[highlander_UW]

I'm part Cherokee, although through marriage and not slavery. I had been under the impression that one need only have a certain percentage of heritage to be considered a tribal member...this seems to imply 100% pure blood is required...or am I misreading this?

[Altura Ct.]

There needs to be outrage against somebody for this! Who do we rage against?

[Old Student]

"I'm part Cherokee, although through marriage and not slavery. I had been under the impression that one need only have a certain percentage of heritage to be considered a tribal member...this seems to imply 100% pure blood is required...or am I misreading this?"

I here in Oklahoma, and Channel 9 news had a segment this morning with one of the Freedmen descendents who noted that they aren't trying to throw out the people with white blood, only those with black blood. John Ross, one of the principal chiefs during the Trail of Tears period was, IIRC, half-white... This is gonna be a mess anyway it goes.

[stand watie]

see my #101.

that ACCURATELY describes what BEING Tsalagagiyi traditionally MEANS.

fyi, my father (an enrolled FULL-blood) KNEW "Runs the Path", when he was an old man. my dad said (i asked him, as a child will, about the BLOND guy that i had heard stories about.) that NOBODY questioned that he was a TRUE member of his clan/society/band/tribe/nation, despite his blue eyes & blond hair. NOBODY!

he WAS Tsalagiyi because he LIVED Tsalagiyi!

free dixie,sw