Posted on 09/11/2020 3:20:09 PM PDT by AuntB
Thank you so much! ðŸ˜
No, not Cherokee. I did DNA and corrected the record. My grandmother was a white American Irish orphan taken in by the Cherokee as an indentured servant.
http://jesusweptanamericanstory.blogspot.com
By blood, no, by tribal custom and law - maybe worth making contact?
https://www.doi.gov/tribes/enrollment
https://www.bia.gov/service/tribal-leaders-directory
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK233104/
EXCERPT:
Conversely, tribes may reduce their blood quantum requirements, sometimes even eliminating a specified minimum requirement. Cohen (1942:136) states: “The general trend of the tribal enactments on membership is away from the older notion that rights of tribal membership run with Indian blood, no matter how dilute the stream. Instead it is recognized that membership in a tribe is a political relation rather than a racial attribute.”
Blood quantum requirements for membership in contemporary tribes vary widely from tribe to tribe (U.S. Bureau of Indian Affairs, unpublished data). Some tribes, such as the Walker River Paiute, require at least a one-half Indian (or tribal) blood quantum; many, such as the Navajo, require a one-fourth blood quantum; some, generally in California and Oklahoma, require a one-eighth, one-sixteenth, or one-thirty-second blood quantum; and many have no minimum blood quantum requirement, but require only a documented tribal lineage (see Thornton, 1987a, 1987b; Meyer and Thornton, 1991)
Do you understand that I am dying,? Please stop. I don’t care about this anymore
I wrote the book I linked to
Telling someone who has been abused like me that they are strong is very hurtful. Think. I’m SICK AND TIRED OF BEING STRONG!
Let me tell you about my day. I’m at the hospital. Broken arm. My cat got out. I can’t walk to find him and he’s all I have left. Tetanus shot. Antibiotics.
EVERY DAY IS LIKE THIS since September
8, 2020.
I’m cursed and the deity doesn’t give a crap
CONSTANT TRAUMA.
IT HAS TO END!
PLEASE MAKE IT STOP!
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