Oh this sounds so encouraging for you to do! Of course you will be able to! They just don't want ppl who claim to be native american... because so many ppl want to belong somewhere and there ARE govt benefits to being indian... ha!

Right... we have a gap in our "family tree" all we have are names of "William and Mary ---- " well, anyone with any knowledge of history knows those names are most common, and often taken when others aren't... it is my great great grandfather's wife who was Cherokee... the oral record says he came from Scotland and married her... I am not looking at the info so I forget if it was the same year as Trail or the next year... anyway the oral history says they left the reservation on their own, not part of the govt movement, and either lived in the mountains and then went to Ohio or the path to Ohio was through the mountains (duh.)

My father continued the oral history... and one of my sisters that never listened to his stories later tried to research the family tree. She came up with gap... and mentioned it to me... and I told her that was the exact dating of the story dad had told about "William and Mary" well, then she said that she did find a Wm & Mary marriage but didn't know where they came from. The records for William may have. would have, been lost in the fire at Ellis Island... oh well.

I do not have to push this with the tribe. I will visit there soon, though... but not to announce who I think I am... I think with my spirt "knowledge," and energy, they will know. And that will be enough for me.

My native american background helps me when I am depressed... and when I am able to think about it... and the PTSD. It is because of the inner knowledge that I am able to do so much of this, and understand, and maybe why I am so sensitive! I just don't know what to do with it all maybe????

What do you think... about depression and sensitivity... do you think it could be connected to the earth knowledge?