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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]A Native American reservation. where the members look at you confused: you're a Native Amrican?[/quote]

If you were American Indian you’d know it either by your CDIB or your tribal card. [/quote]

Not necessarily.  My family is legally African American, but I have white and Native American —[b]probably Muscogee Creek—[/b] ancestors as well.  Due to the one drop rule, it was economically beneficial to the whites of the day to deem people like my ancestors Black, so, unfortunately, I don’t have cultural or familial ties that go back beyond African American communities in the Late 1800s.  I have visited places where my grandparents and great grandparents and their extended families lived in Alabama and Georgia.  My grandparents all lived in DC by 1920, so, seeing small cities and towns in the Deep South was a shock to my very urban teenaged self.  I was curious about these places, but didn’t feel strong connections to them.  [/quote]

How could you find out (if you wanted)?[/quote]

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