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I am thinking about having some bumper stickers made for myself and I would like to hear some opinions on this idea. Please let me know what ya’ll think. The background color will be black and the lettering red. This is what the stickers will say:
Proud Descendant:
Eastern Siouan-Saponi
Metis and Proud
A sticker I think that would be good for people of Tri-Racial descent is:
American Metis:
Red, White and Black
Thanks
Metis is only an “official” or governmentally recognized term in Canada, though I have seen some people in the states try to use it to indicate mixed blood.
CoheeLady wrote: Don’t you have to live in Canada to be Metis? Yes I know what the word means.
Thanks. Well I guess I want have that one made. Let me compare and explore other ideas.
Part Native American, Amerindian, First Nations, Latino, Hispanic, or Indigenous to the Americas:
A Métis is a person born to parents who belong to different groups defined by visible physical differences, regarded as racial. The term is of French origin, and also is a cognate of mestizo in Spanish. In the Western Hemisphere, this term usually is used to describe someone born or descended from the union of a European and an Amerindian. However, the term has been used by other groups around the world, mostly in countries which were under French influence such as Vietnam and is still commonly used by Francophones today.
Métis — used in Canada and the United States for First Nations and European descent, particularly people of Algonquian and Celtic or/and French descent; and also to indicate a specific historic population of mixed Scottish or/and French AND Cree or/and Salteaux or/and Ojibwa ancestry. If the European ancestry is Iberian (Hispanic or Portuguese), the term ‘Mestizo’ or ‘Mestiço’ is normally used.
I would like to mention that, I know I have three known lines of French in my blood also. In addition, there is a strong indication that I have Nansemond(Algonquian) Ancestors too. But since I don’t live in Canada, I want use this term.
Maybe: Mestee and Proud
Etymology
Usually from Middle French mestis, “a person of mixed race” (Modern French mètis) < Latin mixtus. Cognate with Spanish mestizo. Sometimes from colonial Louisiana French mestif, “the child of an Octoroon and a white person” (15/16 white, 1/16 black), from mestif in Old French, meaning “mongrel”.
Noun
Singular Mestee
Plural Mestee (plural Mestees)
- A mixed race person, especially if mostly white in ancestry, appearance and culture.
- A member of an old mixed race group, particularly those groups which identify more with their white ancestry than with their black or Native American ancestry, like the Melungeons and the Brass Ankles.
- A person who is mostly white and not more than one sixteenth black.
- In the West Indies, a person who is one eighth black (an octoroon).
I’m not sure about this term either. Since I have not proved the black ancestry, YET. Even though various members of my family(Rawlinson, Gibson and Jones) are listed in Heinegg’s Free African Americans of North Carolina, Virginia, and South Carolina.
Maybe: Melungeon and Proud
Melungeon (comparative more Melungeon, superlative most Melungeon)
Positive Melungeon
Comparative more Melungeon
Superlative most Melungeon
- Of or pertaining to any of several similar mixed-race groups currently and historically found in the Southeastern United States, all of uncertain or disputed origin.
I’m not sure about this either since I don’t live in Tennessee or other traditional areas of the U.S. that Melungeons are known to live. Even though I have many surnames in my family that are considered Melungeon.
Maybe: Redbone and Proud
Redbone (ethnicity) is a vaguely-defined ethnic group whose members belong to two or more of various ethnic groups, and is found in modern days, primarily in the Louisiana area of the United States.
Can’t use this term. I don’t live in Louisiana. Even though various members of my family lived in the S.C. areas where the Louisiana Redbones are said to have originated from.
:confused: I know, Maybe: The Race of the Future and Proud
The Race of the Future theory/idea states that due to the process of miscegenation, the mixing of different ethnicities or races, especially in marriage, cohabitation, or sexual relations, all the races are blending to become one race in the future. The idea was stated by Gottfried de Purucker, an author and theosophist. When asked about intermarriage in 1930, he said “the race of the future will be a composite, composed of the many different races on earth today. Let us also remember that all men are ultimately of one blood.”
🙁 I give up. I’ll just stick to the vague: American and Proud.
Or Maybe this, since I believe I’m descendant from all these:
Proud Descendant:
Irish, Scottish, Welsh, English, French, German, Swiss, Jewish, Native American(Eastern Siouan-Saponi, Coharie, Creek and Nansemond) and possibly or hopefully African.
That would be one BIG bumper sticker.
whitehawk,
I think you should use whatever term your heart leads you to…:) Blessings. I am not too much on bumper stickers, but have contemplated at tatoo?!
Shirley
Thanks Sammarroq,
I agree with you. I just want to show people that I am proud of who I am and where I come from. Even though sometimes it seems vague to me. I know that there are other ways of doing this than having a bumber sticker on my vehicle. I have seen bumper stickers like this at Pow Wows and other Cultural festivals that have a specifc Tribe on it and I just thought that maybe it would be a good, openly way to express that I am proud of my Mixed and Native Ancestors. This is why I posted and asked for opinions on the bumper stickers to see how people will react to them. Thank you, Whitehawk
whitehawk wrote: Thanks Sammarroq,
I agree with you. I just want to show people that I am proud of who I am and where I come from. Even though sometimes it seems vague to me. I know that there are other ways of doing this than having a bumber sticker on my vehicle. I have seen bumper stickers like this at Pow Wows and other Cultural festivals that have a specifc Tribe on it and I just thought that maybe it would be a good, openly way to express that I am proud of my Mixed and Native Ancestors. This is why I posted and asked for opinions on the bumper stickers to see how people will react to them. Thank you, Whitehawk
whitehawk,
Express away!:D
I need a bumper sticker that says “I stop for roadkill”
Or perhaps “Spam, its whats for dinner!”
On a native theme, how about “Virginia Indian and proud!”
“Virginia Indian and proud” would sum up what you’re trying to say concisely, Whitehark, and accurately, maybe fudging a tad on the Creek, but what the heck.
Good going Spilleddi. (That girl’s a whiz for words.)
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