18 Replies to “I, Pocahontas”

  3. That’s because there is so much privilege in being considered a white person…. Oh wait, that doesn’t work.

  4. Since I was born in Europe, would I be considered “native” if I claimed Kennewick Man was an ancestor?

  6. Interesting growth! Reminds me of an old joke. There’s a new painting in the art gallery. A cow with a halo, surrounded by copulating natives. It’s titled “Custer’s last thoughts”. When asked about this, the response is ‘Holy cow, look at all them fucking Indians!’

    I know, me bad!

  9. They are all Elizabeth Warren Indians. I know lots of Metis who no-one would ever guess were anything other that European. One girl I went to school with who had a fair complexion ended up being an Indian chief of a long enfranchised band. Her grandfather, a neighbor of ours, did look a bit Indian. He actually farmed for a living.

    1. Right, Scar. Spouse’s family undoubtedly has a fair bit of Québec Cree in the family ancestry (some older photos show family members who look very “native”), but the western branch has never traded on it. They are all hard-working, regular folk.

  10. I was born here.
    I have no other country. No other loyalty.
    This is the place that I belong.
    My blood and my sweat are mixed with its dust.
    The bones of my fathers are buried here.

    Who the hell are you to say that I am not “indigenous”?

    The sooner we all start “identifying”, the sooner this racist rubbish is revealed for the stupidity it is.

    1. PeterW, everyone who lives where they were born is indigenous to that country. Don’t matter what your race is or who your ancestors are. You are 100% correct.

    1. You are correct. I remember reading an article that reported the results of Warren’s dna test.

      Apparently the “average” US citizen has more native/indigenous/indian dna than she does. I was surprised it was so common in the USA.

      In Canada I had thought only the pur laine Quebecois were exotically sprinkled with native genetic material.

      Growing up, the expression to “go indian” when intoxicated applied to the French Canadians also.

      1. TGWW – you need to look at Winnipeg and west. The fur traders were (both HBC and NorWesters), generally speaking, British men. And they married local, which meant either Indian brides or – in the later generations – brides of mixed heritage. Winnipeg, being the centre of the fur trade, is particularly noted for having native Indian ancestry. The great explorer David Thompson’s wife was Métis (as in second generation fur trade child). The late Peter Lougheed (former Premier of Alberta) had native ancestry. Wikipedia talks of his paternal great-grandfather, Richard Hardisty, as being Canada’s first Métis Senator, but there are stories that he also had a native Grandmother. And, further west, Sir James Douglas did not only have “non-white” heritage (his mother was a Barbadian Creole), but married a Métis woman, Amelia Connolly, who was the product of a “country” marriage. Actually, most of the marriages between fur traders and their wives were of this variety, which led to issues when the men returned to (often) Scotland and formally married, after which their “country” wives were disowned (her father did, probably following the example of George Simpson of the HBC who fathered several children by a relationship in Canada and then returned to Scotland to marry “legally”). It was Mrs Douglas’ brother who instituted a case against his father’s British widow to establish that 1) the country marriage was legal; and, 2) that being so, the children of that marriage were entitled to share in the estate with the widow. THEY WON!!

  13. I identify as a 19 year old, 6′ black cis lesbian named Kadejia. Any one who challenges any of this is a horrible bigot

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