HI, I AM OFF MIXED BLOOD TOO..I AM ASSYRIAN, SWEDE, AND NATIVE AMERICAN-CHEROKEE...I AM PROUD OF ALL THE PARTS OF ME...IT HAS TAKEN SOME TIME TO GET HERE THOUGH. ONE SAYING HAS HELPED ME..WELL, MORE THAN ONE, BUT I SAY THE SERENITY PRAYERS A LOT..

OF COURSE THERE IS ANOTHER VERSION I LOVE TOO...

AND NAMASTE...

I HAVE COME TO BELIEVE WE ARE ALL RELATED AND THAT GIVES ME PEACE AND PATIENCE, MOST OF TIME ANYWAY...I HOPE YOU FIND THAT FOR YOURSELF..I TRULY BELIEVE WE ARE ALL DOING THE BEST WE CAN AT ANY ONE TIME, SO WHEN I FIND MYSELF FEELING RESENTMENT, OR ANY BAD FEELING ABOUT OTHERS OR LIFE...I USE THESE SAYINGS TO CENTER MYSELF. I THEN ASK WHY I AM SO AFFECTED BY WHATEVER THE SITUATION OR THE PEOPLE INVOLVED. IT IS USUALLY A TRIGGER WITHIN MYSELF I NEED TO LOOK AT...HOPE THIS MAKES SENSE...I KNOW YOU WILL FIND WHAT WORKS FOR YOU...ARE ANY OF US "REALLY WHITE"? I AM NOT SURE ABOUT THAT..BUT, WE ARE WHO WE ARE...SO I WILL JUST "NAMASTE" AND I SEND YOU BLESSINGS MY FRIEND...LL

I began writing my family history in 1987 after my father died. I wanted to preserve the family history for my children and future generation. everyone in the family told me to leave it alone. on my mothers side I hit so many brick walls that it was amazing how these people could have lived so long and not know anything about their ancestors.
I had been told all my life my mothers grandmother was full blooded cherokee. I had her name but no where could I find her family. I took vacation one year and went to the mountains of Va where she was reportedly from. poured over info in the libary for hours and just happened to say out loud this makes no sense they just vanished off the face of the earth.
a sweet older man sitting near me asked if he could help. I told him i was trying to trace my cherokee roots and he said well honey i think you have some wrong info. The Blackfoot indians were from this area. aHHHHH now it makes sense. Within in two hours I had her entire family history.
So you see my family being white had created a cherokee grandmother rather than a black one.
My ancestry has always been very important to me and when I told my mother what i had found her first response was I told you to leave it alone. she knew all along and so did her siblings but chose to create a new heritage for themselves. one of my brothers did not believe me at all and decided to do research on his own and i still laugh out loud at his discovery. he stopped when he found out that our fathers mother was also light skinned biracial black woman. soooooooooooo I opened a can of worms they would rather be left buried and still to this day have come across family histories online while doing research of cousins who have the compete history but refuse to say they are blackfoot indian and just say the whole family was cherokee.
I will never understand that. our ancestors do not make or break who we are and what we can and will become that comes from within ourselves. I am proud of my lineage and the struggles they made to adapt and survive in this world they were preparing for future generations and to honor them I feel they should be listed as who they were and not who someone wants them to be.
As for being WHITE? who really and truly can say they are completely white? who can say that they are 100% Americans. all our ancestors came from somewhere before they came here and who can say which race is the best race to belong to. The majority of the haters out there most likely do not even know their own heritage and would shut up if they did.
love you for you. let go of the past and move forward to honor your ancestors with your successes they gave up so much for you to have this opportunity. may peace be with you.

I too am of mixed heritage - French/Canadian, Chippewa and Dutch. I am also proud of each part. A few years back I started my quest of gathering information on my father's side since this is where the Chippewa part came from. I also met with a lot of resistance - a cousin who would not provide me with a copy of my grandmother's birth certificate or of my great-grandmother's marriage record. I eventually got a copy of the birth certificate but not the marriage record. Finding the marriage record always comes to a dead end because my great-grandparents were born and married in Canada but I do not know which province. I was told it could be Quebec but I do not believe that the Chippewa lived that far north. I continue the search because the Dutch stubborness in me will not give up. I hope that you can find peace between your different heritages. They all make you the person you are today.

I always knew my grandmother looked NA but did not know until about a week ago that her father was full blood Cherokee. I wish I knew how to trace back but this is all new to me. I guess that makes me some part NA but have no idea how much. I will say that I have no hard feeling towards the white man as this is history and stupid things have been done all through history. I think we just need to love one another and all try to get along. Of course, this is just my feelings.

What has been done to one has been done before to the other. It is a circle that needs to be broken. Unconditional Love for all heals the circle. It is simply mankind leaning to be human and has gone on for eons of time. There is no 'pure' race on this earth. I do genealogy too, and have studied the movement of people on this planet from ancient times. Don't hate part of who you are. Just forgive and love will heal not only you, but all of them who came before too. Many Blessings.

Wow...I don't check my blogs very much; I just want to say a huge wado/thank you for all of
your gentle feedback that spoke volumes to me. I am humbled by all the love and grateful for
new ways to look at being mixed blood.
Abundant Blessings to you all ~
wolfmom2/carol