I know we have lots of native people on here but...

[FrizzleFreak]

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Shovel teeth are flat on the front but if you look at theback (inside) of the tooth (only the front 4 top and bottom) it curves like a spoon or a shovel. European teeth are flat on the back and don't have the curve.

^ What she said, and I would like to add....that there is also a ridge along the top at the gumline. My ridges are so big that they rest on my tongue when my mouth is closed and leave an indention.

Pam

I'm something like 10% Indian, don't know which tribe, probably one of the ones that died out along the coast

. I'm blonde, blue eyed, pale skinned, and my only Indian characteristic is shovel teeth. I thought everybody's teeth were like that? Guess not...I don't have the ridge so much though..

 

[cherokeechicken]

yes they were the chiefs daughters. and yes that was the term used by the white man. the three "chiefs daughters" were sold to the white man for , get this , a few bottles of moonshine. talk about slave trade!

 

[Whispering Winds]

SO COOL!!!!!! I have Indian blood from my mother's side, my brother looked so Indian Brave when he was a young man, it was almost eerie . . . he acted like a wild indian too,

, and my husband had a grandfather who was full blooded Cherokee he thinks, no family history kept on his side to speak of. I love your outfit, its lovely and I would love to see more pics. My niece is a nurse and she worked at one of the hospitals out in the Dakotas that the Indians came too from the reservation, and it was just tragic what she saw . . .made us all so sad. Bless you for keeping the tradition.

 

[MaggieRae]

Hm... I have the 'shovel' teeth and ridge, but I'm not native american in the least. I'm ENTIRELY scottish and irish.

...Interesting.

 

[RubberChickenLubber]

I had never heard of shovel teeth, but now realise I have them. My grandmother's grandmother was Cherokee. This got me to do a quick search of shovel teeth and I found a term that I had never heard of, but fits my family so well, my grandmother was born and raised in the NC Mountains. I had never heard of Melungeon, but from what I gather it's a term used to describe "mixed white and Indian people living in parts of Tennessee and the Carolinas. They are descendants of early intermixtures of white settlers with natives" this was copied and pasted from dictionary online.

 

[JessaLynn]

My dads family used the term "black Germans" to describe us but it's used to describe Mixed Native American and dutch or German.Anyone ever hear of that?

 

[emmalynn]

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That is what I am too. My great grandmother was full Cherokee and most of my Dad's family is at least part...mix that with Scot/Irish from my mom and we get the most mixed up kid...ME!

 

[RubberChickenLubber]

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That is what I am too. My great grandmother was full Cherokee and most of my Dad's family is at least part...mix that with Scot/Irish from my mom and we get the most mixed up kid...ME!

Are you sure we aren't related?..lol. My gf on my dad's side, the same as the gm I was talking about is part irish (my maiden name was McDaniel). Granted, a lot of irish decendants moved to the NC moutains and foothills.

 

[JessaLynn]

You can't really go on features to determin your racial background I think.Everyone is unique.My husband is 100% Mexican but is lighter complected,green eyes,black hair and is 6'4.Not what a typical mexican looks like in my opinion but he is.So you see my point.Just because you have some features doesn't mean that you do have whatever racial background.I know of Native Americans who get irrated that alot of people these days want to prove they are one of them and has gone as far as collected a government check which inturns takes away from the ones who DO live on the reservation to my understanding. Ok way off topic, let's see some regalia and crafts!!!!

 

[farmerlor]

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My great-grandfather's second wife was "black german" but I always understood it to mean that she was from mixed blood....i.e. the anglo saxon wars so she would be from a family of more saxon appearing people with dark hair and eyes instead of the aryan looks from the south who have blonde hair and blue eyes. I could be WAY wrong but she was not born in the US so I know she wasn't part Native.