Or at least they are more beligerant. I have met many many many wanna be-s in my life, and once a week or so I meet a female non-native who will mention an indian grandma in the family ancestry, usually they just mention it in passing, before leaving our museum, and about once a month we have a woman decked out in turquoise and black ink-dyed braids looking for spiritual guidence or whatever. Almost every day though, especially in the summer (and especially since those damn Twilight books came out…) we get a man with a pony tail and a feather wanting to be “adopted” or “sign up for treaty rights” etc…and when told we are not the department to handle such situations, they get aggressive and rude. Or worse, when they are rejected by our enrollment office, they come back to our museum or casino and harass the employees (we get about 10 of those a year). I am thinking it has something to do with male ego or something…I don’t know. What do you think?
I am mostly asking this to get the input of some of my Native American contacts…I work in a tribal museum. Those of you who are not enroilled tribal members wouldn’t be able to quite grasp what I am talking about.
good question! I have no idea why these people claim royalty, we didn’t have a monarchy! and from what I have been told, no other tribe did either!
haha, Roman, I needed a good laugh. I’m gonna put this one up to vote. the first skin to vote for themselves gets mine too! Ayye….