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It's kinda shocking to me how few people seem to know how prevalent the 'my great grandmother was cherokee' myth is and how it's almost never actually true, especially when it comes with things like 'never signed up' or 'fell off the trail' or 'courthouse burned down destorying the documentation' etc etc.
People just don't even seem to know the history like.. when the Trail happened. My great great great grandfather was 2 years old during Removal in 1838, so peoples 'my great grandmother hid in the mountains!' is so clearly wrong. And we have rolls. From before and after removal, rolls done by cherokee nation and others by the government, rolls that were not stored in one random flammable courthouse. It's not difficult to find the actual evidence of ancestry.
And just.. there are lots of ways those family stories get started. It was a practice during the confederacy to claim cherokee ancestry to show one's family had 'deep roots in the south' that they were there before the cherokee were removed. Many people pretended to be cherokee and applied for the Guion-Miller payout just to try to steal money meant for cherokees - 2/3rds of the applicants were denied for having 0 proof of actual cherokee ancestry. [We even see lawyers advertising signing up for the Miller roll just to try to get free money.] And the myth even started in some families in the cherokee land lotteries, where the land stolen from us was raffled off, including the house and everything that was left behind when the cherokees were removed. We have seen people whose families just take these things stolen from the cherokee family and adopt them into their own family story, saying that they were cherokee themselves.
If you had some family story about being cherokee and you wanna have proof one way or the other, check out this Facebook group run by expert cherokee genealogists that do research for free. Just please read the rules fully and respect the researchers. They run thousands of people's ancestries a year and their average is only around 0.7% of lines they run actually end up having true cherokee ancestry.
#and ive heard even dumber origins of the cherokee family myth#such as an ancestor having a silly sounding name so the descendents just go 'oh she mustve been an indian!!!'#i was one of the few people who had my ancestry done on the facebook and had genuine cherokee ancestry#[though i had found it before it was just really validating to get it double checked and i started finding cousins (:]#like. i was told once when i was a kid by my grandma that my dad had cherokee ancestry and i didnt believe her. its wild that so many peopl#will make it a Fixture of their identity [or even just smth they bring up ever] with Zero proof#at least for cherokees from what ive seen its usually considered really disrespectful to claim to have cherokee ancestry without#actually having the documentation [like ancestors on the rolls]#and no a dna test doesnt count. nor does 'my dad is Clearly not white!' or 'high cheekbones' or old family photos or anything#i had this discussion with someone recently whose dad had been calling himself 3/4 native but didnt know exactly what nation ???? hello?#and its like... sorry but ur dad is like. italian lol.#[and blood quantum is bullshit anyway im tired of the 'im 1/16 cherokee' comments its dumb#cherokee nation does not have a blood quantum requirement. its pointless bringing it up in the discussion of who is or isnt cherokee]#also mandatory disclaimer that im reconnecting. i didnt grow up connected to the culture of even knowing my ancestry#this is all from my looking into this stuff over the past year or so. i cant claim to be an authority over anything regarding this#this is p much all my repeating things ive heard said by people who know a lot more than i do haha#man. and this isnt even starting to get into the fake tribe stuff. the only legit cherokee groups are the 3 federally recognized bands#cherokee nation of oklahoma. united keetoowah band. and the eastern band of cherokee indians.#any others that are state recognized or not at all arent acknowledged as legitimate by any of the legit cherokee groups#anyway. my final message goodb.ye#cherokee#tsalagi
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The girls are in
#antique#vintage nude#vintage postcards#I definately think they’re reproductions but that’s not how they were listed!! when clearing out my great grandmas attic I found a stash of#nude postcards that were very tatty and worn and I sold them for £90 as I was between homes at the time and had nowhere to keep them I was#downsizing basically! but someone on Reddit told me they were worth £10ish each in better condition! so while I underpaid for each of these#by like £5 each I can tell they’re definately not vintage but kinda annoying because I still did pay £5 each and I could of just printed#still cute though!!! and cherished! I want some real vintage ones one day!#personal
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Welp. Dog was put to sleep, grandma is going to be put in a nursing home soon if she’s unable to recover from her surgery, one of my siblings are currently trying to escape a very toxic relationship, and my dad is apparently in the ICU recovering from COVID and a collapsed lung. Which I only found out by happenstance today.
What a month.
That said, my eldest sister DID get her dream job teaching mortuary science despite her young age. So like. That’s one good thing. You know. Considering everyone else is either dying or trying to die.
Looks like Inuyasha is going to continue being my hyperfixation for the foreseeable future. T’is my comfort. Please excuse me as I proofread the next chapter so I don’t have a breakdown. ☠️
#oh and my dad didn’t know the dog was put to sleep because HE was in the ICU and I had to tell him about that AND our sister who also#didn’t know. so that was an experience. and then I got to tell her about our dad because apparently no one told HER#and I only found out about the collapsed lung THIS MORNING because I was in the living room when my eldest sibling was telling our grandma#AUGUST PLEASE CALM DOWN TOO MUCH IS HAPPENING IN ONE MONTH#anyways I am going to continue hyperfixating on Inuyasha to cope because I will break down and cry otherwise thanks#SO MUCH MISCOMMUNICATION IS HAPPENING NO ONE IS TELLING ANYONE ANYTHING AND IT’S LIKE GUYS PLEASE WHAT IS GOING ON#ramblings#tw death
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ohhhh my god. okay. so. my aunt does like, she buys random junk in bulk from retail wholesalers and then resells it on like, facebook marketplace and ebay and stuff. whatever. so my mom works for her. makes a flat $50 a day, regardless of the fact that shes disabled and doing hard labor for at least 8 hours a day, often 10+. and min wage here is $10 an hour but mom argued that $50 a day is still more than what she would make working the same hours at an actual job because of taxes...like girl that would be 50% taxes. you do not pay that fucking much. so thats already Bad.
but today mom shows me a video of a knife theyre gonna sell, and i watch 2 seconds and i realize its an automatic knife, and i tell her hey. thats illegal to possess in this state. let alone sell! and mom is like ohhh [aunt] knows what shes doing itll be fine.... we sell knives on there all the time she just doesnt put pictures and calls them something else on the listing to get around fb/ebays policies :)
LIKE. HELLO. THATS NOT BETTER. YOURE COMMITTING MULTIPLE CRIMES. *AS YOUR JOB.* and she was just like "its not a big deal she knows what shes doing." folks, this is the same aunt that, very illegally, paid me to sort through her clients confidential tax documents and bank records and stuff. because she works for a bank. and took the records home to sort them. i dont think she DOES know what shes doing, actually!
#why do both of my parents need to be so impressively incompetent. i like. cannot find the words for how . i feel about this#like. idc about crimes. go forth. be free. but maybe. just maybe. you should not make your job#“hi today i will post about how i am selling illegally possessed objects on a widely used public forum”#dont do crimes STUPID. yanno.#in other parent news. its now like. month 6 or so of dad refusing to get his insurance reinstated.#hes been on the same step (taking his paystubs to the dhhr office) for like 3 months?#anyway apparently he found out today/last night that when he was a kid he was diagnosed with gastroparesis !#which is like ! cool! you have a diagnosis AND ive been living with that for 16 years and can help you 🥰#but we were sitting there with mom (this was right before the knife thing) and she was like “well you gotta get your insurance now so you#can get on the right meds“ and dad was like yeah ill go....#and mom was saying well go in the morning when they open etc etc and he was like i will#and i pointed out that just two weeks ago i told him that too. and he didnt want to. bc hed lose money due to not being able to work#and mom was like well he doesnt work at 8am. and i was like yeah i know but i told him to go at 8am two weeks ago and that was his response#and then he proceeded to claim that this whole time he didnt know they opened at 8am.#folks. he doesnt start working until like...usually 10 or so. WHAT GOVERNMENT OFFICE DOESNT OPEN UNTIL 10.#PLUS. WE LIVE IN A RURAL HOUR. *BUSY* TAKES LIKE AN HOUR. MOST OF THE TIME YOURE IN AND OUT WITHIN 20 MINITES.#ive been fucking considering PAYING HIM to go get it.#and then he claims he didnt know it opened at 8am. when i have told him that. MULTIPLE TIMES.#WHY DO THEY HAVE TO BE LIKE THISSSS THEYRE THE MOST IMMATURE ADULTS IVE EVER MET AND THATS IMPRESSIVE!!!#IVE KNOWN PEOPLE WHO PAY THEIR RENT IN COKE OR WHO ARE ESSENTIALLY PROFESSIONAL PARTIERS. AND *THEYRE* MORE RESPONSIBLE AND MATURE THAN MY#PARENTS. SO WHAT GIVES.#also theyre 50 like cmon yall. youre not even 20 or 30. i think you should know how to not like. get your job shut down or die of lack#of medication.#did i tell yall one of the times a few months ago i was nagging dad abt getting his insurance#his response was literally. no exxageration.#he was like oughhh i dont wanna see doctors because then theyll find out somethings wrong with me#and ill have to go on a bunch of medication.#and then he actually for real. said.#“being on too many medications killed my grandma”#even mom was like cmon man. thats not even true. they misdiagnosed her and put her on WRONG meds. she wasnt even on that many.
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Actually we r at 6 months now without any major deaths in my life, which is great! That's the longest I've gone without any major deaths since last May! The second longest was 4 months between July and November last year. Wow !
#speculation nation#negative/#i mean not exactly but also. ya kno.#really i dealt with death after death in may july november and the biggest in february#actually i think my great grandma died within the span between july and november. but i wasnt close with her & dont remember when#so idk if id count that. if i did then the longest would be 3 months. between november and february.#all this is to say. wow what a Fucking year last year was huh#i still dont rly feel like i have much trust in people staying alive in my life.#but maybe im a bit less scared of even more people in my life suddenly dropping dead.#... then again now i apparently have something wrong with my liver. which i am still not happy about.#the only reason why im not dying of anxiety is bc i still feel relatively normal overall.#but i also just remembered how. well. 28 has Long been my unlucky number. and im turning 28 next year.#so ive been half convinced im just gonna die when im 28. bc thatd be just my luck wouldnt it#and like overall theres no real reason why i Would die at that age. but now theres something wrong with my liver.#and like ok i dont think it's liver failure. i dont have any real symptoms for it#and if it was an emergency my doctor wouldve told me to go to the hospital. probably.#but idk. my truest anxiety about it is that it could be something cancerous. or something.#and really i have no reason to suspect that specifically. it's just one of the potential causes for the enzyme abnormality we found#but bc it's not entirely off the table. well now my mind has latched onto it. and is like 'What If'#and ok i just now looked into possible liver diseases to try to calm my anxiety. with mixed success.#bc i found all sorts of liver diseases. including cirrhosis. which is irreversible damage.#im just clinging to the hope of the fact that my readings werent Too high... just.#every single one associated with the liver was high. which means theres Definitely something wrong with my liver.#and im kind of scared it's bc of my prior alcohol use. i wasnt an alcoholic but i did drink pretty regularly for a bit.#but also how unfair would it be for me to get a liver disease from that??? the most i ever drank at one time was 8 shots#which is a lot but there are some people doing that kind of thing Regularly. and they dont get liver disease???#regardless this has been extra persuasion to stay off the alcohol. especially until i know what's up with it.#heyyyy mr liver inside me i prommy i will take good care of u from now on. pls dont die on me 😭😭😭#see ok this is what happens whem i start to think. i get anxious. i just need to keep not thinking.#it's 10 pm i think thats a good time for sleepies
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living with my mom again has been so fucking infuriating
#she’s been such an asshole abt ‘getting rid’ of my cat cause my grandma doesn’t want him in her house anymore#I haven’t been able to find anyone to take him in#and now that I did#it’s w my best friend in a different state (where I used to live)#and I told her I found a place for him#and she was an asshole abt that too ?????#like WTF do you want from me#he can’t stay here he can’t stay at my grandmas and yeah it sucks that the only place he can stay is 10 hours away but WTF else am I#supposed to do#god I just wanna get a job and move out again#we were having such a good relationship when we each had a place#mars talks
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some quick edits of Ben if Xylene was his grandma hehe
#Me and my brothers have held the (semi-joking) opinion that Xylene is actually their grandma and max just never told them. I’m sure you can#Imagine how we lost it when we found their grandma IS an alien that max just never told them about.#ben 10#ben tennyson#ben 10 omniverse#my edits#i speak#anyways I do have a full fic idea for this au but. Let’s be real it’ll never get written#Gam gam xylene au
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drop the funnest fact about you ! now !! :)
the funnest fact !??!?! this is tricky!!
hmmm the most entertaining one i can think of rn is that i had taught myself how to read when i was pretty young, but i liked when my grandma read to me so i hid it from her (she caught me reading on my own one time though)
#this took me like 20 minutes to think of a good answer#i find myself very uninteresting#also this is true. i loved reading time with my grandma so much that i just never told her when i could read on my own#she was very upset when she found out#i don’t remember this myself however my parents think it’s funny#answering asks :]#ask box#not a yearning post#so no yearning tags
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#this is a vent ? post#i found out an hour ago that my grandma passed away#and she wasn't well these last few years so i thought about it often#i imagined how it would feel#but i feel nothing????#we weren't really close but she's been around my whole life#she's the only real grandma i have#but we didn't share anything at all#but she was still there#we see family for every birthday#every christmas#and idk#i don't really know what i expected to feel#i just cried when my mom told me because she was crying because it was her mom#and i can't ever imagine loosing my mom#also this is the first time i experience death in my close family#my dad lost his dad years ago but we were estranged for years and years#so it didn't hit me at all it was very abstract#but now idk why i feel nothing#i guess i can't really wrap my head around it yet
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Why does instagram keep giving me videos about grandparents like does it want me to fall on the floor sobbing today
#they're all gone! none left now#idk what happened this week but i've been trying SO hard not to think about my nana at all#it’s just a constant don't think about it don’t think about it don’t think about it#i did have a really violent nightmare about her the other night. that fucked me up...#maybe it's because i talked to my mom and she mentioned her for a minute. neither of us know how to talk about it.#i literally can't even think about it i'll start crying.#should visit my partner's nonna and nonno... but i will cry. still we need to see nonno because he's very unwell.#i can't fucking believe i found out my nana died and then immediately went to class.#mentioned it to my professor and the whole class gasped and asked if i was okay or if i needed to leave.#but if i didn't go to class then i would have just been home alone...#crying in front of my favourite prof a few days later was... yikes. but it was okay. she felt like a grandma to all of us#she was sincerely sorry. esp because that class was called 'women and aging'#she spend the entire year telling us to ask the older women in our families their stories#and now i have none left. didn’t get to ask.#i don't know why i didn't call when i wanted to#i can't think about it#glad my mom told me that she feels totally disconnected to family too. bc lately ive felt very alone.#like my nana getting sick and dying brought them together but only for a short while.#feels like we have no extended family and it's fucking me up a lot. im just glad im not the only one
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hugging you hugging you hugging you
Thankyou, it's been a pretty rough day, after a difficult couple of weeks 🧡🧡🧡
#mum took me op shopping after#which while not great for me physically because I'm still pretty unwell was fun#and a much needed distraction#found a bday gift of 2 little quartz birds for a friend who likes rocks#then her grandma dropped in when we got home and we showed her#and she told us my friend saw them last week and wanted them but said they were too expensive#they'd just dropped the price before we got there and they told us the birds had been viewed by a bunch of people that day#but no one bought them#so I felt like that was God's timing#and earlier Furby the kitten climbed up on my chest to purr like a train which was nice#and then starting biting me which was less nice but expected lol#so I'm feeling more grounded and less upset now
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#I can't sleep rn because of family drama I found out today 🧍🏻♀️#one of my aunts is contesting my grandma's will and the person who is getting fucked over the most is my dad#she wants a share in our family farm despite never giving a shit & my dad being the only one who loves farming#might never see two of my aunts again 🤪#one of them into qanon and stuff so it's not a huge loss but still#also potentially some of my cousins? idk qanon aunt has 7 kids but they're all adults now#some of them I will very surprised (& heartbroken) if they take their mom's side but idk idk#also the whole thing is stupid she apparently requested my grandpa will too like. that man has been dead since before I was born 😐#there's no way you're going to be to contest that#also shockingly oldest aunt is on our side (dad and Uncle). she once told my grandma to stop spending their inheritance so 🥴#my dad's side of my family is crazy I surprised they've made it this long without a rift#my grandparents literally tried to pay off my one aunts boyfriend lmao#same aunt who's contesting the will btw#she has issues ngl my grandparents didn't name her for weeks bc they wanted a boy 🙃#but like she's 60 now & has a phd in psychology & her parents are dead! very very dead!#and she's taking it out on her brothers so#she's been trying to do this for years & told my mom as much when my dad was hospital 🧍🏻♀️#also other qanon aunt is backing her up and she's got issues too#when her partner died she made their FOURTEEN YEAR OLD son the next of kin#my cousin had his dad autopsy addressed to him at 14 let that sink in#my grandma ended up organising and funding the whole funeral pretty much because my aunt refuse to do any of it because she was made at him🙃#they had seven kids & she nearly didn't go to the funeral#it was really traumatic for them (obviously) and she made it worse. my cousin was handed the Irish flag at 11 w/o being told#my mom had to take him away bc how obviously broken he was#I should stop talking about this now#I might delete this later idk#bella talks
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Today I managed to unpack seven boxes, not that you can really tell. I did more than that though.
There is a very tall and very wide stack of boxes in what's technically supposed to be the dining room that are mostly full of books. It's been my dream to get them unpacked and on shelves since I moved in here. It's finally (slowly) happening.
Today I sorted through about a third of them. I pulled a few books from some, whole boxes from the pile, and repacked several others. The stack is now slightly shorter but takes up the same footprint (about half those books are either staying downstairs or need to be donated once I get the time to sit and consider them). I took as many of the craft books, star wars books, and manga that I collected in high school and college and moved them to the living room. From there the manga all went upstairs (since that's the bookshelf I started with and it empties boxes quickest). My partner thought I was crazy from moving them upstairs, but a lot of what I have isn't necessarily family friendly and some was reselling for quite a bit of money a few years ago. And since the work room can be closed off if we ever have guests over it makes the most sense. Their art books and gaming books are going to go into the loft along with my scifi and fantasy collection, while downstairs will remain reference books, gardening manuals, kids, and cookbooks. Yes, I've been planning this out for a very long time.
I'm going to have to go buy extra shelves soon, and possibly more magazine boxes but that's okay. And at some point I need to sort through what's in the loft and start moving things around. Just need to remember to wear my knee and elbow braces next time I start moving books; my joints are protesting right now.
#birdy tries to be a good adult#seeing all my books today reminded me of the time my aunt tried to convince my grandma to make me throw out my manga#because she found it offensive despite it not being in her direct sight#but her kids would go and hunt it down and read the ones i had hidden behind others#and since a lot of those were yaoi and boy's love she would freak out#like it was my fault that my male cousins insisted on breaking the look on my bedroom door and reading my private books#and yes my grandma knew what i read and while she didn't understand why she didn't care#i earned the money for them by working around the house and helping her with medical treatments#she knew how much the books physically cost and also how much i loved them#so she told my aunt that if she had a problem she needed to watch her kids better#caused a huge fight too lol#my partner knows about them too and also doesn't understand nor cares#in fact they've often asked me if i have certain ones if we find them at used bookstores#and been shocked when one was selling for fifty bucks and someone bought it while we were there
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oh i love how mlp s4 started out i really did love twilicorn actually. castle mane-ia is such a silly episode i love how the show went from awkward bits of not knowing exactly what it wanted to be to embracing itself and taking something previously mentioned offhandedly and turning it into a whole Thing
#talking#like i love how everyone in ponyville just accepts that they live next to a haunted forest w an old ass castle buried deep within#when aj tells dash granny smith told her a scary story abt the castle. idk thats so cute#Babe my grandma practically founded this town theres creepy shit down here.#rares taking flutters to find tapestries she heard were in there. i love them#also the animation got nicer and nicer!!! like the animators got more comfortable and knew what to do as the show went on#the lighting and bgs are super nice here especially#this is all kinda reminding me of my brother and i's adventure time rewatch from last summer#esp since adventure time rly was just doing an entire yes-and'ing improv bit the whole time and ended up being an insane story#mlp was more planned out but like im remembering this thing i saw someone say once#where the whole simon ice king thing came from ice king knowing a marceline song despite them never having met at that point in the show#AKA!!!! i miss longrunning shows that became cultural icons and changed the game for all of history.#bring that shit back#EDIT I FORGOT I WANTED TO ADD THIS:#cmon girls its a nice summer day it's time to explore this creepy ass castle!!!!!!!!!!
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the way i’m in a love-hate relationship with my history teacher rn 😍😍
#i just want this week to be over#she gave us a project and we have to study parts of our race#+ ethnicity +culture#so i put mexico and el salvador and i have to research one of those and an event that happened during the 1500s for one and another#for the 1600s and the 1700s#and i already did mexico for the 1500s and she was so happy with me. like even i thought i did good too#and she told me how good of a student i was when i turned in my paper and i was like thank u and she said “no#- thank u” and i just smiled and left#but bro#i have to do el salvador and literally nothing happened during the 1600s#i had to ask my grandma for help and she didn’t even know 😭#and we did sm research and couldn’t find anything for 1600s so we deadass found a salvadorian history textbook from 2009 online#deadass it’s my best bet#it’s in spanish too so like#i don’t think my teacher’s really checking sources thi
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Y'all. We've got to talk about that fucking gandalf big naturals joke.
If you're going to post a meme where the whole joke is just the image of a guy with tits, ha ha, look at this man, he's got tits, what more do I need to say about how hilarious that is, etc etc, at least tag it so people like me can block it. I get that none of y'all are thinking about what exactly it is you're laughing at, you don't mean it, but for a website full of people who never stop yelling at the top of their lungs about how trans inclusive they are, I'd think some of you guys could do a little better.
#i get it right?#people don't think about what they laugh at. laughter just comes naturally.#once when i was a cashier these two girls ran up to the cashier next to me asking where their parents were#and the cashier's customer grinned real wide and said they'd probably already left. his whole posture and tone indicated that it was a joke#and that everything was okay and nothing serious was happening#when he laughed the cashier laughed too and the kids left#a minute later another customer came up to the cashier and went OFF on her for it#saying what if those kids had panicked and run into the parking lot or street looking for their parents etc#and this cashier was a sweet old grandma who spent all her breaks knitting. she never would have wanted to endanger those kids#or even just freak them out#she just laughed on instinct because her social instincts told her to follow the first customer's tone and body language#which were telling her that everything was fine and that a joke was happening and to laugh#i would definitely have laughed. I know me. I don't think quickly enough to react the way I want to in person#so i get it. but like. after we laugh it's up to us to think a little bit about why we laughed#and where exactly the punchline was#while y'all have already signed up for my in-tags essay:#I know you could make the argument that the humor lies in seeing a character who doesn't come off as sexy-#-now having a trait that contrasts with that image in a surprising way. the unexpected is the core of how humor works#but I've found the line between that and making fun of the idea of a man having 'feminine' qualities is REALLY thin#just asking that the next time you see a similar joke you think a little bit about the mechanics of it#how it works. why it works. where the punchline is. how a man who fits that description would feel about it
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