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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The whole situation is so sad for Veronica, and there is no doubt she will eventually return to the adoptive family.  Equally upsetting is there is no doubt that the adoptive family will strip this little girl of both her true heritages.  Hopefully, as she gets older she will diligently seek out who she is ethnically.  That is something the adoptive family CANNOT take from her no matter how anyone tries to paint her.[/quote]

Isn't her bio dad something like 1/32 Cherokee? [b]Honestly, at some point, it's little ridiculous the degree to which someone's heritage is suddenly relevant. [/b]I hope Veronica finds an identity that is hers to seek out, hers to define, and nobody else's to decide for her.[/quote]Tell that to people who are Jewish.  You may have little attachment to your heritage (most white Americans don't) but there are other nationalities where this is who they are...an identifier if you will.  You may throw it around that it's meaningless but remember that many people (especially non-whites) take pride in their identities and refuse to and will not concur with you that someone's heritage is irrelevant/[/quote]

I'm not a white American, though I am mixed/biracial. My own search about my backgrounds is my own - not my relatives from either side, not my parents, not some monolithic ethnic group (since that doesn't exist). I don't necessarily think that seeking out an identity is unimportant, but however anyone defines themselves isn't irrelevant - it's on an individual to decide for themselves. If Veronica grows up to decide that it's irrelevant, so be it. Lots of people of various heritages do. If she decides to embrace her minute fraction of Native American background, so be it. It would her decision alone. If she decides to embrace her Hispanic heritage, it's again her decision alone. If she embraces all or none of her multiple backgrounds, or some and not others, or changes her mind at different times in her life, that's Veronica's choice alone.

I[b] feel like there's some weird ownership/property thing going on - the Cherokee Nation doesn't get to "claim" Veronica, or decide for her, that she's one of them.[/b] That's her decision to make when she's older. [/quote]I can't even comment as you apparently haven't even picked up a history book or attempted to even understand why 'she's one of them'.  This is always the problem...people who go on without obtaining facts to argue their point.  Please pick up a history book, any history book, on Native Americans and then debate your point.  But only those who, like yourself, have not bothered to even read Cherokee or Native American laws or treaties with the American government will always go by what they "think" is right, not fact.

Native Americans are more than just a figurehead for a football team. [/quote]

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