Any Native Americans in this community?
monaleerez
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Just curious how many Native Americans are in this fitness community, or if any at all.
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Hi..
I'm Native American. Quapaw, Cherokee. Hope you're having a great day! 1 -
I've been told I am the last generation of native in my family (so watered down now) but never inquired tribe and such. Would love to learn more but don't know where to start.1
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yesimsassy wrote: »Hi.. I'm Native American. Quapaw, Cherokee. Hope you're having a great day!
That's awesome!
Yes it was a great workout day for me.
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That would be really nice for you to find out you family's history..foreversuperawesome wrote: »I've been told I am the last generation of native in my family (so watered down now) but never inquired tribe and such. Would love to learn more but don't know where to start.
Thanks for replying.
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100% Plains Cree from SE Saskatchewan, Canada...3
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and the Op would be???
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My great-great grandmother was 100% Cherokee. And somewhere down the line I've been told I have some Blackfoot heritage.1
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1/4th Cherokee here! Yay for the Native American MFPals!1
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Ohh wow! Thanks everyone for replying, good to know Im nnot the only Native on this site.My tribes are Hopi, Tewa, and Santo Domingo Pueblo and a lil Mexican.
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Metis from Eastern Canada though we were just recognized and lots still don't see Metis as First Nations.0
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I would love to have all of you as 'friends' on this site if ya'll dont mind. 0
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singingflutelady wrote: »Metis from Eastern Canada
Wow,Iv never heard of that tribe.0 -
not sure of the percentage but I have Mohawk,Iroquois and Algonquin running through my veins(family was from canada/upstate ny area mostly)1
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monaleerez wrote: »singingflutelady wrote: »Metis from Eastern Canada
Wow,Iv never heard of that tribe.
It's a mixed race group (first Nations women- in my case mi'kmaq and European men- in my case Acadian who married, etc back in the colonial, early settlers day). It took forever to be recognized because of this but most tribes aren't pure blood anymore anyways.1 -
tribes = bands at least in my neck of the woods... and the "dilution" you are generalizing is not quite as prevalent as you would lead th efolks of this board to believe.0
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I am Luiseño from Southern California.1
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RavenLibra wrote: »tribes = bands at least in my neck of the woods... and the "dilution" you are generalizing is not quite as prevalent as you would lead th efolks of this board to believe.
Ok, I think I know what. You mean.0 -
It depends on where you live @RavenLibra. I live in a city with a reservation in the middle of it and I taught at the school and there were plenty of blond, blue eyed children but as I said the reserve is in the middle of the city and not isolated at all. Oh I used tribes as that was what the op was using but we use bands too.RavenLibra wrote: »tribes = bands at least in my neck of the woods... and the "dilution" you are generalizing is not quite as prevalent as you would lead th efolks of this board to believe.
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I love this thread. I don't have NA lineage to my knowledge, but I worked in a DNA lab for a while and we did some DNA testing for people wanting to be added to the rolls without having a tribe member vouch for them. It was really interesting, sensitive work for all involved. I don't know how the cases turned out, it was tricky.0
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I should add I loved working on the reserve and learning about the mi'kmaq culture and language. There is a very strong push at that school to teach the language as unfortunately there are very few young people who are fluent. Our school only goes to grade 8 though and they have to go to school board schools after that (since it is so close to school board schools there are quite a few parents who send their kids to school board schools to begin with). I loved the sense of community and watching out for each other on the reserve!0
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Cherokee here! c:0
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singingflutelady wrote: »I should add I loved working on the reserve and learning about the mi'kmaq culture and language. There is a very strong push at that school to teach the language as unfortunately there are very few young people who are fluent. Our school only goes to grade 8 though and they have to go to school board schools after that (since it is so close to school board schools there are quite a few parents who send their kids to school board schools to begin with). I loved the sense of community and watching out for each other on the reserve!
Wow, that's great, I live on the Hopi reservation in northern Arizona, and our local boarding school just converted to a grossly controlled grant school, a conversion I proud to. Say I s apart of I'm on the school board here.
Yes it is true about the language being lost and. Not carried on when I was. Younger I was raised by my great grandmother and only spoke our native language when I first went to school teachers had to interrupt for me. Now sadly, I know just enough to understand a conversation but not converse fluently.0 -
cmriverside wrote: »I love this thread. I don't have NA lineage to my knowledge, but I worked in a DNA lab for a while and we did some DNA testing for people wanting to be added to the rolls without having a tribe member vouch for them. It was really interesting, sensitive work for all involved. I don't know how the cases turned out, it was tricky.
That's pretty interesting. Where does you do the testing, which general areas?
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monaleerez wrote: »cmriverside wrote: »I love this thread. I don't have NA lineage to my knowledge, but I worked in a DNA lab for a while and we did some DNA testing for people wanting to be added to the rolls without having a tribe member vouch for them. It was really interesting, sensitive work for all involved. I don't know how the cases turned out, it was tricky.
That's pretty interesting. Where does you do the testing, which general areas?
I'm in the PNW, but I think a lot of the (most) of the genetic testing labs do the same tests, and they are done through the mail anyway. It's basically an ancestry test. If the tested person has a close relative (mother/father/grandparents/siblings preferably) who can trace their lineage without the DNA test, that seems to be the preferred method of tribal inclusion (? I think.) This was a few years ago, and it was the tribes themselves who were not willing to use the test results as a way to admit people into the tribe - which I totally understand! I don't know if that has changed, or if it was just the group we were working with, or what the story was. We weren't in on all the details.1 -
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