Reply #17: My Mother was 50% American Indian, she looked it. My Dad was a caucasian mutt with irish roots.

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He was not particularly fair.

As a kid I was blonde blonde, white white, blue blue eyed. People would as ask my parents if I was adopted. Or if my mom was the baby sitter/housekeeper, etc....


So insulting to her. To them.

I still don't look native. Reddish dk blond/lt brown hair. (unless I dye it). Pale skin, can't tan worth a damn.

But a few years ago some friends of mine went on a vacation in the upper midwest. They knew my story. On a reservation they saw a blond american indian girl -- and they just about died -- she looked just like me. Almond-ish eyes, high check bones, flat facial profile, small nose, short.

We are so much more than our skin color/hair, but that is what people see -- and until we are blind to that some inherent prejudice will exist.