On 11 Mar 98  17:28:40, Sondra Ball said the following to Nancy Wood:
SB> *MSGID: 1:141/355.0 0b117ac0
NW> Kinda like Shania Twain, country artist, billing herself as a Native
NW>  She was raised by a step-father, who was a Native American.  She mi
NW> more of an understanding of Native American heritage and 'ways' than
NW> people, but to be 'registered' as a Native American???
SB> 
SB> Did you know that it is against the law to claim to be a Native Aemrican 
SB> for economic gain if you're not.  She could get taken to court for it.  
SB> She probably won't, however.
If she was raised by her stepfather, who is american indian, and was raised 
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be *culturally* native american, she has every bit as much right in my 
pinion
to consider herself native as I do, who was raised by my white mother in a 
city with only a small part of my upbringing in contact with the rather 
homogeneous local indian association.
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