Cherokee

At one time, many moons ago, history wasn't always
shrouded like every sudden widow. The only carrier left
of the fragile gift of our ancestral memory traded hers for the ride alcohol provided. All that's left of my heritage are diced memories my mother managed to make into a salad, tossed in time through the passage of her life.

Great Grandfather was a frontiersman upon the bounty that is God's Louisiana earth. Through the swampy backwoods, his name carried the word "rain". After a marriage and 5 children,
he lived to see many sunsets before his passing in his '90's.

For me the word Cherokee is a peaceful sound. It also reminds me of a people who have never given up. With each generation,
my family's Indian blood runs thinner to find myself near the
end of it's line. The bloodline of a hidden heritage, full
of mysterious grace and quiet dignity.

Knowing the door is there, the key remains hidden. But now
it has been found, in a library devoted to the Native American past. In it were books about the me I never knew.
Devine knowing bust from the yellowed pages,
never to be confined again.

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[DoorsChick1967]

@MexicoNativeAmerican I have too much respect for Native Americans to wear things to "look" Indian. Because I've gotten so much (negative) publicity, it has moved me to see what I can find on Ancestry.com - if any of the "naysayers" are willing to pay up a 1 year membership for me cause they think I'm "making this s___ up please let me know. This piece has been uploaded for at least a year and I find it so odd how all of a sudden it's gotten so much attention.

[DoorsChick1967]

Note: two years ago this was uploaded.

[Purple558]

Beautiful! Don't let these idiots commenting get you down! I come from a family of 'passers'. My father told me about my Cherokee heritage when I was 12 yrs old. It's on my mother's side and she had died 2 yrs before, she was an only child,so I have no uncles or aunts from that side of my family. Now maybe he could have got it wrong, maybe the Native blood is Pawnee , or Blackfoot,etc.. but he told me it was Cherokee, so Cherokee I am!

Why does'nt anyone expect me to prove my Irish blood?

[Rooroo05]

@Lochee1000 I am on my other account but I am layhayla :)) I am angry that these people are getting on this precious baby.. I have been trying to help her.She is my online friend the buttholes =)

[Monasukapanough]

@TheNightWolfie ummm.. you do know ALOTof blacks in America NEVER was a slave. Also you should know that Cherokee, Creek, Seminole, Choctaw, and many many other tribes owned slaves themself....

[Monasukapanough]

@king7654321 Actually one of the largest tribes in the USA..the Lumbee..have blue/grey eyes...also the first tribe the English met in America had blue/grey eyes...learn your history...also the oldest bones on the east coast are caucasoid bones....research the florida bog bones...research kenniwick man...the list goes on and on...research the lumbee..research the hatteras/croatoan..list goes on and on

[Monasukapanough]

@MexicoNativeAmerican What tribe you from??? Skin, eyes, cheek bones, etc is NOT PROOF

[Monasukapanough]

@MexicoNativeAmerican get out of here you fake wanna be pretend indian, This girl is talking about CHEROKEE...Cherokee was NOT from Mexico..now move along wanna be.

[midpopcorn]

i don't care if a person is black or white u can tell if they have indian root's ...look at their cheek bone's,face,eye's....u ppl need to understand their are alot of black's that have indian root's as much as white....i hate when a black person that is half indian allway's get's negative treatment...why are white ppl so fasinated with indian's ...it was white ppl who poisen and killed indian's and raped slaves

[JaaJaa18]

i am of the african decent as well. socially it seems like no one believes or takes us serious when we want to claim our indian blood..some natives think that everybody that wants to prove they are part indian want money and with me thats not the case i work for money i dont need any hand-outs..i just want to know more about myself as a human being and where my ancestors came from..if im not indian then so be it...thats what research is for, ANSWERS..so i understand where ur coming from

[Rooroo05]

@Lochee1000 Why thank you :)

[yien]

@layhayla

you seem nice but i don't think you (or anybody) should help these ppl to be "more ndn". if you have to research you "ndn ancestry" then you are not an ndn. being indian ain't no DNA marker. they take our land, they try to make our crafts, and now they want to take our identity! enough is enough...that is our problem as indian ppl...being nice to everybody. i don't think they all intend it but they need to be themselves. if they weren't raised ndn and can't talk then they are american