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I worked at clinic that served the Native American community. Ppl would call all the time and ask how to register as Native American because their ancestry results came back indicating that had Native blood. First, you have to know what tribe you are descended from before you can register in a tribe. Second, every tribe has a blood quantum that determines who can register. For example, the lowest blood quantum the Navajo tribe excepts is 1/4. Third, not every tribe has money, like many ppl assume. Just because your ancestry results indicate Native American blood, it doesn’t mean a free ride to school.
Yep. I'm over 50% and I still had to take out student loans because I'm not registered in a recognized tribe.
YES! Finally someone understands because it is so annoying when people assume so much.
OMG thank you. Was lowkey getting a bit pissed hearing the fam pushing for that and thinking it opens so many doors automatically esp when you grow up hearing crap like that all the time from ppl who just don't know (in relation to the checks and whatever)
I’m glad you’re receiving a more positive response than me. I spoke as someone who lived on a rez and worked at a treaty school. This conversation and the white people in the comments who don’t understand anything about different tribal cultures is freaking annoying and passively bigoted.
A large number of tribes that have casinos will distribute the profits to tribe members. Those who don't have casinos get money from the other tribes that do have casinos (at least in CA). There are some VERY rich tribes with members who never have to work. There was a kid on Disappeared who was in a tribe and he had so much money saved up that he was rich when he turned 18. He never had to work a day in his life. I don't blame anyone for trying to get a piece of that pie.
8%……. That’s 92% not. I think the sister of OP is being pretty level headed….
First caller, I get it. I'm 48% Native American, but I was raised hispanic - that's my lived experience. I want to learn more about the tribe, culture, etc but I feel deeply uncomfortable claiming it on paper. For anyone curious, I don't know which tribe. All I know is that it could be Purepecha or another tribe in the same region. It's been difficult to trace back, but what I have learned so far is interesting and has explained some cultural items my grandparents had passed down to me and have shared.
I mean, being Hispanic and raised as such doesn't preclude you from having indigenous heritage, and many Hispanic people are. Are you just saying that you want to be able to learn about that heritage? I think with 48% - nearly half of your heritage - that would be absolutely understandable to seek those answers.
OPs sister was 2-8% - that's not enough to register with a tribe in the US, even if she knew which one it was. You need 25%+ ancestry to be allowed the BIA higher education grant which the OP was referring to about the scholarships to art school- in my case father and his siblings were the last of my family line that could in the US.
I can understand wanting to know about your heritage, but it definitely seems like OP is being shitty (and maybe unintentionally racist) with some of the things that she said there.
Story one I’m on the sister’s side! If she doesn’t want to register, she shouldn’t. It’s such an odd hill to die on to keep pushing her to embrace a culture she’s not willing to embrace. You can respect your heritage and the Native American culture and your background without registering and turning it into your whole personality. OP sounds so pushy and almost high horsey… don’t push her, it’s coming off as snobby.
It was a bit offputting when OP talked about how her sister's DNA could help the sister get into art school and stuff. I can get why the sister said THAT would be racist. I think that they should just let the sister figure out how she wants to handle her heritage and if she wants to be a part of that. Maybe she'll want to learn about her heritage as she gets older and experiences more of life. Or maybe she won't. It's up to her.
She couldn't register anyway because you have to be at least 25% native american anyway.
Yes it’s definitely sketchy that she brought up scholarships too.. They have/had an opportunist POV about it. Even if it’s just trying to “help her out”.
The girl is only 8%, they need to chill. I'm 37% nigerian apparently but I'm not going around claiming I'm nigerian
@@KozeyLiving You also have to know what tribe you're from and who your family is. Also, "Native American" isn't a racial grouping. It's a broad description of the hundreds of different tribes around North America.
Most tribes you have to be at least 25% Native American to gain any benefits and register. My first thought hearing 8% was she’s not enough.
Ps. I know because I’m 25% native myself but I have not actually registered myself as such.
I think the caller was just referring to wanting her sister to just look into her heritage of where that 8% came from. Not necessarily getting benefits. I'm part Scottish on my dad's side and I took a find my ancestry test and I think my Scottish side was less than 20%. I'm also mixed with Irish on my dad's side and my mom is Filipino along with other random percentages on the test. My dad would talk about how his great grandpa came from Edinburgh Scotland and moved to Canada then moved to the US. I always believed him but I wish I had something physically tied to him. After my grandma, my dad's mom, sadly passed away and my dad was looking through her things, he actually found his great grandpa's birth certificate that said he was born in Edinburgh. It was so cool to finally have something connected to my ancestor and I hope to maybe find out more about him and my roots if I ever were to visit Scotland one day.
@@fionna_cool_girl Yea, but if they want to use it for a scholarship she probably needs to get registered.
They said her dad was a tribe member. If it’s like my step/half family they can apply through their parents/grandparents/etc. Known, registered blood relatives. Even if the percentage is small. You’ll lose access to certain benefits of the tribe the weaker the percentage.
For the first story, it also depends on what the tribe accepts anyways. Like my son is the last in the line percentage wise unless he has a child with someone who has his tribes DNA.
oh that's super interesting! Thanks for the insight :)
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@@OKOPShowtalking with you guys was so much fun
Hi Nicole! So cool to get to know other viewers and things about their lives. Thank you for coming on the show 🥳
I just started the video but that’s awesome you made it on here!
@@DubCatXero I'm Cas actually. Second story
I think it's strange to talk about someone's culture based on a dna test/genetic heritage. Isn't culture about the ideas, customs, and social behaviour of a the perks you live with/grew up with? Being interested in the culture of your ancestors? Sure, why not! But to say it's "your" culture when you only heard about it later in life from other people and never really lived in it? That's just weird to me.
For story one, I find it odd that no one before the 23 and me tried to connect to their Native American culture earlier because mom was under the impression she was part Native American. Like she told he kids she was part Native American but didn’t incorporate any Native American culture into their lives earlier or do research earlier. Of course her daughter had the mindset that she is going to live her life how she already has because nothing new changed. She thought her mom was part Native American but it’s now her dad that’s part Native American. Kinda leaning toward the family just wanting her to cash in on scholarships.
The problem with incorporating "Native American" culture when people think they're Native is they don't understand that there's a buttload of tribes and have different cultural practices, familial dynamics, religious/spiritual practices/beliefs, and historical stories.
A lot of people mistakenly think we all have totem poles and dreamcatchers or skinwalker stories. Nope. Those are THREE distinctly different groups of Natives. I'm Cree/Nêhiyaw and we only have dreamcatchers because of our mixing with Lakota people.
Some people think throwing a wolf blanket on the couch makes their house "Indigenous".
We do all know "skoden" and "stoodis" though. haha
@@deirdrestatham5730 totally understand. I’m just curious in why the mother did not dive further into what possible background she had. like if she wants her kid to be connected why did she not help her kids connect when she thought she was the one with the heritage.
@@navehbaylor3699 Most people have no real desire to connect to the culture. They just want to claim being Native American so they sound "exotic".
FACTS! It's giving the vibes of multi lingual parents raising their kids only with English 😬
“How to make meth” in the search bar took me out 💀💀💀😂😂😂
First caller; the way we identify with a culture is so deeply personal, complicated and (imo) a lot like how we identify with gender. I’m European-Asian, first gen Australian born and raised, but culturally very different to my brother who is ‘made of the same stuff’. Sam’s advice is truly PERFECT. We all figure out the right thing for us in time :)
Kaz you are not an asshole for blocking that guy. He is an asshole for ever assuming you would be down for something like that.
Thank you
I've got a long story for you. I'd call but I don't want my voice on video lol
Anyway, my uncle on my father's side is a piece of work. He legitimately was a genius, he has several patents in his name and he used to be a biochemical engineer. He has drank himself into an idiot.
Two wives have divorced after him after he hit them when drunk. He has one kid with each wife, I've only met one of them.
When my grandparents started having health problems, he moved in with them to help them with things and be their driver, even though he did not have a driver's license at the time.
He ended up putting them into a nursing home, and moving his girlfriend and her mother into the house, along with their 2 dogs and 4 cats (my grandmother didn't believe in having indoors pets). Also, he starts remodeling the house; tearing up the floors and stuff.
Grandma begged and begged to be brought back to the house (little back story: she grew up in that house, and they have historical awards because the house and farm have been in the family for over 100 years). Anyway, uncle tells grandma that they can come back to the house if they sign over power of attorney to him. They do, but he doesn't bring them back to the house, and he starts blowing through their money.
Grandma passes, and then he lets grandpa come back to the house, even though at that point grandpa is barely able to talk.
At least my grandparents didn't leave everything to him (he thought they would because he was always the favorite and he was the only one with a son in the family.) They had set up will so that everything was to be split evenly between him and my dad, including the money he had already spent. They ended up having to sell all the farm land so that my uncle could buy my dad's half of the house.
On top of all that, he has had 4 or 5 dui's for drunk driving. The last time he get a dui, his girlfriend's mom was in the car with him and she was killed. Some how he keeps getting away without having to spend any time in jail.
Sorry, this is so long but there was a lot to tell.
I have 95% and have never been registered since I am of Aztec ancestry not US. If I was her, I personally would also not feel comfortable with it too. I have 5% of other but I think I am ok not trying to explore it.
Yeah I think that's kinda of the place we got to in the conversation :)
Yeah, thats a pretty small percentage in the story… and from my knowledge most Nations don’t recognize DNA tests for tribal registration. Specifically because the benefits (like college) are meant to be for participating members of the tribe. My partner is somewhere between 25-50% native and he still didn’t feel comfortable trying to claim benefits because he wasn’t raised in that culture.
Loved the calls and Sam and John were so excited and humbled it waa really endearing to watch ❤
Literally this has been my favorite thing to do ever -- we're still a little new to it, but I think we'll get better :)
On of my brother in laws has some kind of Native American in his bloodline and so now so does my niece and nephew. They get all kinds of cute things in the mail from the tribe even though it’s from out of state. They send birthday cards and other things like that and invites to various events.
Sending so much love to Tiffany. Her dad sounds awful, but at least she made some great extended family
Thank you! It’s been a journey ❤
Thank you for the way you handled the first callers situation. In the end her intentions seemed to be better but at first it was coming off as being entitled and wanting to take advantage of something she shouldn’t. I am indigenous and an enrolled member of a tribe in AZ, I do get scholarships through the tribe to put me through college but I always think about how am I going to use this to serve the indigenous community. I want to use my degree (which will be in the medical field) and work at a clinic on the reservation. For people that believe that being Native American comes with all these “perks”, please go on a road trip and drive through a reservation. It is heartbreaking, there is so much poverty and addiction. Resources such as scholarships should be taken seriously and should benefit the tribe.
Story 2 definitely NTA. People on dating apps are wild. Like no home training. Don't feel bad about blocking people on these apps. Some of them are dangerous
Yeah, I ended up leaving dating sites for good a little over two days after my call with Sam and John
Story 1: It's great that you Nicole/OP find interest in your culture, but you can't force your sister to accept her culture or want to look into it. Give her some space and let her make her own decisions.
I'm Pembina Ojibwa and my kids are Pembina Ojibwa, Hunkpapa Lakota, and Dakota. Their Grandma on their dad side was full-blooded Hunkpapa. My Kids blood quantum is over 3/4's. Its funny to hear people call it register because on the rez we call in enrollment. Im also a big fan and love your show ❤
IMO yes she might have 8% native, but I understand her feeling she was raised whyt her whole life and that’s that. There are plenty of other natives passing on their traditions. Leave it alone and stop trying to give that girl an identity crisis 😂😂 I’m 20% Irish/welsh. Way more than I thought. I don’t claim Ireland, and I’m also African american/black as hell. Lmao but to know is nice.
My family found out we had a secret aunt from my grandfather in 2022 from 23 and me. She's in her 60s and she never met my grandfather before he passed. It was the biggest family secret we had.
To the first story. OPs sister is right, it would be kinda racist to register as native american and especially go for a scholarship.
My light blond, green eyed son is 9% African. Dosn't meen he is all of a sudden black or it ever would be okay for him to claim to be.
Let’s just be clear … as a light skinned African - with 50% light skinned African dna … my dad family 100% African - done my dna and they have lived there for thousands thousands of years - all his family lives and dies there .. him and his brothers the only people to leave their African homeland ….
Point being .. AFRICAN DOESNT MEAN BLACK …..
Africans come in all tones and all shades 😮😮… a lot of Africans are black .. but calling yourself indigenous African is not calling yourself black 😮
He would be a white presenting African though with 9% dna …
Though as someone 50% African (despite being a latte color , mum is polish) I wouldn’t be happy with someone with anything less then 30% calling themselves Africans
Also … in the country I was born (Australia - but sister born in Africa) most the indigenous people I know is white presenting….. ….
That was actually a big part of colonialism to breed out the ‘dark’ from the people …
They are still considered indigenous by people who listen to indigenous people elders …. They are called ‘white fellas’ family of the ‘black fellas’
They are still considered a big part of their mobs (mob is what they call their tribes) ….
So yeah……. No offense this is a disgusting thing to say .. especially to light skinned Africans - who are still indigenous 😮😮 it’s a complicated history (fyi look up moors white slave trade - some of the lighter skin people is direct from white slavery into Africa…. … )
@@barbarella.artistThe situation in the US is different. These white presenting people you are talking about grew up in their ancestor's land and in their culture. The white presenting people in the US who have like 9% African dna didn't grow up in that culture at all, neither did their ancestors going back maybe 6-7 generations or more. Being 9% anything means nothing if you have 0 connection to that culture in any way, going back so many generations. You suffer the results of past colonialism, but in the US the black community is still experiencing it. They are in the middle of it. Someone white presenting being like "Hey, I just found out in the middle of my life that I'm 9% black because of my great great great great great great great grandpa" will not be welcomed into the black community in the US as one of them. The black folks would ridicule them. They have 0 tolorance for that. They DO NOT accept it. The white presenting people you speak of were forced to become that to "breed out" their color. This boy probably had some white ancestor who had an affair with a black man back when it was ilegal. It's not the same thing at all. Sure the ancestors should always be remembered, cherished and adored. But it doesn't mean that we are the same as them in every case. It's not always like that.
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I just don't understand why you would focus on the 8% of Native American heritage, instead of the other 92%. Does the sister also need to learn about for example the 5% Spanish blood, and 10% Irish blood, etc? We don't know the rest of the results, but the 8% is probably not the highest number, especially cuz they mention she was raised white? Maybe it's just cuz I'm not American so this DNA testing is not a thing where I live, but it just boggles my mind to hyper focus on one small part of the heritage instead of the largest one - and ofc on the culture you actually grew up with by parents or grandparents. Looks like the sister is the only one who thinks the same way as me, since she seems to be more interested on the culture she was raised in.
Because of the scholarship and benefits, easy
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Would i use a connection to some type of ancestry if i didnt have a connection to it? No. I dont have the connection. Why should i suddently grow one for a college application? Well, there are good things to focus on. You guys were very polite. >.> Just gonna say it though.. i totally understand her sister for saying "it would make her racists" The meaning is obvious. She would feel like she is lying. And using a heritage that she has no connection to.. is like impersonating issues, that she doesnt feel like she suffers from. There can be a personal connection.. but she doesnt feel like.. its her "history", maybe not just yet.
@@MegaMyownlol, yep. I happened to read this as they were reciting a different number. Oopsie.
Hi I'm registered Native American and want to post this to add detail and advice for the first story. I've been seeing a lot of misinformation about Native Americans recently on the internet and with Native American Heritage month starting tomorrow I want to educate some people. I hope people read this and find it helpful.
1. Native American tribes have different rule on citizenship and so it actually might not matter how much she is as a percentage as some tribes just require you have a registered parent or even an ancestor on an old census like the Dawes Roll. Some tribes though, have it as high as 25% of the tribes ancestry required for citizenship like Navajo Nation. Tribal citizenship is specific to each tribe and so it really depends on the tribe here dad is apart of and there laws and she would need to be registered first before receiving any benefits. This includes scholarships so again she doesn't have to be a quarter just a tribal citizen.
2. The requirement of tribal citizenship is because the U.S. see Native Americans legally as a political status and not a racial one. The tribes are seen as semi-sovereign nations and so you need the political status first. This is also why federal benefits don't go to indigenous people from Canada or Latin America because these benefits are tied to the tribes the US federal government made treaties with.
3. I think that the sister has every right to not have to register but given the comment she made saying it would be racist to take advantage of scholarships for Native Americans, I think she feels that she isn't Native enough to claim it which again might not be the case. My dad was in a similar situation in the 80's where he grew up off the reservation and his didn't really teach him anything about the tribe. As a result he avoided the other Natives he knew in the community because he didn't want to be picked on or called a fake. Today though he regrets not doing it and is really glad and happy that me and my sister have reconnected more to our culture. I also was afraid about connecting and being made fun of or considered fake but at least for me that hasn't been the case. The indigenous community at my college was really helpful and accepting and so I would encourage her to at least talk to some of them first.
4. If John's ancestor does turn out to have been Native American she unironically might have been Cherokee as the Eastern Band Cherokee still live on a reservation in western North Carolina in the Appalachian mountains. However I also know that lots of families disguised someone in their ancestry who was mixed black as native American so that Jim Crow laws wouldn't apply to them so she might have been mixed black. It also became very common for White Americans in the south to claim native American ancestry after the civil war to try to better legitimize the idea that the south should have or still has the right to succeed from the union. Without a DNA test we can't know for sure.
This was a lot more than I anticipated to type but I hope it's helpful. If any other Native Viewers want to add something or correct something I missed feel free to do so. Hope you guys all have a happy Halloween.
Hell she may not be accepted depending on the tribe anyway I’m a 1/5 Navajo and they require a 1/4 for a native card. Cherokee only requires 1/16. I also qualify for another tribe even tho I don’t have any traceable blood quantum because they just require you to have a ancestor that has been registered as native after the 1900s but that’s a lot of paper work since my last ancestor to be registered with that tribe is like my great grandmother. I’d have to request a lot of birth certificates and my birth certificate has a mistake on it I’d need to rectify before I’d be able to get a card.
The first caller, Nicole, should know that a big part of the Swedish culture is the EUROVISION Song Contest, and this year (7-11 may 2024) it's actually in Malmo since they won last year (may 23) with Loreen's Tattoo. Enjoy!
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I’m 25% Lakota and not raised on the Rez I never even considered applying for a scholarship that was meant to help Natives from the reservation. I can say that I understand OP’s sister when she wants people to stop pushing. I get having the excited white family 😂 they are trying to be supportive but it not something you can force someone else to get enthusiastic about especially when it’s such a small percentage. I get a lot of flak for how little I have because being at the cut off limit for my tribal recognition is not a flex people think it is. I am white passing because 75% is white. I get called a liar in the most unoriginal way by a lot of people. Usually by some jerk saying “what like 1/16 Cherokee. “ Family members only see it as an opportunity or exotic link but don’t try and live vicariously through her. Also can you tell how far back it was until she had a full blood ancestor? My grandmother was full blood and came from the Rez. If OP’s sister is only 8% +/- for error her father can’t be very high either. I’m assuming that means his tribe might be East Coast because all Tribal members I’ve met from out east were only trace amounts. She might develop a curiosity about it later in life but she isn’t obligated to do anything about it sorry it’s her choice. I have many friends and family that get pushy about this and it was very uncomfortable as a child. I eventually did start to learn about my own heritage but it was on my time schedule and my choice.
5:49 who would have guessed, lol
I was thinking of adding a story but I have social anxiety, but as a little something, me (20) and one of my sisters (16), suspected our other sister (18) to have been cheating on her boyfriend, about 3 months ago this random girl, we'll call her Sandra,reached out to my 16 year old sister saying she hates my 18 year old sister because of her dating a guy she's into, the said guy had posted on Instagram of a picture of my 18 year old sister celebrating a month of being together. Few days later my 18 year old sister said she was helping a guy friend get this girl off his back who couldn't take a no as an answer, but she was "helping" by pretending to date with the guy. Que to today, my 18 year old sisters boyfriend messages me today saying he's hurt and confused and sent me screenshots (my sister had been dating her boyfriend for 6 years now, and we all were friends from middle-high school so he's like family). Since they're both in school right now (18 year old being a senior and her boyfriend a sister assistant at a career tech school) they could only have tried talking about this thro texts as well, so seems the guy she's cheating with found out and reached out to my sisters boyfriend to let him know, he didnt believe the guy fully and asked my sister about it, which he sent me screenshots of that too, which seems shes trying to manipulate him saying she says i love you to all her close friends and how the other guy is dating one of her friends right now, and that she showed the msgs to our 16 year old sister, so i text my 16 yet old sisyer about it, she said that our 18 year old sister didny show her anything. And I brought up that time about the one month anniversary post and what my 18 yr old sister told me months ago to her boyfriend but mentioned we didn't think it was true so we brushed it off at the time.
John - If your great-grandmother was 100% Native American then that makes you 12.5% Native American!
For example, if your mom was 100% Native American, you would be half. If your grandmother was, you would be ¼. If it's your great-grandmother, you would be ⅛ which is 12.5% 🥰
Regarding scholarships, that isn't the entire case. My son gets $2000 per semester from the Potawatomi tribe. This scholarship is paid directly to him to be used as needed with proof of enrollment. So, check with your tribe. Also, he is on the tribal roll call, but less than 20%.
I just watched a program on RUclips called Pretendians. It was about a famous folk singer who was really popular in the 60’s-70’s named Buffy St. Marie. She claimed to be an Indian/Indigenous, born in Canada and adopted by a white family in the United States. It turns out that she’s white and the whole story is a lie. She looks different than her brother, cousins, and everyone else in her family & does look like she’s Native American. Despite being a lie you can tell that she feels a kinship and connection to being Indian and as an adult was taken in and adopted by an indigenous family who look like they could be her real parents. Throughout the program Buffy claims to never of had a birth certificate and not know her true age. During the 50’s-70’s here was a huge push to adopt indigenous children into white families and Americanize them. They were actually taken (stolen) from their real families and renamed with American names and given new birth certificates that showed that each of their parents were white but still had them down as native. When a researcher looked up her birth certificate, it showed that she was born in the US and was white. I’m half black/white and was adopted to a white family in the 60’s. When I was adopted my original birth certificate was destroyed and a new official one was issued. It has the correct information about the date, time, hospital and place I was born, but it has my white adoptive parents documented as my parents & clearly states that my race is black. My point is that when it came to adoptions back then (especially private adoptions like mine) birth certificate were forged and fabricated all the time. As a biracial person raised in an all white family in Alaska I was completely isolated from black people and culture. I didn’t start learning anything or even being around blacks until I left home. It’s very awkward to be biologically black but culturally 100% white.
I have a Hispanic friend who was adopted at birth by a very well off white family. She had every luxury in life. She found her biological family and the parents were still together with a total of 7 kids. Some older then her and some younger. Turns out that her mother had an affair and got pregnant with her and the husband forced her to give her up for adoption immediately. Everyone in the family & friends were aware of the truth. They went on to have two more kids. When she finally found them her mother refused to see or talk to her and none of her biological siblings wanted to have anything to do with her. They grew up in complete poverty & were jealous that she got to grow up as an only child with wealthy parents. It was devastating for her. The most ironic part is that she became a US Border Patrol Agent and has sadly become extremely racist against Mexicans. We live in San Diego which borders Mexico so there’s a lot of issues with immigration. However, she always emphasizes that there are many immigrants from countries other than Mexico that she “catches”. Chinese, Middle Eastern, African, Russian, you name it! The problem is that people ONLY talk about people from Mexico coming over illegally. So here she is a completely racist agent & she had the nerve to say that she wishes that there was a state where only white people were allowed to live because she’s sick of dealing with other races. Keep in mind that she is 100% of Mexican/Hispanic heritage and looks like what a stereotypical Mexican chick is portrayed to look like in the movies. Dark skin, really long straight black hair, a few tattoos. So I looked at her and said, “I guess you would be the ONLY Mexican living in that state with only white people!” “Oh wait, they wouldn’t let you cross their border into the whites only state!!”
lol 8%??? I think I’m like 12.5% Native American, and I never thought that was a big enough deal to say much about.
I am a native from South Dakota and I tell you what there are a lot of people in South Dakota that don’t like natives. I can see why she doesn’t wanna claim being Native American. Her family is trying to have her claim Native American strictly for scholarship purposes when there’s actually a lot of natives out here struggling especially from the reservation.
Your percentage won’t be calculated based on generational changes from a great grand parent because you don’t always get a 50-50 split from parents.
The way you and her said “okop” at the same time 😫
Respectfully 8% is not enough !
You have to have at least 25% to claim free schooling, I'm not sure, I'm a quarter Native American so I could have access to the schooling but you have to jump through hoops to get certified as a Native American.
I did 23 and me... I'm 40% Nigerian, 50% Spanish, and 9% Native Taino (from the Caribbean, Mexico and South American Arawak Native Americans who went underground in DR during Colombus) and 1% Ashkenazi . My parents and grandparents are 100% Dominican and grandma is Haitian. The 23 and Me said I am prob Dominican or Mexican. I have a denomination of Native found only in Cuba and DR.
You’d be surprised how many benefits you can receive by having native blood. My half brother looks very white, like I do, he is one 8th I believe and can receive many benefits from the tribe. I think it would be worth looking into. If it’s your blood, it’s your blood. Elders are very excited when younger tribe members are interested in their history.
Oh I love this version of your show. Can we call from from overseas? I'm in Australia?
I’m not sure. Try adding a 1 at the beginning of the number! See if it works :)
Lmao my biodad also insisted I wasn't his because the DNA test wasn't 100%... It was also 99%
i’m sorry but on the first story the sister is right because she barely even Native American and it feels like she wants it to be her whole personality. and it has nothing to do with the Nicole at all. then wanting her to go get scholarships for being native American when she only 8%.
first story: i totally understand why she wouldn't want to register. it's a big step and something that should be done respectfully to people who were born and raised native americans. however, i don't understand refusing to learn about her heritage at all and that even learning about it is racist and disrespectful? i find that a very odd take. maybe if she had a small percentage of NA heritage but if she has large percentage, then i think living in ignorance sounds more racist like she wants nothing to do with this part of herself. i am from europe, though, so my take on american culture can be entirely wrong. i wouldn't be surprised if in truth, the sister's stance probably has a lot to do with her poor relationship with her bio father.
What’s the craziest story ever? So far the mom’s family harassing the family and her cousin and brother continuously breaking in to her house made them move because they wanted money
I'm from the Philippines I wish you guys had something for your international faaaaaans but the call ins are so good!
I've always believed that whatever the majority percentage of your blood is that's what you are
Omg talking about threesome requests on dating apps like 10 years ago I matched with a woman and she was cute. I’m pansexual so I was interested. And we start chatting and then she says she has a boyfriend and that they are looking for a third. I was like wow no thanks I was only interested in you. And she was like “If you are not into threesomes then would you just be interested in sleeping with my boyfriend?” Noooooo way I was out so fast.
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@@OKOPShow I actually tried but I’m in Australia and the number wouldn’t connect.
@@OKOPShow I have 3 count it 3 threesome related stories. This is the mild one. The biggest messy one I posted on the subreddit. 😉. If you guys have another way for me to voice call in from Australia then I am happy to verbally share the details on all of them.
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@@nightmeria 😂
Front to back! Ahhh front to back for the love of everything!
I just say black too, not that we have a choice to decide we wanna embrace our white sides. Im not even black, im brown, gold,beige,tan. They label us in a box.
Loved this, keep it going! ❤
This was top tier
8%is crazy
You need to be 1/4 or 25% Native American to be registered…..just saying ….. I am 25% my dad is half black half Native American, his father was full blooded Choctaw
I grew up being told i look irish so i must be irish. That i have an irish name i must be irish. I should love being irish right. I was adopted and had no idea what I was. Being told i must be this culture really made me not want anything to do with it. And my name was given to me when i was in the process of being adopted. I literally clapped at the name and my parents went with it. Telling someone that they need to be something because of XYZ does not make them that culture. It does not make them eligible for that cultures benefits. I did technically turn out to be irish from my dna test. However it showed Portuguese, english, german, and Ashkenazi as well. I have ancestors that id rather not associate myself with. I grew into my ability to forge my culture and my path and i think your sister deserves that. Nobody benifits from pretending to be a culture that they definitly arent. And native tribes only want those who will participate with respect, dignity, and love for the culture.
2nd and 3rd story is interesting
😂😂😂😂 at shows up in a dashiki HAHAHAH
Since my father was married 5 times, divorced thrice, widowed once, most of the 8 us gets an interesting insight.
For that first story... Lol! 8% is basically nothing. They're making a huge deal out of nothing. My father is half Hungarian, my grandpa was full blooded hungarian and I don't even know if I have more heritage (my grandma comes from an area where she could also have hungarian heritage because the two populations - hungarian and romanian - mingled and lived together). So I'm 1/4 hungarian at least. I don't even think about that because that's not my culture and I was never raised with it. 8% is truly nothing in the grand scheme of things. If she wants nothing to do with it, it's her choice.
I hate your shirts 😂 orange or NOTHING!!
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First story "its a diservice to the native culture" KICK ROCKS. she has no cultural raising with being a native american and she doesnt want to step into it because she doesnt see herself as native american for that. Like just leave her alone
Haha, I called it. She originally thought 2% and now says only 8%. That isn't that significant. Cool, but they are hyping it up too much. Americans are also a bit strange about First Nations stuff. They tokenize it and really don't talk much about history and how much ancestral connection has been lost.
Some people identify as an ethnicity for attention. I swear it's weird.
I’m 55% native but I was told I’m not allowed to claim it on paper bc my ancestors were detribalized :/
All I hear from caller is $$$$$$. I'm pretty sure you have to be 1/4 (edited) native american to get anything? Maybe it's smaller but I'm pretty sure that's why it was to be considered for anything. You usually have to also study the culture and show interested
...culture is not your bloodline. Culture is your surroundings and family.
Like, I am over 50% latina...but grew up super white-passing in American white suburbia. My CULTURE is not Puerto Rican, despite my family reunions always taking place there, as most of my extended blood family is from there or originated from there within the past few generations. My grandmother grew up in Guam with a Puerto Rican mother, so that is part of HER culture, but not mine.
My HERITAGE, however, is Latina, specifically Puerto Rican and then unknown south American ethnic tribes. Then my German heritage, Russian, etc.
I just want to know if Sam is still friends with everyone in the jubulie 100 friends video and can we get a follow up video
John and I might be distant cousins, lol jk, but my family is all from the NC Appalachian area. That’d be Cherokee heritage.
I’ve actually thought about doing 23 and me just for curiosity sake to see actual percentages and if there’s any surprises. I know it’s probably at least 50% German and that’s just gonna devastate me a bit because culturally I was raised by my Italian grandfather and minimal German culture 😂 like a friend of mine his dad is an Italian immigrant and I have more in common with him culturally than the other German ancestry kids around here.
Just keep on doing the Italian stuff if that's what you feel close to. You don't need to have DNA to like something cultural of a country. For example, my kids celebrated Halloween today, even though they don't have American/Canadian/Brittish DNA and our country doesn't celebrate it. It's also no wonder you're interested in Italian culture when you've grown up under the grandfather's Italian influence. You're not forced to do German stuff just because your DNA says you're more German than Italian. My kids are 50% German, 50% Dutch, but from very young age they dislike any German stuff. Instead, they're focusing on the English language and American stuff and ofc Dutch culture, since they're growing up in the Netherlands. I'm not going to force them to be interested in something they have no interest in, and you shouldn't have to either. Just enjoy the Italian culture.
@@Nathan_Bookwurm yeah I’m not going to stop doing what I was raised with, just facing the reality is gonna be a bit of a bummer because the people responsible for most of the German were absolute monsters from what I’ve been told so it’s like, I’d enjoy having as little to do as possible with that mental association for myself
Italy, like every country, has its monsters too. German food is bomb, I recommend giving it a chance.
@@meganb6609 yeah I’m not talking about anyone outside my direct family lineage with my comment. I’m not getting into how bad the history is in both places, just thinking about the most recent generations in relation to my family specifically.
You'd be suprised how many tribes intermingled. Latvian germanic and Anglo Saxons all kinda end up close together. So you could be 100 german and still have the dna all over the place. They weren't stationary. Doesn't make you any less for it.
8% wow
8:23 unfortunately that’s not how DNA works. Jon doesn’t just go by percentage of just like pick spoons and whatever spoon you got you got.
8 percent is nothing without a cultural base from her surrounding and her family. Its very weird. Most black Americans have a percentage white, some in the 20% and you dont see them trying to be more involved in white cultures😅.. Being half part of a culture makes sense, she had a large percentage of Greek and had a sister who was full Greek and somewhat grew up with it. That makes sense.
I’d always heard that my great great grandmother was half Native American, but I never explored it or anything. I’ve heard some family say we aren’t at all Native American now that I’m older and I think either way, in the grand scheme of things it doesn’t really have that much hold on who I am as a person. Like I’d still be me either way. if I wanted to research native culture, I have the whole internet at my fingertips. I don’t think we necessarily have to have a blood connection to learn about other cultures that are interesting or important.
wasn't the first story already posted?
We played the voicemail before but this was the first time we actually got in touch!
@@OKOPShow ohhhh ok! I was so confused for a second lol
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So should I start identifying and claim being Irish because I am 7% Irish? lol 😂 I agree with her sister… like shawty is only 7%. That’s not even enough to claim being Native American
Yeaa, Nicole needs to let little sis do as she pleases. Pressuring her to dive into her culture could create a racist complex. She may also be avoiding it because it's too connected to her M.I.A. dad and she may feel he's not relevant therefore her 8% isn't either. Sam's advice was spectacular!
I'm sorry but 8%....with no cultural connection to any particular tribe.... it's giving "my great great great grandfather was from ireland so I'm Irish...even though I've never been thee and I'm culturally anglo-irish (if that)"
The sister is right to feel uncomfortable, especially given the history of native-anglo 'relations'....in my opinion as somebody far far faaarrr removed from the situation.
First caller was super pushy and smart-ass .I didn’t love that
First one is not a crazy confession…
I got an “am I the a hole” that an acceptable story?
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@@OKOPShow sorry for late reply-what time of day should I call if I did? I’m in MD so New York time zone whatever that’s called
The shows phone has to be blowing up right now.
If you’re from the EU can you still reach out by calling? Or would you guys prefer the Reddit forum? ❤️
I'm from Ecuador and they called me back. So I think they will, just make sure to put +1 in front of the number
@@nightmeria ay awesome! Thanks for letting me know! ❤️
I love americans and their need to figure out who they are. In europe almost everyone is kind of mixed and we don't really care, or obsess over it. Especially if it's under 25%.
How do people not know who they are or their blood? Do they never talk to their family about that?
I am multicultural as well 3 countries and continents and still i feel like it would be rude to adapt one if the culture cause i didn't grow up with it.
I would feel like an imposter.
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I mean, first story she's NTA, but i honestly dont get making such a big deal out of 8%. She's not talking about the other percentages that make up her dna.
I'm not being hateful. It seems like they are grasping onto this one thing thats unique and exclusive to her father who... doesn’t really come around. It would be odd to walking around saying I im native american when you are only 8% and dont know the language or culture. Of course, you can learn, but you can't claim you are native if you arent at least 25%
Maybe she just doesn't feel or want to be connected to her native american side .
I'm only 34% nigerian, but i just say im black because africans lost their language and culture due to slavery when our anvestors were bought to the U.S. over time we lost the culture that we once knew and loved. Unless we spend a lot of money on language apps or move to afirca to emerse ourselves, we will truly never know our culture.
I saw a video where black wnrupoeans laugehd at black americans because we did know where we came from... well, of course we wouldn't unelss. we took a dna test. They didn't keep good records during slavery.
A lot of black culture is slavery or segregation related, so it's a weird thought that we don't really have culture. We aren't african technically.
She doesn't know the language or culture and would have a hard time knowing because you can't just wall om a reservation. Most reservations not not allow non-natives for the most part. They have to accept you to live on their reservation.
I totally understand you. I'm 40% German and could never! But they wanna squeeze into your culture when it's them. Now it's great, if you're pale, they see our brown skin and keep us out. Bothers me so much, it's just so ugly..
You know I couldn't go far enough in my ancestry because they were counted as cattle. 😢
@bestgroomer25 It's just odd. People normally claim their culture as to the culture and traditions of the community they live in .
That culture is obvious in Spain because their is a shared language, culture, and tradition amongst Spanish people. The same can't be said for America. Unless your family immigrated from another country or passed down traditions, you don't really have personal ties .
I have 1% enlish and native american, but I don't go around claiming I'm native american or English and incorporate both cultures. That's a bit absurd...
I would definitely talk to native american people, watch RUclips videos, and visit if I can to learn about their culture, but I know I would relate to their struggles because we only share a small percentage of DNA. Not experience.
I definitely embrace my nigerian side since that's the majority of my genetic makeup, and I love the people and want to learn more about my ancestors' culture and incorporate it in my life. I would love to have a traditional nigerian wedding or combine western and american wedding.
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Story 3. I feel bad for her but damn you don't just show up on someone's doorstep and say hey I'm your daughter. That's starting everything off in a negative because you're not giving them a chance to wrap their head around anything you're catching them completely off guard.
They're going to be a whole lot more defensive if it's done like that instead doing a gentler approach
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2:21 I understand why she doesn’t want to indulge on her heritage people of color have been Rp ed and bread also showing the status of wealth
There are times when that small percentage could be fake due to the dawes act $5 indian.
I really hate to be that person but that first story was so boring I just skipped through the whole thing as soon as I found out she was only 8%. I'm 0.2% Native American and I'm 8% black and if I choose not to identify with it then that's my right. The end end of story
Omg why can't you erase and re-record. My first two vm's were terrible.... 😆
College is expensive AF. If I were I'd definitely get the scholarship, especially if this is for ART. Many people get an art degree then do absolutely nothing with it. Just money down the drain. At least if she gets a scholarship that's less money she's spending
The scholarships are for those who have dealt with the struggles of being Native American. Like the sister said, she was raised white. I agree college is ridiculously expensive, but she would be taking the opportunity from someone who was raised and lives an Native American life.
story 1 sisters side what freaks
1:52 damn liberals. It's not that serious, just take the scholarship lmao