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Niagara

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Thu Feb 7, 2019, 03:12 PM

Feb 2019

DAR & NSSAR offer scholarships as well.

The next time your on a pillage run, can you bring me back some potatoes? Thanks!

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My father told me there are Cherokee genes in our family background. [View all] MineralMan Feb 2019 OP

Yes sir re,we can choose our friends Wellstone ruled Feb 2019 #1

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Afraid? That's not it. MineralMan Feb 2019 #5

I'm not particularly interested either. Rorey Feb 2019 #15

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all cases are different, and you may have a particular individual reason to care. unblock Feb 2019 #29

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if it worked out for you, and you feel a connection, that's great. unblock Feb 2019 #53

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My mom was in the same boat. 912gdm Feb 2019 #64

Me, too customerserviceguy Feb 2019 #46

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Not surprised customerserviceguy Feb 2019 #69

in part because bigots would love to have a list of individuals to hate on for stupid reasons. unblock Feb 2019 #26

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but genocides exist in the 21st century, and likely will in the future. unblock Feb 2019 #31

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I think there are some white people that want to be something other than just white. LexVegas Feb 2019 #3

Hmm... MineralMan Feb 2019 #6

Yes PatSeg Feb 2019 #39

Agreed customerserviceguy Feb 2019 #50

My Dad's mother was 1/8 Cherokee which was not viewed avebury Feb 2019 #4

My great grandfather was full blooded Blackfoot GumboYaYa Feb 2019 #22

I worked on a friend's family tree PatSeg Feb 2019 #47

My grandmother was 1/2 fox. My dad would never talk about his Indian heritage. Ashamed notdarkyet Feb 2019 #54

It usually is hard finding PatSeg Feb 2019 #62

For eligibility for college grants or placement, maybe? Rorey Feb 2019 #7

Perhaps. I don't know. MineralMan Feb 2019 #9

I went to University of North Dakota Rorey Feb 2019 #16

There are a lot of benefits available in certain locations bigbrother05 Feb 2019 #18

You are a lot like Warren Johnny2X2X Feb 2019 #8

Well, see, if she put it on some application for something, then MineralMan Feb 2019 #12

My Mom has claimed that she possibly has some Native American heritage on her side Proud Liberal Dem Feb 2019 #10

It's very common in OK to hear such stories about links to state history bigbrother05 Feb 2019 #11

My father was born in Oklahoma. MineralMan Feb 2019 #13

Pretty much, have met very few with OK roots that don't cites some connection bigbrother05 Feb 2019 #21

Nope Runningdawg Feb 2019 #80

you do what's fine for you bigtree Feb 2019 #14

573 Native American tribes riverwalker Feb 2019 #17

And the Ancestry DNA test has ONE "group" for all of the Americas, LakeSuperiorView Feb 2019 #41

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I can remember my great grandmother... kentuck Feb 2019 #19

My earliest recorded american ancestor Triloon Feb 2019 #20

Perhaps she's proud of the heritage as told to her by her family eleny Feb 2019 #23

I checked mine only to see the level of traveling my ancestors had done Demonaut Feb 2019 #25

I've spent about 45 years doing genealogy research HeiressofBickworth Feb 2019 #27

+100 kentuck Feb 2019 #34

This makes sense to me eleny Feb 2019 #49

Yes. Polly Hennessey Feb 2019 #77

My ancestors were Mississippi Choctaw. Croney Feb 2019 #28

For me it was Mississippi Chickasaw. Greybnk48 Feb 2019 #76

Some people do care to know about their ancestors. Others don't. LakeSuperiorView Feb 2019 #32

I disparaged nobody. I only spoke about MineralMan Feb 2019 #35

I didn't say you did... LakeSuperiorView Feb 2019 #38

Ah, but you did. MineralMan Feb 2019 #40

I'll quote myself. LakeSuperiorView Feb 2019 #45

LOL! MineralMan Feb 2019 #51

My wife did an Elizabeth Warren Aussie105 Feb 2019 #33

Well, when you ask for your genetic background, you have to MineralMan Feb 2019 #37

Maybe she's proud of her ancestors. I am an Irish person, but I am 1/64th Spanish. Squinch Feb 2019 #36

Yeah. All those red-headed Irish folks MineralMan Feb 2019 #44

My great-aunt, who was quite a character, used to tell us we were part Kickapoo Indian. kskiska Feb 2019 #42

Cool! MineralMan Feb 2019 #43

Warren didn't use the characterization to gain an advantage ZeroSomeBrains Feb 2019 #52

I thought she indicted that heritage on an application... HopeAgain Feb 2019 #55

Very often in applications, etc Evergreen Emerald Feb 2019 #68

Sucked in! Aussie105 Feb 2019 #56

Conversation points. madamesilverspurs Feb 2019 #57

Why she "bothered" SoCalDem Feb 2019 #60

Did she bring up her ancestry in any context outside of college/bar/job interviews? ecstatic Feb 2019 #61

As an aside Beringia Feb 2019 #65

I think she said her Mom told her that IIRC. ooky Feb 2019 #66

1/64th is meaningless legally. trev Feb 2019 #67

IIRC, we were told we had Blackfoot blood in us... Wounded Bear Feb 2019 #70

I'm sorry to hear that it doesn't matter to you, MM Niagara Feb 2019 #71

Why are you sorry? MineralMan Feb 2019 #79

I'm sorry to hear that because I feel that you're missing out Niagara Feb 2019 #83

In my family history, my great-grandmother was Greybnk48 Feb 2019 #72

Alex Haley was told by family oral history that his link to Africa Tanuki Feb 2019 #73

A college I taught at offered a full ride scholarship for Native Americans ProudLib72 Feb 2019 #74

+1000 Niagara Feb 2019 #85

My mom told me the same thing Homer Wells Feb 2019 #75

There was a similar story in my dad's family Mariana Feb 2019 #78

There was a point in my life where almost every white person I knew was some tiny fraction Cherokee. Iggo Feb 2019 #81

She and her family may not have looked at it the same way treestar Feb 2019 #82

The lore in my family was that we were one sixteenth Sioux Indian. milestogo Feb 2019 #84

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How Our DNA Knowledge Has Enriched Our Lives crosinski Feb 2019 #88

Thank you for sharing your family history, crosinski Niagara Feb 2019 #90

The family DNA ads... lame54 Feb 2019 #89