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GOING NATIVE IN AMERICA - The Benefits of Becoming Indian
DER SPIEGEL (German magazine) ^ | ---- January 16, 2006 | Jörg Blech

Posted on 01/18/2006 5:43:33 AM PST by Atlantic Bridge

In the United States a growing number of white people are discovering their Native American roots. Some are doing so for financial gain, but most are just looking for the meaning of life.

A few weeks, Betty Baker was still just a white housewife. But now the woman, with her piercing blue eyes, goes by the name "Little Dove" --and has jettisoned her apron for an elaborate deerskin dress.

"I am an Indian and I've sensed this my whole life," says the 48-year-old Baker, who lives in a wooden house on the edge of the small town of Pinson, Alabama.

Five years ago, after her parents told her that her family probably had some Native American ancestry, she assembled documents and birth certificates and last September was accepted into the Cherokee Tribe of northeast Alabama. The cultural neophyte is now zealously learning the rituals and dances of her newly discovered ancestors.

(Excerpt) Read more at service.spiegel.de ...


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Editorial
KEYWORDS: americanindians; cherokees; indians; nativeamericans; sioux; spiritualjourney
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To: Issaquahking


Littledove


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There.
61 posted on 01/18/2006 7:52:38 AM PST by Issaquahking (Build nukes, Harvest timber, Drill ANWR, Because it's good earth use, not abuse!!!)
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To: loreldan

True!


62 posted on 01/18/2006 8:00:25 AM PST by PaxBritannica
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To: Atlantic Bridge

A distant Jewish relative was artificially inseminated by a Native American to ensure the child could receive maximum government benefits.


63 posted on 01/18/2006 8:02:49 AM PST by Uncle Miltie (Liberals oppose individual slavery compared to colletive slavery because they hate competition!)
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To: AuH2ORepublican

Oh I see. So 'American Ancestry' should really read as 'my family history is a complete mystery to me'! :)


64 posted on 01/18/2006 8:03:17 AM PST by PaxBritannica
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To: absolootezer0

I was once guided on a trek across America by a member of the fakawi tribe.


65 posted on 01/18/2006 8:03:20 AM PST by yarddog
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To: Atlantic Bridge

Looks like the one of the ones my dad shot down in 1940 over the channel! Achtung! Spitfeur! :)

Not a lot of people know it was originally powered by a Rolls-Royce Kestrel V engine, but come September 1939 these became hard to come by in Germany so they fitted the next best thing! ;-)

Good to see you keeping this important piece of history alive despite it's unfortunate association with the nazi cause.


66 posted on 01/18/2006 8:13:56 AM PST by PaxBritannica
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To: yarddog

fakawi? as in the "where the @#$% are we?" tribe?


67 posted on 01/18/2006 8:22:46 AM PST by absolootezer0 ("My God, why have you forsaken us.. no wait, its the liberals that have forsaken you... my bad")
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To: Kenton
Here is a link to another FR thread on Melungeons...I remember coming across it:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1455459/posts.

Melungeon appears in my family tree, and (from older relatives) it was considered to be an insulting term...they preferred the term 'black Irish' (which is the myth of the Spanish Armada sinking off the coast of Ireland and has nothing to do with Melungeon...but go figure). People have been trying to search for their family origins forever and explain why certain hair/eye colorations/features appear in families. But I agree with your statement about a 'kharmic resume...' though. It makes for a more interesting read.

68 posted on 01/18/2006 8:27:14 AM PST by PennsylvaniaMom (My Terrible Towel is poised and ready....)
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To: absolootezer0

That sounds like it is the same tribe alright.


69 posted on 01/18/2006 8:29:25 AM PST by yarddog
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To: oblomov
The Supremem Court ...

UGH! LOL!!!

70 posted on 01/18/2006 8:32:48 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: taxed2death
Same with Chippewa

Not around here, you either are or you aren't.

71 posted on 01/18/2006 8:38:25 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: OldSmaj
And I can just imagine her family standing behind her, with much eye-rolling and smirking, caused by yet another of mama's silly forays into idiocy and stupidity.

They will stop their eye-rolling and smirking after she opens her own casino. ;)

72 posted on 01/18/2006 8:47:38 AM PST by pepperhead (Kennedy's float, Mary Jo's don't!)
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To: Smokin' Joe

That's odd... a few years back a neighbor I know basically sent away to the Chippewa Rez to fill out a form and he paid his money and is now a Member of the Chippewa tribe. Not bad for a white guy.


73 posted on 01/18/2006 9:08:30 AM PST by taxed2death (A few billion here, a few trillion there...we're all friends right?)
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To: PaxBritannica
My granddad prefered the FW-190 (espechially the D-9 because he never had the chance to fly with the Ta-152 or the Me 262) to the Me 109, since he had a bad crash-landing with one (it seems to be a common problem with this plane - see my #38). Although it was senseless at that time (it was senseless at any time, but he did not know it back then) he blasted away quite a few Lancasters, B-17s, US-fighters and Liberators in the late years of the war. Due to his experience (he was a Luftwaffe pilot since 1934) he was one of the quite dangerous Krauts. During the "Blitz" he served as a flight instructor back in Germany and never saw -to my knowlege- British skies.

The Spitfire was indeed a good plane. Maybe you know what Galland (I think it was Galland) said to our fat Goehring in 1940: If you want to win this war give me a squadron of Spitfires.

It is good to know that we do not shoot on each other anymore. God bless you.

74 posted on 01/18/2006 9:13:49 AM PST by Atlantic Bridge (O tempora! O mores!)
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To: taxed2death

What Rez? And has he tried using the health benefits?


75 posted on 01/18/2006 9:13:58 AM PST by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly.)
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To: Atlantic Bridge
Some tribes have recruited in the past.

I used to get mailings offering me membership in some Oklahoma Shawnee tribe. It seems as though I have Shawnee blood on both sides (mother and father). A few years later, a Shawnee tribe is angling for a casino or two or three here in Ohio.

I may have to try and get in on the ground level here. ;-)

76 posted on 01/18/2006 9:27:24 AM PST by Ghengis (Alexander was a wuss!)
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To: Kenton

People who want to claim to be Indian almost always claim Cherokee. I think it stems from pure ignorance. It's the first tribe name that comes to mind for them.


77 posted on 01/18/2006 10:07:42 AM PST by kenth (Schrödinger's dog is both happy and sad.)
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To: lafroste
The Pawnee didn't have "squaws", they had wives,mothers, and grand mothers, and daughters.
78 posted on 01/18/2006 10:23:22 AM PST by fish hawk (creatio ex nihilo)
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To: PennsylvaniaMom

I live up here in Melungeon country, and know a Melungeon. There has been a lot of new research the past few years. You might want to check out the East Tennessee State University site and the Lincoln Memorial University site.



79 posted on 01/18/2006 11:51:30 AM PST by girlangler (I'd rather be fishing)
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To: Atlantic Bridge

Since you like WWII aircraft, you should come see the Commemerative Air Force in Midland, Texas.

We have a flying B-17, B-29, B-24, P-51s, 2 Mistsubisji Zeros (that reside in CA, but come to Midland for the show), AND a Me109 Taifun (technically in NM)

The airshow is generally in October.

Here is a list of our birds:

http://www.commemorativeairforce.org/aircraft/roster-manufacturer.html


80 posted on 01/18/2006 11:54:03 AM PST by MeanWestTexan (Many at FR would respond to Christ "Darn right, I'll cast the first stone!")
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