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Old 11-21-2007, 04:30 PM  
JohnnyJames
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Originally Posted by Hail To Deez Nuts View Post
Are you like 1/8 Native American?
50%. My dad is full-blood. I grew up on and around the Rosebud Sioux reservation. My entire family are registered members, not the sorta wanna-be's you encounter so often because it is considered "glamourous". Not much glamour on Rosebud. Along with its sister-reservation, Pine Ridge, these are some of the most poverty-stricken places in the world, very much like third world countries in many ways.

My great-grandmother actually lived in a tipi as a child and spoke very little English. My own knowledge of the language has faded over the years. As a kid I was fluent. Not it's mostly gone.

Hoksheila-(hoak-shee-lah)-Boy in Lakota.

I remember a lot more, but have almost no working use of the language.

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