No, I said I default to the tribe. It's not a monolith, and there may be times when I disagree with them, but ultimately it's a complex issue that I feel like you swept away with your 'biologic' statement. It's so much more complex than that, and I don't know why you chose that as your metric.

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And that's my issue. Because if it's just biological to you, not only do you disinherit a lot of Native people, even in contrast to their own enrollment, and then open up a can of worms with percentages of what make a person biologist or no. It's gross and imo, just not ok.

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And if that's not what you meant, and you threw 'biologic' out as a way of simplifying the other person's identity and invalidating their points of view, then that's not ok, and you owe it to your community to do better and choose your words better.

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Look fam. Unless you're talking about an actual disease or birds or something, just erase the word 'biologic' if you're talking about any person's identifier. Seriously. It's never anything good when someone does that.

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I am not too proud to admit that conversations around 'blood' and Indigeny make me feel very insecure as a reconnecting Native. I have a literal, pathological fear of ending up like Lakotaman. Don't let that happen to me you guys. I mean that. D:

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