In the late 1970′s when I was starting as a freelancer and investigating the option of financing a new business with an SBA loan, one of the people in SBA mentioned to me that Tom Brokaw had gotten a substantial SBA funding because of his Native American background.

I tried calling his organization because my family had native American ancestors, and my spouse had a full-blooded Oglala grandparent.

I never have been able to determine whether this was a bunch of bushwa, or what. Wiki biography doesn’t say squat about any “native American” connection, so I’m guessing the person who talked to me must have had a close up view of his own large intestine.