Roustabout
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and just like that she is kicked out of the tribe. I will take this over Septics "One drop" law."A DNA test is useless to determine tribal citizenship. Current DNA tests do not even distinguish whether a person's ancestors were indigenous to North or South America. Sovereign tribal nations set their own legal requirements for citizenship, and while DNA tests can be used to determine lineage, such as paternity to an individual, it is not evidence for tribal affiliation. Using a DNA test to lay claim to any connection to the Cherokee Nation or any tribal nation, even vaguely, is inappropriate and wrong. It makes a mockery out of DNA tests and its legitimate uses while also dishonoring legitimate tribal governments and their citizens, whose ancestors are well documented and whose heritage is prove. Senator Warren is undermining tribal interests with her continued claims of tribal heritage."
- Cherokee Nation Secretary of State Chuck Hoskin, Jr.
shhh. there was a world class expert unequivocally suggesting a possible range that includes a zero percent chance.This is whole thing is funny. If anyone has taken more than one DNA test. You’ll see that the results are different. It all depends on what that particular company has in their data base.
They already know who you are. If any of your relatives, either close or distant did one and a family tree based off of DNA testing. You're already in a data base, just saying..My daughter asked me to get tested so she'd have a better mapping, i said nope, my dna is not going in some database somewhere.
It feels intrusive and wrong.
I just don't see it happening now.
That's a tough row to hoe if the economy remains robust. Remember Carville's famous maxim.Not now, but this is the mid terms, which are traditionally driven by the extremes of both parties because that is who is motivated to turn out. Once the mid terms are over, I expect (and hope) that the Dem traditional structure moves the party to a more centrist path.
I maintain that the key for any Dem to win in 2020 is to champion middle class tax cuts. Explain the economics of the GOP package, and how it really benefited the wealthy and the investment class, not the middle class except with a few trinkets designed to make it palatable. Then go after Trump as the financial trickster that he is, the shady deals, the tax returns, the foreign money and influence.
