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how can i look cherokee?
i am cherokee but most of me isnt...i kind of want to look cherokee how should i look. i know i might have to get a tan but other than that. like how do i put my hair and what accesories should i wear like a dream catcher
i ammmmmmmm iam iam cherokee i dont thyink you guys shoould be saying im not....i try so hard to prove i am and i dont have anything yet.I hate it when people say they are and they are not it makes me angry. I have the same hair and nose as most cherokee, i just am into that stuff.I have to prove it some how.....
Not again. What is going on? You cannot just make yourself look native.You might do a few things you find stereotypical of Natives in movies and imagination but it wil not make you look like a native. Claiming to be native american when you are not is wrong. It is called cultural and racial theft. I am full blood "Indian". I am a member of the Seminole Tribe but my mother was from the Qualla Boundary(that is the Eastern Band of Cherokee Rez in NC) Since you can only legally belong to one federal tribe it was decided Seminole would be better since more of that side of the family is alive). So I get emotionally involved with this everyday question on YA.
How do you think I, a native american, feel about other people "trying" to look like us? Does it even matter to white people or black people about how native americans feel? It never has in the past and it looks like it still does not? When I was a little girl we were despised and held as "monkeys" in the eyes of the white population of America. But since the mid-70's al that changed. Now way too many people claim to be Cherokee especially. What wil happen in 50 years from now? Will over half the population of the USA claim to have an Iranian grandmother too? And if white people could not stand us and wanted us dead how did they manage to breed with native women all over the place they could not even talk with? There was a big language barrier. Points to ponder.
It is bad to live a lie. Be who you really are in your own culture. You just cannot switch one day when you feel like it. It goes way further than little braids and a fake browning of white skin and a dream catcher. You might as well try to be from outer Mongolia.
But... here is what you need to "make" yourself look like:
or this:
Here is my grandfather and my uncle in 1933. My dad was already 13 years old at this time.
There are variations in how we look just like Chinese have variations in look but we are still all the same. You can tel who is native and who is not unless it is imagination or so far back it does not matter one bit anymore.
Once you pass that one quarter mark (one grandparent native) you really lose the racial characteristics that make any race a separate race.
I have a lot of youngsters tell me I do not know what I am talking about.They call me names and hold me in YA violation because they do not like what I feel and what we natives feel. But they are white and black. A real Native teen or tween would never contradict and openly challenge the authority of a tribal elder like me. Or they certainly do not in my tribe and the ones I have been around.
I do not want to come down too terribly hard on you. I get the feeling you have not considered the points I have brought up on cultural/racial theft. ASk yourself why do you want to do this and what is wrong with your real ancestry that you are a part of? Nothing is wrong. Most white people today are pretty nice except in certain areas.
Out of curiosity, what do you think of this? Is this ok and fine and dandy? These are "cherokees".
Ok... I'm awaiting my hate mail again.
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