Rebecca Hall Discovers Her Ancestors’ Ethnicities
Season 8
Episode 1
About the Episode
The 1910 census holds clues about the true ethnicity of Rebecca Hall’s grandfather, who had lived as a Native American Sioux chief named Norman Isaac Ewing.
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