Or at least if your parents were, since "Native Americans" refers to people who originally were immigrants (East Asia we are told).
Posted on 12/26/2021 5:14:23 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Yes, “El Jefe.”
Hekawi’s very brave warriors, except for one thing...
They can start by taking a guaranteed job washing dishes and scrubbing floors in the restaurant.
How many slots?
Most Amerindian groups are derived from two ancestral lineages, which formed in Siberia prior to the Last Glacial Maximum, between about 36,000 and 25,000 years ago, East Eurasian and Ancient North Eurasian. - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Genetic_history_of_Indigenous_peoples_of_the_Americas
And we were told (by members of a cult) they were promormonic Hebrews!
How large are their territories in the USA?
How large are their population? They and the courts are still trying to determine that.
Should have it wrapped up by, hmmm, 2950?
lol.
I was friends with a Navajo, when I lived in NM. She took us to a sacred Native American dance on her reservation. We stayed with her mom. Supremely interesting.
I’m beyond tired of it.
I was friends with a Navajo, when I lived in NM. She took us to a sacred Native American dance on her reservation. We stayed with her mom. Supremely interesting.
Like getting casino money
...as I claimed in the last census...
Palo Alto, CA
Or at least if your parents were, since "Native Americans" refers to people who originally were immigrants (East Asia we are told).
I was born a US citizen and have lived here my whole life.
I also happen to be 1/64th costanoan or have indian blood from Central California.
I’m a NATIVE American because I was born here and lived here as an American my whole life and my Indian blood has nothing to do with that.
When filling out paperwork for organizations, I check White/Caucasian, Hispanic, and American Indian.
I have at least ten ethnicities in me.
But I’m 100 PERCENT American.
This notion of “passing” is sickening. If one chooses a cultural over a racial identity, how is that a betrayal of one’s color of skin? If “passing” exists, then millions of Italians, Eastern Europeans, Jews, etc. are merely pretending to be “white.”
Race is not culture, and culture is not race.
Thereby, and clearly, one can choose a culture but not a race, and pretending otherwise is a lie.
That must have been very interesting.
My first encounters with American Indians was on family car trips through the southwest in the late 50s before the interstate highway system was built. There were “Indian Trading Posts” at every main road intersection and town you came to.
Later, in the winter of ‘75-‘76 I lived in the White Mountains next door to the Apache Indian Reservation. The Sunrise Ski Resort was owned and operated by the tribe. You didn’t want to get a young, resentful, angry, male Indian holding the chairlift chair for you — they would slam the chair into your legs as hard as he could. That’s almost 50 years ago (the pre-casino era) and I still remember that horrific resentment. Not that I blame them.
I grew up on a smaller, lesser known reservation.
Your experience is not unusual. In fact my friends and neighbors back home are justly proud that their ancesters welcomed and assisted Lewis and Clark during many difficult situations when they wintered in that area.
Many other travelers, of greatly varying backgrounds,were treated as honored and valued guests, which they were.
An unrecognized problem is the sperm donors are not necessarily who people think they are. That goes back generations as well. You may think you are half Indian, but are actually half Italian. Same may also apply to your mother or father.
My parents got me a wampum belt in Gatlinburg on a family vacation to the Smoky Mountains, probably in the early 1960’s. I’m pretty sure this makes me an adopted member of the tribe and more Cherokee than Elizabeth Warren. Unfortunately I lost the belt decades ago so I don’t have it to present to the Harvard HR team for tribal authentication. D’ya think I could get away with faking it?
My so called Cherokees have all types of genealogy paper trail data/documentation from births, marriages, deaths, military and other standard genealogy data like the person listed below.
She is listed as my 4th great grandmother. Yet none of my current family has any documented Cherokee DNA.
The data below is via Ancestry dot com.
Nancy (Na-Ni), Motoy Logan/Loggins, Motoy (Cherokee),
1750–1824
BIRTH 1750 • Virginia
DEATH JAN 1824 • Montgomery County, Tennessee
4th great-grandmother.
Yet, we have no documented Cherokee DNA with any of our 30+ Cherokees listed on Ancestry dot com.
Yet, we have personal documented African DNA from 3% to less than 2%.
So were my so called Cherokee ancestors really native Americans or descendants from our Western Europe ancestors?
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