[lbo-talk] Speaking of female candidates...

[John Thornton]

Shit, I have to reply to and correct my own post.
I just received an email from a Yup'ik tribal member who says that his 
grandmothers bq is unknown but assumed to be 1/4.
The Yup'ik don't keep bq registries but by tradition only 1/4 bq or more 
makes one eligible for tribal membership.
I'm not sure how they know if they don't keep records but whoever said 
all tribal rules were consistent?
Since his grandmother was a tribal member of the Curyung but membership 
was not extended to his mother it's safe to say his grandmother was no 
more than 1/4 or else his mother would have been granted tribal membership.
This makes him 1/16 at best and not a tribal member.

My SO's great great grandmother was a full blood whose family gave her 
to some farmers along the Trail of Tears.
This makes my SO also 1/16 and no one (least of all her) would ever 
claim she was NDN.
If Palin's husband is an "eskimo" (yuck Dorene) then I'm really French!

John Thornton

John Thornton wrote:
> Dorene Cornwell wrote:
>> 4. Palin's husband is not white trash. He is Yupik Eskimo. Probably 
>> another
>> culture category a lot of the chattering classes are still figuring 
>> out how
>> to deal with.
>
>
> The fuck he is.
> His grandmother is something like 1/8th or 1/16th (I've read both so 
> obviously one is wrong) which makes him either 1/32nd or 1/64th.
> Either way he is not enrolled on any tribal registry.
> He was not raised among Native Americans.
> I have no idea whether he is white trash or not but he sure as hell 
> isn't NDN, trashy or otherwise.
>
> John Thornton