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[girjaye]

Hello, I have no Cherokee connection here in Boston, MA,USA... I am one of the blonde/blue eyed Cherokee... "One Drop of Blood" The first time that I actually Cried out to my Ancestors... Instantly they came in a clan... more than surreal.

[AnnieOaklie63]

@hybrid69able I sing to my new Grandson in Cherokee, When I call him "U s di" he looks right n2 my eyes. He's 1 month old today! He knows U li si when he hears me sing. And I'm the only 1 that can put him to sleep while singing to him, and it's always in Cherokee. I want him to know his heritage & he will, even if he's a little Scotch/Irish in him.

[AnnieOaklie63]

@hybrid69able Don't give up..go to the Pow Wows and show them, you are what you are in your heart. . My family is of Tsu ni yv wi Wa ya. Be Proud. The brother that rejected you, well..considered the source, not all are like that. I'm just lucky my Granny taught me some of the language (Western Band)..and I learned more on my own while working in the hospital up in Tahlequah and studying it. Don't let anyone hold you down. Nv wa to hi ya dv Di na da nv tli

[JonahtheFigPucker]

@JonahtheFigPucker The court ruled that we don't even get to keep our burial rights. Our languages, too. They say that we must speak English especially in the home, because to raise our children bilingual would "handicap" them in the school systems. We'll have the right to call ourselves Indian as long as we express our culture in a way acceptable to the English conquerors. Screw that. Get angry but don't pen it up.

[JonahtheFigPucker]

@JonahtheFigPucker Teach that. Texas is a Spanish mistranslation of a Caddo word. The tribe who gave them that word died out soon afterward. Natchez was a tribe. Who speaks Caddo or Natchez now? Are we to become merely an interesting place name? And there is an organized attempt to take away our very right to exist as a nation. The man who took away the tribal rights of Texas tribes, Bush, also won a lawsuit against the family of Geronimo. His rich white boy club get to keep his body.

[JonahtheFigPucker]

@hybrid69able Then teach. Sikawi did. When he wrote the syllabary 10% of those on the rolls diidn't speak the language. Today 10% of those on the rolls are all who speak the language. Put your piss-off to the pen as in, write. Not a pen to cage up your spirit. There are many non-Tsalagi and even non-Indian people who want to bring back the language and the culture. They see something of value slipping away and are saying "no more!" There are 25 states with native names. Texas for instance.

[numbersmandan]

O-si-yo; Tim da-wa?-to:-a. I'm a yo-ne-gi and learning the cherokee language.

Hybrid69able If no one tells them how will they know. when you pass over that knowledge is lost forever. For too long the red man has allowed his knowledge to be lost. You have allowed the white man to succeed in destroying you language and your culture. You must allow Grandfather to speak his truth! So the youth will know it and pass it on. Do-hi-a

[vickielynn8]

I am not familiar with what you are speaking of. I am trying to learn. If you give up, those of us searching will never learn. I have a longing that is unexplainable. I know it is from deep within, and when the time is right I will be taught by someone willing to share. I know if I keep seeking and asking I will be shown. I pray to be worthy of the knowledge and I know Great Spirit will provide. I know my heart.

[TheZenaxa]

I came across your soliloquy here & read your frustrations. I'm also decended from Cherokee, great great grandmother was full blooded & we have her portrait. I'm only a fraction, too. You have researched & know more about your likely ancestry than do I about mine, but try to keep to heart that the connections we have to our family, past & present, is individual.Have your journey be within yourself for now & w/ the spirit of your people and nature.When the time is right, teachers will come.

[MDefsquad9]

@hybrid69able hahaha I know right im leaning towards the feeling hurt.