You're really trying a bit too hard, aren't you?
1) She wasn't "an untrustworthy source" then either, because
a) She was telling the truth exactly as she knew it; if someone was untrustworthy it wasn't her but her ancestors who had exaggerated the proportion of Injun blood in the family's veins, and
b) She DOES actually have native ancestry (just not as much as she thought). Did one have to have a Tribal Council Seal of Approval to claim to be Injun back then too, BTW, or is that a later bureaucratic invention?
2) The only way for her to be "an untrustworthy source" NOW would be that she's lying, because this time she isn't reporting on family lore (hearsay), but as an eye-(and ear-)witness on what she herself heard him say.
But OK, even granting that she were "an untrustworthy source" back then: So with a bit of good will, your point is "She's lying now, just as she was inadvertently untrustworthy then!"...
That's still calling her a liar. Which you have no proof for. Which makes it an assholeish thing to do. Which you can't wiggle out of, however hard you try. So do the decent thing, man up, and just fucking take it back.
a) She was telling the truth exactly as she knew it; if someone was untrustworthy it wasn't her but her ancestors who had exaggerated the proportion of Injun blood in the family's veins, and
b) She DOES actually have native ancestry (just not as much as she thought). Did one have to have a Tribal Council Seal of Approval to claim to be Injun back then too, BTW, or is that a later bureaucratic invention?
2) The only way for her to be "an untrustworthy source" NOW would be that she's lying, because this time she isn't reporting on family lore (hearsay), but as an eye-(and ear-)witness on what she herself heard him say.
But OK, even granting that she were "an untrustworthy source" back then: So with a bit of good will, your point is "She's lying now, just as she was inadvertently untrustworthy then!"...
That's still calling her a liar. Which you have no proof for. Which makes it an assholeish thing to do. Which you can't wiggle out of, however hard you try. So do the decent thing, man up, and just fucking take it back.