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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A bar registration means absolutely nothing. It's for internal member tracking purposes. There is no advantage in the listing - indeed, many bars used to ask this exact information (or required a picture) to keep minorities OUT of the bar. There are absolutely no laws governing how people self identify. If I am 1/16 African-American - I can identify as African American. If I am 1/16 Native American - I can identify as Native American. There are many Native Americans who are not a member of tribal rolls (or have been expunged from tribal rolls for political purposes to avoid having to share in tribal profits). We don't get to police how people self-identify. What Native Americans are saying is that our people have literally and physically been raped 100x over, so there are many white people with Native American "blood." Just like there are many African Americans with white (or Native American) blood, and if you can pass as white and haven't lived our experience, don't say you are one of us. They are free to feel that way. And EW is free to claim that she is Native American, Native American and white, etc. [/quote]

Ms. Warren’s test did not take into account that, for most Native Americans, culture and kinship is what creates tribal membership — not blood, he said.

“This concept of family is key to understanding why citizenship matters,” Mr. Hoskin wrote. “That is why it offends us when some of our national leaders seek to ascribe inappropriately membership or citizenship to themselves. They would be welcome to our table as friends, but claiming to be family to gain a spot at the table is unwelcome.”

https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.nytimes.com/2019/02/01/us/politics/elizabeth-warren-cherokee-dna.amp.html

Except actual Native Americans get pi&&ed off when you are a culture vulture.[/quote]

Yes, NOW.  The politics around tribal membership and identity and Native American identity have evolved in the last 30 years. I follow a huge number of native american activists.  What she claimed at the time was not wrong by those standards, but now it is wrong according to the politics of today.  [/quote]

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