Posted on 03/05/2020 6:02:54 PM PST by BipolarBob
Princess Gray Beaver say “From where sun now stands me no seekum to be Big Chief in Big White Teepee no more. Forever’’.
Love “The Bee”
Excellent.
Me Cherokee princess name of Gray Beaver ... you heap right right about squaw ... me go back to reservation ... me play much with grand papooses ... me watch Democrap war council on magic box ... me wait until pow wow break-em down like deer herd scattered by wolves ... me then throw pledged braves to either Crazy Commie or Brain-Dead-Vice-Chief ... it depend on who make best bribe to squaw ... me want to be on ticket with old farts heap bad ... one of them take-em deal ... me have last Ha Ha when codger go to happy hunting ground ... then me be big chief ... me pander to minorities heap much ... me take fire sticks away from white man ... me destroy country ... then Freeper no more laugh at squaw ... !!
“She couldnt even get traction in OK (formerly Indian Territory)”
Seems like everyone in OK wants to claim some Indian blood.
Real Indians are not amused by this.
ROFL!
What an image!
Stop it!
I am about to bust a gut laughing.
There are more Indians in OK than any other state, based upon tribal membership rolls. Each tribe controls who can be on their rolls by federal law. As to “real Indians” and what amuses them, please provide a definition and example.
By way of full disclosure, I’m not an enrolled member of any tribe. I’ve lived in OK since the age of 17 (now 65) and that time has been divided between areas assigned for tribal relocation in the 19th Century and central OK which was originally known as the Unassigned Lands. Those Unassigned Lands were the ones settled by the various “land rush” events of the late 19th Century.
I lived in OK from 9mos until I was 23.
It never occurred to me that it was in any way unusual that I had Indians in my classes, or that about half the guys in our group were Indians.
I never knew it was unusual that I drank and played pool at Indian bars, or that my best pool-shooting buddy was a full-blooded Kiowa Apache.
None of those people would have thought my use of “real Indians” was unusual. Pretty much means somebody who has enough Indian blood that he looks Indian, or can prove his Indian background with paperwork.
Contradiction in your definition as there are plenty of people with paperwork who you would look at and not be able to state their heritage simply by looks. That’s because of the rule I noted earlier on federal law allowing each tribe to determine who they will put on their rolls.
When I moved to OK in 1972, I lived in Osage County, home to the tribe of the same name. I had plenty of classmates/neighbors with clear Indian heritage by their appearance and/or their name. A 100% Osage was not unknown at that time but it is a lesser population now. Today, I live in the Tulsa area where primarily three traditional tribal areas come together: Osage, Cherokee, Muscogee-Creek. The Cherokee group is spread through NE OK with a fairly broad qualification standard for their rolls so quite a few people claim that heritage.
“Contradiction in your definition as there are plenty of people with paperwork who you would look at and not be able to state their heritage simply by looks.”
Really? You want to argue about that? Start by rereading what I wrote. I said looks **or** paperwork. I knew a guy who was 50% Sioux and had red hair and freckles.
And I’m not talking about rolls. Back in 1956, when I started school, nobody talked about rolls. You knew who was an Indian by who looked Indian. Only thing, if you didn’t look Indian and you wanted to claim it, you had to back it up some other way.
Can’t remember too much of that. One time, this kid named Parker said to some kids, “This is my father, grandson of Quanah Parker. Tell him I’m not an Indian.”
There were no takers. (To be fair, his dad was a really scary looking dude.)
All this political stuff with who’s on the rolls and who’s not started when money entered the picture.
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