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ELAG's avatar

As a child in elementary school growing up along Virginia's eastern shores and learning about the Indigenous people of the area, I always had a "gut" feeling or "past life" connection to the Indigenous people of the SouthWest. Fast forward into my adult life and after taking several DNA tests purely for finding lost family connections, someone reached out me and told me that my family and I are connected to a non federally recognized tribe because of our DNA. Now, I've always felt lost as to where "I" belonged/came from my entirelife; but now that I been told this information, instead of feeling relieved, I feel like a "pretendian" who is culturally appropriating if I were to act the role. How did this information make me feel even more lost? Am I truly an Indigenous spirit or just a wannabe?

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NicoBud's avatar

i wasn't going to comment since this is an indigenous peoples in the U.S. issue but then i saw "Before that, they were merely a first-generation LatinX descendant."

what do you think those "families come from Spanish-speaking, Hispanic and/or Latino communities" are made off?!

some were taught english, french or castilian(spanish) but how does that take away the indigenous in our blood?

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