:

Malachi York over the years made some truly unbelievable claims in addition to being "kin" to Ben York, he also claimed to have been "kin" to Diana Fletcher and that she raised him.

 -Malachi York: Degree of Muhammad-ism pg. 398

 

Three of the obvious questions that should be asked are,

- If Diana Fletcher raised Malachi York, shouldn't he already know something about his alleged Native American ancestry by way of this Great Aunt and Kiowa native American?

 

- Wouldn't York's older siblings Debora, Dale David have first hand information about Diana Fletcher and their Native American heritage?

 

- Wouldn't being adopted by the Seminoles be a mute point since he claimed to be a direct descendant of the Seminoles and another tribe, through Diana Fletcher? 

 

York's claims are too inconsistent to be considered true, nevertheless he taught that he first found out about his Native American ancestry through research as a result of the Sunni Muslims' disparaging use of the name "Dwight York".  

NEVER once does Malachi York cite Diana Fletcher for any first hand personal information regarding Ben York, Ben York's life with Sacajawea, or Ben York's history with the Louis & Clark expedition.

Below is Malachi York sporting the double braids style, most followers were unaware that York would periodically have his hair chemically relaxed then braided to get that "half Indian" look or have extensions woven into his hair as was the case in this photo taken "on the land" in Monticello, N.Y. 

 

In 1998 I was directed by Malachi York via the then Nuwaubian administration to visit the National Archives and find Malachi York's family links to Diana Fletcher on microfilm in the Genealogy section of the National Archives on the first floor.  After 2 days of research using the information York supplied, I had to report to him that there was NOTHING verifying his family links to Ben York, Sacajawea or Diana Fletcher with the names he supplied, Fletcher, York, Miller, Williams.  I then went to the Department of the Interior and spoke with a historian familiar with the life of Ben York and Diana Fletcher, and there was nothing corroborating a connection to Malachi York's family.

-Chuck Morgan  

BEN YORK: 

York at Belvedere Riverfront Plaza Louisville, Kentucky

Anyone can get information about "York" of the Louis & Clark expedition, although is limited there is one important factor that should be noted regarding the very name, "Ben York".   Ben, can't be found in the Lewis and Clark journals, nor any other primary source contemporary with his life. It's first known appearance was in the magazine National Geographic, November 1965. The reference for its origin is cited in Charles G. Clarke's The Men of the Lewis and Clark Expedition (Arthur H. Clark Co., Glendale, CA, 1970, pg. 38).

There it's explained that National Geographic based the name on information given by Jack E. Hodge of Fort Worth, Texas. No records were found to support Hodge's opinion. Alternatively, he was alleged to have "made it up on his own authority".  Which brings into question, where did Malachi York get his information about the first name of the explorer "York", because it's not found in any historical documents of the time and unheard of till 1965.

Malachi York's horrible sexual conduct with children and fraudulent behavior as leader of the Nuwaupian cult is notorious and any family associations claimed or imagined by him in conjunction with this Great African explorer York can only be viewed as an insult to his memory and legacy. The explorer York's was the first documented and officially recognized African to traverse across early America.  

Any references linking York, the legendary explorer with the religious cult leader Malachi York should FOREVER be DISCONNECTED and DISASSOCIATED.