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["Lynda" <lurine AT com-pair.net>]

Half-breed is "sorta" offensive.  I corrected you because, historically, you 
either were a member of the tribe or you weren't.  Traditionally, before the 
white man and his pedigrees, The People didn't look to blood to prove 
Indianness.

I was just giving you info so that if you should come across a Cherokee and 
say that so and so your great-whatever was a "half-breed chief," they 
wouldn't scalp you <g>

And I just wanted to be sure that you didn't go around calling your 
great-whatever a ho <g>

Now, back to the first part.  Did your whomever say that you had a whatever 
that was a chief?  If so, red or white?  And, yes, that is a serious 
question and no it doesn't refer to skin color.

Lynda
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "bobf" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
To: <homestead AT lists.ibiblio.org>
Sent: Wednesday, January 07, 2009 1:20 AM
Subject: Re: [Homestead] Indians -- Homesteading and beyond ... was Corn Fed


> Of course I know what it means; you just told us a week or two ago  :-).
>
> I didn't know that half-breed was offensive; But, it takes about two 
> seconds now that you mention it to understand why it would be -- it is 
> something more from tv thsn anywhere; and I don't know, if before, I have 
> ever fad the occasion to use the expression -- always a white guy, though 
> (Stuart Whitman, Tony Curtis ?), .
>
> But,   You know that if I offended you in any way, I am sorry.  I'm always 
> learning, and sometimes I make a 'new' mistake.  The Indian Princess part 
> I borrowed from you, but the other part, I will not use again........
>
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>
> --- On Tue, 1/6/09, Lynda <lurine AT com-pair.net> wrote:
>
>
> > Ah, do you per chance know what "Indian princess"
> > means?  In the current
> > venecular it is a two letter word.
> >
> > BTW, just a note, in the Cherokee people, they would never
> > have called
> > anyone a half-breed.
> >
> > So, was he red or white?
> >
> > Lynda
> > ----- Original Message ----- 
> > From: "bobf" <bobford79 AT yahoo.com>
>
>
>
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