Born in the U.S.A.

Except, perhaps, once, nobody in the first few decades of my life ever asked me what country I was from (never went outside of America other than Canada until 1992 when I was in my late 30's). In the last decade or so, however, it has become increasingly annoying when people, particularly other Americans, suspect me as being foreign, presumably because of my looks. It is annoying to be identified as not a national. So let me tell me the curious this: I am a national (born in Michigan) and part Cherokee (with family photographs to prove it), therefore my family is indigenous to North America and here before Columbus and the Mayflower. Case closed.

[revised on 1/2/11]

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