We get money as well from our tribe (Seneca-cayuga) but it has to be need based usually, revenue from the casino and snow shop/ tobacco plant the commodities are given to all tribal member elders and you get the big ass block of cheese plus like bags of chicken breasts, frozen vegetables, fruits, fresh food like onions potatoes etc didn't matter what tribe you are Cherokee, Ottawa, Miami, etc you get it once a month. Maybe it's just an Oklahoma tribe thing I'm not sure about other States.

I'm "fathered" into a tribe, because my 2 sons are members.

Well, they're both just named Taylor hahahaha her last name was shay or day or something, I remember somebody telling me this tidbit and I looked into it so it's true, but not as "crazy" as this headline leads one to believe

An important element behind the Battle of Los Angeles was the submarine I-17. The night before the Battle this Japanese submarine shelled an oil refinery just up the coast, causing little damage but stirring invasion fears. It is critical background for why some anti-aircraft gunners were unusually jumpy the next night.

I-17 had previously been part of an armada of Japanese submarines stationed around Pearl Harbor and then ordered to the West Coast, where she sank the tanker Emidio, the first ship sunk in that operation. She later served on several cargo runs to Guadalcanal, using her pressurized aircraft hangar to transport some of the cargo. She rescued 151 Japanese soldiers and sailors who survived the Battle of the Bismarck Sea, and during the rescue was unsuccessfully attacked by two US PT-boats. She later sank the freighter Stanvac Manila and two of the PT-boats carried aboard as cargo: four other PT-boats floated off the sinking ship and survived. In August 1943 she was ordered to scout US bases in the South Pacific, and after a successful reconnaissance flight by her floatplane on 10 August, she was sunk on 19 August by a New Zealand minesweeper and a group of US floatplanes. HMNZS Tui rescued six survivors, with the remaining 97 crewmen going to the bottom.

So yeah they have a state “office of Hawaiian affairs” but they don’t have the same formal relationship as American Indians and Alaskan Natives. Alaska Natives are treated as a different group by the feds from the rest of the American Indians. For example they don’t have reservations like the rest of the country instead having village and regional “corporations”. But yeah cuz of that Hawaiians don’t really have the same quantum thing

Are native Hawaiians considered native Americans? Or they considered Polynesian? One of my neighbors was 100% native Hawaiian, I suspect there are plenty of 100% native Hawaiians still around.

She's a tricky planet

Technically it was a UFO, because the gunner didn't know what it was

I went to school with two people with the exact same names, one a boy and one a girl. they got married and still had the exact same names. They named their first boy after the father and the first girl after the mother.

You mean there was actually something up there?

Gotta get those casino permits

Turns out people want to save money on college tuition. Pretending to be a Native American is a good way to do it

They did, it’s been in the news lately

I think they dated.

Gooooodbye Hollywooooooddd

According to the government...

I've heard a lot of native people won't donate for those DNA tests, so there isn't many to compare against. Doesn't mean his family is lying.

My mother is half Chiricahua and also had a DNA test and it shows no native DNA but my grandmother is registered, as far as I know. I think my grandmother's brothers do (or did, not sure if still alive) live on a reservation.

Also, DNA passing isn't always a perfect mix. Maybe you get a little more of A, a little of B, none of C but your relative does get some C.

Yeah, that's the weirdest thing I've heard in awhile.

You don’t have to be a tribal member to self-identify as Native on the census. I’m betting a bunch of people got DNA test results that said they’re 3% indigenous North American and just ran with it.

Hilarious how one race of people can talk about pure blood lines and special status, but another can't

The English writer Evelyn Waugh's first wife was named Evelyn Waugh. Their friends referred to them as "He-velyn" and "She-velyn".

Also prevents tribal members from leaving the reservation. You can marry before leaving for a career, but your kids would have to move back to find a partner of their own. Good luck telling your kids that they have to marry not just within the same race, but the same tribe if they want their kids to inherit their identity.

It's basically ensuring those communites shrink until they disappear. It's not historical, it's not traditional, it's a calculated way to drain the blood from the tribe & disguise it as freedom of choice.

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What band are you from? My dad, aunt & grandmother wered all enrolled members of LCO, but LCO's never responded to me when I reach out about it for myself. It hurts, my grandma was abandoned as a baby and adopted by Slovakian immigrants, though she briefly reconnected with her mother and siblings later in life. My dad left my family when I was a kid.

I just feel robbed as a mutt who's always been an outsider, even in my own home. I did a deep dive in to what it meant to be Anishiaabe, all of my passions & instincts suddenly felt like they made perfect sense. The shores of Lake Superior are the closest thing I have to an ancestral homeland, I wasn't raised to be German or Slovak.

My great grandma was from Old Post, a village that was flooded & destroyed by the Northern States Power Company to provide electricity that the villagers of Post wouldn't even have access to for decades. There's a continual pattern of being kicked out & abandoned that stretches back to that flood. We've been trying to survive on the outside, it was never a choice leave it behind.

I just feel like my Ojibwe heritage has been stolen. I may look like a white guy, but that's what genocide is intended to do, destroy not just the blood but the heritage behind it. It made me proud to learn my great aunt Sandra fought against blood quantums, but the genocide isn't finished yet so that fight isn't over.

I ain't even mad. GGrandma had game