I know how you feel. My name is Carmen (Cherokee heritage) and everyone immediately assumes Hispanic. HUMAN BEING sounds great to me! My daughter is really up tight about her heritage. But then again maybe not. Just wanta to be called American. Carmen Forbes At 09:06 AM 2/22/00 -0800, you wrote: >Ok. So now I'm really having an "identity crisis". My grandmother was >full blooded choctaw or so the rolls say. I dread every time I need to >fill out some kind of form for my kids. With the last name of "Garcia" >it's expected to check "hispanic". My husbands' family has been in America >for many generations. He doesn't speak spanish. My daughter told me her >teacher that checked many different races on a form she was required to >fill out. The people requiring the form actually came to the door to >question her. My daughter told me she writes in "HUMAN BEING". It really >bothers me that we have to be labelled. I want to be truthful, but there's >no accurate box to check. > >Kathy Garcia > >---------- >> From: Rlang90547@aol.com >> To: CHOCTAW-L@rootsweb.com >> Subject: [CHOCTAW] heritage >> Date: Saturday, February 19, 2000 4:40 AM >> >> i agree totally with doug. as a "paleface'' who is 3/32nds Choctaw, it >would >> be ridiculous to try to pass myself off as a fullblood. truthfullness us >very >> much part of Choctaw heritage. >> Rusty Lang >> E-mail me at rlang90547@aol.com >> Visit the Impson-Choctaw pages at http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~impson/ >> Check out the Impson Surname Board at >> http://resources.rootsweb.com/surnames/i/m/IMPSON/ >> Subscribe to the Impson Mailing List at: IMPSON-L@rootsweb.com >> >> >> ==== CHOCTAW Mailing List ==== >> OK Surname Registry - added yours? http://www.rootsweb.com/~oknames/ >> Search 4 surnames - http://www.rootsweb.com/~okgenweb/search.htm > > >==== CHOCTAW Mailing List ==== >Looking for your Native American Ancestors in >Pushmataha County, Oklahoma? >Have a look -- http://www.rootsweb.com/~okpushma/ > >