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It is way cool indeed, but it's not always so great for the people who have it...

Lydia Fairchild applied for child support from her ex. They did a paternity test, which unexpectedly proved that her children were his but not hers. Criminal investigations of fraud then began against her. A judge ordered a court observer be present during the birth of her third child and to guard the blood samples in transit to testing. The test proved that the third child was not hers either.

She wasn't the first woman who nearly lost her children and got tossed in prison. Fortunately someone had heard of a previous case and then they decided to DNA test her cervix, and found the missing mother.

https://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMoa013452

https://www.academia.edu/202539/Which_Half_Is_Mommy_Tetragametic_Chimerism_and_Trans-Subjectivity

I'm suggesting that the Native leaders take this problem seriously, allocate some money towards a spay/neuter program. There's also a new temporary sterilization implant chip. It's only effective for two years, but that's fine because that's the average lifespan of a rez dog.

That will help the dog overpopulation problem, as long as people stop bringing new puppies and dogs on the rez.

Yeah, I am doing something about it. I move as many dogs and puppies off the rez as I can. There are surrendered dogs, nobody "steals" them, let's get that straight.

Then there's the animal cruelty issue, these cases go unreported, un-investigated and unpunished. When boys torture animals just for shits & giggles, many times they grow up to make people suffer too.

Here's a good documentary about the Navajo tribe and their rez dog problem, as told by them.

http://www.snagfilms.com/films/title/rez_dogs?utm_source=petprojectblog.com&utm_medium=referral

I've found these curved tooth combs useful: https://www.amazon.com/Krest-Tangle-Tamer-Curved-Tooth/dp/B003N8QU4Q/ (not the actual one I have, but it looks like that)

I only wash with water or occasionally water and soap and I don't wash hair daily though I bathe daily. Hair does get some wax build up that I have to scrape from the comb every couple weeks.

https://www.amazon.com/Simply-Cherokee-Lets-Learn-Syllabary/dp/1477241582

This book is very helpful for learning the syllabary. It uses mnemonics and they're silly as hell, but I'll be damned if they don't work.

Won't be justifying the ways I do that already, but just want to drop this link to you if you do want someone to talk to:

https://www.7cups.com/

I do hope you get over whatever is causing you to act this way. Going on social media is definitely not a good way to do it.

Attention everyone: the above is a link to a site selling native themed tee-shirts. Post of this sort have been a plague on native subreddits and native groups on facebook and other social media. Many of them are run by Russian and Asian scammers. Typically they claim to be American owned and run but provide no contact info. Some claim to be run by natives, but who end up having no tribal affiliation and poor english skills.

Are there native run tee-shirt places selling native designed tees? Yes. But 99% of these posts are scams.

This group has a rule against selling or promoting yours services thus tee shirt, craft, paraphenalia, etc, sale store links are not allowed.

If you check out that stores URL they hide their identity in their whois information using a Panama based cover company widely associated with fraudulent sites.

If you look up their phone number 855-999-7840 you find this company changes their name from time to time due to customer complaints. Other names are CustomTeeSales, Teemazing Suup, Niceeams, RockingTheTees, LoveYaTee, MerryFamiShops, and others.

Read these reviews:

https://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/customteesales.com

https://www.scamguard.com/niceamzcom/

100% of reviews report having their money stolen!

Fellow mods: please leave this post up so people can see this warning. I suspect OP Otis-Powers though will take it down shortly anyway as he does not want this info known about his "business".

If you want to go down the rabbit hole and conduct your own research, Roxanne Dunbar's mom is Louise Edna Curry Dunbar (1909–1968) and she's on the 1940 census.

I haven’t purchased this cookbook yet, but it has excellent reviews.

The Sioux Chef's Indigenous Kitchen https://www.amazon.com/dp/0816699798/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_api_glt_fabc_10H1B1BNH5MJMWYGYHBY?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1

Some additional discussion of the above article can be found here: https://www.genome.gov/news/news-release/DNA-tests-stand-on-shaky-ground-to-define-Native-American-identity

Kim Tallbear's book is often recommended: https://www.amazon.com/Native-American-DNA-Belonging-Promise/dp/0816665869

These resources are provided for people to refer to and understand before attempting to share here their direct to consumer DNA "results". Such posts are seldom approved. The reasons include what can be understood by those who care to take the time from the articles and book.

Mvskoke has its own orthography (letters used and their sounds). Also there are various dialects and words can differ, so finding an answer in one source isn't the final answer.

Tree is eto. e like the i in hit, short o.

Cypress, according to the 1890 dictionary (p.21), is Vncenvho.

Here are some other words related to tree from various sources:

stvpokhe - bush vcenv - cedar oto - chestnut ocē-vpe - hickory cule - pine hecelwv - yellow poplar lakcvpe-cate - red oak vhahwv - walnut ‘to-hvtkv - white ash

The 2004 dictionary is the best source as it was cowritten by a linguist and a fluent speaker:

https://www.amazon.com/Dictionary-Muskogee-Studies-Anthropology-American/dp/0803283024

You probably want to get a copy of that if you're going to get into Creek/Mvskoke. It also documents some differences between dialects.