Just had a thought!

Chael Sonnen, the MMA fighter, once said that he knows who DB Cooper is and that Cooper is a Native American from the area. Now, he's a master storyteller so it's very likely it's just BS.

HOWEVER, that got me thinking. DB really might have been/is a Native American! The olive complexion, "swarthy" look, and black hair all fit. Also, in Composite B, DB's eyes seem large and set widely apart, which is a classic Native American trait. For someone not used to seeing NA's, they would describe them as "ethnic" but not really be able to classify them as "hispanic" or whatever, and would therefore perhaps classify them in the broad stroke as "latin".

Consider this: The Native American resistance movement began around this same time. The Indian occupation of Alcatraz was from Nov. 69 to June 71. The hostile takeover of the Bureau of Indian Affairs took place in Nov. 72. DB fits square in the middle of these events. Consider his "grudge" statement. Indeed, the huge Yakama reservation is only 50 miles from Ariel.

Also, and this may be the biggest thing. As an attorney I've dealt with our local native tribe, the Choctaws, and their giant reservation a few times. It is VERY difficult. In fact, the relationship between the Feds and Indian reservations is so strange that Federal agents have to ASK PERMISSION from the local chief to enter the reservation to apprehend a suspect or serve an indictment!

Also, there were lots of Native Americans who served in many dangerous and high skill jobs during the Vietnam war as Pathfinders or members of LRRP (Long Range Recon Patrol). In fact, Native American vets are considered to be at a higher risk of severe PTSD than their white comrades:

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The Matsunaga Study's key finding is that exposure to war zone stress and other military danger places Veterans at risk for PTSD several decades after military service. Native Hawaiian and American Indian Vietnam in-country Veterans had relatively high levels of exposure to war zone stress and high levels of PTSD. Caucasian and Japanese American Veterans tended to have somewhat lower levels of exposure to war zone stress and later PTSD.

Seriously...DB could have VERY easily been a Native American veteran with a "grudge" who parachuted in that location to try and make a getaway to the Yakama reservation around 50 miles away.

Just had a thought!

Chael Sonnen, the MMA fighter, once said that he knows who DB Cooper is and that Cooper is a Native American from the area. Now, he's a master storyteller so it's very likely it's just BS.

HOWEVER, that got me thinking. DB really might have been/is a Native American! The olive complexion, "swarthy" look, and black hair all fit. Also, in Composite B, DB's eyes seem large and set widely apart, which is a classic Native American trait. For someone not used to seeing NA's, they would describe them as "ethnic" but not really be able to classify them as "hispanic" or whatever, and would therefore perhaps classify them in the broad stroke as "latin".

Consider this: The Native American resistance movement began around this same time. The Indian occupation of Alcatraz was from Nov. 69 to June 71. The hostile takeover of the Bureau of Indian Affairs took place in Nov. 72. DB fits square in the middle of these events. Consider his "grudge" statement. Indeed, the huge Yakama reservation is only 50 miles from Ariel.

Also, and this may be the biggest thing. As an attorney I've dealt with our local native tribe, the Choctaws, and their giant reservation a few times. It is VERY difficult. In fact, the relationship between the Feds and Indian reservations is so strange that Federal agents have to ASK PERMISSION from the local chief to enter the reservation to apprehend a suspect or serve an indictment!

Also, there were lots of Native Americans who served in many dangerous and high skill jobs during the Vietnam war as Pathfinders or members of LRRP (Long Range Recon Patrol). In fact, Native American vets are considered to be at a higher risk of severe PTSD than their white comrades:

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The Matsunaga Study's key finding is that exposure to war zone stress and other military danger places Veterans at risk for PTSD several decades after military service. Native Hawaiian and American Indian Vietnam in-country Veterans had relatively high levels of exposure to war zone stress and high levels of PTSD. Caucasian and Japanese American Veterans tended to have somewhat lower levels of exposure to war zone stress and later PTSD.

Seriously...DB could have VERY easily been a Native American veteran with a "grudge" who parachuted in that location to try and make a getaway to the Yakama reservation around 50 miles away.

The answer to this is obvious. Someone should run a  dna analysis within whatever it is the FBI has, or thinks it has.

However that may never happen, even if it's possible. The FBI seems to have lost all interest in the DB Cooper case and left it to outsiders to ponder and screw around with.     But yours is a concrete proposal! It's refreshing to move from transsexuals in Four dimensions, to native american hapolytpes X2a and X2g! 

Get the show on the road!  No funny business.

The partial can rule people out, we are told. Several thousand standard profiles of mixed lineage from the tribe can be compared to the partial.  If they are all "ruled out" well then ...

[edit] Pse notice: Mr. Blevins hasn't said one 'peep' about Kenny's brother's dna being run and sent to the FBI, assuming this was not just another hoax? Not a peep. Was the familiar profile ruled "in" or "out" by the lab or the FBI? Did the FBI share their profile of Cooper with the lab as Blevins wanted? Blevins aint saying! Blevins doesn't trust "science mongerers". Science Monger = Hate Monger, in Blevins book.

Sooner or later this matter of who Cooper was or was-not, is going to have to move from the status of conjecture to the objective category based on something factual .... or the whole thing is an idle conversation without end or purpose. 

Does Cooperland not trust the science community to help it?    

Maybe a kickstarter campaign to raise funds for some DNA typing? The FBI are so unimaginative.

Mills & Ramon I can see the Indian in them, Mills without a doubt. the guy on the bottom looks Latin. Flo was the one, I think that made the remark, nobody else did. isn't Flo Latin decent?

Yes, Florence's mother was from the Philippine Islands. Although it is an Asian country, it was colonized by the Spanish in the 1500's.

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Maybe a kickstarter campaign to raise funds for some DNA typing? The FBI are so unimaginative.

Not needed. Standing offers have been made to the FBI. Quantico exists because of a steady flow of academics in and out of universities, govt work, and industry. Funding is no issue.

It's a good concept to look into. a refreshing view vs Christiansen, and Weber constantly bouncing off the walls.

Live, or dead the secret would probably stay with them.

He jumped wherever he jumped! Who the heck knows! 

Obviously there wasn't a flight path over the reservation, but I have to believe that Cooper knew the vicinity of where he was when he jumped. Otherwise, why did he want to jump so soon after takeoff?

I'm not even arguing that he survived with this hypothesis, just suggesting that whoever he was, he may have been an angry Native American. Like you said earlier, that surely is a better theory than someone going through a transgendered life crisis.