I lost many cousins and and Aunts and Uncles My Momwas a Kowia princess they were nomad and mixed wit Cherokee Comanche and Blackfoot so I have a lot of different tribal blood mix with me
You know you're one with the earth, when no matter the location, the music of the indigenous people fills you with overwhelming emotions! 🧘♂️🧘♂️🧘♂️🧘♂️🧘♂️
Whites where indigen native european tribes Before been colonized As speak as a french Celtic culture was oral In 400, 600, the empire takes the lives of our Druides, the sacred places, put churches, changed the name of the places of water.. ect. . Feeling like i m the only one to remember All flowers are flowers native from the Earth Love ❤
@@CarolineColebesinger You're welcome. Learn the language of the tribe you are most connected to. The Lakota Language Conservancy has material on quite a few languages, including Lakota but you may also find some online here. I know Cherokee and Navajo are online as well. If nothing else, a few words will help bring a bit of peace to your soul and you may find yourself feeling a little "lighter" spiritually. Taku! (That's "dance" in Lakota)😎😎😎
@@zombiedoggie2732 yeah it’s tuff, I heavily appreciate being native and feel like my nature as a person has a lot to do with it but it’s hard feeling like I can’t truly connect to my native ancestry I just don’t know where to begin and the communities have never felt like they where speaking to mixed natives like myself, but this post definitely helped paint another picture for me
These comments make me sad, but hopeful. Y'all are always welcome in the circle. I'm from a Northern MN Rez. I'd bet there are far more mixed Anishinaabe niijii than most realize. Colonization goes as far as to put our Tribal Nations against each other with the "my rez- my blood" mentality. Bottom line, whether mixed with another Rez bloodline, tribal distinction, racial identity, class, accent, it's all the real deal inside. For me, it's especially real when the little ones just jam out to our songs. 🥰 That comes from the spirit, just can't get more real than that!! ❤
@robakers7837 indigenous peoples all over this planet are a blessing to mankind..we are honored to know them ..I am also non indigenous yet feel as one in spirit!!
I feel you on that, one side of my family is southern italian and my other side is part of the sami people in Sweeden, I grew up with my cousins who are Ojibwe and lived on a lake, I was surrounded by native people and my own family's stuff, and I miss it. Everything feels as you said cold, and also so distant to
I'm also white. My daughter is Ojibwe/Irish. Her father left when she was a toddler but luckily a friend has stepped up. Taught her the language, much culture and included her in ceremonies.
Old white guy here. I really enjoy your channel. Your spirit and energy are really refreshing. I think I need to get to a pow wow. Thanks for sharing and making me smile and more importantly helping people embrace their Indigenous heritage.
@@terryparker1694 then humans are not native from Tahiti, or from Samoa, or from anywhere…. We didn’t pop out of the ground. But the first human settlers on any area become the indigenous people of that area!!!! & you are from where?
I grew up in foster care. Raised thinking I'm white. Told I was white. 29 years later find out I'm not only indigenous. I'm descendent of the Effmans of the Karuk tribe. Now I am finding out why I did and have so many interests in things my native ancestors did. Like they were calling to me all along. I'm now trying to enroll and get a degree to help my tribe as I feel it's my duty to reclaim my heritage
Ich fühle so sehr mit Dir! Viel Freude und Kraft auf Deinem lobenswerten Wege vorwärts in die Vergangenheit und zurück in die Zukunft. Die guten Kräfte seien immer bei und in Dir, mein lieber!👍🏻🙏
Similar story, but mine was my father cutting out our nonwhite background due to trauma. Found out I'm Rromani at 19, I'm grateful I have so many years left to find my history. We will both get through this.
I am so glad you found the truth friend! I wish you much success as you connect with your roots. I walk a similar path. Mixed race used to be shunned by some tribes, saw that first hand years ago, but now it is refreshing to see so much encouragement to reconnect.
Thank you so much for this. I’ve grown up my whole life not knowing who I am and while I’m still trying to figure out and connect to my indigenous roots, it’s a really nice feeling knowing that I will someday. Your videos really help!!!
Reach out to Nashvile Indigenous where there is a lot of information for learning your roots. There is much information online to connect you to your roots.
😢😢😢😢 I can only speak for myself but I'm sure there are others that feel like we just wish we could come home. So thank you it's important that we hear this!! 💃🐶🤗
I am of mixed Cherokee and Irish descent. Although I was occasionally around native people as a small child , after I entered public school I never was able to continue that connection. I have always missed it and though I became an educated professional, married a white spouse and have an adult (blond haired) son, I fell I missed out on so much and it's too late now.
I'm not Native American, but I love this message. I was adopted as a baby and grew up in a big city. Living in the city always didn't feel quite right to me and I was always that kid who didn't really fit in anywhere because my interests were very different from those of others. I always loved the countryside, had a natural and instinctive connection with all animals and was very interested in growing vegetables and grains. The sounds and smells (yes, even the smell of dung 😊) have always lightened my heart and brought sunshine to my soul. I loved sitting with the elders who grew up in the country and hearing their stories and learning all kinds of things from them; how to slaughter, how to deal with brooding chickens, how to milk cows, how to preserve food, etc. When I had the opportunity to try something like this myself, it felt right, like "coming home." When I started doing genealogy research a few years ago, I discovered that I am descended from farmers on both sides of my ancestry. These families have been farmers for centuries and I am only the second generation not to farm. I believe it is the blood of my ancestors that runs through my veins and reminds me of who I really am.
Not even in the USA has native American roots. And that's ok, they have other roots to follow. As a Native there is a whitewashing of our culture caused by people who just use it for a goal and disrespect the people. Respect is fine, learning is great. But not everyone is native. Just remember why we dislike the mutilation of our people and culture caused by the government. The same government that still uses propaganda to attack us.
As a so-called "native" or "Indian" we've always known that you are the seed of your father. Etymology of nationality: family, bloodline, progenitor. Nothing to do with the land you're born on. What if you were born on a plane? Or on the ocean?
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your words of encouragement! I’m fixing to turn 60 and I was feeling very discouraged. Your message takes me to a place that I know now my ancestors really want me to go. Sending ❤to everyone!
Thank you!! 72 years old here. My Great-Great-Grandmother was full-blood Cherokee. She married my Great-Great-Grandfather, who was full-blood French. Very proud of my distant heritage!!! God bless, protect & sustain ALL indigenous people!!
I’m 29 and my great great grandma (maybe one more great…) was full native, I’ve always been told Cherokee but I want to find out for sure. It feels like such a treasure chest of heritage just waiting to be opened..
My great x3 grandmother was Native. Born in Los Angelo's 1800's but I think her tribe got involved with the missions. She had a Spanish name, yet we have no Spanish or Latin in our DNA test. So I know nothing about which tribe etc. I am mostly European but my heart is a great deal Native.
I struggle with this so much. But it has helped when I meet older members at Pow Wows and they take one look at me and ask what tribe I'm from. They tell me it's my eyes and cheekbones. I'm Cherokee and we have three tribes. I'm a member of the Cherokee Nation but have never been there and I live hundreds of miles away. Just recently I visited the Eastern Band for the first time. I went to their Pow Wow, museum, read all their signs around town, etc. And learned so much about my culture that I didn't know about and greatly desire to know more. Then the mountains. Holy crap. I felt at home and I fell in love with that town. But I also felt like an outsider because I pass easily for white. Everyone looked at me like I was just another tourist. I plan to come back again to learn more and support the tribe more. I am even considering switching tribes if possible. But I am also stuck. My heart is one place I desperately want to move back to, but I'm in love with that small town outside the Smokies and desire to live there and be in my culture. It's just a constant battle of feeling like an outsider but Native at the same time.
Get in touch with The Spiritual side not Pow Wows because Pow Wows are not Really apart of our Culture. You are Cherokee go to Elder and Learn your Ways by Smudge with Sweetgrass or what your Elders toll you to do. If I can give you advice it would Be to Smudge with Sweetgrass Grass learn three words (Creator help me example) then add on to it from there.
I'm in the same position. It feels weird to walk that line. Go where your heart is at home. We can only walk our paths with intent. What is meant for us finds us. I'm moving to the mountains next year. ❤
Please, dearest, go and explore! I can tell you that you don't want to get to my age (and physical limitations) without having done your best to connect. My grandfather was Ukrainian, and he died long before I really knew what that meant, before I could learn his history. Go find out before you can't 🎉🎉🎉
I am taino too! Due to my family circumstances in my childhood, i got my heritage robbed from me. as an adult i am now reconnecting with Taino tradition🫶🦋
This made me cry... thank you. ❤ Cherokee/Blackfoot/Irish I tried to find ways to reconnect with the native community for many years. Wanted to learn the food, language, culture... I was treated very badly. It was indescribably painful to just give up, but I did. I looked up how to make fry bread that night and cried while I ate it, alone, for the first time.
Im like you, you'd never know it looking at me, but Ive always felt my ancestors out there, with love, on my side. We share the same ancestors with our tribal brothers and sisters, and no one can take that away.
My kids are mixed Cherokee and I grew up bordering Navajo Nation in AZ with a heavy influence in my Irish/German/Portuguese home. Now we reside in MA in Wampanoag territory and I just love being among different tribes, culture and have a very personal connection through my children. I am proud of their heritage and want to show up and respect that. I want to teach my children and learn with them, it is very important to me. Most of the time people are very welcoming but not always. We sit and observe mostly eager to participate, don't want to intrude out of respect. Hoping for an invitation ❤
May I suggest that you ask to participate, respectfully? I don't know about many tribes, but some people are reluctant to invite "outsiders," so it's possible that waiting for an invitation won't work. Be patient and gentle, and maybe you'll make some friends 🧡 good luck 😁
@@carlyehooten7467 Great suggestion! Unfortunately, that's when I have received the most reluctance. I get it, I am not interested in being offended. So we respect that from a distance now. Our town is predominantly Portuguese now and we feast all Summer. Being of that culture we participate and in the past couple of years my daughter was invited to dance as they were looking for younger people. Without knowing the language or moves she educated herself. Not only to keep up but she really took interest in it. We went to all practices she wore the traditional dress and applied herself. Following every performance when it was time to eat with the group, we were not always accommodated. People were quiet with us but clearly could speak English if they so chose, but they didn't. It got so uncomfortable that we left, she was very upset. 10-12 she was proud to be a part of it. Recently I was told they are still looking for dancers It seems the youth lack interest in the culture. Tough situation and really hard to navigate through with the kids. Respect is most important, I am trying to lead by example. Doing my best
My dads mom was Cherokee. I look just like her, face, hair, body. Amazing. When I went to Winnemucca at the casino, I had all these men running to me speaking Cherokee! Had to tell them I'm sorry I don't speak it. I'm black, Irish, German and Scottish. Feels weird but I feel Scottish first like I've been to Scotland before and really more drawn to Cherokee Nation. . Aimee❤
If you are Cherokee there is no blood percent limit to register with the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. Get registered. There’s a lot of resources for education, a free language class through the tribe website, etc.
Apache women who never got to join a tribe because my percentage was too small. But I always wanted to know my culture more and represent it. I'm proud of my heritage!
Me too. I can remember my great grandmother who was 50%. My oldest sister can remember great grandmother's mother, she was 100% and came to NY from the midwest. She lived in the woods alone on her terms ❤
Half Lipan Apache here. My grandparents had mostly assimilated into Mexican culture but had to flee back to Texas, where they families had been from originally. My mother was full Apache as well, but they kept our heritage on the downlow, so i got the Hispanic upbringing. She married a white man (scottish heritage from deep Appalachia and a very rich and historic history that i am also very proud of), and she was completely disowned for over 30 years. I grew up in the South (Cherokee country), so at 51, I am still discovering this missing part of me. I sometimes feel it in my bones.
I actually am indigenous, but it's an incredibly small part. Goes way back several generations. People who share one of my more dominant cultures, on the other hand, have had an incredibly mixed response to me because I'm not 100%, like they are. Thank you so much for welcoming the mutts of the world into your community. A lot of us really want to learn about our heritage and connect, but it's really hard.
When my tribe sent a message out to the Tribe, it did not differentiate half blooded or quarter blooded from full blooded. It called us all Osage Indians.
I feel so much like that about my Mexican heritage. My mother's parents encourage her to pass as white and for half of my childhood we lived in an area that was very racist so I didn't even know I was 75% mexican until I was older and we had moved away. I know she was trying to protect me and that she had toxic parents that grew up in a toxic 60s world telling them white was better but god.... I feel robbed of so much of my culture that my other mexican friends grew up around. I've been trying to reconnect ever since. I spent my whole life not really fitting in with white people because they were suspicious of me (in that racist town) and now I struggle to fit in with mexican culture as well. It's a weird place to be. I love this channel so much
@@RowanMarshmallow I'm so sorry you had to experience this too! This whole "white is better" thing makes me sick. White people have no culture to even hand down. About 12 years ago I went to my first sweat lodge and that had more impact on me than anything I learned from growing up in a white dominant world. Not even trying to make this about race, just there really is no culture that is truly American. I've always felt out of place in life.. I used to think I was wiccan because of what I believed in 😂 then I learned I was native and I started learning about different practices and stuff and it started to make sense lol it's seems too many people lost touch with nature and are driven by keeping up with corporate America and it's disgusting.. everything from fast fashion to killing and/or selling off America's farm land to foreign countries... I hate it. "God bless America"... Yea, because that's the only hope she has left 😭 it would take a miracle or an act of God to save her.
@@llw8845 🫂 I'm so sorry you grew up in worse conditions, I'm so proud of you for keeping yourself together and learning on your own!! 💓💓💓 My mother was a sad example of what happens when you grow up in foster care and unfortunately it can be an easy path for some. Keep being strong and know there's people like me out here rooting for you 💜💜💜
@@RowanMarshmallow wow. I had a whole long response to your comment but it got deleted.. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.. white people don't like to be called out on their 🐂 💩💩💩
@@sheilayoung9082 My Mother who's deceased was a Young. Native American! Her Grandmother had her finger cut off by a wagon flying by with no regard to her being a child fallen!
It's 2024. If a man can wear makeup and say they can get pregnant, what's stopping you from putting feathers in your hair and going hey-how-ya-hey-how-ya?
Thank you for your teaching words. Culture like this is so much more precious than some of us realize. I'm not sure of this, but so far I don't even know my culture. Knowing how blessed you are keeps me coming back. ❤
Thank you! Husband’s pic, but I am Cherokee, Irish, English, and African. I think that it may be why my grandmother not got documentation from her tribe in the Carolina’s. I have always taken pride in my indigenous heritage and want to know more.
Thank you. I needed to hear this. I'm mixed, Cherokee and Scottish, but my Cherokee blood has been calling me more and more the older I get (I'm 77). So once again, I thank you for giving me a sense of belonging. 🤗🥰
No one would know I have mix in me because I'm white. Our family got tested and it's there in our DNA. Since I was a child I was fascinated with native American culture. Thank you 😊
The DNA tests are tricky because they dont neccesarily indicate which tribe you descend from which is important. But my dad took his for the heck of it even though he knows he is native and it connected to a bunch of cousins living on a local reservation, so it can help with networking that way. It can be a good start for research, but its really important to know what tribe you are from rather than just "native american" if you want to be accepted in the tribal community. If thats something you care about but alot people just see it as a personal identity rather than belonging to a collective nowadays and that is foreign for us that grew up in tribal communities.
We are all related. Indigenous people know that we are all related. People get stuck on what tribe are you, where are you from or where are your people. . We came out of the heart of God. I've always known this even as a child. I am Dakota (Sioux), English and Castilian Spanish. But I know that's just what I am here as I pass through this place called Earth... the lower dimension. But even that is not my identity. My identity is in God. Because I came out from the heart of God. I grew up in a racist world. My own people even look down on me because I'm mixed. I say to them I was born indigenous, white and Spanish. There's nothing wrong with that, does it make a difference what color I am. I am what I am accept me for who I am or stay away from me, leave me alone. But don't talk down to me or about me. It was my own indigenous people that treated me that way. And they still do. So here the notorious Cree he accepts me for who I am. This post just proves it. I'm sorry I have a lot of love in my heart for this man we're accepting me for who I am. Indigenous, English and Castilian. But more than that Notorious Cree accepts me and all of us because I am and we all are a child of God. And this is a beautiful thing. Notorious Creed is a beautiful soul. That's how I see him. Which inspires an uplifts me to o.
Only the smallest part of me. My great great great grandmother was full blood Cherokee .. but my soul calls and longs for native music and dance it fuels my soul!!!!
My great grandmother was Mayan on my father's side and Taino on my mother's side, the taino's pretty much lost their culture and language to the Spaniards, but they're trying as best as they can to revive it despite the constant oppression they and now everyone endures in Cuba. The only thing passed down were herbal medicines/remedies. I don't think of myself indigenous, but I can't pretend like it doesn't call to me to rediscover that party of my ancestral history
Well Said. My heart loves my Heritage, my Mother was.She was proud too. I dance and hold my head high. My hair is natural. I've been to Navaho Nation, Cherokee Nation, many Pow Wows & dance. We are artist's, work with clay, & love the earth God made. ❤✝️❤️
I grew up around many kids of indigenous heritage and I was very blessed to be invited several times to join them for pow wows... I truly enjoy sharing in the culture and food.
I certainly understand. I feel that TV and old movies have made Native culture and Native communities look like novelty items, instead of the REAL PEOPLE who actually where here in the Americas FIRST!!❤❤❤❤
@@sheilayoung9082yes I totally agree with this Statement and Pow wows are Ruining our Culture because it's so Generalized and People that should be Learning their language and Ceremony ways Don't learn. That's why our languages are Dying out
I was kept from my family...all I have is the name Smoot. One of my grandmother's. I'd give anything to know more about my culture but no one is interested in helping me connect and my autism makes it next to impossible to do it alone with no support or guidance. Still ...I walk with the sun and the moon and I listen to the winds songs 😊
My girlfriend is Umonhon and Ho-chunk but recently found out she actually has a little Cherokee in her too from her grandmothers side. That was their last name, Smoot
🍀 Thank-you for the warm welcome dear.🎉🎉 I'm almost 70yrs young,+have tried a long time to find a glimmer of acknowledgment.🤔This is the First!💚I appreciate this more than you could know young Man.😁I am a hodge -podge.🎉🎉🎉Mohican from upper Canada,French-Canadian, Scottish+Irish.🍀Not one for labels but i do take much pride in my heritage,bless our Brave Ancestors.They had worked extremely hard to pave the way for Us.💪💪💪They are forever in my heart!❤Goddess Bless each of you! 💋 Blessings from NY!🌲🌺🌈🌍🌘
Thank you so much for this. I'm mixed, but I don't know much about my indigenous heritage, but I look forward to connecting and learning. Indigenous culture is rich and beautiful. ❤
Genetics are just a social pass into a culture. Reconnect with the culture and people, you can live more than one truth. And you can participate in more than one culture.
@@PurkyeAs humans, we have the need to belong to a place, to a town, to a community, in the same way that we have the need to have and belong to a family. And yes, we are all human, and we also belong to the animal kingdom like all other animals, and all life on this planet is part of us. And if you "don't have" this need, it means that you have a family, a place to call home and that you belong to a culture that doesn't know what it's like to have its roots and soul ripped out.
I'm just turning 61 this past Autumn Day, Sept 23rd...I've been told ALL MY LIFE That I am Half Iroquois from my Father, who looked VERY NATIVE, High Cheek Bone structure, 5 Glorious Chest Hairs, He Loved to Dance..He taught me How To Dance..he had extremely good rhythm and felt the music. He taught me how to play guitar, he said I am naturally gifted.. I miss his teachings... He is gone now but NEVER FORGOTTEN. .. TY for Your Youthful Inspiration... oh, and I'm PROUD OF YOU!! I Quit Drinking myself, 5 years now... Keep Doin Whatchur Doin... XoxoX
I’m mixed but took after my dad (mom is native). It sucks ass. I remember being so proud as a kid and it just got ruined by grown ass adults constantly telling me things like “mmm idk buddy I don’t think you should be identifying as that”. As if it’s my fault that I as a male look more like my dad, what a shocker. Don’t let others bring you down. Own it and be proud cause there aren’t many of us left.
1/4 Eastern Cherokee here. Osiyo. Wado for being an inspiration to many from other Nations and Tribes. Seeing the beauty of Native American culture being displayed not only at PowWow’s but on here is something that will always hold a special place in my heart.
Oh my Indigenous Heart. Thank you so much. I needed to hear this message. Especially the "mixed" part. Tears are streaming. Today is the 68th year of my birth. Thank you for this beautiful Celebratory message reminder in song and dance... I will now Celebrate today this Great Blessing of my Indigenous Heritage 💞🥰💞🙏🏽🤗🦅🐻💕
I dont even know how native i am, but you can see it in my dad and grandad. Im paler than snow and ive never felt indigenous, and I have no idea how to connect to my roots. Ive always wanted to, and its always so nice hearing and seeong things like this 😊
Thank you N C.. you're teachings are so important and so creative.. embrace yourself brother 🕸️🕷️🪶🪶🪶spider girl..oh and love the one you're with..she loves you too🎉❤
Thank you brother, I really needed this today. Mixed Osage here, dad and granny always kept us informed of who we were (his memorabilia wall made it easy to connect the dots ) but we never participated in tribal things or if anything learned much of our background growing up. I went to my first powwow in college as it was a Native American government ran college and I really got to connect but at the same time I felt so lost and still not really accepted. Didnt matter having an 1/8 quantity, when you are white and blonde you feel like an outsider. Nobody gave me a good heads up when I started digging into my ancestry about how connected my bloodline, now there's a movie based on my Great Great Grandparents and I've never felt more weird and lost in the sauce.
Those words will bring life to many.
Nope
The "if you are mixed" part really got to me deep inside. Many tears came naturally.
Me too.
Same here
same here because i’ve been told alot that because i’m not full blooded that i can’t claim my heritage
Me too! Great-grandmother was half Shoshone on my father's side 🪶
Y'all white
Thank you ✌️😘 i am mixed Cherokee and white. My Gramdma had walked the Trail of Tears at 8. Ended up in Arkansas. Here i am humbled to be part ✌️❤️😘
Mine too. The captain took an indigenous wife's and called it plural marriage. Cousins
Mine too. My father was German and mum Irish
You gave me goosebumps. May you and yours be blessed. MAGA Patriot
I lost many cousins and and Aunts and Uncles My Momwas a Kowia princess they were nomad and mixed wit Cherokee Comanche and Blackfoot so I have a lot of different tribal blood mix with me
My family ended up in Arkansas as well!
A-ho!! Thank you...this is much needed. We are all connected 😊
You know you're one with the earth, when no matter the location, the music of the indigenous people fills you with overwhelming emotions!
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@@Go-go-super-guru Indeginous people are secretly racist, lol!.
as a mixed person who feels like i never fit in anywhere, i’m in tears❤️❤️ thank you so much for acknowledging us!!!🌸❤️
Mixed here as well..😢❤
That's because you make your race your entire identity. It's pathetic.
I'm mixed. I remember clearly when the holy Spirit said I was indigenous! ❤
Mixed also and never fit in anywhere... it's refreshing
Whites where indigen native european tribes
Before been colonized
As speak as a french
Celtic culture was oral
In 400, 600, the empire takes the lives of our Druides, the sacred places, put churches, changed the name of the places of water.. ect. .
Feeling like i m the only one to remember
All flowers are flowers native from the Earth
Love ❤
Yes, being mixed leaves one so confused sometimes as to who we are but I know what I FEEL the strongest connection to. Thank you. I needed this.
I dont understand i am indigenous connection here is too your land, your mob, your native animals no mix here all koori
Its Australia big enough for all native people no question about mixed race..you r indigenous them r white man's words..
Thank you. i needed this ❤❤❤
@@CarolineColebesinger You're welcome. Learn the language of the tribe you are most connected to. The Lakota Language Conservancy has material on quite a few languages, including Lakota but you may also find some online here. I know Cherokee and Navajo are online as well. If nothing else, a few words will help bring a bit of peace to your soul and you may find yourself feeling a little "lighter" spiritually. Taku! (That's "dance" in Lakota)😎😎😎
@@joan-mariacbrooks thank you
Thank you. It means a lot to be acknowledged. You are making indigenous seen. Good work!💙
No one cares about Indeginous to be honest. The white folks silenced you all for a reason.
Always good to see indigenous Indians sharing their culture .
Native not Indian. Just fyi. 😊🙏🌺🥴💁🏻♀️🇨🇦
@@PiipPipi have you looked up the word “ indigenous “ ? It means native or the first inhabitants of the land .
First time I ever felt acknowledged as a mixed native thank you
Same. My own half Shawnee mother said I wasnt Indian because I was "Raised white" by my white grandparents.
@@zombiedoggie2732 yeah it’s tuff, I heavily appreciate being native and feel like my nature as a person has a lot to do with it but it’s hard feeling like I can’t truly connect to my native ancestry I just don’t know where to begin and the communities have never felt like they where speaking to mixed natives like myself, but this post definitely helped paint another picture for me
Same! Feels good to hear that. Thank you greatly ❤
These comments make me sad, but hopeful. Y'all are always welcome in the circle. I'm from a Northern MN Rez. I'd bet there are far more mixed Anishinaabe niijii than most realize. Colonization goes as far as to put our Tribal Nations against each other with the "my rez- my blood" mentality. Bottom line, whether mixed with another Rez bloodline, tribal distinction, racial identity, class, accent, it's all the real deal inside. For me, it's especially real when the little ones just jam out to our songs. 🥰 That comes from the spirit, just can't get more real than that!! ❤
@@zombiedoggie2732 This seems to be a common theme these days. How you're raised doesn't negate the genetics.
We are still native and proud thank you for this thank you!!!!!!
True but tbh, no one cares about your nationality.
@@OneLove-ms4it proud to be racist too, secretly.
I'm white, but I grew up around indigenous people and I miss my indigenous friends and the culture. The world is concrete and cold without it.
@robakers7837 indigenous peoples all over this planet are a blessing to mankind..we are honored to know them ..I am also non indigenous yet feel as one in spirit!!
I feel you on that, one side of my family is southern italian and my other side is part of the sami people in Sweeden, I grew up with my cousins who are Ojibwe and lived on a lake, I was surrounded by native people and my own family's stuff, and I miss it. Everything feels as you said cold, and also so distant to
Yup.
I'm also white. My daughter is Ojibwe/Irish. Her father left when she was a toddler but luckily a friend has stepped up. Taught her the language, much culture and included her in ceremonies.
You miss us destroying your local economy?
Thank you for that needed encouragement Uncle!
Old white guy here. I really enjoy your channel. Your spirit and energy are really refreshing. I think I need to get to a pow wow.
Thanks for sharing and making me smile and more importantly helping people embrace their Indigenous heritage.
😂Lol thanks old white guy .... I'm thinking you're also sweet and witty...
Lead with that
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You are white, you white folks did the correct thing to silenced them.
I'm an old white gal here. I have gone to a few powwows, and they are wonderful. I hope that you get to a powwow.
You'll enjoy a pow-wow.
❤ yeah,pow wow is a nice great gathering to make new people ❤🎉😂😊
Indigenous people unite!!!
Indigenous Hawaiian here
Indigenous Australian..all one mob..one country
You came from the Tahitian Islands. Humans are not native to Hawaii.
Hello cousin. 😊
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@@terryparker1694 then humans are not native from Tahiti, or from Samoa, or from anywhere…. We didn’t pop out of the ground. But the first human settlers on any area become the indigenous people of that area!!!!
& you are from where?
I’m plain old white lady. But I am so grateful to hear your stories and watch your culture grow and thrive.
You aren't plain old white. Your people came from somewhere too.
Their culture massacred plain ole white ladies if you didn’t know.
You're not plain. Your ancestors came from somewhere and have traditions and a culture of their own too. ❤
@@Chelsey022The difference is though you're not encouraged or supported to explore your heritage and culture, or be proud of it when you are white.
stop falling for anti-white propaganda. it's so gross.
a cup of tea is still a cup of tea even with milk hello there from an Indigenous woman in Western Australia 🎉❤😊
Hey sis!!! 🔴🟡⚫️
😂😂 I'm the Milk 😂😂❤
@@Sally-nj5wn is 50%50 You’ll begin to think that teen analogies is real.
I love this! From Canada 🇨🇦..All My Relations ❤
Tea is such a complicated subject. I'm just going to axc😂
I grew up in foster care. Raised thinking I'm white. Told I was white. 29 years later find out I'm not only indigenous. I'm descendent of the Effmans of the Karuk tribe. Now I am finding out why I did and have so many interests in things my native ancestors did. Like they were calling to me all along. I'm now trying to enroll and get a degree to help my tribe as I feel it's my duty to reclaim my heritage
Ich fühle so sehr mit Dir! Viel Freude und Kraft auf Deinem lobenswerten Wege vorwärts in die Vergangenheit und zurück in die Zukunft. Die guten Kräfte seien immer bei und in Dir, mein lieber!👍🏻🙏
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Similar story, but mine was my father cutting out our nonwhite background due to trauma.
Found out I'm Rromani at 19, I'm grateful I have so many years left to find my history. We will both get through this.
I am so glad you found the truth friend! I wish you much success as you connect with your roots. I walk a similar path. Mixed race used to be shunned by some tribes, saw that first hand years ago, but now it is refreshing to see so much encouragement to reconnect.
Beutiful dance❤
Thank you so much for this. I’ve grown up my whole life not knowing who I am and while I’m still trying to figure out and connect to my indigenous roots, it’s a really nice feeling knowing that I will someday. Your videos really help!!!
Reach out to Nashvile Indigenous where there is a lot of information for learning your roots.
There is much information online to connect you to your roots.
❤ BLESS YOU ! ! ! 😊😊😊
YOU ARE WELCOME ❤
I dunno why I just started crying!!!!
Bless you!
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I can only speak for myself but I'm sure there are others that feel like we just wish we could come home. So thank you it's important that we hear this!!
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I wanted to say “ can I come home?
❤ HOME IS WHERE
YOU HANG YOUR HAT !😊😊😊
The hardest thing for me was finding the right people and the right way to reconnect with my culture. Whether you’re 10 or 80 it’s never too late
I’m so proud of you looking for yorancestors.I I send prayers that you find what you are looking for ans be blessed in your search
I learned of my Indigenous background at age 69. Never too late.
I am of mixed Cherokee and Irish descent. Although I was occasionally around native people as a small child , after I entered public school I never was able to continue that connection. I have always missed it and though I became an educated professional, married a white spouse and have an adult (blond haired) son, I fell I missed out on so much and it's too late now.
Indeginous people are secretly racist.
@@MBKHenny the hardest thing for you was to realize that Indeginous people are racist secretly.
Much needed encouragement!!! 😊
I'm not Native American, but I love this message.
I was adopted as a baby and grew up in a big city. Living in the city always didn't feel quite right to me and I was always that kid who didn't really fit in anywhere because my interests were very different from those of others.
I always loved the countryside, had a natural and instinctive connection with all animals and was very interested in growing vegetables and grains.
The sounds and smells (yes, even the smell of dung 😊) have always lightened my heart and brought sunshine to my soul.
I loved sitting with the elders who grew up in the country and hearing their stories and learning all kinds of things from them; how to slaughter, how to deal with brooding chickens, how to milk cows, how to preserve food, etc.
When I had the opportunity to try something like this myself, it felt right, like "coming home."
When I started doing genealogy research a few years ago, I discovered that I am descended from farmers on both sides of my ancestry. These families have been farmers for centuries and I am only the second generation not to farm.
I believe it is the blood of my ancestors that runs through my veins and reminds me of who I really am.
That's so beautiful ❤
Metis here (Alberta, Canada)!! Love this sooooo much!
Everything in perfect timing..this is beautiful!❤
Even though I'm not a native, the sound of the drums brings a feeling of comfort to my soul
I've felt that same thing for a long time.
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exactly
Thanks✨
Respect for your dance and your noble origins.
Goosebumps and water has filled my eyes🪹🍃 👁️🌄 👣❤️🔥🙇🧘🍃🍂⛰️🪺
THANK YOU from a Mapuche Mix southamerica
❤ WELCOME ! 😊
All USA should reconect to the Native Americans roots. Everyone.
Not even in the USA has native American roots. And that's ok, they have other roots to follow.
As a Native there is a whitewashing of our culture caused by people who just use it for a goal and disrespect the people.
Respect is fine, learning is great. But not everyone is native. Just remember why we dislike the mutilation of our people and culture caused by the government. The same government that still uses propaganda to attack us.
I agree with you wholeheartedly 🙌! I still think it's their land. All of it. Rightfully anyway.
As a so-called "native" or "Indian" we've always known that you are the seed of your father. Etymology of nationality: family, bloodline, progenitor. Nothing to do with the land you're born on. What if you were born on a plane? Or on the ocean?
@@raulvicentemadrigal8832 this comment lacks a lot of critical thinking and I wish you could see that…
As a tejano I agree
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your words of encouragement! I’m fixing to turn 60 and I was feeling very discouraged. Your message takes me to a place that I know now my ancestors really want me to go. Sending ❤to everyone!
Thank you for the encouragement ❤
Tansi, Notorious Cree Bless you 🐃🐃🐃🐎🐎🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🦅🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸🇺🇸✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️✌️👏👏👏🇺🇸🇺🇸👏👏🇺🇸🇺🇸👏👏👍👍👍❤❤❤❤👍👍👍
That's what I like about the true native American people 😊I hope your culture lives forever 🙏 Andrew south wales uk 👌 👍 👏 😀
Thank you!! 72 years old here. My Great-Great-Grandmother was full-blood Cherokee. She married my Great-Great-Grandfather, who was full-blood French. Very proud of my distant heritage!!! God bless, protect & sustain ALL indigenous people!!
My great grandma was full blooded Chippewa, not sure what my grandpa was ❤
My story is exactly like yours but I'm 55 years old.
I’m 29 and my great great grandma (maybe one more great…) was full native, I’ve always been told Cherokee but I want to find out for sure. It feels like such a treasure chest of heritage just waiting to be opened..
Woah. Same here! That’s kind of wild! Except reverse the sexes. Wow.
My great x3 grandmother was Native. Born in Los Angelo's 1800's but I think her tribe got involved with the missions. She had a Spanish name, yet we have no Spanish or Latin in our DNA test. So I know nothing about which tribe etc. I am mostly European but my heart is a great deal Native.
I struggle with this so much. But it has helped when I meet older members at Pow Wows and they take one look at me and ask what tribe I'm from. They tell me it's my eyes and cheekbones.
I'm Cherokee and we have three tribes. I'm a member of the Cherokee Nation but have never been there and I live hundreds of miles away. Just recently I visited the Eastern Band for the first time. I went to their Pow Wow, museum, read all their signs around town, etc. And learned so much about my culture that I didn't know about and greatly desire to know more. Then the mountains. Holy crap. I felt at home and I fell in love with that town. But I also felt like an outsider because I pass easily for white. Everyone looked at me like I was just another tourist.
I plan to come back again to learn more and support the tribe more. I am even considering switching tribes if possible. But I am also stuck. My heart is one place I desperately want to move back to, but I'm in love with that small town outside the Smokies and desire to live there and be in my culture.
It's just a constant battle of feeling like an outsider but Native at the same time.
Get in touch with The Spiritual side not Pow Wows because Pow Wows are not Really apart of our Culture.
You are Cherokee go to Elder and Learn your Ways by Smudge with Sweetgrass or what your Elders toll you to do.
If I can give you advice it would Be to Smudge with Sweetgrass Grass learn three words (Creator help me example) then add on to it from there.
I'm in the same position. It feels weird to walk that line. Go where your heart is at home. We can only walk our paths with intent. What is meant for us finds us. I'm moving to the mountains next year. ❤
@@misanthropic75 alot of our stories and Medicine come from the Mountains
I can share a couple if you like
My little brother, sister, niece and nephew are part Cherokee. I should share this video for them. ❤
Please, dearest, go and explore! I can tell you that you don't want to get to my age (and physical limitations) without having done your best to connect. My grandfather was Ukrainian, and he died long before I really knew what that meant, before I could learn his history. Go find out before you can't 🎉🎉🎉
A much needed reminder. Thank you!!
Thank you so much for this!😢❤.
I'm Taino, and meeting my tribe in Puerto Rico as an adult was so incredibly emotional for me.
I’m also Taino, let’s keep our culture alive!!
@Soldantino_Solangelo Hello 👋🏾 cousin. Yes please!
Several years ago, I think it was Indian Magazine that had an article on the Taino whom Castro protected. They were up in the mountains of Cuba.
I am taino too! Due to my family circumstances in my childhood, i got my heritage robbed from me. as an adult i am now reconnecting with Taino tradition🫶🦋
Such a simple beautiful message! Remember who you are! Thank you!
All I want is to sit and listen to elders for hours, days, I want to learn everything so it's never forgotten
Uhhhh maybe write a book
This made me cry... thank you. ❤
Cherokee/Blackfoot/Irish
I tried to find ways to reconnect with the native community for many years. Wanted to learn the food, language, culture... I was treated very badly. It was indescribably painful to just give up, but I did.
I looked up how to make fry bread that night and cried while I ate it, alone, for the first time.
Im like you, you'd never know it looking at me, but Ive always felt my ancestors out there, with love, on my side. We share the same ancestors with our tribal brothers and sisters, and no one can take that away.
Omg, I'm so so sorry 😢. I hope you can find another way to connect. Hugs.
My kids are mixed Cherokee and I grew up bordering Navajo Nation in AZ with a heavy influence in my Irish/German/Portuguese home. Now we reside in MA in Wampanoag territory and I just love being among different tribes, culture and have a very personal connection through my children. I am proud of their heritage and want to show up and respect that. I want to teach my children and learn with them, it is very important to me. Most of the time people are very welcoming but not always. We sit and observe mostly eager to participate, don't want to intrude out of respect. Hoping for an invitation ❤
May I suggest that you ask to participate, respectfully? I don't know about many tribes, but some people are reluctant to invite "outsiders," so it's possible that waiting for an invitation won't work. Be patient and gentle, and maybe you'll make some friends 🧡 good luck 😁
@@carlyehooten7467 Great suggestion! Unfortunately, that's when I have received the most reluctance. I get it, I am not interested in being offended. So we respect that from a distance now.
Our town is predominantly Portuguese now and we feast all Summer. Being of that culture we participate and in the past couple of years my daughter was invited to dance as they were looking for younger people. Without knowing the language or moves she educated herself. Not only to keep up but she really took interest in it. We went to all practices she wore the traditional dress and applied herself. Following every performance when it was time to eat with the group, we were not always accommodated. People were quiet with us but clearly could speak English if they so chose, but they didn't. It got so uncomfortable that we left, she was very upset. 10-12 she was proud to be a part of it. Recently I was told they are still looking for dancers It seems the youth lack interest in the culture. Tough situation and really hard to navigate through with the kids.
Respect is most important, I am trying to lead by example. Doing my best
Dude I actually needed this. I want to reconnect with my tribal roots so bad 😭😭😭 I'm Cherokee
My Children are one quarter Cherokee and they feel left out...I tell them to be proud of their heritage ❤❤❤
My dads mom was Cherokee. I look just like her, face, hair, body. Amazing. When I went to Winnemucca at the casino, I had all these men running to me speaking Cherokee! Had to tell them I'm sorry I don't speak it. I'm black, Irish, German and Scottish. Feels weird but I feel Scottish first like I've been to Scotland before and really more drawn to Cherokee Nation.
. Aimee❤
@@videorocketzmillar007milla5 everyone on the rez in Oklahoma gave me weird looks, they thought I was white 💀
If you are Cherokee there is no blood percent limit to register with the Cherokee Nation in Oklahoma. Get registered. There’s a lot of resources for education, a free language class through the tribe website, etc.
@Kendramac thank you for this information as my children are Cherokee ❤️
❤ Nipmuk ✨🌲✨
Thank you❤❤❤🎉🎉🎉
I needed to hear that
My ancestors were Ojibwa, Cree and Métis. I’m trying to learn more about my heritage. Thank you for posting these great videos. ❤
I'm also Métis, but have Mohawk and Northern Blackfoot.
Apache women who never got to join a tribe because my percentage was too small. But I always wanted to know my culture more and represent it. I'm proud of my heritage!
I'm Apache too....mixed with the Peublo tribe of N.M. so proud I am too. Love this video! ❤
@@Jo.K. Me too! Way cool to find a few of you here. Yay!
me too! Yay!
Me too. I can remember my great grandmother who was 50%. My oldest sister can remember great grandmother's mother, she was 100% and came to NY from the midwest.
She lived in the woods alone on her terms
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Half Lipan Apache here. My grandparents had mostly assimilated into Mexican culture but had to flee back to Texas, where they families had been from originally. My mother was full Apache as well, but they kept our heritage on the downlow, so i got the Hispanic upbringing. She married a white man (scottish heritage from deep Appalachia and a very rich and historic history that i am also very proud of), and she was completely disowned for over 30 years. I grew up in the South (Cherokee country), so at 51, I am still discovering this missing part of me. I sometimes feel it in my bones.
😭🥰thank you so much for this!! Goose bumps an tears of love for embracing my heritage
I actually am indigenous, but it's an incredibly small part. Goes way back several generations. People who share one of my more dominant cultures, on the other hand, have had an incredibly mixed response to me because I'm not 100%, like they are. Thank you so much for welcoming the mutts of the world into your community. A lot of us really want to learn about our heritage and connect, but it's really hard.
When my tribe sent a message out to the Tribe, it did not differentiate half blooded or quarter blooded from full blooded. It called us all Osage Indians.
MUTTS ARE CREATIVE
WONDERFUL PEOPLE
❤ YOU ARE WELCOME
😊😊😊❤❤❤😊😊😊
ALONG ON JOURNEY !
My dancing Spirit!! You naje my day when i see what can NATURAL happiness IS!! You!! Thank you for giving us positive reflexions!!❤❤ 🦅🦅🌹🌹
💞🙏💕✨✨✨ sending it forward 💕✨✨
I needed this. I wasn't fortunate enough to grow up around my own 😢 I feel like so much of who I am was robbed from me.
I feel so much like that about my Mexican heritage. My mother's parents encourage her to pass as white and for half of my childhood we lived in an area that was very racist so I didn't even know I was 75% mexican until I was older and we had moved away. I know she was trying to protect me and that she had toxic parents that grew up in a toxic 60s world telling them white was better but god.... I feel robbed of so much of my culture that my other mexican friends grew up around. I've been trying to reconnect ever since. I spent my whole life not really fitting in with white people because they were suspicious of me (in that racist town) and now I struggle to fit in with mexican culture as well. It's a weird place to be. I love this channel so much
I grew up in foster care so I missed a lot and I’m currently learning!
@@RowanMarshmallow I'm so sorry you had to experience this too! This whole "white is better" thing makes me sick. White people have no culture to even hand down. About 12 years ago I went to my first sweat lodge and that had more impact on me than anything I learned from growing up in a white dominant world. Not even trying to make this about race, just there really is no culture that is truly American. I've always felt out of place in life.. I used to think I was wiccan because of what I believed in 😂 then I learned I was native and I started learning about different practices and stuff and it started to make sense lol it's seems too many people lost touch with nature and are driven by keeping up with corporate America and it's disgusting.. everything from fast fashion to killing and/or selling off America's farm land to foreign countries... I hate it. "God bless America"... Yea, because that's the only hope she has left 😭 it would take a miracle or an act of God to save her.
@@llw8845 🫂 I'm so sorry you grew up in worse conditions, I'm so proud of you for keeping yourself together and learning on your own!! 💓💓💓 My mother was a sad example of what happens when you grow up in foster care and unfortunately it can be an easy path for some. Keep being strong and know there's people like me out here rooting for you 💜💜💜
@@RowanMarshmallow wow. I had a whole long response to your comment but it got deleted.. I guess I shouldn't be surprised.. white people don't like to be called out on their 🐂 💩💩💩
Thanks! I'll remember that! Needed to hear this as I'm mixed 😊 every bit of encouragement helps thank you
❤ YOU ! 😊😊😊 &
WELCOME ❤❤❤
@@patricewilcox792 thanks! 🤗😊
I thank you, I feel my native ancestors. I'm very proud of my Mohawk blood
It's like I can feel the drums and I can't sit still God bless the people
Such a positive message! And group together & start demanding Congress pay back all the money the BIA kept 'safe' for you & your tribe! ❤
RIGHT ✅!!!💯
@@sheilayoung9082 My Mother who's deceased was a Young. Native American! Her Grandmother had her finger cut off by a wagon flying by with no regard to her being a child fallen!
😮SORRY DON'T HOLD
YOUR BREATH 😢
THEY BEEN STEALING
FROM SS FOR YEARS
ALSO😮😢
I love Native American culture. I wish I were Native American🌎🩷🌹
Maybe you were in a past life. 🤔
It's 2024. If a man can wear makeup and say they can get pregnant, what's stopping you from putting feathers in your hair and going hey-how-ya-hey-how-ya?
Thank you for your teaching words. Culture like this is so much more precious than some of us realize. I'm not sure of this, but so far I don't even know my culture. Knowing how blessed you are keeps me coming back. ❤
Blackfoot and proud! Passed down from my beautiful Great Great Grandma. 😍
Thank you! Husband’s pic, but I am Cherokee, Irish, English, and African. I think that it may be why my grandmother not got documentation from her tribe in the Carolina’s. I have always taken pride in my indigenous heritage and want to know more.
Thank you. I needed to hear this. I'm mixed, Cherokee and Scottish, but my Cherokee blood has been calling me more and more the older I get (I'm 77). So once again, I thank you for giving me a sense of belonging. 🤗🥰
I’m Cherokee & Scottish! Our great great grandmothers sure had a type! 😂😂
-that's cool I'm Alaskan native in Irish😊❤
Yes I am indigenous; but, also multiethnic because of all my different ancestors. I thank God for this blessings🙏
No one would know I have mix in me because I'm white. Our family got tested and it's there in our DNA. Since I was a child I was fascinated with native American culture. Thank you 😊
Same here! DNA doesn't lie. 🥹
They still gonna treat u like the rest of us unless u carry that paper and flash it like a n word pass. We aren't so different after all are we??
I wish I was more. My DNA says only one percent. But I still respect the native culture.
The DNA tests are tricky because they dont neccesarily indicate which tribe you descend from which is important. But my dad took his for the heck of it even though he knows he is native and it connected to a bunch of cousins living on a local reservation, so it can help with networking that way. It can be a good start for research, but its really important to know what tribe you are from rather than just "native american" if you want to be accepted in the tribal community. If thats something you care about but alot people just see it as a personal identity rather than belonging to a collective nowadays and that is foreign for us that grew up in tribal communities.
@@jacksonsinclair2615 What dna test did your dad take?
A beautiful and inclusive message!!
The sounds and vibration of this speaks to my soul... the ancestors too speak wisdom to my heart 🙌 🐺🦬🌵🦅🦅🖐🙏👶🧒🏻🙇🏾♀️🙇♂️🥷🧎♀️
50% OJIBWE..... 50% ENGLISH ...........
❤🎉 100% PROUD TO BE ME !! 🎉❤
I will never forget ❤ from my mother from her parents who never knew I could never forget the ancestors we were never fortunate enough to know
My great grandmother was a little Indian girl found in the desert by spanish people and I love the fact that I am indigenous thank you for this video
We are all related. Indigenous people know that we are all related. People get stuck on what tribe are you, where are you from or where are your people. . We came out of the heart of God. I've always known this even as a child. I am Dakota (Sioux), English and Castilian Spanish. But I know that's just what I am here as I pass through this place called Earth... the lower dimension. But even that is not my identity. My identity is in God. Because I came out from the heart of God. I grew up in a racist world. My own people even look down on me because I'm mixed. I say to them I was born indigenous, white and Spanish. There's nothing wrong with that, does it make a difference what color I am. I am what I am accept me for who I am or stay away from me, leave me alone. But don't talk down to me or about me. It was my own indigenous people that treated me that way. And they still do. So here the notorious Cree he accepts me for who I am. This post just proves it. I'm sorry I have a lot of love in my heart for this man we're accepting me for who I am. Indigenous, English and Castilian. But more than that Notorious Cree accepts me and all of us because I am and we all are a child of God. And this is a beautiful thing. Notorious Creed is a beautiful soul. That's how I see him. Which inspires an uplifts me to o.
My great grandmother was also full blooded native. High five 🖐️
Thank you I needed to hear that 🪶💫🪶✌🏽🐎
You hit me in the heart ❤. I’ve been told all my life I’m an Indian girl, been told they see it in me, been told been told… but this made me feel it.
Only the smallest part of me. My great great great grandmother was full blood Cherokee .. but my soul calls and longs for native music and dance it fuels my soul!!!!
I think a lot of us are in that canoe. The older I get the more I feel the call of drums.
Same. My maternal grandfather's mother was full blooded Ojibwe. Im the whitest redheaded white girl on earth who is one eighth Ojibwe.
My great grandmother was Mayan on my father's side and Taino on my mother's side, the taino's pretty much lost their culture and language to the Spaniards, but they're trying as best as they can to revive it despite the constant oppression they and now everyone endures in Cuba. The only thing passed down were herbal medicines/remedies. I don't think of myself indigenous, but I can't pretend like it doesn't call to me to rediscover that party of my ancestral history
Well Said. My heart loves my Heritage, my Mother was.She was proud too. I dance and hold my head high. My hair is natural. I've been to Navaho Nation, Cherokee Nation, many Pow Wows & dance. We are artist's, work with clay, & love the earth God made. ❤✝️❤️
I'm glad I'm not alone, I needed this.
Knowing who we are is one of the most important things in life, IMO.
We set up this country to be what it is, self sustainable and with plenty to share. 😊👍🏾
Sends love n respeful bows 🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤😊😊😊😊🤗🤗🤗🤗🤗 thank you u family
Yes i love this it calms me inside...and its just soothing nice beat 🪘
I grew up around many kids of indigenous heritage and I was very blessed to be invited several times to join them for pow wows... I truly enjoy sharing in the culture and food.
I'm not native but I wish I knew more about your culture. The truth
I certainly understand. I feel that TV and old movies have made Native culture and Native communities look like novelty items, instead of the REAL PEOPLE who actually where here in the Americas FIRST!!❤❤❤❤
Ask and you shall be told
@@sheilayoung9082yes I totally agree with this Statement and Pow wows are Ruining our Culture because it's so Generalized and People that should be Learning their language and Ceremony ways Don't learn.
That's why our languages are Dying out
Inspiring you are a awesome person
I was kept from my family...all I have is the name Smoot. One of my grandmother's. I'd give anything to know more about my culture but no one is interested in helping me connect and my autism makes it next to impossible to do it alone with no support or guidance. Still ...I walk with the sun and the moon and I listen to the winds songs 😊
God bless you and keep you safe.
I have found, being on the spectrum, that friends have been more support and comfort than my blood family .
My girlfriend is Umonhon and Ho-chunk but recently found out she actually has a little Cherokee in her too from her grandmothers side. That was their last name, Smoot
My people are “melungeon” we are mixed race and come from natives. The town I grew up in is named Smoot. After the smoot family in WV
🍀 Thank-you for the warm welcome dear.🎉🎉 I'm almost 70yrs young,+have tried a long time to find a glimmer of acknowledgment.🤔This is the First!💚I appreciate this more than you could know young Man.😁I am a hodge -podge.🎉🎉🎉Mohican from upper Canada,French-Canadian, Scottish+Irish.🍀Not one for labels but i do take much pride in my heritage,bless our Brave Ancestors.They had worked extremely hard to pave the way for Us.💪💪💪They are forever in my heart!❤Goddess Bless each of you! 💋 Blessings from NY!🌲🌺🌈🌍🌘
Thank you. I feel a connection with my, "cultures" as I'm, "mixed". Yet, the rhythms, the, " heart beats", tell me Exactly Who I Am. 😊
Thank you so much for this. I'm mixed, but I don't know much about my indigenous heritage, but I look forward to connecting and learning. Indigenous culture is rich and beautiful. ❤
I'm 39.6% native. I wish I was more.
Who cares? we are all humans!
regardless of the % you can still reconnect with your heritage, ancestry, and your land
Genetics are just a social pass into a culture. Reconnect with the culture and people, you can live more than one truth. And you can participate in more than one culture.
@@PurkyeAs humans, we have the need to belong to a place, to a town, to a community, in the same way that we have the need to have and belong to a family. And yes, we are all human, and we also belong to the animal kingdom like all other animals, and all life on this planet is part of us. And if you "don't have" this need, it means that you have a family, a place to call home and that you belong to a culture that doesn't know what it's like to have its roots and soul ripped out.
Thank you 🦅🪶❤️🔥
I'm just turning 61 this past Autumn Day, Sept 23rd...I've been told ALL MY LIFE That I am Half Iroquois from my Father, who looked VERY NATIVE, High Cheek Bone structure, 5 Glorious Chest Hairs, He Loved to Dance..He taught me How To Dance..he had extremely good rhythm and felt the music. He taught me how to play guitar, he said I am naturally gifted.. I miss his teachings... He is gone now but NEVER FORGOTTEN. .. TY for Your Youthful Inspiration... oh, and I'm PROUD OF YOU!! I Quit Drinking myself, 5 years now... Keep Doin Whatchur Doin... XoxoX
Bravo! We must never forget our roots❤
Thanks for this.
I’m mixed but took after my dad (mom is native). It sucks ass. I remember being so proud as a kid and it just got ruined by grown ass adults constantly telling me things like “mmm idk buddy I don’t think you should be identifying as that”. As if it’s my fault that I as a male look more like my dad, what a shocker. Don’t let others bring you down. Own it and be proud cause there aren’t many of us left.
I’m a Heinz 57 mixed race. But. I am most proud of being part Cree.
❤ GOOD GIRL ! ! ! 😊😊
I love watching the foot work.The sound is music to my ears❤❤
Literally made me cry ❤
1/4 Eastern Cherokee here. Osiyo. Wado for being an inspiration to many from other Nations and Tribes. Seeing the beauty of Native American culture being displayed not only at PowWow’s but on here is something that will always hold a special place in my heart.
I appreciate this and agree. Be proud of who you are. I'm Chickasaw Choctaw and am learning so much about my tribe
Oh my Indigenous Heart. Thank you so much. I needed to hear this message. Especially the "mixed" part. Tears are streaming. Today is the 68th year of my birth. Thank you for this beautiful Celebratory message reminder in song and dance... I will now Celebrate today this Great Blessing of my Indigenous Heritage 💞🥰💞🙏🏽🤗🦅🐻💕
I dont even know how native i am, but you can see it in my dad and grandad. Im paler than snow and ive never felt indigenous, and I have no idea how to connect to my roots. Ive always wanted to, and its always so nice hearing and seeong things like this 😊
Straight up made me cry
A wonderful heartfelt message that many needed to hear. ❤❤
I'm not indigenous but something powerful draws me to your videos and I get goosebumps everytime.
Thank you N C.. you're teachings are so important and so creative.. embrace yourself brother 🕸️🕷️🪶🪶🪶spider girl..oh and love the one you're with..she loves you too🎉❤
Thank you brother, I really needed this today.
Mixed Osage here, dad and granny always kept us informed of who we were (his memorabilia wall made it easy to connect the dots ) but we never participated in tribal things or if anything learned much of our background growing up. I went to my first powwow in college as it was a Native American government ran college and I really got to connect but at the same time I felt so lost and still not really accepted. Didnt matter having an 1/8 quantity, when you are white and blonde you feel like an outsider. Nobody gave me a good heads up when I started digging into my ancestry about how connected my bloodline, now there's a movie based on my Great Great Grandparents and I've never felt more weird and lost in the sauce.
Beautiful message. We need more unity and encouragement in this world. Keep spreading the positivity.