Since my childhood I have been fascinated with cultures of Native American Indians, especially how tribes lived before the white man met them. I had a card book of Native American Indians in my childhood and I still have this although over 40 years has passed. Funnily, I had ‘a heart attack’ or something in a little town Taos in New Mexico in Sept 1999 after which I received the understanding of some kind of self-removal and that I was the NSA counter-intelligence with a codename ‘Juan’ KGB Vladimir. Interestingly my religious status was changed in one official registry on another side of the world on that date as I discovered many years after. Mystical things can happen.
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I’m part Native American. I’m on the Chickasaw tribal roles. I have a lot of Native American friends. There is one thing near where I live that you might find very interesting. Just outside of Talequah, Oklahoma there is a recreation of a sixteenth century Cherokee village. It is very authentic and well researched. They also have a drama of their removal to Oklahoma. I haven’t seen it, but I hear it’s good. If you’re ever on vacation in Eastern Oklahoma you might want to make a side trip to see this village, and maybe the drama. You might not be able to make a full day of it, but you could definitely make a half day of it. “Oklahoma” is Native American for “Land of the Red Man”. Eastern Oklahoma is mostly occupied by the five civilized tribes. Western Oklahom mainly has plains Indians. They have some authentic Native American dances over there. They also have a well researched museum about the plains tribes just outside Anadarko. I’m not really enough Native American to claim it as my heritage, but I do get a fair amount of free health care meant for Indians. Also, if I want to, I can get stores of food stashed in depots for Native Americans. I did that for a while, but food stamps are a better deal. It seems that a lot of Native Americans are marrying outside their tribe. I don’t object to that, but it is diluting Native American culture. The Cherokee language is still alive in the Eastern Oklahoma hills where I live. I live right in the middle of the Cherokee Nation. Some of my Indian friends’ uncles only spoke Cherokee when I was growing up. The Cherokees are making an effort to preserve their language. A number of Indians work at the assisted living center where I live. I got a drinking buddy who is half Chickasaw. There is a museum in Muskogee called “The Five Civilized Tribes Museum”. It has a lot of Indian art.
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Yep that be right
I once visited a Cherokee village in the northern Georgia. When I lived in my auto in America I met one Cherokee indian who had been in Vietnam and fought in the tunnels of VietGong and had received some medals, but he lived there in Key West on the beach.
LOL!…That`s good 
**My mother`s father was Cherokee.
None of us knew him.
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I have some Native American in my blood. Not sure how far down my family tree or from what tribe, but there is some.
I’ve always loved the way Native Americans do things. They never lost sight of the fact that we are all part of our environment not just in our environment.
My friend is half Choctaw. He’s one of us. I’m just a white mutt, short, strong chin, sharp teeth, pasty skin, green eyes, dark brown hair, mental illness, shortened allele monoamine oxidase gene, ect.
I like pale girls?! I like redheads?! I like Guinness?! I like boys too?!!?!
Go home mouse, your drunk.
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An eighth Cherokee.
My great grandmother was 100% Cherokee.
Married right off the reservation to an Englishman and they had 4 boys. Unfortunately she died a few days after giving birth to my grandfather, his dad blaming him for her death, used to beat him until he was 15 and stood up for himself, then left home for good.
In his later years the greatgrandfather apologised, my grandfather accepted it, and they finally had a good relationship.
My grandfather certainly looks American Indian, but give him a drink of hard liquer, and remove all doubt.
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I have a small sixteenth or so of native american blood but I don’t know what tribe.
My great grandma was 100% Cherokee. My grandfather who is still alive has a lot of Cherokee blood in him. He is like 86-87 but still doing fine. Ya, I have always been interested in native american culture too. Fascinating society.
Yes, Cherokee and Creek - eastern band, not those who went to Oklahoma…
I’ve lived in 2 reservations of other tribes, including the Lakota…been to a lot of the ceremonies, Sun dances, Sweat Lodge, Vision Quests…and talking circles…
@TheGreatestDrZen the pipe usually isn’t called the peace pipe by real natives…it’s known as the sacred pipe, or Chanupa in the Lakota language… it is used mainly to offer up prayers to the 4 directions and the Great Spirit…though it could be used in a ceremony to make peace too…
http://students.purchase.edu/michael.giordano/project2/images/chanupa-ceremony.jpg
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Oh God I hope that isn’t My cusen
Why not? It’s not a bad thing…and it’s not weed…it’s either tobacco or Kinnic-kinnic
no my cus lives in okc
I knew of a woman who was 524/ Cherokee, and she got full Indian benefits. I talked to a guy sitting on a bench in a park who was half Cherokee. He didn’t get any Indian benefits because his grandfather had sold his tribal role numbers. There is something very wrong with that.
There is a book about how different Indian cultures dealt with the encroaching white cultures throughout the expansion of the United States. If you are interested, it is called - “Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee”.
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I don’t think my ancestors sold anything (hope not!) but they never went on the Dawes roll because they didn’t relocate. I think they just refused the registration in order to integrate into society…not thinking it might mess things up for their descendants 150 years later…There were some natives who did this and only talked about their ancestry with family members, never in public because of racism…