[Hemingway's Ghost]

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.

I.e., "I'm going through my midlife crisis."

[COBOL2Java]

My maternal grandmother was half Native American - some tribe from upstate New York as I recall. I've never had the inclination to research or document it, though.