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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]IMO, I don't think greatx2 NA should qualify. That makes you like 1/8?  At that point, you don't even look NA.[/quote]

My great-great-grandparents walked from Tennessee to Oklahoma on the Trail of Tears, a forced march instigated by the US Government in which their property was seized and they were made into internal refugees, put in concentration camps, then forced to march a thousand miles, which led to the death of a third of the tribe. It was genocide. If I got a slight admissions advantage because of my native American ancestry (my family has documented our genealogy and registered as Cherokee with the tribe in Tahlequah), I'm not going to feel any guilt.

And you probably wouldn't think my ancestors "looked NA" either....the east coast tribes have intermarried with Europeans since the 1500s and many Cherokee have blue eyes and light skin. [/quote]
Many of our ancestors were treated like shit. Mine worked in coal mines and died of black lung long before you could get money for it.
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Except we weren't treated like shit when we, you know, were living peacefully on the land we had lived on for thousands of years. It's one thing to come to the US and be treated like shit in exchange for opportunity for your kids. It's another to be here, minding your own business, and have other people show up and kick you off your land and prevent you from practicing your culture. [/quote]
Yeah, brush up on American Indian history. There was a lot of wars between tribes. Look at the Axtecs. And Incas. It wasn't all like Disney movies show.[/quote]

The Aztecs and Incas lived in Central and South America and their cultures were very different from most eastern native american tribes. There were so few people in north America relative to the size of the land and the amount of resources that there was not much conflict among different groups. Regardless, the eastern north american tribes didn't sail to another continent and kill off 90% of the population and herd the rest into an area less than 1% the size they started with. [/quote]

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