United Cherokee Nation Gathering

This gathering happened in Waycross last year. Kinda forgot about it. Decided to edit it and get it on the channel. Pretty cool stuff.


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[Tov0voT]

@Tov0voT Funny story (at least I think it is funny): I went zip lining w/my brother & his 100% Lakota girlfriend. I enjoyed the zip lining & screamed for fun on several of the lines. Afterwards, my brother’s girlfriend praised him for not screaming & told me that screaming is a sign of fear. She was serious, too. Oh, well, that won't stop me from screaming the next time I do something fun like that with them :-)

[Tov0voT]

@XxNaTiVeBaBiiDoLLxX I'm German-Ulster (Ulster = Scottish + English who settled in Northern Ireland). I hear a lot of arguments about who is and isn't really White. Perhaps every group does that. My first comment on here was posted before I left the GOP (after 25 years) and became a Democrat. My world-view has dramatically changed. Please disregard anything I've said in the past that is or appears offensive.

[XxNaTiVeBaBiiDoLLxX]

@Tov0voT then you can say something but dont talk about things you do not know anything abou.t i know its harsh but thats life we native are so fed up with all fake wannabes

[XxNaTiVeBaBiiDoLLxX]

@Tov0voT first of all these people are not native this a fake tribe of a bunch of wannabe frauds there are only three cherokee tribe and this sure is hell not one not one of them ... and to answer your question fine learn our language bu dontt pretend to be something you arent.. im so tired of this my great grandma was a cherokee princess shit.. unless you have a tribal enrollment card... a real one ..not the one thyt these prendians try to make you pay 50 dollars for ..

[CountryBoyVa]

@ivegottaheadache Same here on my Dad's side, my Dad looks full blood but he's only 3/4 and he can't be a member of the eastern band of cherokee because he can't trace his lineage back even though members of the tribe know his family very well. My mom is only 1/2 but her ancestors were on the dawes roll and thats how I had to get my NDN card. The way the Eastern B.O.C. is set up now is ridiculous. They should allow members not shown on the dawes roll but can prove it by other means. Go UCN!

[ivegottaheadache]

@ivegottaheadache cont'd or Southwest hundreds of years later; and on desert lands, (which cannot grow crops...or forget it; they wouldn't have a REZ if that was the case and would be mainly mixed blood and not many relatives! I don't have tons of native cousins, because those that survived wasn't necessarily a whole family!

[ivegottaheadache]

@spiritsoulhippie My ancestors fought against the Fed Gov w/Dragging Canoe in Tennesse years before the removal; in Georgia those ancestors that made it fled to the hills; they pretty much went under the radar and are not on any rolls. Some of the natives attitutudes are terrible; the fact that my ancestors were in the Eastern US meaning 1st contact decades before the Europeans came to the west; on plush lands. Meaning many would be mixed blood too if they were on the East/instead of West

[CountryBoyVa]

@Tov0voT As far as thanksgiving I really don't get. All my family celebrates thanksgiving but we also celebrate our thanksgiving the Creator in our green corn ceremony. On a side note you oughta visit Cherokee, NC with your daughter, she'd prolly like it alot. Lots of fun things for kids in the summer time.

[CountryBoyVa]

@Tov0voT Yeah there's a lot of hurt that lies within the NDN community. I just got back from The Qualla tonight from visiting with some of my family and they even got on my back for wearing my western boots even though many NDNs wear western boots because it represented cowboys. I can understand your sister-in-law's reaction to andrew jackson. He really betrayed us (Tsalagi) because after assisting him with horseshoe bend he turns around and smacks us with the NDN removal act!

[Tov0voT]

@CountryBoyVa My brother's wife is 100% Lakota. She told me she refuses twenty dollar bills because of Andrew Jackson's horrible treatment of Indians. She's an activist of sorts among her people. She hates fake Indiana stuff. I'm surprised she's with my brother. He looks like a mountain man; long hair and beard. She's very nice to him and to me and my family. We get along great, but she has refused to come to our house on Thanksgiving day. I guess I don't blame her for how she feels.