Posted on 09/18/2015 4:18:14 PM PDT by Gamecock
Now wait one minute!! I grew up watching F Troop, and them there are real injuns! Don’t ruin my childhood.
I get a kick out of one of our neighbors. Whenever there is a block-party and he meets someone new he always makes it known that he is 1/16th Indian!
I’m Cherokee, and proud of it, but this is now and not then.
I’ve got a girlfriend like that. 1/32 MicMac. I always want to say what difference does it make? She’s a beautiful person no matter what, so why is that part most important?
You DO know the real name of our tribe, don’t you?
Yes.
Another blue-eyed Indian.
Husband is part Cherokee also and I think part Lumbee from the geneoalogical research I did. But he’s also part English, French and Dutch. The family has been here since 1620 so probably a lot of other also.
I’m Portuguese and German, only second generation American born so I’m pretty sure that’s all I am. I was raised though with a real dislike of hyphenated Americans, both sides became Americans the minute they stepped ashore.
The difference in immigrants over the generations is stark. My grandparents, the Portuguese most, only allowed the kids to speak English. Only the oldest four knew any Portuguese and that was mostly curses since my grandparents only swore in Portuguese. Nowdays, learning English seems to be the last thing immigrants do.
We have other friends that always make a point of saying that their friends or kids are gay!?
“Oh - we’ll be gone that weekend visiting our gay son.”
Your husband is part Ani-Yun-Wiya (Principle People)...
That is our name for our tribe...
The Muskoge (Creek) tribe called us Tsalagi (speak different words) and the white man picked this up and bastardized it to Churkee, then to Cherokee...
Just a little information...:o)
LOL, don’t know as I’d advertise that. :)
Very cool to know. Thank you.
You are welcome....
I am mostly Cherokee. Part Hebrew, English, Irish and German
I live near Seattle. I guess it shows people how open and understanding and progressive they are with regard to diversity. Unless you mention that you shoot guns, go to church and don’t believe in global warming.
Read “Poisoned Ivy”, a 1987 book about the PC war at Dartmouth against the Indians hockey team, tyrannical leftwing faculty, and a Stalinist campus culture in general.
That’s an interesting heritage, bet it was fun growing up hearing all the stories.
Well, shooting guns, going to church and not believing in global warming are just about heresy in some circles.
Oh yeah? I have a pet Narwhal.
Back in the late 1980s they Federal Government reconstituted the Catawba Tribe in Northern South Carolina.
All you had to do is prove one distant ancestor was Catawba. IIRC all that was needed was a ridiculously small percentage of Catawba blood, and then apply during open season. The required percentage was much less that is required to maintain tribal membership today.
Anyway, there were literally blond hair, blue eyed people entered onto the rolls of the Catawba tribe as 100% Indians.
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