One solution for Chihuahua overpopulation: bring back the custom of eating them. Apparently in the past, some cultures raised these dogs for food: http://lostworlds.org/ancient-chihua…

Oh your poor family

Yeah - as a Native American, I hear the word 'pow wow' and I think of drumming, dancing and gorging on fry bread. I am thinking not much of either activity is going on at these rich-white-lady-pedicure-gatherings. Not that there is anything wrong with gettin' together for pedicures, but I doubt much dancing is…

I have PCOS too. I learned the hard way that I can't rely on it for bc tho! After 5 years of taking medications and exercise (losing 50 pounds to get a semblance of a menstrual cycle), I gave birth to a daughter when I was 35. Then I went off the metformin, which caused my cycles to go away again. To fight the…

This is a story my mom told me that her mother told her. My mom was born in 1929 on a ranch in the TX panhandle, youngest of 6 kids. Years before she was born, her mother lived on another ranch where the house was supposedly haunted. The family would hear footsteps in the house at night, especially in the living…

'kay. What is the question?

Trigger warning: 3 years ago I had a miscarriage at around 20 weeks. Looking back on subtle signs, I think the fetus died Friday evening/early Saturday and my body expelled it Sunday night. No chemicals ingested, my body did it quite suddenly and violently on its own. Was a hell of a shock.

Oh I see what you did there!

Sadly you are right. MRA types DON"T view women was human beings. As far as I can tell, they see us as some kind of strange doglike creature that happens to have the interesting ability to walk on 2 legs.

Spot on, rainbowdashcrash. In any semblance of a healthy relationship, one's partner (of any gender) is a sentient being one talks and listens too. Training is for dogs, not humans!

Another source I forgot to mention earlier; there is a site run by a Native woman adopted out who writes about these issues: http://www.splitfeathers.blogspot.com/

You just don't understand how painfully racist your questions are. I mean I know we Natives in the US make up only about 2 percent of the population, and your average American is hopelessly ignorant and only has really awful stereotypes and misunderstandings to fill in the knowledge blanks. But you know what? I am…

I've been to Tahlequah, where the CNO is headquartered. It is a nice little town, with a university nearby. Just as nice or nicer than a lot of places in SC.

So, you're pro-genocide. Thanks Columbus!!

As a Native American woman, all I can say right now is, Jesus Haploid Fucking Christ, are you serious???????

So? By the Cherokee Nation's own laws, Dusten Brown and Veronica are full tribal citizens. The CNO's own laws and customes gets to decide who is CNO, not anyone else.

There is a multipart series about this case at Indian Country Today newspaper. The adopting family's lawyers deliberately played fast and loose - they deliberately gave the Cherokee Nation of OK a misspelled version of bio-dad's name and wrong birthday. The CNO has over a quarter million people on its rolls, they…

OMG that is funny. When I was in 6th grade (in 1980-81) we had a sex ed class. Taught a bit of anatomy and puberty and body changes, blah blah, but did not mention/describe sex. I remember sitting in the car on the ride home after class while mom drove, and I was trying to puzzle out in my brain how sperm got to…

LOL. Yeah you do have a stake in other people's kids. No man is an island and all that. Let me 'splain how this odd human invention, SO-CI-E-TY works. We all are part of a community -well depending on where you want to draw the lines, multiple communities. We adults, by and large, benefited from public education…

Dukes of Atlanta, in the US there is (weak as it is) a 'family leave law' - the federal version is unpaid; so a lot of people cannot take it because it wd kill their finances. Some states, like CA, do make it paid - but at least here in CA only for 6 weeks. It is gender-nonspecific, so hypothetically speaking…