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<blockquote data-quote="nofearfactor" data-source="post: 2971294" data-attributes="member: 1535"><p>I am not one bit ashamed to be called an 'Okie', an '*****', or a 'hippy'. I don't look full blood indian, because I'm not so don't expect it, and no idea if I look like an Okie, but I for sure look like a hippy. There are some other words I don't like to be called tho that I might not be so forgiving and we will likely be boxing.</p><p></p><p>My parents and their parents were all born and raised in OK so I guess I'm an Okie by blood even tho I was born and raised in CA. Ive lived back and forth between the 2 states practically my entire life and prefer to identify as an Okie a lot quicker than a 'Kommifornian'. I had a drama teacher in highschool back in San Diego who said he had to reprogram my speech after I had spent a summer in OK at my moms visiting.</p><p></p><p>About the '*****' thing. Redskin. Whatever. I didn't live the struggles that my grandfather did. I never experienced the problems he did. My grandpa passed before I was born. He was full blood Osage indian born in 1885 in Ponca but lived on family Osage county allotment land, his parents were Osage indians who were moved with the tribe from Missouri to Kansas to OK. He went to Chilocco indian school and Haskell indian college. Apparently he wasn't a citizen or even a person until the 1920s. My gramma was born on the Kaw reservation land that her parents were removed to near Ponca. She was 3/4 Kaw, her father was a 'halfbreed'- half Kaw indian and half French, his father came from Canada and married into the tribe, her mother was full blood. So. I am 1/2 pure Anglo on my paternal side; 7/16 native and a sixteenth French/white on my maternal side. That's just a few bits more than a 1/4 total native. I have 2 CDIB cards that say 1/4 Osage, 1/16 Kaw. Since the govt only lets you recognize legally as belonging to only one tribe after some in the 80s you cant combine the bloods on your CDIB cards so we just say we are 1/4 Osage and drop the 1/16th Kaw.</p><p></p><p>My father was 100% white but he had dark hair and olive skin- his fathers side was Scot, his mothers Irish. I remember seeing some redheaded aunts and cousins at reunions in Louisianna. I got the families Scot-Irish blonde looks and my younger only full blood sibling is dark like an indian. My older half sibs with same father different mother have zero native and theyre all blondes and gingers; my younger half sibs same mother different father their father is full blood Osage so with my moms 3/4 they all look full blood.</p><p></p><p>The hippy part I just don't like haircuts and haven't since I was a kid, its been about 4 or 5 years now since the last time Ive had a haircut besides split end trims and I hate to wash it too so I guess I'm a true dirty hippy.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="nofearfactor, post: 2971294, member: 1535"] I am not one bit ashamed to be called an 'Okie', an '*****', or a 'hippy'. I don't look full blood indian, because I'm not so don't expect it, and no idea if I look like an Okie, but I for sure look like a hippy. There are some other words I don't like to be called tho that I might not be so forgiving and we will likely be boxing. My parents and their parents were all born and raised in OK so I guess I'm an Okie by blood even tho I was born and raised in CA. Ive lived back and forth between the 2 states practically my entire life and prefer to identify as an Okie a lot quicker than a 'Kommifornian'. I had a drama teacher in highschool back in San Diego who said he had to reprogram my speech after I had spent a summer in OK at my moms visiting. About the '*****' thing. Redskin. Whatever. I didn't live the struggles that my grandfather did. I never experienced the problems he did. My grandpa passed before I was born. He was full blood Osage indian born in 1885 in Ponca but lived on family Osage county allotment land, his parents were Osage indians who were moved with the tribe from Missouri to Kansas to OK. He went to Chilocco indian school and Haskell indian college. Apparently he wasn't a citizen or even a person until the 1920s. My gramma was born on the Kaw reservation land that her parents were removed to near Ponca. She was 3/4 Kaw, her father was a 'halfbreed'- half Kaw indian and half French, his father came from Canada and married into the tribe, her mother was full blood. So. I am 1/2 pure Anglo on my paternal side; 7/16 native and a sixteenth French/white on my maternal side. That's just a few bits more than a 1/4 total native. I have 2 CDIB cards that say 1/4 Osage, 1/16 Kaw. Since the govt only lets you recognize legally as belonging to only one tribe after some in the 80s you cant combine the bloods on your CDIB cards so we just say we are 1/4 Osage and drop the 1/16th Kaw. My father was 100% white but he had dark hair and olive skin- his fathers side was Scot, his mothers Irish. I remember seeing some redheaded aunts and cousins at reunions in Louisianna. I got the families Scot-Irish blonde looks and my younger only full blood sibling is dark like an indian. My older half sibs with same father different mother have zero native and theyre all blondes and gingers; my younger half sibs same mother different father their father is full blood Osage so with my moms 3/4 they all look full blood. The hippy part I just don't like haircuts and haven't since I was a kid, its been about 4 or 5 years now since the last time Ive had a haircut besides split end trims and I hate to wash it too so I guess I'm a true dirty hippy. [/QUOTE]
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