Real Native Genius: How an Ex-Slave and a White Mormon Became Famous Indians - Paperbackby Angela Pulley Hudson (Author) In the mid 1840s, Warner McCary, an ex slave from Mississippi, claimed a new identity for himself, traveling around the nation as Choctaw performer "Okah Tubbee." He soon married Lucy Stanton, a divorced white Mormon woman from New York, who likewise claimed to be an Indian and used the name "Laah Ceil." Together, they embarked on an astounding, sometimes scandalous journey across the United States and Canada,