Posted on 09/18/2016 7:16:16 PM PDT by Kevin in California
She “identifies” as a Native American. Brucie Jenner “identifies” as a woman. Shaun King “identifies” as black. All with the same object in mind: money.
You are not alone. I am 1/8 Pawnee and have never used my American Indian heritage (I can say “American Indian” because I are one. How.) to any ethnic advantage. I was raised white. I am white. The hell with those poseurs.
“Anyone else want to chime in; I don’t think I’m alone.”
1/8 Cherokee.
Proud of it but never used it.
Neither did anyone else in our family.
We just think it fits in nicely with the rest of our family heritage.
We used to laugh because every Thanksgiving I was picked to play the Indian in the grade school play.
Ended up with quite a nice outfit made by my mom.
That was the extent of my use of my NA heritage.
How!
I found out I was one sixteenth Oklahoma Creek (Ocmulgee to some). Trail of Tears, it was horrible, we knew, got it.
Which made my Dad one eighth and he was whiter than me (Mom is 100% European so go figure). We never made a big deal of it; his sister married a Cherokee & my cousins called themselves Cherocreeks. Our WASP paterfamilias who died in 1928 had married a Creek halfbreed.
To summarize, my family loved their guns, hunting, & pickup trucks; more redneck than redskin.
In the name of PC it’s been completely buried that Indians and whites intermarried freely. Most Indians possess Anglo-Saxon names going back two hundred years, Sasheen Littlefeather and Princess Summerfall Winterspring excepted.
Ugh!
She may go on the warpath over this.
It’s not Brucie Jenner.
Instead, it’s “Bruised Gender!
I only use my American Indian heritage to tan well when I work in the yard.
EXCELLENT!!
Huma as the designated caretaker of the Clinton corpse is a nice touch.
And I am a person of gender.
1/16th Mohawk. Identify as American. But so did my great-great grandparents who were Mohawk - one full, one 3/4.
No shame in it.
My grandmother always said her mother, who was from Tennessee, was Indian.
That would have made us 1/8 if this were true and my great-grandmother was full blooded.
We, though, didn’t necessarily believe it. Didn’t disbelieve necessarily, but had no way to know if it were true and it never crossed my mind to use it.
Now, with Ancestry dot com I can look them up and find that there was something to what my grandma was saying.
Her mother’s father was listed as mulatto on the census as were both his parents.
I think they were Melungeon or Cherokee (who weren’t supposed to be in the. US census so they called them mulatto, or maybe part black, no Indian).
The crazy thing is now I am as white as white can be but I have documents from the US Government that would allow me to claim I’m black, or my kids could.
It’s crazy.
I scalped a college football ticket when I was a young brave.
My DIL is 1/2 Native from the same tribe in Alaska as Todd Palin. Inuet or something like that. She is very brown, has the long blue/black hair and she is beautiful. She really does look like Pochahantus, but she never uses it either. She just calls herself Native American. But she never uses it to get benefits.
“Me Big Chief Ugh-Amugh-Ugh gotta have a squaw!”
Princess Squaw say I already gottum. She much better with Ruger shootin’ iron than me. Make target look like stitch beadwork.
Old brave not stupid. One sixteenth Creek is all common sense I got.
“White man build big fire, sit far away. Indian make small fire, sit close.”
Mmmmm....Fry bread....Indian tacos.
if Fakeahauntus were a real injun squaw, she would not be such a coward!!!!!!!
What shame!? Indians were proud warriors! That’s why the pasty-face PC crowd wants to deprive sports teams of their proud Indian names!
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