<<Major Baker claimed to be a Chippewa Indian. He looked about as Indian as Bob Cummings, if you remember him.>>
Yeah sure I remember Bob Cummings. A good comic actor of the Forties and Fifties, in in the over-the-top style of those days and before that a Hollywood leading man. Always very boyish or youthful good looks. Glib, fast-talking. IIRC, his hair could have been Indian, had it been a little straighter. I had a close friend and business associate from the Rice Lake - Peterborough part of Ontario who was 1/4 Chippewa (up here, "Ojibway," from the same linguistic root-word) who for years I had just assumed was Anglo-Saxon. In retrospect, the only giveaway was the hair - - thick, straight, black and lustrous. His was always cut short, but he said that in Peterborough, for the old-timers there (as opposed to the post-war immigrants) anyone with that kind of hair might just as well have worn a feathered head-dress.
OTOH, one of our kids' live-in nannies was a full-blooded Ojibway woman, married to an Englishman and the daughter and grand-daughter of chiefs. Her grandfather lost a leg at Dieppe. Very, very Mongolian-type features, unmistakeable in all three generations.
Your major is either a fake Indian or maybe has some minimal degree of "Chippewa" ancestry - - the theory of European Indians is pure hooey, this is the first time I ever heard it, but it sounds like the kind of "British Israel" nonsense I used to hear a long time ago. (That is a kind of religion claiming that the real Biblical Hebrews migrated to Britain, and became "the English," as can be deduced from a study of British place-names, and today's Jews, rather than being the descendants of the Biblical Hebrews, are a bunch of fucking imposters.)