Tribal chairman Greg Sarris false Indian ancestry story has now gone international, with Facebook users across the U.S. and from countries such as Viet Nam, Australia and Mexico taking the time to view the story.

Demonstrating the power of social networks, in just one week, over 260,262 around the world have seen the story of Sarris' false ancestry on the Stop the Casino 101 Coalition Facebook page. The number is growing by the tens of thousands every 24 hours, and the story has gone viral.

The information on Greg Sarris' false claim to Native American blood was released in an attempt to counteract the widespread coverage of the fabricated stories surrounding Reinette Stewart Sarragossa Morton, whom Greg Sarris claims to be his great grandmother.

Sarris renamed Reinette Stewart "Nettie Smith", and changed her parents from a non-Indian barber and his non-Indian wife, both from the East Coast, to a famous Pomo Indian medicine man and his Coast Miwok Indian girlfriend.

This so outraged Reinette's great granddaughter, Velia Navarro, that she went public to dispel the myths that Sarris has told about her "Grandma Reinette" for the past two decades.

There is no empirical evidence that Sarris is even related to Ms. Navarro's family. It is only by his own say-so that Sarris first claimed kinship back in the 1980's. By that time, Reinette had been dead for about twenty years.

Ms. Navarro grew up with Reinette, who died when Ms. Navarro was eighteen years old. Although Sarris claims "Nettie Smith" didn't speak any English, in fact, Ms. Navarro can state categorically that English was the only language Reinette spoke and wrote - and no one called her "Nettie".

Countless people supported Sarris because of his touching "life story" - an adopted child drawn to Sonoma County Native Americans all his life, who finally finds his hitherto unknown birth father's family and learns that, miraculously, they are Sonoma County Native Americans.

It will become increasingly difficult for Mr. Sarris to perpetuate his myth of Native American ancestry from this point on, however, as the story receives wider and wider coverage. This is all Ms. Navarro wanted: to set the record straight on her great grandmother.