Have you been denied of you bloodline??
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My "degree" and ancestry has not been taken away just because I'm not part of a tribe. You can't strip it out of my genes, and no matter how far away someone's ancestor (of any background) may be...if you take them out, then you no longer exist. It's always a part of what makes you YOU.
Buy why do you need to be part of the tribe to feel validated? Being part of a tribe is more then race and heritage, it's also being culturally one of them. If we were not raised in it, then we aren't a part of that, whether we like it or not. If you are proud of that heritage, then find ways to honor those ancestors, rather then just being concerned by a "status" issue...maybe even find ways to offer assistance in some way to the people of the tribe they were a part of.
You should take your plight directly to the tribal council in person, and speak your concern. Native Americans are not interested in extinction.
no, not that I know of
No I have not. It does appear however, that you may have been denied your right to an education.
We may have something in common. I had my right to not be labeled as a racist when I was born white.
Was not aware I even had any rights to a Bloodline. I don't even know where to start. Apaches were decimated by the
Catholic Missionaries in Texas.
I am lucky, I have German and Irish blood and it is so strong I look pure white, so I can be labled racist as soon as I am seen.
I am also 1/4 native and lived on the res when I was little, I was in 3rd grade before I figured out I wasn't just a funny looking Indian, my first 2 years of school were in the indian school, I started the year it started, 1973.
I asked my mother once why we didn't get the per-cap and other bennies like my half sister and my cousins, she said it is because we look so white she won't take the money that they need because they look too dark to catch the same breaks as us. As we all grew older they began treating me as a white, so I don't miss the money, only the college bennies.
My Ex is also 1/4 and she also is not on the Rolls because her grandfather wouldn't put his half-breed apple, (Apple is red on outside, white on inside, for those who don't know native racism terminology), on the Rolls.
It happens, if your parents didn't put you on the Rolls they must have had a reason.
Too many whites with barely any blood and no feel for the people or history want in for the money only, the tribes have to fight against them so hard , they will fight any stranger. Took them a few centuries, but they finally figured out how to hold what they have left.
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