Osiyo, Voices of the Cherokee People: Season 1, Episode 1 

i was also told to never talk about being part native but i if they weren’t oppressed it would have never been that way

scoutmaster71 thank you for this. I found out my great grandmother was Cherokee. But I always feel like I don’t really belong because my grandfather was the only person who knew anything about her. He sided before I could learn about my ancestors. I may never find out my true lineage, now. It saddens me to feel like I’m not a “real” Cherokee but I really want to learn about my heritage and the culture that really is a part of me. And I want to be accepted in that way. So your comment made me feel really great for once to be recognized. So, thank you.

Rejoice, come back home fire keepers, YAHWAH IS COMING. Reunite the fires and council house

We are Hebrew Israelites

People ask me sometimes how much Indian blood I have, I just say very little, character makes a person not bloodline. Love the art and I would love to learn the language

And that's exactly why they won't. More people mean less resources, ie $$$

I went to the main office and even though she was on the roll they said they no longer accept anyone over 18. Unfortunately... My dad Norman

That’s so sad...

+Manoah Cross You're family is from NC? That means you're the Eastern Band of Cherokee. Unfortunately we get the look-down-the nose treatment from our mid-West relatives. Our ancestors are the ones who refused to be shipped out across the country so we ended up as slaves, for 'Whites' *and* the mid-Western Cherokee (dirty laundry they don't want to deal with). Appeal that decision as high as you can go, including the court system if you have to, because this petty bias has to stop.

+stephen barnett Minerva is a hard search, I have a 3rd GGrandmother named Minerva and after a decade finally figured out who she was and all I needed to know about her family. She was from Tn and at one point married to a Mr. Morgan. Unfortunately finding documents is hard since most native marriages are not documented. Good luck in your search.

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Matt Hughes Yes, 500 years...

Matt Hughes Wasn't 500 years, doofus.

djokawari You sure? Check your math. It is presently 523 years... Doofus.

RepublicAgent "The first Anglo-Cherokee contact may have been in 1656, when English settlers in Virginia Colony recorded that six to seven hundred "Mahocks, Nahyssans and Rechahecrians" had encamped at Bloody Run, now on the eastern edge of Richmond, Virginia." How in the fuck is that 500 years? The "government genocide" came much later. Fucking moron.

So lets forget the everything that happened before hand? Irrelevant, is it? No. This doesn't begin with the Cherokee in 1656. *Fucking moron.* Yeah, name calling is fun but it doesn't really add much does it?

My great grandmother really was Tsalagi "full blooded" as you might say. I came from a long line of non-whiners, beautiful women, but we don't call ourselves "princesses."

You're not native. You're part of the problem. Bunch of white people enrolling cos their great-grandparent had 1/16th blood. Why would you want to enroll?

Liz Cornell Full episodes are on www.Osiyo.TV or here on this RU-vid channel! Click "OsiyoTV" below the videos. :)

Ancestry DNA results sometimes dont have Native American show up even if you are part Native. Not sure why.

Well, ancestry only checks that part of your DNA which is most common with all of your ancestors. You should get your MTDNA test, that will show what you got on your mothers side. Y-DNA tests tell you what you got on your fathers side.

You don’t have native blood

No 오세요 means that. O sae yo.

Rodger Brown To me, yes. But then I am very biased.

Anne Lane no. they probably are all gorgeous maybe not as gorgeous as her, the host. because I find that had to believe anyway. for many women.

Oklahoma Playwright People are grabbing all kinds of land all over. It is the way of some people. This is not your power or who you are.

runingblackbear you are blessed to know who you are. Thank you for sharing

You can pass as a white female to the average eye, What are you trying to say? That you feel you don't have enough Indian blood?

My walls are white, my god is white, everyone I see in tv is white. White this white everthing!!! Iam a brown native man!

No, I am saying That I DON'T have ENOUGH blood IN the EYES of ALL of the OTHER nationalities I CARRY. Just because my skin is OLIVE & PALE MIXED. Whenever I am WITH a GROUP of people no matter WHAT nationality I carry. I am dismissed. I am dismissed because I may be Irish but NOT ENOUGH irish for them. I am may be Italian but NEVER enough Italian for them. Etc...etc.... Some people are soooo busy spreading anger & hate they DON'T realize WHAT they have. You may have anger towards things & people from LOOOONG before we were even BORN! However it will always be a PART of who we are. It does NOT mean we need to CONTINUE hating all of one or all of another because of what we DON'T have. I have been reminded EVERY DAY of my life! How I am NOT ENOUGH blood of ANY one kind. I am NOT enough of anything. Yet thru ALL of the abuse & trust me my life growing up was WAYYY WORSE than ANY horror or getto movie you can imagine. When you MIX the physical abuse with the emotional. However. After ALLL of this. I was NEVER judgemental or predjudice towards anyone. Nor am I now. I have made a CHOICE to never give to others the horrendous pain I was given in my life. It may have taken me many years to feel GOOD about MYSELF. But ALL ALONG I STILL have NEVER returned the hurt. When someone says something BAD about / to you. It says NOTHING about YOU. But, it says a WHOLE heck of ALOT about them.

I also DON'T SEE color. I SEE..... words, Feelings, manners, smiles & love. IDC WHAT color ANYONE is on my t.v. or any where else. I have NEVER been able to find myself interested in ANYONE weather it be a FRIEND or Romantic, If when they open their mouths NOTHING but GARBAGE falls out. YUCK!! By the way I am not yelling when I type. It's just the way I type. :)

Plus I have the INTERNET!! WOO HOO! I FEEL BLESSED!! :) I spend MOST of my time on YOU TUBE. I listen to nature sounds & music from ALL OVER THE WORLD. I SEE MANY different colors & faces that are NOT seen on the T.V. However I don't watch a lot of t.v. I just don't like it that much any more.

nancy miner What ever that means ?I cannot believe how racist people are .These are ideas shared by Hitler. Their are not many full blooded Indians left I think keeping the language and history alive is important .These were her ancestors who are you to knock her for honoring them and keeping their memory and culture alive ?It is pointless to be so hateful..it benefits no one especially not you !

Madam Vonkook Hi there I like the candor in your statement. Great words. Click on that hateful posters channel. No videos, no playlists, no description , joined april 2014. These are typical channels who post hateful and devisive comments. They are known as paid shills. or Trolls. What you said needs to be spoken loudly and often. People are too quick to judge and attack people without first considering the source. It's a bad disease in this country. Many of the Native people did assimilate into the larger society. Burying their heritage, hiding the fact that they are indian. Think what came of all the bording school survivors. They were gifted with a self hatred in their own heritage, this has been passed down to the families of today.

My dentons,clarks and Jones have been in the states since the 1630 to 1650's. On all 3 sides I found that t hey intermarried with native americans in virginia,north Carolina and in eastern Tennessee whered they finally settled down after the revolutionary war ended in the 1770's.

My Denton's line came over from England in 1634. Reverend Richard Denton was my 9 th/great gramb father. They intermarried with natives from ma,to ny,to their time in Shenandoah v as lkey near Harrisburg, va in 1734 until they received land Grant's to settle in upper east forv th hrir service during the revolution in ry war. They have been living in east tn since the 1780's. My dad's mother's family the Yates,huskins,chase,little John's,plotts,shaws,stevens,duncans migrated from the western nc hills around Cherokee,Booneand north wilkesboro In the 1700's. They crossed the smokey mountains eventually settling in carter,Johnson,Unicoi and Washington counties inbeast Tennessee by the late 1780 to 1790's.

Yep even full blooded Indians have lots of European blood in them.

You must've graduated at the head of your class 🙄

Well, you're probably related to the Cochran's around Colcord, Little Kansas and down by the Oklahoma speed trap.

yeah my father was very old a lot of people can't believe how old he was when he had me. so it's pretty hard to get any genealogy on him. I really appreciate your message