Assume it's a camo ceramic until proven otherwise.

You can still get free insurance on healthcare.gov if you are Native American. Most tribes also have free healthcare facilities.

great-grandma a ho

She's long dead, but It gets wilder.

My dad's mom's brother's son did the same DNA test and he has native ancestry. Definitely something funny going on but not shit can be done about it now but laugh.

Someone needs to have a little chat with great grandma

Please let it just be him in a dress

Please let it just be him in a dress

Please let it just be him in a dress

Right, but they may self identify on the census, which would explain a large increase of native ancestry on the census.

In Oklahoma, it doesn’t go off DNA or even proven ancestry- it goes strictly off the Dawes rolls. Dawes was a man hired by the US government to make a list of all Native Americans for land grants etc. If any of your ancestors signed these rolls, you can get a CDIB card (certified degree of Indian blood) which is the only way to enroll in the tribes there. Once you are enrolled in a tribe, you are considered Native American even if you are majority white. It is not uncommon to see CDIB cardholders with 1/124th or 1/215th etc. Anyone with 1/4 or more is extremely rare and they are eligible to be elders and often get offered special jobs at the nation.

In my dreams they're best friends with Taylor Swift

Yeah it does.

That vain motherfucker...

Oh no, I bet they have their names switched up quite a bit.

:)

In the inverse, it was always thought my great grandfather was half Cherokee. There were pictures and he had all sorts of stories about growing up with his Cherokee family and friends.

Well my dad, his grandson, took one of those dna tests, we had exactly zero native American ancestry.

It just made it all very weird.

Only took a single F-22 this time

It’s really encouraging to see people wanting to learn about their Indigenous ancestry! It’s definitely a small portion at least within the Mexican community, but there are some of us who have begun reclaiming our native ancestry particularly over the last decade. It’s not uncommon at all to go back 2-3 generations and find they still spoke an Indigenous language, lived in an Indigenous community etc..So I definitely wonder how much this cultural movement (albeit relatively small within the Mexican community alone), has played a role in the rise of Native american identification here in the US.

Slaves don't really have much choice when it comes to "loyalty" to the person that owns them, do they?

I live in a state with a very high number of tribes but I don't know much at all about who is and who isn't considered NA by DNA.

The peak of the "West Coast Warscare"

Preceded by the bombardment of the Ellwood oil refinery

The internment of Japanese Americans would be initiated shortly after

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This sounds creepy when you're talking about people lol

Wait til you hear about the time the US Navy tried to shoot down the planet Venus, mistaking it for a spy balloon.

https://www.indy100.com/amp/us-navy-venus-spy-balloon-2659368664

Yeah, I heard those guys are nuts.

Native blood quantum is such a weirdly racist concept. I can't imagine any other context where saying "Your blood isn't pure enough to join our group and we are going to explicitly discriminate against you based on that fact" would be tolerated or accepted.

I can hear it now, the idiots spewing that natives re trying to “ruin biodiversity” or “eliminate whites”

I say this because we all know we have politicians in the US who would love to jump on any hate wagon.

Most of the tribes in Oklahoma only require that you have at least one relative that signed the Dawes rolls. To be an elder though, many require 1/4. Most tribal members in Oklahoma are of majority white heritage.