So, being a Navajo..

It’s interesting seeing some of these comments which are pretty kinda not how we should be homogeneous in our thinking…

Natives come in all shapes and sizes

Even colors

Hair styles

Hair types (Not just straight or black)

Varying cheek bones

Statures

Etc…

Also if you’re Navajo you’re sacred name is

A. Not for Anyone (but close family) to know as it could be used against you
B. Not going to be a simple animal name. It’s much more linguistically complex
C. Going to be withi the 4 sacred mountains

Some of y’all asking about these stereotypical nonsense attributes…

I just don’t get it…

Also, you’re great Great grandmother who was a Cherokee princess?

Not real. (More than likely your family wants to be a part of history in some way and made this shit up)

If you grew up singing the sacred songs, eating/cooking the food, hearing the stories, doing the ceremonies, speaking/reading/writing the language w the community then you have/are a part of tribe.

It’s not in your blood. Blood quantum is ridiculous. No ones 100% or 1/2 or .25 Native blood. That’s colonizer nonsense.

Your culture is in your spirit.

If not.

Don’t claim it until you have.

My opinion. That is all.

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PepsiColaP

[quote]If you grew up singing the sacred songs, eating/cooking the food, hearing the stories, doing the ceremonies, speaking/reading/writing the language w the community then you have/are a part of tribe.

It’s not in your blood. Blood quantum is ridiculous. No ones 100% or 1/2 or .25 Native blood. That’s colonizer nonsense.[/quote]
I love that

AnthroKenji · 36-40, M

@PepsiColaP Appreciate you ❤️

PepsiColaP

@AnthroKenji as someone who grew up inbetween two countries and seen as a foreigner in both places and now living in a completely different land as an adult,I found a lot of truth to it. You are not your blood or the dirt you are born in but the culture you embrace and accept as yours

AnthroKenji · 36-40, M

@PepsiColaP Yes, I agree w that, you make your own way and navigate your identity within the culture you’re around.

Culture is a shaky concept but applies here.

I don’t like it when other claim the one I’m part of and don’t show it the proper respect.

PepsiColaP

@AnthroKenji I feel the same way,I dont consider myself a patriot in any way whatsoever but I have a deep sense of love and respect for the past and current teachings I accepted as my identity ,so when I hear people say they are this percent of that and this percent of this or completely disregard my roots as my own because of my familys complex migrating history I feel upset and hurt . I know what I grew up learning and I have met Greeks that are more Greek than the "blood born ones".

AnthroKenji · 36-40, M

@PepsiColaP Oh man I feel that completely. I have a cousin and I can’t describe him any better than a Navajo Supremist. He says everyone else are mutts and he’s “pure”. We get into arguments over his attitude of other people he doesn’t accept someone that doesn’t have ancestry completely of Navajo and that’s ridiculous thinking. That’s not a Diné way of thinking. It’s Nazi thinking. The most colonized way of thinking that you’re “pure”.