Ah yes, the dreaded Cherokee princess syndrome. I can relate to having a heritage that doesn't show up in your phenotype from the opposite side--people who guess my ancestry always guess Irish, Indian, or both. I think if you actually parsed out all my ancestry, I'd be at least half Scots-Irish, but that's Not The Same Thing At All, and I only recently discovered that I do in fact have the usual dollop of Indian blood (Creek, too) that makes lots of Southerners claim the Cherokee princess thing.
Wash: Don't fall asleep now. Sleepiness is weakness of character. Ask anyone. You're acting captain. Know what happens you fall asleep now? Zoe: Jayne slits my throat, and takes over. Wash: That's right. Zoe: And we can't stop it.
'Shindig'
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Susan W. - Sep 29, 2004 6:14:15 am PDT #6879 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
Polter-Cow - Sep 29, 2004 6:33:44 am PDT #6880 of 10001
What else besides ramen can you scoop? YOU CAN SCOOP THIS WORLD FROM DARKNESS!
I'm 100% Indian. Nyah nyah.
Connie Neil - Sep 29, 2004 6:37:24 am PDT #6881 of 10001
brillig
snerk.
§ ita § - Sep 29, 2004 6:38:08 am PDT #6882 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I'm 100% West Indian. So there.
Connie Neil - Sep 29, 2004 6:40:56 am PDT #6883 of 10001
brillig
I'm a mutt. And mutts are less crazy than pure-breds. So there. Though pure-breds do have the sexy walks.
Susan W. - Sep 29, 2004 6:47:08 am PDT #6884 of 10001
Good Trouble and Righteous Fights
snerk to P-C and ita.
Steph L. - Sep 29, 2004 7:12:17 am PDT #6885 of 10001
I look more rad than Lutheranism
Not really here, just popping in to ask Steph - could we have a "last time" challenge (to bookend the "first time" one) eventually?
You betcha! It's been marked. I'm trying to use people's suggestions in the order that they were made, though probably nobody but me remembers who made suggestions when.
Beverly - Sep 29, 2004 7:47:23 am PDT #6886 of 10001
Days shrink and grow cold, sunlight through leaves is my song. Winter is long.
erika, I think you may be the first "white" person to ever say you're part Indian and not codify it, "on my mother's side." It's always the mother's side. I don't know why.
Amy - Sep 29, 2004 8:13:57 am PDT #6887 of 10001
Because books.
All the drum drabbles are great. Sadly, I got nothin'.
Susan, insent to the address you wanted.
erikaj - Sep 29, 2004 12:06:10 pm PDT #6888 of 10001
Always Anti-fascist!
Beverly, no shit, it is on my mother's side. My mother's father was Bayonne Indian College class of '38, which was a Very Big Deal in Muscogee in 1938(Maybe mom's blood makes it less "real" or something? Don't know.) Susan, my heritage twin!(on my mom's side, anyway) The tribe wanted so much money cause Grandpa's mom, Sallie, messed up when she filled out his birth certificate. She was, like, twentyand hadn't been asked to fill out many forms at that point in her life, despite having been to college. So the Muskegons say this and my mom says "Sallie's been dead since 1960. What can I do, dig her up?" I come by it honestly.