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Wetzelbill Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Mar-25-08 03:11 AM
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1. You're culturally plural
You're Indian and French-Canadian. These are not separate parts of you. They are you. They mesh together and unite as one to make you whole. I'm a Blackfeet Indian, enrolled member of the tribe and raised on the reservation, but I look white too. I am German, Nez Perce, Chippewa Cree and a few other muttish things. I'm also an American. I am not just one of these things, I am all of them. Just the same as me being a male doesn't effect me being a Blackfeet Indian. It all becomes one.

Don't feel lost. Accept who you are and keep learning about it. When you meet other Indians talk to them about your heritage and your knowledge of it. Don't identify yourself as "part" Indian, you ARE Indian. It's inside you. If fullbloods don't accept you then fine, let them be backward like that. But good people who matter will accept you. That you look white is superficial, some people won't know you're Indian because of it, but when you talk about being Indian and your history, good people will get it.
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