Any Native Americans in this community?

monaleerez
monaleerez Posts: 73 Member
edited December 3 in Introduce Yourself
Just curious how many Native Americans are in this fitness community, or if any at all.

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  • yesimsassy
    yesimsassy Posts: 4 Member
    Hi.. :) I'm Native American. Quapaw, Cherokee. Hope you're having a great day!
  • foreversuperawesome
    foreversuperawesome Posts: 3 Member
    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.
  • monaleerez
    monaleerez Posts: 73 Member
    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.
    Thanks..
  • monaleerez
    monaleerez Posts: 73 Member
    zeaxm wrote: »
    0.7% checking in!

    Ohh wow....
    Thanks for replying..
  • monaleerez
    monaleerez Posts: 73 Member
    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.
    That would be really nice for you to find out you family's history..
    Thanks for replying.
  • RavenLibra
    RavenLibra Posts: 1,737 Member
    100% Plains Cree from SE Saskatchewan, Canada...
  • RavenLibra
    RavenLibra Posts: 1,737 Member
    and the Op would be???
  • Raynne413
    Raynne413 Posts: 1,527 Member
    My great-great grandmother was 100% Cherokee. And somewhere down the line I've been told I have some Blackfoot heritage.
  • RebeccaNaegle
    RebeccaNaegle Posts: 236 Member
    1/4th Cherokee here! Yay for the Native American MFPals!
  • monaleerez
    monaleerez Posts: 73 Member
    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.

  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    edited September 2016
    Metis from Eastern Canada though we were just recognized and lots still don't see Metis as First Nations.
  • monaleerez
    monaleerez Posts: 73 Member
    I would love to have all of you as 'friends' on this site if ya'll dont mind. :)
  • monaleerez
    monaleerez Posts: 73 Member
    singingflutelady wrote: »
    Metis from Eastern Canada

    Wow,Iv never heard of that tribe.
  • CharlieBeansmomTracey
    CharlieBeansmomTracey Posts: 7,682 Member
    not sure of the percentage but I have Mohawk,Iroquois and Algonquin running through my veins(family was from canada/upstate ny area mostly)
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    edited September 2016
    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.
  • RavenLibra
    RavenLibra Posts: 1,737 Member
    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.
  • roamingtiger
    roamingtiger Posts: 747 Member
    I am Luiseño from Southern California.
  • monaleerez
    monaleerez Posts: 73 Member
    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.
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    edited September 2016
    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.

  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    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.
  • singingflutelady
    singingflutelady Posts: 8,736 Member
    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!
  • CorpseNettle
    CorpseNettle Posts: 6 Member
    Cherokee here! c:
  • monaleerez
    monaleerez Posts: 73 Member
    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.
  • monaleerez
    monaleerez Posts: 73 Member
    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?
  • cmriverside
    cmriverside Posts: 34,458 Member
    edited September 2016
    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.
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