Also prevents tribal members from leaving the reservation. You can marry before leaving for a career, but your kids would have to move back to find a partner of their own. Good luck telling your kids that they have to marry not just within the same race, but the same tribe if they want their kids to inherit their identity.

It's basically ensuring those communites shrink until they disappear. It's not historical, it's not traditional, it's a calculated way to drain the blood from the tribe & disguise it as freedom of choice.

What band are you from? My dad, aunt & grandmother wered all enrolled members of LCO, but LCO's never responded to me when I reach out about it for myself. It hurts, my grandma was abandoned as a baby and adopted by Slovakian immigrants, though she briefly reconnected with her mother and siblings later in life. My dad left my family when I was a kid.

I just feel robbed as a mutt who's always been an outsider, even in my own home. I did a deep dive in to what it meant to be Anishiaabe, all of my passions & instincts suddenly felt like they made perfect sense. The shores of Lake Superior are the closest thing I have to an ancestral homeland, I wasn't raised to be German or Slovak.

My great grandma was from Old Post, a village that was flooded & destroyed by the Northern States Power Company to provide electricity that the villagers of Post wouldn't even have access to for decades. There's a continual pattern of being kicked out & abandoned that stretches back to that flood. We've been trying to survive on the outside, it was never a choice leave it behind.

I just feel like my Ojibwe heritage has been stolen. I may look like a white guy, but that's what genocide is intended to do, destroy not just the blood but the heritage behind it. It made me proud to learn my great aunt Sandra fought against blood quantums, but the genocide isn't finished yet so that fight isn't over.

You need to Photoshop some rotting flesh in the reflection, then take a normal picture without the mirror. If you don't know what I'm talking about, check out his reflection in the Atlantic City hotel room shortly before his 100th birthday.

I wasn't trying to imply that you did, I was just emphasizing the distinction between Blair and the Thing. Who Blair was when he hung that noose up and who we see pleading to be let inside are complete opposites. That's around the time that we see even the blood alone will fight to survive. It's a core aspect of the Thing because that tenacity to survive is normally what makes a hero, not a monster. It's more human than we'd like to think.

The Thing is all about self-preservation, the noose is 100% something only Blair would have put up. Blair was suicidal out of obligation, he's trying to protect the world and prevent rescue. It's very off that suddenly not only would he would desperately want to be inside, but to be around everybody else at that moment too. He was the most paranoid & the most on guard, saying he's no threat to anyone is a dead giveaway it's not him, the only end to the threat was cutting off the Thing from living matter.