John "Bullet" Standingdeer talks about Your Grandmother's Cherokee, a revolutionary new way to learn Cherokee language. Learn more at: www.yourgrandmotherscherokee.com
Bullet, I met you at a powwow when I was about 12. My now estranged aunt tried really hard to get me involved in our culture. I was learning jingle and very nervous to dance for the first time. I never did - after being bullied at school about it. You were very kind and encouraging. I doubt you read through the comments but if so, thank you for talking to me and being a gentle encourager. I wish everyday I had been more culturally involved growing up, it's left an emptiness I think all mixed kids who grew up in white culture can relate to. I still crave involvement but no idea where to begin.
Reach out to your tribe directly and ask to speak to the cultural director. Ask about cultural events in person or online. See if there are Facebook groups online of other folks in your tribe.
My friend Coley and Stephen speak fondly about you. My grandmother was Cherokee. I wish I would have recorded her speaking her native tongue. I don't remember many of the words now sadly.
Osiyo. I have tried while over seas in the service to learn the language of my Grandmother and more importantly my Great Grandmother. My father passed and all traditions are lost. I heard a great man say that most of us are apples. We are red on the outside and white in the middle. I strive to pass on our heritage so traditions and tongue aren’t lost. I’m young and my young need this. Thank you for what you are doing. Wado
If you know anything about the Cherokee or any other tribe you would know that there is no such thing as a Indian Princess that is a white Man ideology. My Great grandmother was the daughter of a Chief, but never was referred to as a Indian Princess from The Tribe. Nor would she ever desired that. So I laughed when a person says I am the granddaughter of an Indian princess. Plus not everyone that has Indian in them comes from the chief. On my dad’s side I have Indian just from a regular Indian. Not a chief. I am just proud to have the blood of my forefathers flowing through my veins.
this is typical of what happens.the phrase "no such thing" pops up in all indigenous cultures I amsure because the media appropriate and "others tell you" It should not bet hat way.
Yeah I'm half cherokee and my aunt who is not cherokee she told me one day that her great great grandma was cherokee princess I just looked at her and nodded even though I know better
I believe our People are being called to learn their heritage. My grandmother taught me what she knew about our heritage, but a lot was lost. She taught me to pray to Creator and if Creator knows your heart is true he will put in your path what you need to learn all your hearts desire. My desire is to learn what I can on this next journey of my life. My great grandfather knew the ways and was told they were wrong, so when he converted to a Christian religion he ask God for 50 more years to preach his "new religion", he was 50 years old at the time and he lived to be 103. I have asked God for 50 more years to find my ancestors and to learn the ways that were lost. This will make me 102 and I believe Creator will honor my wish if I honor his People, my People who are Cherokee, Shawnee, Delaware, Catawba, and many more! Thank you Creator for all you have given me!
Lea Williams Osiyo!!! I had to look at the author to see if I wrote that. But we are different in the way it's meant to be, correct? Wado Adassligi Utsati (there i go again) south vs east dialect ;)
I am Cherokee, although I am not enrolled and I have not grown up in the culture my biggest wish is to help my ancestors legacy to live forever. So I am studying the language. Hopefully one day I can have tribal membership and help even more.
In order to be "enrolled" your ancestors by 1890 had to be registered on the Dawes Rolls (or earlier rolls) and they had to live on a reservation. You have to be able to prove descent from ancestors on these rolls to gain Tribal membership. And any Indians who refused to go to a reservation by this time lost, according to the US gov't, their Indian Tribal citizenship.
@@karenbartlett1307 What about the Bakers Roll of 1924? How can I find any proof if my grandparents and great grandparents are deceased? My mother told me that her mother and her grandparents are Cherokee from east texas.
Why is every bodies "great" grandfather Or grandmother Cherokee, why not "mother or father"? How come people think Native is a died out old bloodline ?
Trey Saliento right. I always say my mother is Cherokee and shawnee. I think most people do that because of blood quantum so they start with full blood.
Trey, I have seen pictures and witnessed prayers. I have participated in life with my grandmother. She and my father died while I was serving overseas. I was t afforded the opportunity to ask the questions I now ask as a warrior, child, or man. Do you have a suggestion?
You know what, maybe some of us say that because it is TRUE. My great great grandmother and her father were deprived of their land on what is now the border of Georgia and Alabama and were forced to Oklahoma, where my great great grandmother taught school. My great great great grandfather was named THROWER. People don't "think that Native is a died out old bloodline." My great grandma was not ashamed of her heritage, she did not try to hide it. She told me what she could remember about that life when I was a girl.
Very true! My mom and dad are Cherokee but the language was lost! They raised me according to Cherokee culture and we stick out because we're a peculiar people! However the world is changing for the better and we may not stick out as badly but we'll still be different :D
I was blessed enough to be around my great grandmother. She was born in the 1800s, she would teach us different words in the Cherokee language. I am still learning.
I have learned a little of the language but it is very hard as an adult. Being taught as a child is so much easier. I was on the reservation in NC (researching) and was trying to get acquainted with the language and learned a bit but you have to have it spoken so you know how it should should. One little mispronounced word could have a whole different meaning. Here in NJ there is no one that I know of that speaks Cherokee so I have no opportunity to use it. You can buy books and tapes etc to help you but it is very difficult. I learn only one word at a time. Don’t give up!
Phantastic what you're doing, mate! 🖤❤💛 Please keep it up going even if you should fail from time to time. That's part of the game. What you do is important! 🎓
I grew up hearing about the cherokee great grandmother in the family, like a lot of white Southerners it's a little bit of history, or is it a guilty Lie? I urge people with this story in your family take a DNA test honor your ancestors whoever they may have been ! If it's not in the DNA don't claim it,be who you are, and give that which you aren't respect! live the truth! good day
Roy Perkins That would work if dna split evenly. Let’s say your great grandmother was 100% Native Your grandmother could only be 50% of her mother so she would be 50%native Now though it’s your mother She has a chance of being 0-50% Native because she can inherit the other half You can only be 0-50% or less than 50% depending on what your mother has. This is not the way of the native people for one blood quantum was a way to kill off natives and two, for natives the DNA is an even split. DNA in a scientific sense can only be predicted with 100% accuracy if someone is pure blood or half blood
Actually the DNA tests native American labs they use to test, have made videos explaining the process. The lab equipment is low budget and is not always accurate. They have quite literally: received a result saying 0% when the person as really 100%. It's that bad
I have learned that you can a DNA test that shows 0% Native American blood and still be Native. For one, these labs dont have good baselines for us (Native Indigenous Peoples). Second, your Native relative may be so far down your bloodline that the DNA is watered-down and it doesnt register. That doesnt make you less native. Chief Wilma Mankiller said if you have one drop of Native blood, then you are Native and this us true. The fact that tribes still use blood quantum to determine tribal eligibility and "indianess" amazes me because the whole blood quantum rule was created by Walter Pleck, a white racist who wanted to divide and get rid of the indians. Look up paper genocide. We should be smarter than the ones who want to destroy us. We Are Still Here.
I knew my great grandfather. Who was half to 3 quarters. Cherokee. , and I grew up near the qualla boundary. I don't need a DNA test to tell me that. I don't need some white man to bonify. My heritage. I'm not. A full blood ,nor am I own the role. I'm not looking for validation. Or any government hand out. I'm just me. And that's all I need to be me,,,,
I'm Cherokee. I was raised in our culture, but my grandparents never taught us the language. I would love to take the online course offered through the Cherokee education institution. Thank you for the encouragement.
My name is Ayoli Tawodi/ Young Hawk in Cherokee. I've been spending a long time trying to get closer to my heritage. The Elders, one of them being the late Papa Possum, named me after I was born. My English name is Cameron though. My Grandfather's side had the Cherokee. My grandmother had Cree and my mom had Shoshone.
Gladius Gaming Siyo I can relate. Both sides. The Berring Straight and Africa! Ha! Adassligi Utsati! Wado! ( How's that for Eastern and Southern Dialects? Blaaaaaaa!!!!! it's enough to drive me sane!)
Connie Price Connie, do you know what you get when you cross Europeans with indigenous North Americans? You get Mexicans, specifically meztizos, which comprises 60% on Mexico's population. A group of people who do not look %100 white or indigenous, but a mixture of both. I would bet my next paycheck that if you did DNA tests on all whites in North America claiming Cherokee ancestry, you would find only a fraction actually have indigenous pedigree.
IChronicles 29:11 sorry dear. Did you know that most folks from far back as the 1700 still have Neanderthal DNA? What does that tell you! Hmmm... 1600 on up to now....
Hey Bullet it's been many years since I've seen you.. I'm that half breed that won third place at the Jamestown Pow Wow. I was 17 that year and I feel like I owe you an explanation of my actions during the sneak up dance.. the boy I cooed beat me up earlier that day, said I wasnt a real indian.. so during that dance he danced without regalia and I wanted to challenge him, wich led to my actions. I've wanted to apologize to you personally all these years. You were my idol and still are to this day. Fred Bushyhead assured me that I was a real indian and to continue the red road. I have and always will. I respect you in honor.. Wado Equa for this video!
most of the tribes here in oklahoma, that I am aware of, hold classes to teach their members their native language, every once in a while I run across an elderly person who only speaks their native language, I think its awesome that these tribes are doing what they can to keep their culture alive
So sick of hearing so many people claiming their great grandmother is a full blooded Cherokee Indian Princess. I to was told this by my family while growing up. Was proud of it until I heard everyone else claiming the same.
I'm mixed blood NATIVE AMERICAN. A great uncle said, we wear the clothes of the land. Buffalo, dear, hemp or elk is not of the land today as cotton and plastic are upon our backs. The language of the stolen land today is English. To speak only English, does not steal the one drop of blood that makes you a NATIVE AMERICAN. The 1985 BLOOD QUANTUM LAW excludes 10s of millions of mixed blood native Americans having right to minority status and protection under the law, does not steal we mixed blood NATIVE AMERICAN one drop of blood. We are still here. Don't worry about the clothes upon your back or the words of your mouth, you are still NATIVE AMERICAN. Not all NATIVE AMERICANS stuck feathers up their ads and danced around like turkeys. The invaders want to see the feathers and those of us who the 1985 blood quantum law eliminates 10s millions of mixed blood native Americans having right to minority status and protection under the law, we will not dance the dance of turkeys.
I realize this is a rhetorical and political question, but some Cherokee people do talk about their white ancestors, as well as their ancestors from other tribes.
Barbara Duncan Perhaps the Scottish traders had better quality beads and blankets to ball for, eh? Yet the Scots who were licensed by the British colonials no doubt received commissions so they probably got some 'under the table' perks. Well that's what the Cherokee got from throwing in with the English instead of the French during the first half of the 18th century.
Missikech Kechqua i think it's because so many of the original scotts-irish settlers intermarried. and a lot of people, especially in the south have cherokee ancestors, or at least they were told they had cherokee ancestors... my grandmother was cherokee, and my grandfather was half. i have found names on the dawes and miller rolls, so i promise i'm not talking out of my hat. my dad didn't like to talk about it. he grew up in ohio in the 1940's and actually caught a lot of crap, called stuff like injun and half-breed, plus his family was poor. i'm proud to have cherokee ancestry, i think that's a good thing. it means at least part of me is connected to this land, and has always been here.
My grandmother spoke cherokee to all us grandchildren so i understand it but i dont speak it!! I didnt say cant speak it just never have for fear of getting hurt.
My great grandfather was full blooded Cherokee Indian chief wolve clan, he lived to be 106yrs. My grandma looked pure Cherokee hazel eyes, kinky long hair, very gifted woman she could read a person's life just by looking into there eyes, very powerful woman, she cured, using herbs, native American culture is beautiful! I feel so much like a Cherokee more than Hispanic. I love Cherokee people.
I fully understand the dilemma of language. My paternal grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian and grandfather was Scott Irish. My maternal grandparents arrived in America in 1915 from Italy. My father died when I was very young so I was raised by my mother and my Italian grandparents. My first language was Italian and I was born here in America. The Italian that I learned to speak was the Italian of the old world. In 1972 I journey to Rome Italy and phone my Italian people. They told me that I spoke the Italian of their grandfathers. Languages evolve and so does the printed word and the script in which the word is written. That said I just realized that the Italian language that I remember and identify with is over 100 years old. Imagine that! My best friend from high school Jean Black Elk is a full-blooded Lakota Ogalalla Sioux. Jean Black Elk has taught me many Lakota words and these words I cherish. I am slowly trying to learn a few words in Cherokee.
I have for 40+ years trying to learn to speak, read and write in our native tongue, but to no avail. I have been so discouraged, so sad not being able to learn our language. I'm now almost 70 years old and before I leave this world, my only desire is to learn our language. Thank you your video.
I found out recently that my 'Great-great-great-grandma' was a full blooded Cherokee Indian. She was known as the "Old Squaw Woman". She didn't speak much English and was born in 1834, in Kentucky, and died in 1915, in Missouri. Her name was - Senna (Anna) Victoria (Victory) Nash. (I believe my parents named me Vicki, after her.) And I was told, while growing up, that she was only 1/8 Cherokee. I've always been proud to be part Cherokee, no matter how far down the line I was. And now to find out that she was not 1/8 but 100 % Cherokee. WOW! :)
We're there a lot of Cherokee who settled in Missouri?? my mother swears her birth mother who is from Missouri is 1/3 Cherokee which would make me about 1/7 or so.
If your blood swears by the Cherokee people, there is no doubt that you are Cherokee. No Cherokee man or woman would say otherwise. We are a proud people.
Thank you Bullet, fascinated and so excited to see what you have learned, I just found your channel. My Mamaw and Papaw Buck would be proud. I surely am grateful to find you. Much love, and God bless always, from North Louisiana 🙏❤️
I have Cherokee ancestors. My side of the family seems to not want to tell that story. I want to tell my great,great,etc. Grandmother's story. I want to learn the language. I want to learn about her ways. I love your video.
Thank you I hope to learn my mother’s father’s people are Cherokee but my mother was never taught the language. I’ve been interested in learning and trying to figure it out since junior high
Went thru the same thing trying to learn, and I actually went thru Cherokee Nation's class for basic. If I look at the syllaby, I can say it. Mostly because I made it into a song. Thats as far as I got tho, and it has always bothered me. I have always felt gravitated to learn more of "our" ways. Is your site still open?
Rebecca 'Spooky' Duran your life goes on when your infrared so you don't want to bring though things with you that shows you were once a human animal bei g ,you might be put in hell
I appreciate your story. I grew up in WI. and confused, listening to my father speaking a language that I did not understand. His English was a double accent as well. I was not allowed to learn the language in fear that somebody would hurt me. This is what I was told as a child. The opposite of how you were raised but I know what you mean. Thank you for sharing.
Siyo, tsosdadanvtli. Adadoligi. My grandmother was full blood of the Western Cherokee Nation Band. Aniyunwiya. I, unfortunately, due to familial trauma, was removed from my culture, though taught of it and where to trace my blood. I did meet my grandmother a few times. I am no doubt native. I'm doing my best to begin turning my tongue to Tsalagi, and do all I can to learn of our stories, our traditions, that we are matriarchal, and the name of our tsosdadanvtlii and agilvgii the Keetoowah in the Carolinas. I plan to try to become enrolled as a member, myself, being that my grandmother was, my mother is half native - I am the first lightskinned in my family, but I fight for and with my culture and I want to do whatever work necessary to be embraced by my tribesmen, regardless of skin or eye color. Because my mother was exactly half Aniyunwiya/Tsalagi/"Cherokee", and half Irish (her father was FROM ireland)Ireland, so I'm the first lightskinned - she was very physically clearly mixed native. It's harder to tell on me, unless you know what to look for (cheek and jaws, nose, head shape, lips, brow, etc)
Oginalli sio. Wado. Onega yani da qua do a. I'm wanting to learn South Carolina Cherokee but most people I know speak Oklahoma Cherokee. About me... I grew up in Hammond Oklahoma. I went to the RedMoon powwow s ( Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Osage, and Cherokee) in the 60s I was the only white kid, ( I got picked on by everyone) . I believe animals are to be taken care of, not ran over for points! The earth 🌎 is to be kept clean, not filled with poisons. Rocks are used for making arrowheads, bows, & tanning hides, scraping hides, animals can be eaten but not depleted for heads or fun. I speak some Cherokee, not a lot. My grandmother on my dad's side said she was Cherokee and apache. My mom said I am Cherokee and Irish. Lots of people say I'm Cherokee, people of darker skin say I'm white... except some of the Choctaws... they said my way of life is what makes me Native American . Oginalli wado.
I have a Cherokee ancestor who was called "Old Domma". Is that a Cherokee term? No one in my family has any idea. Her name before she married was "Sarah Kenyen". She was my (3 greats) great, great, great grandmother. She married a U.S. soldier named Isaiah F. Russell that she met on the trail of tears on 11-11-1852. They lived together in central Alabama until he was killed in 1865 for refusing to fight in the Civil War. She then raised their children on her own. I understand that I don't have much Cherokee blood. I am getting older now and I trying to find out about my ancestors.
My great grandfather was full blood Cherokee he was Snowbird out of North Carolina or Eastern Band Cherokee my grandfather which is half blood Cherokee was born in Alabama. I carry the Cherokee blood as well.
O si yo. Hello Osda. Good Wado. Thank you Inena. let's go Hi Tsalagis. Are you Cheroke Tusti tutsiwoni Tsalagi I speak a little Cherokee Uwoduhi. Beautiful GULIELITSEHA. Congratulations ULIHELIDSI itse Adetiyisgui Happy New Year Cherokee New Yeat Oct 5 Second Generation Cherokee Third Generation Cree Family married into the Shinnecock
I am Cherokee, grandmother's, grandfather's.my mother,,we are Duncon,Bra.webb.ciber.on and on,,Live in East TN,, generality list many people back to where the tradition was signed in the county that in,when Cherokee ... I have my generality would love to find out more..
Thank you Bullet. My grandfathers mother was Cherokee. She was short like me, lol. I’ve always wanted to speak the People’s language. Now, thanks to you & MsDuncan, I will learn too. Blessings to you & yours. 🙂
I was never taught I am also dyslexic I see words backwards or see a word in a word that’s not their even numbers say way my pronouncing is awful I had to take a speech class in 1st grade to pronounce words I couldn’t say I still have trouble saying words correctly would it be hard for me to learn it?
People may talk but I just show. Being a tribal member since birth.. as with my mother and my grandfather and his mother and etc.. it's all recorded and written down back to my full blood Cherokee family. It's sad to see people wanting go deny us mutts. As it is racist and bigoted. Why do people hate those who appreciate and want to be a part of them? My "white" isn't who I am.. it's only a part of who I am . my Cherokee and my cajun french roots are me and both are celebrated in me because that is all I can be. I love my tribal and I love my french roots. There is no room for hate in me.
How come it takes white peoples most of they lives to discover they have Cherokee blood. Where are your Cherokee family at ? I don’t see how this could be a mystery until your grown. It’s like a sickness
Immersion classes (speaking only the language you are learning in class) will get you speaking any language pretty quick. That's how they taught my Spanish class in college and we were all laughing at the instructor's funny stories-spoken only in Spanish-very soon. .What is learned also stays with you longer even if you don't speak it every day. Although learning the roots of words and then the prefixes and suffixes which form new words is a brilliant idea.
I grew up as Cherokee. My father said he did not even learn English until he was about 5 years old and starting School. My mohthe's side of the family also professed Cherokee to be of heritage. I immersed myself in Cherokee/NA culture. I learned a lot of Cherokee words and pronunciation, but not much grammar. I taught on line mini-lessons for a couple of years. The at age 61, I had a DNA test done and found that I had I had no Amerind DNA! I was (and remain) devastated by this. I downloaded my RAW DNA date and have search in vain for some error. The best I have found so far is .04% Amerind ancestry dated back to the Neolithic era. My heart will always remain Cherokee, even if my DNA does not concur.
Did you have your maternal DNA tested or your paternal DNA tested, or both? My grandfather was full-blood Shawnee/Cherokee but I only had my maternal DNA tested, which goes back through the mothers. It said I was 99% European.
Bull is on to something here...the speakers left DO think in the language- as brilliant as Sequoyah was, his syllabus is difficult to learn to use...people and actions spoken eons ago have to be the basis of the language..."I go..." : "ge ga.." should be the same today or a thousand years ago, and another thousands more ago...the pattern of the language has always been the same, Bull just spent years finding a better way to teach and learn it...
Im an enrolled member of Ebci Im from Big Cove The loop Im from the pheasant family I have a question Do enrolled member have to pay for theses courses?
When i was in school I didnt pay attention in Cherokee language but now that im out of school and Much older I wanna Learn to speak more then just colors numbers animals I wanna speak sentences Fluently carry on a conversation So do ebci enrolled have to pay ?
I'm Cheerokee Bloodline of Queen mother mary of Scotts King Jame's Captain John Smith I'm.the Smith Anderson Roots from Michigan we settled Ohio Illinois all over but cane to Ohio during revolution war my grandfather's was hero's imif all the wars! grandma Mary married Wiiliam Pink Anderson my grandpa Dutch man they may donnoe maiden name! fort st Joseph 1773
My father was full blood Cherokee but my mother was not. I have my mothers peel skin as my two bothers have my dads dark skin. From a very young age i was always connected to nature and had always wanted to learn more about my Cherokee blood. My great grandmother was born on the Trail of Tears and loved to talk about her mother and father. With this being said my wanting to learn the Cherokee language calls to me. It feels like it is something i need to do; learning this language will better my understanding of nature and my family in some way. My spirit tells me to learn the language so that is what i will do.
alisha combs me too I have my mom's pale skin and my dad's dark skin my eye color is the same as my dad's I am unsure if my great grandmother had this ability too but me my dad and grandma all have Aqua eyes our eyes change alot I was gifted the spirit of the red wolf as my. and I have psychic abilities I believe because I know what s going to happen and when
@@drchristinemilly1184 That is so cool. I use to be scared to dream because I could see things before they would happen. Even with people I did not know. That is very cool that I found someone with some-what the same gift.
alisha combs yeah Alisha I hear you this is going to sound plain freaky but I ha a freak when Pres Reagan was pres and alive that he would shake hands with a Republican pres and that Pres would beat out many others he'd be the last pres scary huh
@@drchristinemilly1184 wow so crazy, the most crazy one i have had was of a girl being taken. she ran away from home walking down this road and a semi truck picked her up and it was an older couple with bad intentions for the girl. it was so horrible what i seen. i was like a ghost in in the dream floating above the girl. screaming for help trying to help her but i could not do anything for her. i cried for so long and it still haunts me.
Actually my grandmother is frenchie (French) It’s my grandfather that’s my Cherokee Bloodline. I don’t know how to speak or write the language of my people but I am registered & a natural Healer/Medicean man
I am Cherokee from both my grandmother mostly and my grandfather on my mother's side. I do not know where or which part of the country this man doing the video is in but it's my understanding that in the East the Cherokee is still taught regularly. At least up till just a few years ago. It does help if you try and not speak any other language during a focused. Of time so that you can learn the language quicker and better. You have to learn to think in the language not just speak it. But surprisingly it is a syllabic language much like Sumerian and Hebrew. Doesn't sound like it but it has that pattern to it.
I don’t claim cherokee heritage as I look white and wasn’t raised in the culture. My grandmother actually was born on the reservation in Cherokee, NC but left to marry my grandfather and move to chicago. She raised my mother white and never spoke Cherokee with her and really didn’t advertise it because in the 1950s it wasn’t “cool.” I want to learn more but because I am so outside of the culture and there is so much hate just based on skin color (and I totally get it because cultural appropriation is real), I feel like alienated. And that’s what makes me sad- that the genocidal practices of the 1800s are still actively divisive and contributing to a repression of the culture.
Bullet, I met you at a powwow when I was about 12. My now estranged aunt tried really hard to get me involved in our culture. I was learning jingle and very nervous to dance for the first time. I never did - after being bullied at school about it. You were very kind and encouraging. I doubt you read through the comments but if so, thank you for talking to me and being a gentle encourager. I wish everyday I had been more culturally involved growing up, it's left an emptiness I think all mixed kids who grew up in white culture can relate to. I still crave involvement but no idea where to begin.
Reach out to your tribe directly and ask to speak to the cultural director. Ask about cultural events in person or online. See if there are Facebook groups online of other folks in your tribe.
My friend Coley and Stephen speak fondly about you. My grandmother was Cherokee. I wish I would have recorded her speaking her native tongue. I don't remember many of the words now sadly.
My grandmother was half Cherokee
Osiyo. I have tried while over seas in the service to learn the language of my Grandmother and more importantly my Great Grandmother. My father passed and all traditions are lost. I heard a great man say that most of us are apples. We are red on the outside and white in the middle. I strive to pass on our heritage so traditions and tongue aren’t lost. I’m young and my young need this. Thank you for what you are doing.
Wado
If you know anything about the Cherokee or any other tribe you would know that there is no such thing as a Indian Princess that is a white Man ideology. My Great grandmother was the daughter of a Chief, but never was referred to as a Indian Princess from The Tribe. Nor would she ever desired that. So I laughed when a person says I am the granddaughter of an Indian princess. Plus not everyone that has Indian in them comes from the chief. On my dad’s side I have Indian just from a regular Indian. Not a chief. I am just proud to have the blood of my forefathers flowing through my veins.
So when I hear someone say their ancestor was an Indian princess, I know they paid their $5.
this is typical of what happens.the phrase "no such thing" pops up in all indigenous cultures I amsure because the media appropriate and "others tell you" It should not bet hat way.
Yeah I'm half cherokee and my aunt who is not cherokee she told me one day that her great great grandma was cherokee princess I just looked at her and nodded even though I know better
Well I'm not a princess anymore. I'm an Empress. I'm a chief. I'm a chef. I smoke.
I'm a queen because I have children.
Peace. Love. 😊 Happiness 😊.
That's truly an honor.
I believe our People are being called to learn their heritage. My grandmother taught me what she knew about our heritage, but a lot was lost. She taught me to pray to Creator and if Creator knows your heart is true he will put in your path what you need to learn all your hearts desire. My desire is to learn what I can on this next journey of my life. My great grandfather knew the ways and was told they were wrong, so when he converted to a Christian religion he ask God for 50 more years to preach his "new religion", he was 50 years old at the time and he lived to be 103. I have asked God for 50 more years to find my ancestors and to learn the ways that were lost. This will make me 102 and I believe Creator will honor my wish if I honor his People, my People who are Cherokee, Shawnee, Delaware, Catawba, and many more! Thank you Creator for all you have given me!
Lea Williams Osiyo!!! I had to look at the author to see if I wrote that. But we are different in the way it's meant to be, correct? Wado Adassligi Utsati
(there i go again) south vs east dialect ;)
@NiGi metoo
That beautiful ♥️♥️♥️
I am Cherokee, although I am not enrolled and I have not grown up in the culture my biggest wish is to help my ancestors legacy to live forever. So I am studying the language. Hopefully one day I can have tribal membership and help even more.
How's it going?
Same. I talk to my friend. She is enrolled.
same
In order to be "enrolled" your ancestors by 1890 had to be registered on the Dawes Rolls (or earlier rolls) and they had to live on a reservation. You have to be able to prove descent from ancestors on these rolls to gain Tribal membership. And any Indians who refused to go to a reservation by this time lost, according to the US gov't, their Indian Tribal citizenship.
@@karenbartlett1307 What about the Bakers Roll of 1924? How can I find any proof if my grandparents and great grandparents are deceased? My mother told me that her mother and her grandparents are Cherokee from east texas.
Why is every bodies "great" grandfather Or grandmother Cherokee, why not "mother or father"? How come people think Native is a died out old bloodline ?
Trey Saliento right.
I always say my mother is Cherokee and shawnee.
I think most people do that because of blood quantum so they start with full blood.
Trey, I have seen pictures and witnessed prayers. I have participated in life with my grandmother. She and my father died while I was serving overseas. I was t afforded the opportunity to ask the questions I now ask as a warrior, child, or man. Do you have a suggestion?
You know what, maybe some of us say that because it is TRUE. My great great grandmother and her father were deprived of their land on what is now the border of Georgia and Alabama and were forced to Oklahoma, where my great great grandmother taught school. My great great great grandfather was named THROWER.
People don't "think that Native is a died out old bloodline." My great grandma was not ashamed of her heritage, she did not try to hide it. She told me what she could remember about that life when I was a girl.
There are too many wannabe Cherokee or Native American Indian.
Almost all of them aren’t Native American Indian descendants.
Very true! My mom and dad are Cherokee but the language was lost! They raised me according to Cherokee culture and we stick out because we're a peculiar people! However the world is changing for the better and we may not stick out as badly but we'll still be different :D
I'm taking lessons to learn.and I can feel it in my heart
I was blessed enough to be around my great grandmother. She was born in the 1800s, she would teach us different words in the Cherokee language. I am still learning.
I have Cherokee ancestry, and I've been wanting to learn the language. This sounds very promising in helping me achieve my goal.
I have learned a little of the language but it is very hard as an adult. Being taught as a child is so much easier. I was on the reservation in NC (researching) and was trying to get acquainted with the language and learned a bit but you have to have it spoken so you know how it should should. One little mispronounced word could have a whole different meaning. Here in NJ there is no one that I know of that speaks Cherokee so I have no opportunity to use it. You can buy books and tapes etc to help you but it is very difficult. I learn only one word at a time. Don’t give up!
Phantastic what you're doing, mate! 🖤❤💛 Please keep it up going even if you should fail from time to time. That's part of the game. What you do is important! 🎓
I grew up hearing about the cherokee great grandmother in the family, like a lot of white Southerners it's a little bit of history, or is it a guilty Lie? I urge people with this story in your family take a DNA test honor your ancestors whoever they may have been !
If it's not in the DNA don't claim it,be who you are, and give that which you aren't respect! live the truth! good day
Roy Perkins
That would work if dna split evenly.
Let’s say your great grandmother was 100% Native
Your grandmother could only be 50% of her mother so she would be 50%native
Now though it’s your mother
She has a chance of being 0-50% Native because she can inherit the other half
You can only be 0-50% or less than 50% depending on what your mother has.
This is not the way of the native people for one blood quantum was a way to kill off natives and two, for natives the DNA is an even split.
DNA in a scientific sense can only be predicted with 100% accuracy if someone is pure blood or half blood
Actually the DNA tests native American labs they use to test, have made videos explaining the process. The lab equipment is low budget and is not always accurate. They have quite literally: received a result saying 0% when the person as really 100%. It's that bad
I have learned that you can a DNA test that shows 0% Native American blood and still be Native. For one, these labs dont have good baselines for us (Native Indigenous Peoples). Second, your Native relative may be so far down your bloodline that the DNA is watered-down and it doesnt register. That doesnt make you less native. Chief Wilma Mankiller said if you have one drop of Native blood, then you are Native and this us true. The fact that tribes still use blood quantum to determine tribal eligibility and "indianess" amazes me because the whole blood quantum rule was created by Walter Pleck, a white racist who wanted to divide and get rid of the indians. Look up paper genocide. We should be smarter than the ones who want to destroy us. We Are Still Here.
Roy, the 'guilty lie' about white folks having a Cherokee great grandma is this: Great grandma was black.
I knew my great grandfather. Who was half to 3 quarters. Cherokee. , and I grew up near the qualla boundary. I don't need a DNA test to tell me that. I don't need some white man to bonify. My heritage. I'm not. A full blood ,nor am I own the role. I'm not looking for validation. Or any government hand out. I'm just me. And that's all I need to be me,,,,
I'm Cherokee. I was raised in our culture, but my grandparents never taught us the language. I would love to take the online course offered through the Cherokee education institution. Thank you for the encouragement.
My name is Ayoli Tawodi/ Young Hawk in Cherokee. I've been spending a long time trying to get closer to my heritage. The Elders, one of them being the late Papa Possum, named me after I was born. My English name is Cameron though. My Grandfather's side had the Cherokee. My grandmother had Cree and my mom had Shoshone.
Gladius Gaming Siyo I can relate. Both sides. The Berring Straight and Africa! Ha! Adassligi Utsati! Wado! ( How's that for Eastern and Southern Dialects? Blaaaaaaa!!!!! it's enough to drive me sane!)
Thank you , I love how your heart comes thru this video.
Why is it that everyone has a Cherokee grandma and no one has a Cherokee granpa?
Connie Price
Connie, do you know what you get when you cross Europeans with indigenous North Americans? You get Mexicans, specifically meztizos, which comprises 60% on Mexico's population. A group of people who do not look %100 white or indigenous, but a mixture of both.
I would bet my next paycheck that if you did DNA tests on all whites in North America claiming Cherokee ancestry, you would find only a fraction actually have indigenous pedigree.
IChronicles 29:11 sorry dear. Did you know that most folks from far back as the 1700 still have Neanderthal DNA? What does that tell you! Hmmm... 1600 on up to now....
Connie Price who wrote Hebrews? Just asking....
IChronicles 29:11 Bwahahahaha. Cuz they ran off or their women killed them! Ha just kidding.
Gracie G Carson Doughty Ok Pocahontas.
Hey Bullet it's been many years since I've seen you.. I'm that half breed that won third place at the Jamestown Pow Wow. I was 17 that year and I feel like I owe you an explanation of my actions during the sneak up dance.. the boy I cooed beat me up earlier that day, said I wasnt a real indian.. so during that dance he danced without regalia and I wanted to challenge him, wich led to my actions. I've wanted to apologize to you personally all these years. You were my idol and still are to this day. Fred Bushyhead assured me that I was a real indian and to continue the red road. I have and always will. I respect you in honor.. Wado Equa for this video!
most of the tribes here in oklahoma, that I am aware of, hold classes to teach their members their native language, every once in a while I run across an elderly person who only speaks their native language, I think its awesome that these tribes are doing what they can to keep their culture alive
ᎣᏍᏓ ᎠᎴ ᏍᎩ! ᎠᏴ ᏣᎳᎩ ᏥᏬᏂᎭ ᎠᏆᏚᎵᎭ :)
Where did you get the ability to text in Cherokee alpabet!? That's amazing!
@@ravenwolf936 let "him" keep it.
I'm mostly Cherokee my grandfather is full Cherokee and my great grandmother is fully Cherokee
So sick of hearing so many people claiming their great grandmother is a full blooded Cherokee Indian Princess. I to was told this by my family while growing up. Was proud of it until I heard everyone else claiming the same.
fnu lnu
True mine was a normal (50%)Cherokee lady whose family moved from Illinois to Missouri.
I am a Cherokee, I don't want money, just own I am Cherokee!
I'm mixed blood NATIVE AMERICAN. A great uncle said, we wear the clothes of the land. Buffalo, dear, hemp or elk is not of the land today as cotton and plastic are upon our backs. The language of the stolen land today is English. To speak only English, does not steal the one drop of blood that makes you a NATIVE AMERICAN. The 1985 BLOOD QUANTUM LAW excludes 10s of millions of mixed blood native Americans having right to minority status and protection under the law, does not steal we mixed blood NATIVE AMERICAN one drop of blood. We are still here. Don't worry about the clothes upon your back or the words of your mouth, you are still NATIVE AMERICAN. Not all NATIVE AMERICANS stuck feathers up their ads and danced around like turkeys. The invaders want to see the feathers and those of us who the 1985 blood quantum law eliminates 10s millions of mixed blood native Americans having right to minority status and protection under the law, we will not dance the dance of turkeys.
this will help me so much..thank you.
How come one never hears a Cherokee saying - "My great grandmother was a Scottish princess"?
I realize this is a rhetorical and political question, but some Cherokee people do talk about their white ancestors, as well as their ancestors from other tribes.
Barbara Duncan Perhaps the Scottish traders had better quality beads and blankets to ball for, eh? Yet the Scots who were licensed by the British colonials no doubt received commissions so they probably got some 'under the table' perks. Well that's what the Cherokee got from throwing in with the English instead of the French during the first half of the 18th century.
Missikech Kechqua i think it's because so many of the original scotts-irish settlers intermarried. and a lot of people, especially in the south have cherokee ancestors, or at least they were told they had cherokee ancestors... my grandmother was cherokee, and my grandfather was half. i have found names on the dawes and miller rolls, so i promise i'm not talking out of my hat. my dad didn't like to talk about it. he grew up in ohio in the 1940's and actually caught a lot of crap, called stuff like injun and half-breed, plus his family was poor. i'm proud to have cherokee ancestry, i think that's a good thing. it means at least part of me is connected to this land, and has always been here.
Don't worry so much about the past. Jackson was crazy. Don't blame the Scotch.
Missikech Kechqua bwahahaha! Beautiful!!!wado
Bullet, my cousin! GREAT work u r doin! Keep it goin!
My grandmother spoke cherokee to all us grandchildren so i understand it but i dont speak it!! I didnt say cant speak it just never have for fear of getting hurt.
Wado Standingdeer. I would love to spend time speaking with you, you're so calm and your voice is soothing! I would love to speak Tsalagi one day.
My great grandfather was full blooded Cherokee Indian chief wolve clan, he lived to be 106yrs. My grandma looked pure Cherokee hazel eyes, kinky long hair, very gifted woman she could read a person's life just by looking into there eyes, very powerful woman, she cured, using herbs, native American culture is beautiful! I feel so much like a Cherokee more than Hispanic. I love Cherokee people.
I fully understand the dilemma of language. My paternal grandmother was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian and grandfather was Scott Irish. My maternal grandparents arrived in America in 1915 from Italy. My father died when I was very young so I was raised by my mother and my Italian grandparents. My first language was Italian and I was born here in America. The Italian that I learned to speak was the Italian of the old world. In 1972 I journey to Rome Italy and phone my Italian people. They told me that I spoke the Italian of their grandfathers. Languages evolve and so does the printed word and the script in which the word is written. That said I just realized that the Italian language that I remember and identify with is over 100 years old. Imagine that! My best friend from high school Jean Black Elk is a full-blooded Lakota Ogalalla Sioux. Jean Black Elk has taught me many Lakota words and these words I cherish. I am slowly trying to learn a few words in Cherokee.
A title means nothing if your blood isnt what you claim it is
I have for 40+ years trying to learn to speak, read and write in our native tongue, but to no avail. I have been so discouraged, so sad not being able to learn our language. I'm now almost 70 years old and before I leave this world, my only desire is to learn our language. Thank you your video.
I found out recently that my 'Great-great-great-grandma' was a full blooded Cherokee Indian. She was known as the "Old Squaw Woman". She didn't speak much English and was born in 1834, in Kentucky, and died in 1915, in Missouri. Her name was - Senna (Anna) Victoria (Victory) Nash. (I believe my parents named me Vicki, after her.) And I was told, while growing up, that she was only 1/8 Cherokee. I've always been proud to be part Cherokee, no matter how far down the line I was. And now to find out that she was not 1/8 but 100 % Cherokee. WOW! :)
We're there a lot of Cherokee who settled in Missouri?? my mother swears her birth mother who is from Missouri is 1/3 Cherokee which would make me about 1/7 or so.
If your blood swears by the Cherokee people, there is no doubt that you are Cherokee. No Cherokee man or woman would say otherwise. We are a proud people.
Osda Wado!
Thank you Bullet, fascinated and so excited to see what you have learned, I just found your channel. My Mamaw and Papaw Buck would be proud. I surely am grateful to find you. Much love, and God bless always, from North Louisiana 🙏❤️
Cool.
The use of better education is very important. It could depend on who you are as far as any of this goes.
I have Cherokee ancestors. My side of the family seems to not want to tell that story. I want to tell my great,great,etc. Grandmother's story. I want to learn the language. I want to learn about her ways. I love your video.
I’m Cherokee and Shawnee maybe Ojibwa as well. I have tried learning each of their language but it is a difficult task
Thank you I hope to learn my mother’s father’s people are Cherokee but my mother was never taught the language. I’ve been interested in learning and trying to figure it out since junior high
Sending love to my 11th grandma people I'm learning how to speak my Grammaw's language
I'm Cherokee through my grandpa and my grandpa on my mom's side though I'm not officially recognized by a tribe
Went thru the same thing trying to learn, and I actually went thru Cherokee Nation's class for basic. If I look at the syllaby, I can say it. Mostly because I made it into a song. Thats as far as I got tho, and it has always bothered me. I have always felt gravitated to learn more of "our" ways. Is your site still open?
Hi Bullet! Spooky here. I came across these you tube videos trying to learn some phrases and saw you in the thumbnail. Keep up the good work!
Rebecca 'Spooky' Duran your life goes on when your infrared so you don't want to bring though things with you that shows you were once a human animal bei g ,you might be put in hell
I appreciate your story. I grew up in WI. and confused, listening to my father speaking a language that I did not understand. His English was a double accent as well. I was not allowed to learn the language in fear that somebody would hurt me. This is what I was told as a child. The opposite of how you were raised but I know what you mean. Thank you for sharing.
Sherri Jones this made me cry... i was so sad....
Siyo, tsosdadanvtli. Adadoligi.
My grandmother was full blood of the Western Cherokee Nation Band. Aniyunwiya.
I, unfortunately, due to familial trauma, was removed from my culture, though taught of it and where to trace my blood. I did meet my grandmother a few times. I am no doubt native.
I'm doing my best to begin turning my tongue to Tsalagi, and do all I can to learn of our stories, our traditions, that we are matriarchal, and the name of our tsosdadanvtlii and agilvgii the Keetoowah in the Carolinas.
I plan to try to become enrolled as a member, myself, being that my grandmother was, my mother is half native - I am the first lightskinned in my family, but I fight for and with my culture and I want to do whatever work necessary to be embraced by my tribesmen, regardless of skin or eye color. Because my mother was exactly half Aniyunwiya/Tsalagi/"Cherokee", and half Irish (her father was FROM ireland)Ireland, so I'm the first lightskinned - she was very physically clearly mixed native. It's harder to tell on me, unless you know what to look for (cheek and jaws, nose, head shape, lips, brow, etc)
I am trying to learn my grandmother native young. This video has helped me immensely.
Oginalli sio.
Wado. Onega yani da qua do a.
I'm wanting to learn South Carolina Cherokee but most people I know speak Oklahoma Cherokee.
About me...
I grew up in Hammond Oklahoma. I went to the RedMoon powwow s ( Cheyenne, Arapahoe, Osage, and Cherokee) in the 60s I was the only white kid, ( I got picked on by everyone) .
I believe animals are to be taken care of, not ran over for points! The earth 🌎 is to be kept clean, not filled with poisons.
Rocks are used for making arrowheads, bows, & tanning hides, scraping hides, animals can be eaten but not depleted for heads or fun.
I speak some Cherokee, not a lot.
My grandmother on my dad's side said she was Cherokee and apache.
My mom said I am Cherokee and Irish.
Lots of people say I'm Cherokee, people of darker skin say I'm white... except some of the Choctaws... they said my way of life is what makes me Native American . Oginalli wado.
I have a Cherokee ancestor who was called "Old Domma". Is that a Cherokee term? No one in my family has any idea.
Her name before she married was "Sarah Kenyen". She was my (3 greats) great, great, great grandmother. She married a U.S. soldier named Isaiah F. Russell that she met on the trail of tears on 11-11-1852. They lived together in central Alabama until he was killed in 1865 for refusing to fight in the Civil War. She then raised their children on her own.
I understand that I don't have much Cherokee blood. I am getting older now and I trying to find out about my ancestors.
My great grandfather was full blood Cherokee he was Snowbird out of North Carolina or Eastern Band Cherokee my grandfather which is half blood Cherokee was born in Alabama. I carry the Cherokee blood as well.
O si yo. Hello
Osda. Good
Wado. Thank you
Inena. let's go
Hi Tsalagis. Are you Cheroke
Tusti tutsiwoni Tsalagi I speak a little Cherokee
Uwoduhi. Beautiful
GULIELITSEHA. Congratulations
ULIHELIDSI itse Adetiyisgui
Happy New Year
Cherokee New Yeat Oct 5
Second Generation Cherokee
Third Generation Cree
Family married into the Shinnecock
my grandmother is cherokee! i wish i could meet her :(
Victoria H you will some day!!!!
Wonderful I have same problem but I learned English as a child almost same way in patterns. Please teach me more
I am Cherokee, grandmother's, grandfather's.my mother,,we are Duncon,Bra.webb.ciber.on and on,,Live in East TN,, generality list many people back to where the tradition was signed in the county that in,when Cherokee ... I have my generality would love to find out more..
Bullet, not sure if you are seeing, comments on this old video. Just know You are in prayers.
Osiyo Unalii I am Rain pleased to have found you. Teach more please
But the Cherokee speak Iroquoian though right?, and didn’t they originally come from the Great Lakes area?.
Thank you Bullet. My grandfathers mother was Cherokee. She was short like me, lol. I’ve always wanted to speak the People’s language. Now, thanks to you & MsDuncan, I will learn too. Blessings to you & yours. 🙂
Oh man I need this. My great grandmother was the last person in my family who could speak fluent Cherokee.
Fascinating. So this should also be a method for six Nations languages?
I was never taught I am also dyslexic I see words backwards or see a word in a word that’s not their even numbers say way my pronouncing is awful I had to take a speech class in 1st grade to pronounce words I couldn’t say I still have trouble saying words correctly would it be hard for me to learn it?
Yes two of my grandmothers are Cherokee. My name is running deer and they called me bullet when I was 15. I am not enrolled currently.
People may talk but I just show. Being a tribal member since birth.. as with my mother and my grandfather and his mother and etc.. it's all recorded and written down back to my full blood Cherokee family. It's sad to see people wanting go deny us mutts. As it is racist and bigoted. Why do people hate those who appreciate and want to be a part of them? My "white" isn't who I am.. it's only a part of who I am . my Cherokee and my cajun french roots are me and both are celebrated in me because that is all I can be. I love my tribal and I love my french roots. There is no room for hate in me.
How come it takes white peoples most of they lives to discover they have Cherokee blood. Where are your Cherokee family at ? I don’t see how this could be a mystery until your grown. It’s like a sickness
Immersion classes (speaking only the language you are learning in class) will get you speaking any language pretty quick. That's how they taught my Spanish class in college and we were all laughing at the instructor's funny stories-spoken only in Spanish-very soon. .What is learned also stays with you longer even if you don't speak it every day. Although learning the roots of words and then the prefixes and suffixes which form new words is a brilliant idea.
My grandmother was 1/2 Cherokee.
I learned that I can read other things too that I never knew when I was younger by just looking at it😉
I do my best! I miss home Oklahoma..its not as hard as we make it. We have to understand! My papa said!
Use some thing like Rosetta stone become a teacher me too I would love to have some turquoise jewelry
My Enisi taught me basics but I really need to try harder to keep it up
What happened to the bear clan of the cherokee
Thanks for the video 👍🏻🇨🇱
How do you pronounce so no ki? The word for blue?
How
Can you have the nerves to unlike 🙃 this video?
I am not Cherokee, but I want to learn. Wado..
There is Standing Deer in New York??
Cherokee Indian princess
My great grandfather was Cherokee! Were a proud people and I'm trying to learn my peoples language.
What is the method/pattern
I grew up as Cherokee. My father said he did not even learn English until he was about 5 years old and starting School. My mohthe's side of the family also professed Cherokee to be of heritage. I immersed myself in Cherokee/NA culture. I learned a lot of Cherokee words and pronunciation, but not much grammar. I taught on line mini-lessons for a couple of years. The at age 61, I had a DNA test done and found that I had I had no Amerind DNA! I was (and remain) devastated by this. I downloaded my RAW DNA date and have search in vain for some error. The best I have found so far is .04% Amerind ancestry dated back to the Neolithic era. My heart will always remain Cherokee, even if my DNA does not concur.
Did you have your maternal DNA tested or your paternal DNA tested, or both? My grandfather was full-blood Shawnee/Cherokee but I only had my maternal DNA tested, which goes back through the mothers. It said I was 99% European.
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@@karenbartlett1307 😂😂😂😂
Bull is on to something here...the speakers left DO think in the language- as brilliant as Sequoyah was, his syllabus is difficult to learn to use...people and actions spoken eons ago have to be the basis of the language..."I go..." : "ge ga.." should be the same today or a thousand years ago, and another thousands more ago...the pattern of the language has always been the same, Bull just spent years finding a better way to teach and learn it...
dumpeagle Adassligi Utsati wado
S'gi oginali. Anigido! Donadahohvi
He's so nice. Wow.
Wind talker advanced
My Grandfather!!!
I want to learn more
Im an enrolled member of Ebci Im from Big Cove The loop Im from the pheasant family I have a question Do enrolled member have to pay for theses courses?
When i was in school I didnt pay attention in Cherokee language but now that im out of school and Much older I wanna Learn to speak more then just colors numbers animals I wanna speak sentences Fluently carry on a conversation So do ebci enrolled have to pay ?
Family tree
I'm Cheerokee Bloodline of Queen mother mary of Scotts King Jame's Captain John Smith I'm.the Smith Anderson Roots from Michigan we settled Ohio Illinois all over but cane to Ohio during revolution war my grandfather's was hero's imif all the wars! grandma Mary married Wiiliam Pink Anderson my grandpa Dutch man they may donnoe maiden name! fort st Joseph 1773
What is your Cherokee name?
She's delusional.
Thank you so much. I'm so grateful. I will begin learning asap. I'm so proud to be Cherokee.
Wado oginalii 🙏
Siyo Bullet!!!
My father was full blood Cherokee but my mother was not. I have my mothers peel skin as my two bothers have my dads dark skin. From a very young age i was always connected to nature and had always wanted to learn more about my Cherokee blood. My great grandmother was born on the Trail of Tears and loved to talk about her mother and father. With this being said my wanting to learn the Cherokee language calls to me. It feels like it is something i need to do; learning this language will better my understanding of nature and my family in some way. My spirit tells me to learn the language so that is what i will do.
alisha combs me too I have my mom's pale skin and my dad's dark skin my eye color is the same as my dad's I am unsure if my great grandmother had this ability too but me my dad and grandma all have Aqua eyes our eyes change alot I was gifted the spirit of the red wolf as my. and I have psychic abilities I believe because I know what s going to happen and when
@@drchristinemilly1184 That is so cool. I use to be scared to dream because I could see things before they would happen. Even with people I did not know. That is very cool that I found someone with some-what the same gift.
alisha combs yeah Alisha I hear you this is going to sound plain freaky but I ha a freak when Pres Reagan was pres and alive that he would shake hands with a Republican pres and that Pres would beat out many others he'd be the last pres scary huh
@@drchristinemilly1184 wow so crazy, the most crazy one i have had was of a girl being taken. she ran away from home walking down this road and a semi truck picked her up and it was an older couple with bad intentions for the girl. it was so horrible what i seen. i was like a ghost in in the dream floating above the girl. screaming for help trying to help her but i could not do anything for her. i cried for so long and it still haunts me.
alisha combs 😎
Very greatful, brother... Thanks, again... [¶ī¶]. "¶eace, īove, ¶rosperi†y"...
Actually my grandmother is frenchie (French) It’s my grandfather that’s my Cherokee Bloodline.
I don’t know how to speak or write the language of my people but I am registered & a natural Healer/Medicean man
Thank you, Bullet. I hope that your struggle ceases and your learning becomes easier.
I am Cherokee from both my grandmother mostly and my grandfather on my mother's side. I do not know where or which part of the country this man doing the video is in but it's my understanding that in the East the Cherokee is still taught regularly. At least up till just a few years ago. It does help if you try and not speak any other language during a focused. Of time so that you can learn the language quicker and better. You have to learn to think in the language not just speak it. But surprisingly it is a syllabic language much like Sumerian and Hebrew. Doesn't sound like it but it has that pattern to it.
Second message is for "Victoria H." Maybe UA-cam is an infrior subsect of intellectually.
I don’t claim cherokee heritage as I look white and wasn’t raised in the culture. My grandmother actually was born on the reservation in Cherokee, NC but left to marry my grandfather and move to chicago. She raised my mother white and never spoke Cherokee with her and really didn’t advertise it because in the 1950s it wasn’t “cool.” I want to learn more but because I am so outside of the culture and there is so much hate just based on skin color (and I totally get it because cultural appropriation is real), I feel like alienated. And that’s what makes me sad- that the genocidal practices of the 1800s are still actively divisive and contributing to a repression of the culture.
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