Any Native American Aspies?

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24 May 2011, 3:06 pm

Hey my names brad, and my native American name is Little Buffalo. i was wondering if there were any other Native american people out there besides me who have Aspergers Syndrome. I will be completely honest with you though im only 25% Cherokee, but i am a member of an intertribal villiage in Pennsylvania. I love the native american culture because It is a beautiful culture thats very important to preserve, and it is a dying culture for that matter. I love powwows especially since you get to drum, dance, and dress just as our ancestors did and its fascinating cause you feel as if your back in time.

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25 May 2011, 4:53 am

Hi!
Im not Native American (im 13/16ths irish, 1/16th african, & 2/16th german)

but the thing is is that i love Native American culture.
I definitely agree that it is a culture that ALL people must preserve.
It is a beautiful culture that was (and still is) so far ahead of its time!!
I was lucky enough to learn about the beliefs of Native peoples, since i used to have a best friend who was 25% mohawk.
Her mother used to teach me about the importance of spiders in some cultures, for example.
So basically, i find it to be a beautiful, interesting, and very groundbreaking culture.
Cause the indigenous people were doing things long before anyone thought to.
Like how the Native people of central America performed brain surgey for their warriors, and anyone who received head trauma. Oh! And they also did plastic surgery.

Its just so amazing to me.

So yeah, just thought id say how proud you should be of being Native American.
No matter how "large" or "small" the percentage is, your ancestors blood will always run through your veins!

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25 May 2011, 5:46 pm

bridgete2010 wrote:

I think its amazing that someone who is does not even have Native American blood is trying to preserve native american traditions and trying to learn all you can about it. In fact it seems to me you might be more interested in native culture than i am, which is great! You know if you really wanna learn more my suggestion is to go to a powwow. i assume you live in america and Powwows are all around the United States, just check websites on powwows and you probably will find one that will be in your area sometime this summer. A powwow is basically where Native americans will dress up in traditional clothing, and they basically do traditional dances and will perform traditional music all day, along with story telling and even venders who will be selling or trading crafts that natives have been making long before settlers ever came onto this land. Its a great time and i bet youd love it

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31 May 2011, 5:46 pm

I am part native american. You would never guess it because of how pale I am lol. According to my grandmom on my dads side we are decendents of pocahontas (sp?) and the shape of my face is what I assume to be part of my native american genetics. I have no idea tho lol. Sry if this is kinda all over the place but I'm a bit distracted by my family yelling at my cat trying to eat our dinner...

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31 May 2011, 10:06 pm

I'm about one eighth, one sixteenth... something like that. I might be Apache or some related tribe...

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03 Jun 2011, 10:09 pm

Samara1991 wrote:

I am also extremly pale, white as a ghost. It is certainly possible your a descendent of Pocahontas. The most common thing with a native americans face is the eyes in my opinion. we all have that footballl shaped eye, and i know when i smile all you see is a little thin slanted black line like a chinese person lol.

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06 Jun 2011, 12:56 pm

Im Sioux Indian and French Canadian, i am not allowed to join the tribe my family belongs to because my dad and my grandpa arent on good terms so he never registered my dad and the tribe said because of that i cant be registered either which sucks my grandpa spent nearly 2 years trying to find a way to get me registered with no luck

our tribe is in Michigan, in the Sault Ste. Marie area near the America/Canada border

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06 Jun 2011, 1:21 pm

TheKing wrote:

Thats very interesting

, I know i tried to get registered on my families res about 8 months ago because im trying to get native scholarships for college since we dont have a whole ot of money in our family, and apperently you can only be up to 6 yrs old or something like that. They told me however that i can get registered if i go to the res and tell the council in their own language why i want to be registered, and quite frankly i only know one word, Wado, which means your welcome. I agree it all seems stupid to me, it doesnt matter what age you are or if your father was registered or not. We have native blood no matter what, and last i checked everyone on the res spoke english anyways we dont even use our native tongue anymore you know. but what can you do i guess

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06 Jun 2011, 1:48 pm

bradt4evr wrote:

TheKing wrote:

Thats very interesting

well because the relationship my dad has with my grandpa i never even talked to my grandpa until 4 years ago, im movin to Lansing, Michigan in January and when i get up there im gonna head to Sault Ste. Marie and meet my grandpa for the first time, i have a lot of family in Michigan on my dad's side i NEVER met

my dad left when i was 4 but i still talk to him and stuff i havent seen my dad in 6 years though

but i come from a very poor family as well it could have helped me when i get to college also but thankfully im gonna get on SSI for my eye disease, Keritaconus, which will help when i get to college

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06 Jun 2011, 2:21 pm

TheKing wrote:

Sorry about your eye disease, im not sure what keritaconus is but it sounds painful, atleast youll get something to help you with college though.

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06 Jun 2011, 2:27 pm

bradt4evr wrote:

TheKing wrote:

Sorry about your eye disease, im not sure what keritaconus is but it sounds painful, atleast youll get something to help you with college though.

Keritaconus is a rare eye disease less than 160,000 people have it in the US and out of that number that have it only 6800 roughly need surgery, i had my first eye surgery in 7th grade, my 2nd in 8th and i need another in both eyes every 5-10 years

Keritaconus means thinning and scarring of the cornea there are multiple ways to get it, me? my eyes squeaked when i rubbed them and as a kid it was entertaining when i was bored and in 6th grade i was diagnosed with it and the next year i went blind in my left eye and immediately had surgery, well we had to postpone the original date for the following month because we didnt have any cornea's at the time that werent from people in their 70s-80s and that would not be much help

the cornea in my left eye is from a 22 year old, the cornea in my right eye is from a 19 year old

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20 Jun 2011, 5:37 pm

no but i think their culture is awesome

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21 Jun 2011, 4:45 pm

I legally qualify as a native American and that's about it. I respect the culture but don't like what subsidizing and perhaps an over-active sense of counter-nationalism have done to the community. I guess the best part is I can't be accused of being racist hahaha.

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25 May 2012, 4:49 pm

Hi my son Jacob is 1\4 Cherokee we live in New Zealand, He has Asperger's, He is almost 10 and was diagnosed at 7 we got lucky with his newschool and they picked it up with in the first 10 minutes, Now we know he is not just a naughty boy

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25 May 2012, 8:55 pm

I may be 1/8 Native, but I am not sure about that (long story and it's personal).

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25 May 2012, 9:18 pm

I'm not native American but precolumbian history is a big interest of mine - all of the areas, right from the Inuit territories in the far north to the Mapuche in Argentina. But mainly Inuit, Haida/Tlingit, Iroqouis, Mesoamericans (Nahuatl, Olmec, Mayan), Inca, Pueblo/Anasazi and related groups, Mississipian/Hopewell culture, and Tairona/Muisca.

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