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| What part of you is Native? |
| Full Native with no mixing |
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0% |
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| Native with different backgrounds |
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8% |
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| Half Native |
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8% |
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| Partly Native |
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8% |
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| I got Native blood in my Family history |
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26% |
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| Unsure if I have Native blood |
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18% |
[ 9 ] |
| No Native blood |
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30% |
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 Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 7:54 am
I love researching my family tree. I"ve gone back to the 1700s and am fully Scottish - no surprise since I was born there. Strictly peasant and servant stock too. I always thought it would be neat to have something a bit more exotic to our tale, but there you go, not everyone is related to someone who marked history.
I love how Americans follow their roots though, one of my friends can trace an ancestor who was on the Mayflower, and a few have native roots. One had a Blackfoot Great Grandmother who was won by her Great Grandfather in a poker game. Not the most pleasant thing to have in your family tree, but I'm guessing there are more than a few tales like that around.
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 8:33 am
There is no Native American in my blood lines that I know of. I am 1/4 German, along with English, Irish, Scottish and Dutch backgrounds. 3nodding
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Posted: Sat Dec 20, 2008 9:02 am
My boyfriend is 1/16 Cherokee and the rest is Polish, but he really isn't into his blood history. He really looks more Polish than anything though.
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Posted: Tue Dec 30, 2008 4:00 pm
I'm about half Native American (Creek).
It's interesting to look at my family tree. My ancestors were forced to move to Oklahoma, then they were forced to change their names a couple of times because their names were too "Indian sounding".
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:27 am
I believe my grandfather on my father's side was at least 50% Native (Lakota Sioux) but I'm not positive.
My grandmother on my mother's side was 100% Danish so that puts me @ 25% Danish, possibly 1/8th+ Native, and the rest is a mix of Scottish, German, and English.
I don't know much about my lineage specifically but I know my surname dates back to medieval lowland England/Scotland.
I have a genealogy poster for my family name with some generic history of the name and a medieval code of arms and tartan.
Hell, maybe I'm an heir to some Scottish castle without knowing it. razz
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:44 am
This post'll piss people off but oh well. Free country and opinion entitled etc. etc.
The definition of native American is 'born and bred'.
My ancestry on the other hand is (Aboriginal)American Indian, Scottish, Irish, Norwegian, Italian, German, and Jew.
I am not American Indian, Scottish, Irish, Norwegian, Italian, German, Jew, and Moor. That is my ancestry. I am full blooded native American.
My dad and brother could not be mistaken for anything but an American Indian except for their white skin and my husband also is over a quarter American Indian. (This statement made so that I don't have to deal with the 'predjudice'-screaming idiots who don't actually know the meaning of the word.)
One of my pet peeves is the people who came up with the term 'native American' blithly ignoring the English language and bullying telling all American Indians that the term 'American Indian' was an insult as well as more complicated than 'native American'. Why? Nobody felt insulted before. It's the truth, it's not insulting. It's not like all the tribes are going to get together themselves and agree on a word other than 'Indian' that they want to be called. Nor was anyone confused before.
On the other hand, telling people who were born and raised in the United States that they are not native American is insulting. I am not a native Oregonian, but you try telling the natives here that they aren't native Oregonian, and you'll carry your head home!).
When I first heard the term 'native American' for 'American Indian', I laughed! I thought it would never catch on because it was wrong on too many levels and nobody was that stupid. I guess I was.
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 11:06 am
I see Amarella is another free speaking Oregonian, as am I ("Native Oregonian" even. smile
I tend to agree on the ridiculous terminology.
The basis of it was because the term 'Indian' apparently offended someone in the past because Columbus was basically an idiot and thought he was landing in India when he first came here.
Just using the term Indian confuses people because then you might legitimately be from India. Using the term American Indian could just as easily be applied to someone who's a naturalized citizen from India.
I guess Native American is less confusing
Labels are for losers anyway. We are who we are. I'm brownish-blond hair, blue eyes, and pasty white skin so god knows I could never pass myself off as Native American, America Indian, whichever anyway.
Just call us all Babelonians anyway because if you go far enough back into our shared ancestry that's where we all came from. lol
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Posted: Wed Dec 31, 2008 9:06 pm
Lol. Yes, when people ask me what my ancestry is I usually tell them I'm a mutt!
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