I was told all my life I was part Cherokee. Then it was Crow. The latest is Blackfoot.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I'm proud of being part Cherokee, and I think it's time all us Indians felt the same way.
Part of my ancestry is Cherokee. And in that tradition, you become an adult when you're 52.
My mother's family came from the British West Indies. And my father's family came from, well, my father's father came from the Montana/South Dakota area. They were Blackfoot Indian.
It is amazing to me that so little is still known about the Trail of Tears or the lives of the Cherokees themselves.
Prior to my election, young Cherokee girls would never have thought that they might grow up and become chief.
I'm Cherokee, and there were times when social expansion was something that is needed by a cultural group or a national group.
The name Crow was inspired by a number of things. I thought it would be cool to have a robot with sort of a Native American feel to it.
Individually and collectively, Cherokee people possess an extraordinary ability to face down adversity and continue moving forward.
I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.
I was bred as an outcast, part Negro and part Seminole, in my early years raised as an Indian.