Whites claiming Indian blood generally tend to reinforce mythical beliefs about Indians. All but one person I met who claimed Indian blood claimed it on their grandmother's side. I once did a projection backward and discovered that evidently most tribes were entirely female for the first three hundred years of white occupation. No one, it seemed, wanted to claim a male Indian as a forebear."
That cracks me up because my mom's best friend in school actually had a grandmother who lived on a reservation. Of course, since the one quote I recall from her was "I always regretted not becoming a whore," I'm guessing not so much an Indian princess.
Good luck, Pico.
Oh dear -- I have heard a family story that some ancestor was the first white man to marry an Indian woman, too. (Although no one thinks that makes us Native American, 15 generations later....) The Indian ancestry thing was an interesting part of the African American Lives show, too -- I don't think anyone who thought they had Indian heritage actually did, once they did the geneology and DNA testing.
The one small piece of...
An Act to Preserve Racial Integrity
For the purpose of this act, the term 'white person' shall apply only to the person who has no trace whatsoever of any blood other than caucasian; but persons who have one-sixteenth or less of the blood of the American Indian and have no other non-caucasic blood shall be deemed to be white persons.
It was on the books until Loving v. Virginia.
and so long as we're on the legal topics, in about six minutes, the Supremes should hand down the final opinions this term, including the DC handgun case, which was probably written by Scalia, so you can guess how that's going to come out.
Long distance Pico ~ma from here too.
No toomah~ma to Pico.
And, universe, I know that a lot of the Buffista pet issues lately have been because you've been kind enough to let them live nice long, long lives, but, even so, could you take it just a little easier on them? It seems like there's been one kitty crisis after another for weeks and weeks now.
If anyone in my family even attempted to claim Indian blood, royal or not, everyone else would just point and laugh.
The DC handgun law has been struck down, in a 5-4 decision, and the majority says there is an individual right to bear arms...
