I am of the Chickahominy Tribe of Virginia. This was so well put together and so easily explained so understandable to teach others.I have so many people who not understand what the Powhatan Federation is and this expalins it all in a turtles shell..:)
I'm patawomeck my father got me enrolled in 2014 and died the same year I'm so glad he done that for me....I would've never known where I came from! My grandfather left his life in Fredericksburg VA when he was 16 and settled in TN where I was born. I would love to go see my tribe one day
Lived in Natural Bridge Va. spend many happy weekends with my husband at pow pows.the natural people are so kind. Was invited the the fall festive also. Well done video loved it
Learning about Native Americans can be so intimidating at first - so many tribes, languages, cultures, sub groups, related groups, etc. There is so much information that how it is organized is important. The information in this video was very well laid out and I really learned a lot. Very well done!
Although they don't have fullbloods left, its a miracle God kept them from going extinct & didn't let them emmerse into other tribes like most tribes did that did become etinct. We would B reading in history books these tribes are extinct, but God kept this tribe intact, even though they are a small mix-blood tribe. God bless them for still existing.
A lot of indigenous ppl are mixed & don't look like thier fullblood ancestors, but they still are descendants of N.A., they can always change that by marrying Indigenous & bringing up their indigenous degree of Indian blood. Mix-blood and marry mix-blood & still keep the tribe from going extinct.
@@godzjewlz5245 There are two native americans. one are those from any ethnicity like China, Pakistan, Nigerian, Sudan who were born here & the other are the descendants of the first Americans who inhabited America 13,000 yrs B4 everyone else immigrated here. The gov't made it confusing by changing American Indian to Native American to differentiate N.A. from Indians from India.
I'm Pamunkey from Virginia. Colonization hit the eastern woodland tribes hard. We all had to intermix and intermarry ethnicities to survive. A lot of Virginia tribes went to war with the British and many tribes in the Powhatan Alliance are extinct as a result of it. In the Pamunkey tribe many of us, including myself, are mixed with European, Native, and African American. In Virginia, we were a very ethnically diverse commonwealth or state from the beginning due to European colonization, Native culture, and African slavery.
@@alicaruef2559 I'm patawomeck, how is that hard for people to grasp....it's not like they had a choice...our men were slaughtered... not one survived.Our women married white men...do the math
@@alicaruef2559 Eastern tribes didn't live in teepees, the Plains Indians were the ones who lived in teepees. People who dont' know N.A. history always stereotype Native Americans,. There were many different cultures & not every N.A. nations hunted buffalo & lived in teepees. VA tribes were mostly agricultuarl people & were sedentary.
European Indians what an interesting contradiction. Chief Powhatan was described as what would be called Aftic a n American today. The stature in the Virginia Historical Society is of Chief Powhatan.. The statue looks Black. These Europeans are not Indians by traditional definition and definitely by lineal descent. This is identity fraud.
Father God tells us what He done N Genesis. He made nations & gave each nation their own languages & determined which land each nation were 2 live. N.A. still speak their God given languages. God prophesied that Japheths descendants land would increase Bcuz they would spread the gospel of Jesus 2 N.A., & elsewhere, a prophecy that had 2 B fulfilled. Thats why U.S.A believes N one true God & God blesses a nation who worships Him, so Bcuz of that, U.S.A. is greatest nation on earth. N.A. had 2 hear the gospel, Bcuz God said, “And this Gospel of the Kingdom shall be preached through the whole world, for a witness to all nations. And then the end shall come. Matt 24:14. Everyone N the world including N.A. must hear the gospel B4 God will make this world come 2 an end. The world is living at the tail end of the Church age, & soon this world will come to an end.
Those statues are Asian, God led Asain east & Indians are ancient Asian, not African, that lived only a jump, skip & hop away from America, & once they inhabited America, God closed the door behind N.A. & kept them isolated for 13,000 yrs, Bcuz this is what God planned B4 the foundation of the world. He has a plan 4 America. ["the LORD of Heaven's Armies has spoken- who can change his plans? When his hand is raised, who can stop him?”]. No one can change Gods plan 4 Native Americans. He has a reason for everything he does & He put N.A. here Bcuz he has a plan for N.A., & also 4 Whites, Blacks, Asian, or other ethnics ppls who live here too.
Are you serious. Native Americans are not the American Indian. They arrived here in the 1800s. The full name of the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and 1968 is The American Indian Civil Rights Act. Native Americans have to attached themselves to a Negro in order to be Federally Recognized. They immigrated to this land. They are not us. They don't look like the brown/red skin mascot that you see for sport teams. Your God has favored a group of people above everyone else to the point that everything that is uniquely American is made by the so-called African American. African Americans ain't African.
Cristian, I am an enrolled member of the Nottoway Tribe of VA and what you are seeing is the effect of survival. Most of our tribes intermarried with European and or African people as a course of survival in a Bi racial society as existed for quite a while in the state of VA. We do have native ancestors , however we are ancestral tribes not tribes based on blood quantum.
(Great Great Great Great)My Grandparents so far in my research didn't inter-marry ... so what does that say for my people in this land? My People have been stripped of their land by the so-called native american and the 5 dollar native ...and I have yet to run into a relative that has been brought here! I'm still digging for proof of it!
K Kelly Some of us black people wont believe you because they are so convinced that us Africans are the real Natives; it’s sad and they think they know more then you. Keep spreading the truth.
Damn people sound really stupid? Conditioning is a helluva drug? Black, white and the felonious African narrative shows the deception is strong in you K Kelly as well, all the Mongolian and don't know their history so called African Americans?
Google Walter Plecker. The Virginia's first registrar who was also a racist of his time. Also a lot of tribal nations in the East Coast married out and adoptions was extremely common plus tribes would take children and raise them up as members of that tribe. I am descended from the Nansemond nation. The last full blood of the Nansemond nation died in 1802. I'm willing to wager that virtually all the East Coast tribal nations have no full blooded members anymore. We were the first to be invaded by the Europeans and the first to marry out of the tribes in order to survive and so on.
I am 5th Generation Pamunkey, a descendant of Kathryn Brown on my Mothers side. My Mother was Gladys Seward. I am 3rd Generation Cherokee on my Daddy's side thru His Mother. And we have every reason to believe we are Monacan thru my Grandfather who by birth was a Johnson. I'm proud of all I am and walk between the 2 worlds.
@@godzjewlz5245 peace! yo man. I gotta peel this back, a lot of the “$5 Indians” you see are the products of the fraction of the fraction’s fraction remaining. From initially being more “Native” In genetic terms but after mass rape mass murder, yk The american holocaust the story goes the same for most if not all civilized peoples more connected to earth. From Latin America indigenous peoples, America, Africa, Pakistan we are all indigenous peoples that have one was in another taken advantage of and kept in place by the Very wealthy and influential. Religion has been used by nearly all conquering to attribute the “savor” of said religion similar to the oppressor. we’ve been so trained to treat others as competition removing the aspect of cooperation we all are in the same sinking boat while judges and investors of companies like Monsanto coast in luxurious yachts profiting off poisoning us. Me and you and that’s what ima always keep pushing as the human race. KRS-One really said he is African but above African he’s human first. And with that comes compassion and willingness to listen to all. Truly peace be.
Google Walter Plecker. The Virginia's first registrar who was also a racist of his time. Also a lot of tribal nations in the East Coast married out and adoptions was extremely common plus tribes would take children and raise them up as members of that tribe. I am descended from the Nansemond nation. The last full blood of the Nansemond nation died in 1802. I'm willing to wager that virtually all the East Coast tribal nations have no full blooded members anymore. We were the first to be invaded by the Europeans and the first to marry out of the tribes in order to survive and so on.
Great video to use as an educator of Virginia Studies. Both teacher and students know so little about this topic in the curriculum. Thank you for creating and sharing this video!
Wow, excellent video explaining native Americans. I am Chickahominy Indian and the boy in this video is my third cousin (as In not my uncle or aunt's child) and my third uncle was the former chief. My family name is Cannada & in the early 1900's it was changed to Canaday which we go by, my other family are the Adkins and Stewarts.
The US is famous for creating white Indians, particularly in Virginia. Indians have a bone structure which is basically Mongoloid. As a well-trained Physical Anthropologist, I usually know what I'm looking at and hearing (voice texture) etc.
Meh...nearly all Indians across 'muriKKKa are mixed. Very few pure-bloods left anywhere. The great athlete Jim Thorpe was half-white, but he still claimed to be an Indian.
Google Walter Plecker. The Virginia's first registrar who was also a racist of his time. Also a lot of tribal nations in the East Coast married out and adoptions was extremely common plus tribes would take children and raise them up as members of that tribe. I am descended from the Nansemond nation. The last full blood of the Nansemond nation died in 1802. I'm willing to wager that virtually all the East Coast tribal nations have no full blooded members anymore. We were the first to be invaded by the Europeans and the first to marry out of the tribes in order to survive and so on.
@@johngalt8279 Jim Thrope was part White, but his facial features clearly showed his Native ancestry & he was raised as a Native within his tribe & also married a Native, so he was Native through & through. No doubt he was bullied by racist whites, all N.A. are.
These people our mestizos mixed blood like in mexico and all over the United States. And Canada fullbloods are more distinct lime the sioux or tohono odom cree.
Because they wanted to white wash our people some people are claiming to be Native American and yet if you look into our history when white men came over and colonized our country they killed our men and raped our women and some have mix in them!
I'm Pamunkey from Virginia. Colonization hit the eastern woodland tribes hard. We all had to intermix and intermarry ethnicities to survive. A lot of Virginia tribes went to war with the British and many tribes in the Powhatan Alliance are extinct as a result of it. In the Pamunkey tribe many of us, including myself, are mixed with European, Native, and African American. In Virginia, we were a very ethnically diverse commonwealth or state from the beginning due to European colonization, Native culture, and African slavery. Not all Natives are "brown" or tan like in the western tribes because they weren't colonized as early as we were. They also have stricter blood quantum laws then we do so their bloodlines are purer. Furthermore, every Native American Tribe in the Americas from Canada to the bottom of South America all have a different culture and language.
Google Walter Plecker. The Virginia's first registrar who was also a racist of his time. Also a lot of tribal nations in the East Coast married out and adoptions was extremely common plus tribes would take children and raise them up as members of that tribe. I am descended from the Nansemond nation. The last full blood of the Nansemond nation died in 1802. I'm willing to wager that virtually all the East Coast tribal nations have no full blooded members anymore. We were the first to be invaded by the Europeans and the first to marry out of the tribes in order to survive and so on.
That really reminds me of me, I'm from Virginia ( Woodbridge, born in Fairfax county) and I know how it is being in an all white Community School and not seen that many people that look mix like I do I often see people that are fully white,Black, Spanish, etc, when I go to clean County Schools, but then when I go to schools like in Baltimore or so I see more kids that look like me more kids that look mix and have hair like me a little and I don't feel like I'm treated weird!
Amazing, I am Wiyot, one of the last tribes in the US mainland to be introduced to the settlers. It's nice to see that one of the first is still around.
lol these are not ''indians''---these kids should be taught about why there are state recognized tribes and federally recognized ones. the first clue is true indigenous people of turtle island [which they never refer to one time in this ''docu''] never refer to themselves by the conqueror's generic label of ''native american''. Oneida comedian Charlie Hill said it best ''how can you be native of something you are far older than as a people?' 'look him up here on youtube and enjoy. these are white people that are descendants of native peoples. most of them if subjected to the same CDIB [certified degree of ''indian'' blood''] that federally recognized natives are they would be as caucasian as any other european-american. federally recognized tribes are required to submit to blood quantum monitoring for one reason; to see when the last true full-blood indian dies, and then the fed takes the land the full bloods [true indians who made original treaties with the us gov] had been protecting. these people can call themselves the white descendants of; but to claim to be ''indian'' is false and a silly notion of cosplay and powwows. they are not the same people that made those treaties with the government, because simply they are caucasian. caucasians did not make these treaties as ''indians'',never, not once. this kid said alot when he said ''we [all natives which he does not speak for] now practice a mix of ''native american'' and christian religions. BS. Totally untrue and this is really new ager propaganda.
excuse me but thats an extremely broad generalization to say that just because they refer to themselves as native. did you not hear the part that the Natives teach the Whites the traditions? THATS Y THE,WHITES ARE THERE. plus, im cherokee and refer to myself as native since i know i was here first. that is a senseless statement.
Sorry guys i read that wrong, i didnt read the whole comment like an idiot. Im sorry i made myself look dumb but i agree with everything you said, you have a lot of knowledge on the subject and i apologize.
Being that I am a Kiowa tribe member from Oklahoma myself and noting we require at least 1/4 ''indian blood'' to enroll, I would love to know who you think these tribes are that require no ''proof'' for enrollment. All you do is make my point that there is a bunch of fake tribes even federal recognition does not mean they are still the same people. That was not what I was saying, I don't like fed recognition but it does have a helping hand in holding down the obvious fakes like the ''Lumbee'' first time name ever was used in 1955 lol... But not in oklahoma like you imply, because we have a huge population of real NDNS who are not afraid to go slap the shit out of some fakers ... and just so you know. many of us real tribes have a synonym for white people we use jokingly, but it is true. ''cherokees'' LOL Every single real tribe requires this, and I never said it has anything to do with ''native blood'' and it the racist standard to satisfy only the white man is called CDIB not cib...and never claimed that any enrollment is solely based on that because it is not. Even the white ass ''cherokees'' have a blood quantum requirement, but as tribes not under federal requirement to meet CDIB standards, can enroll based on their own prerequisites which is 100% always provable genealogy that each real tribe in this nation are expert at. The cherokees have the lowest requirement of any fed rec'd tribe of 1/64th and will if not, maybe already have and I do not know, do away with it altogether because they are no longer ''native'' and would disappear and lose all that fed money and casino rights and we know whites are going to do that. and they even kicked out their own black/cherokee members just a couple years ago. So tell me, a real NDN from oklahoma, which one of the so called fed rec'd tribes there require no proof? That is what you are seeming to imply. Bottom line to me and the rest of us real deals, is, that if you do not speak your own language at all nor try to preserve it, then you aren't really what you claim to be. It has nothing to do with appearance or ''certified degree of indian blood'' which is inherently racist to impose on just one ethnic group in a nation of diverse immigrants, let alone having the original white illegals require you prove to them by their own standards what you are or not. that is up to the tribe and no one else. and as I said, those tribes, fed recognition or not, are subject to the KNOWN REAL TRIBES THAT ARE LEFT NOT YOUR WHITE MAN RED TAPE BUREAUCRACY, as they are now genetically and liguistically solely white english speakers with no connection to the originals nor did these white people with slight native dna or no NDN dna at all, make treaties on behalf of us real natives who have raised our kids quietly all this time to reject your illegal immigrant foreign rules customs religions, and for the most part have not diluted ourselves besides the rape we have endured and must purify our dna from by diluting it with more of our own and not your white recessive weak extinction bound dna. until we have it all back and your failed mutant code gone, and the balance will return to the Earth, Not until. we did not breed with you guys nor blacks like you guys try to fictionalize we did. blacks do the same thing, and when dna tested find out they are part white and no part indian like they were told 99.9% of the time, CNN did a story on this a while back, you should check it out. I reckon you are mistakenly referring to the cherokee, absentee shawnee and a couple others when you try to claim they have no ''CIB'' [cdib] requirement to federally enroll. but you are leaving out the fact that genealogy is the method for divining this, no blood testing lol. do you think they look at our blood under a microscope to do this lol? there is not one tribe that will enroll you based on this. but if you can prove you are related to a tribe member with in a certain generation count, then you are certified. and DNA is not accepted for this in any tribe what so ever.
April 30, 2019: Thank goodness for diversity....blessings. *After this I looked, and there before me was a great multitude that no one could count, from every nation, tribe, people and language, standing before the throne and before the Lamb. They were wearing white robes and were holding palm branches in their hands. Revelation 7:9
The first Indian reservation in North America was in King William County Virginia. It was the result of the Treaty of 1646. It is just northwest where West Point is now located, ironically enough.
But they are. Colonists tribed to genocide them off the face of the earth, by killing the men but women survived & had to marry white or black men, & they became a tri-racial tribe.
no he really isn't looking indian…...but more akin to indian than the others esp. the guy with Wal-Mart ribbons on the silly red shit. Fact is Indians like myself can't grow bushy beards nor.....ever grow bald naturally. It's not in the dna. Are their distant ancestors indian? quite possibly. If you have not at least 1/2 blood...you gotta be square and admit...you really are not indian,
The little boy is racially targeting by you. He's definitely N.A. I'm N.A. & can see Native features he has. Being African you cannot see Native features, that we natives can see. U can see African features, but you can't see Native features. You want 2 see African not Native nor European features.
That's what I've been after is what your cultures are exactly outside of westernization and the pan-indian movement. I haven't really appreciated Powhatan cultures and I only really thought a few families existed after the huge like genocide of people. Nor have I had any challenges in other posts where I was having questions and doubts that needed addressing.
You will find the colors "White" and " Black" in a child's crayon box. This also explains the mentality of some of the ppl in the comments section... Mentality is that of a child!
Plains Indian culture is not "Virginia Indian" Powhatan culture. It's truly disgusting how people don't care about authenticating their own culture and just go with the wave of corny sentimentalism streamed to them. Original woodland Algonquin culture was highly complex, fascinating, far reaching, rich and powerful and it's a tragedy what's become of it. Most if any of the cultural props shown here are bought from some southwest wholesaler not handmade, not native, not remotely relevant to Powhatan Indians, complete poser junk and nonsense. It takes more then stomping in a circle and saying the word pride to truly represent something. No offense to those of part native blood but only the kid narrator and maybe two other people looked native in this video, unless they marry people who are significantly native as well I don't know how long these tribes have left.
There's nothing wrong with sympathizing with Plains Indians up until a point but it goes too far with token "plastic" Indians. Its like a Chinese saying they are Japanese it's actually disrespectful to their ancestors.
Remember native indigenous aboriginal people didn't have all that facial hair, and on there body on skin this is true facts history is fascinating story tellers as well honor your ancestor music and lyrics inter tribal respect for one another's people dream smoke That's why European's call us indigenous aboriginal people skin all way to great lakes region and four directions!!.
Fullblooded Native Americans cannot grow facial hair its only sparse but mixed blood can Graham Green who played in the movie dances with wolves ive seen him with beard and mustache in California native americans are mixed with mexican, spanish, italian, white they wear mustache and beards not as dark
Trump was talking about the Meshantuckett Pequot tribe whose casino was doing better than his, & Pequots were all tri-racial, no fullblood left, so all looked white or black, thats why he said, they don't look like Indians to me. Most eastern tribes are tri-racial, Native, European & black
IMO, the Pamunkey and Mattaponi should have been the 1st tribes to receive federal recongnition. Nice presentation and very informative. Thanks for posting!
You as a non native don’t get to decide what constitutes who is indigenous. If you understand history there was lots of intermixing so full blooded pamunkey don’t exist. These people know the language and are keeping the traditions of their ancestors alive
@@desmondscalaro3669 I'm so glad that the Pumenkey did get federally recognized. They were the first ppl to come in contact with Europeans & were almost decimated, & for them 2 still B here is miraculous, & a blessing from God.
can this kid go on twitter and educate all the confused lost americans who think we had nothing until Jamestown smh... only reason the colonies survived is because we helped them.
Because colonists tried to annilhilate them off the face of the earth for their land, all the men died but women survived & married white or black men so they became a tri-racial tribe. No fullbloods left.
They could not help it. They were nearly annilhilated off the face of the earth for their land. Colonists killed the men & women survived but had to marry whites or blacks to survive, they became a tri-racial tribe.
I'm black part Cherokee and Blackfoot Irish Russian German French Puerto Rican and Mexican. still trying to find more about my native American history my family not talking so much about it but I'm not giving up if anyone has any advice I am open to listen to it I know that my family was born and raised in Virginia but that Cherokee is on my mother's side of the family and Blackfoot is on my father's side of the family but that's where I hit a dead end because my father refuses to talk more about it.
I'm African American as well as NA, but my advice to you would be to drop the Blackfoot claim. There were no Blackfeet in Va. or anywhere near it. They are Dakota Indians who NEVER came south. You should start by checking the Guion Miller Index for your family for more info as well as the rolls before that. Also, take a DNA test, but don't expect to see a lot of NA as it was likely during the 1800s when your ancestor lived. There are Afram who have exhibited highly disrespectful claims in the past and NA are very proud people who won't take kindly to baseless claims of ghost ancestors.
I do have proof of my Cherokee ancestor its on my mom side of family so dont be getting disrepectful until you have all your facts at hand. You don't know me just like i don't know you so where your proof.
Not saying it to be disrespectful. I'm just warning you that some of them can be very racist and hateful. African Americans are constantly coming at them as well as White people so some are just annoyed with the questions all the time. As for the Blackfeet though, that's a well known point of contention. The Blackfoot at no time were ever mixed in with the colonist populations are to have come south of the Dakotas. If you come at any claiming Blackfoot, they won't take you serious and either laugh or curse. I promise you. I know for a fact that many older African Americans say that. Lived around Cherokee and Lums all my life. Sorry if I came across as being disrespectful
But i have facts blackfeet ill agree with u on but as far as my Cherokee goes its from my mother side of the family but i know that its got to be very little because i know im not fully but im not going to argue thank you for time have a goodnight
Because colonizers tried to annilhilate them off the face of the earth, for their land & almost succedded, but many women survived & they no choice 2 marry whites or blacks, so these tribes are tri-racial.
Colonizetd tried to wipe N.A. off the face of the earth by killing the men & only women survived so they had to marry whites or blacks to survive. Most marrried white & some blacks but as a tribe they are all related to each other, a tribe of mixl-bloods. They aren't just N.A. anymore, they are N.A., European & African. calling the white ones demons is being racist to your white relatives.
I see too many White people. Looks like the pilgrims have become the Natives. My dark skin Aboriginal maternal ancestors were enslaved. They were from Virginia. During that time of her enslavement it was against the law to enslave Natives. I am assuming that she was from the Appalachian area because of the similar culture passed down.
If your ancestors are dark skin meaning they are black, then they are mix-blood Indians with African ancestry, N.A. are not African, they descend from ancient Paleo Asian Native Amercans, hence the name Native American & N.A. are shades of brown, not black. N.A. could B mix-blood & have white skin, from having European ancestry, like this tribe, they are tri-racial, with N.A., European & some have African ancestry. Whites were here first & then imported blacks, & Indians intermarried both ethnicities, so most N.A. are tri-racial.
N.A. Tribes know about the $5 Indian phenomenon by now, so no white man with zero N.A. ancestry can pay any $5 to be enrolled in any tribe. Be realistic. Its just not done anymore. It was all done for land during allotment days in the 1900's, and those days are over with, the government isn't giving out any land to any tribe, so there is no $5 Indian white man trying to pay $5 to be enrolled in any tribe. Ppl have to prove with documents that birth certificate or death certificate that they have N.A. ancestryl
Thats because colonizers almost wiped them off the face of the earth for their land, so Native women had to survivie somehow so they married white or black men, & these tribes became tri-racial.
That's strange, I find it near impossible for African Americans historically to have Blackfoot since they never really ventured south. That is one of those African American family lores. Have you taken a DNA test? My family descends from Native Americans on three different branches, BUT I consider myself African American, just with some NA ancestry. My ancestor's surnames were "Johns" out of Amherst Va. and Pittsylvania Va, but submitted a Guion Miller app claiming Cherokee as her(4xgreat grandmother) tribe. My family has always lived in the Blue Ridge mountains so we are essentially a mix of every race. My mother's DNA came back last week and shows Native American as have all 5 of my relatives who submitted samples..................... 63.8% Sub-Saharan African 62.9% West African 0.9% Central & South African 0.1% Broadly Sub-Saharan African 30.5% European Northern European 16.6% British & Irish 0.4% Scandinavian 6.8% Broadly Northern European Southern European 2.4% Iberian < 0.1% Sardinian 1.0% Broadly Southern European 3.3% Broadly European 5.2% East Asian & Native American 3.5% Native American 1.6% Southeast Asian 0.1% Broadly East Asian & Native American < 0.1% Oceanian 0.5% Unassigned
American indigenous Indians traveled all over America they were also enslaved all over America. Many tribes were also created as “sister” tribes what’s impossible is the transport of over a million slaves during the trans Atlantic slave trade lol.
Trump was talking about the Meshanshantuckett Pequot tribe whose casnio was taking business away from his, They're a small tribe of mix-bloods that look white or black. Thats why he said "They don't look like Indians to me & even Indians don't think they look lke Indians"🤣🤣
N.A. trust land is land the U.S. holds the title to for the benefit of an individual American Indian or tribe. The federal govt established the trust process to help tribes regain lost lands & promote tribal self-determination. Today, most N.A. lands are trust lands, which are under the control of tribal governments.
sky kc You don't know what you're talking about. Europeans and Africans have been in North America for hundreds of years and many of them have Native American ancestry. It isn't fair to label someone as a "fake" or an "imposter" just because they don't look 100% Native American.
what is people's 'problem' with skin color??? skin color is determined by the amount of melanin! en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melanin every LIVING being has skin, a protective 'shell' layer. for mammals, it is the largest organ. the reason so many people have paled throughout the years is that we have been living and working indoors. staying out of the sunshine. I used to tan easily when I was younger and my native roots have always been based on this continent(I AM INDIGENOUS TO THIS PART OF THE WORLD). we were forced to move, simple fact. it would be nice to get my homelands(and way of living WITH the environment) back but this government only wants the resources in the ground
it is deplorable that these videos go out and create this very fake take on what and who is native (indian). I see very few identifiable Indians here; most are white. The little boy is an inadequate spokesperson with that stonewall Jackson accent. Funny to a point. If you examine their costumes, they are as fake as an 11 dollar bill , as is these people. They as my tribe went white and are white. Let's try a bit of honesty folks.
