Embracing Native American Heritage?

twentyseven27
Tue, 01 Mar 2011 22:29:51 +0000

I will definitely be consulting admissions offices when I begin applying. I forgot to mention visiting the graves of ancestors every year (according to my mother it’s a native American tradition that has to do with honoring the dead), and going to Cherokee doctors and dentists as a child in Tahlequah. I didn’t realize there were numerical limits to define ethnicity–but I do know I am far more connected to my Cherokee heritage than friends of mine who are 1/8 or more NA. I was always raised to be proud and conscious of my background, so it seems very natural to me to identify myself this way.