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Posted on 01/18/2006 5:43:33 AM PST by Atlantic Bridge
In the United States a growing number of white people are discovering their Native American roots. Some are doing so for financial gain, but most are just looking for the meaning of life.
A few weeks, Betty Baker was still just a white housewife. But now the woman, with her piercing blue eyes, goes by the name "Little Dove" --and has jettisoned her apron for an elaborate deerskin dress.
"I am an Indian and I've sensed this my whole life," says the 48-year-old Baker, who lives in a wooden house on the edge of the small town of Pinson, Alabama.
Five years ago, after her parents told her that her family probably had some Native American ancestry, she assembled documents and birth certificates and last September was accepted into the Cherokee Tribe of northeast Alabama. The cultural neophyte is now zealously learning the rituals and dances of her newly discovered ancestors.
(Excerpt) Read more at service.spiegel.de ...
True!
A distant Jewish relative was artificially inseminated by a Native American to ensure the child could receive maximum government benefits.
Oh I see. So 'American Ancestry' should really read as 'my family history is a complete mystery to me'! :)
I was once guided on a trek across America by a member of the fakawi tribe.
Looks like the one of the ones my dad shot down in 1940 over the channel! Achtung! Spitfeur! :)
Not a lot of people know it was originally powered by a Rolls-Royce Kestrel V engine, but come September 1939 these became hard to come by in Germany so they fitted the next best thing! ;-)
Good to see you keeping this important piece of history alive despite it's unfortunate association with the nazi cause.
fakawi? as in the "where the @#$% are we?" tribe?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1455459/posts.
Melungeon appears in my family tree, and (from older relatives) it was considered to be an insulting term...they preferred the term 'black Irish' (which is the myth of the Spanish Armada sinking off the coast of Ireland and has nothing to do with Melungeon...but go figure). People have been trying to search for their family origins forever and explain why certain hair/eye colorations/features appear in families. But I agree with your statement about a 'kharmic resume...' though. It makes for a more interesting read.
That sounds like it is the same tribe alright.
UGH! LOL!!!
Not around here, you either are or you aren't.
They will stop their eye-rolling and smirking after she opens her own casino. ;)
That's odd... a few years back a neighbor I know basically sent away to the Chippewa Rez to fill out a form and he paid his money and is now a Member of the Chippewa tribe. Not bad for a white guy.
The Spitfire was indeed a good plane. Maybe you know what Galland (I think it was Galland) said to our fat Goehring in 1940: If you want to win this war give me a squadron of Spitfires.
It is good to know that we do not shoot on each other anymore. God bless you.
What Rez? And has he tried using the health benefits?
I used to get mailings offering me membership in some Oklahoma Shawnee tribe. It seems as though I have Shawnee blood on both sides (mother and father). A few years later, a Shawnee tribe is angling for a casino or two or three here in Ohio.
I may have to try and get in on the ground level here. ;-)
People who want to claim to be Indian almost always claim Cherokee. I think it stems from pure ignorance. It's the first tribe name that comes to mind for them.
I live up here in Melungeon country, and know a Melungeon. There has been a lot of new research the past few years. You might want to check out the East Tennessee State University site and the Lincoln Memorial University site.
Since you like WWII aircraft, you should come see the Commemerative Air Force in Midland, Texas.
We have a flying B-17, B-29, B-24, P-51s, 2 Mistsubisji Zeros (that reside in CA, but come to Midland for the show), AND a Me109 Taifun (technically in NM)
The airshow is generally in October.
Here is a list of our birds:
http://www.commemorativeairforce.org/aircraft/roster-manufacturer.html
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