This thread reminds me of song. :tongue: The Old Sod by Spirit of the West From the old sod to the new land We came over by the score We cut the ties said goodbye And closed the old world door We settled on your praries In your cities and your towns There's another oatmeal savage Every time you turn around [Chorus] And there's none more Scots Than the Scots abroad There's a place in our hearts For the old sod Oh, there's none more Scots Than the Scots abroad There's a place in our hearts For the old sod We soon found our own kind Formed clubs and social nights And we practised on each other Just to keep our accents right For there's more tartan here Than in all the motherland We came 5000 miles To the gathering of the clans [Chorus] There's a bar in the rec room In the basement of our house A little shrine to Ballantynes Haig and Famous Grouse There's a sprig of purple heather From the land that once was mine And Robbie's on the tea towel With the words to Auld Lang Syne [Chorus] Canada's been good to us We've a living and a home We've all got central heating And most are on the phone I'm a citizen of both countries And very proud to be For the thistle and the maple leaf Are the emblems of the free
LOL yeah course they know full well, just teasing you. Body Electric; that's a great song, can certainly see some truth in there and the sentiments can apply equally well to other ancestries.
mom's family is Native American & French Dad's family is Native American & Irish my brother just says we are mutts
oh man i am a mutt...... I have irish,scottish,english,dutch,norwegin,german and thats as much as i can remember the others i just cant...........
Mainly German, Native American, and English. My Great-Great Grandma through my Father was Cherokee Indian, My great-great Grandpa through my mother immigrated here from Germany. The rest is mixed English/Irish. I would love to get involved in my local tribe, the echota cherokee, I am a member but they are all christians, and I really do not think it is right at all... I mean come on... singing amazing grace in cherokee just doesnt feel right to me..
^^^that's really cool, I'm half Cherokee from Tahlequah, OK. Some of my ancestors were survivors of the trail of tears. I don't speak much Iroquoian myself, though. That's on my father's side. My mom is part Irish and part Cherokee, too.
I know I have a lot in me, but my father's side of the family I have no idea. He was adopted. I'm one-eighth Cherokee Indian.
I am Azorean Portuguese. So I guess that means I could be a Moorish, Spanish, British, Flemish, Portuguese mix
There is more than blood going on. What is the cultural change we have endured between the home country and the USA, and why did it happen? Many times it was by force. African-American ex-slaves aren't the only ones who had their culture brutally wrenched from them. The general identity of Western and Central Europe as "Celtic" from pre-Roman times persists as the "Celtic" identity of a few nations of the fringe (Galicia, Brittany, Cornwall, Man, Wales, Scotland, Ireland). It goes much deeper, however. Much of the culture of Medieval Europe derives from the general widespread Celtic past. The Old Religion of the people, agrarian social structure, and art from Celtic Europe continue to evolve in modern times in Europe and North America. In the USA I come from Appalachia, with known ancestry Scot, Irish, Welsh and Cherokee. This takes on some significance given the cultural uniqueness of Appalachia (WV in my case) which is in large part derived from Celtic sources, along with English, German, Cherokee, Shawnee and others. The sacred trees of Celtic Europe are all present in Appalachia. The great tragedy of Appalachia and of the USA is that the mixture which occurred was not under better circumstances, when it involved Native Americans and Africans. The same tragedy occurred in Europe, with Celtic people and culture as the victims. I see in my own mixed ancestry the significance of these ancestors oppressed and imperialized in different times, but suffering a common past and with the common potential to recover some cultural sanity and persist into the future as something more than just another mainstream corporate-culture drone. I don't know if it is genes speaking, or known history. Either way, it's valid.
ok here goes... on my dads side: 16th irish (maybe more), 16th welsh, scottish from about 5 generations back ( elliot, kennedy, ross) friench canadian from a great great? family from devon, family from the north of england (my great grandmother and more) sweden 9 generations back. dutch from hundreds of years ago, all been bred out of me. bermuda, but they came from devon and england. found a few normans. my mums side: i am 10% scottish ( from my great great grandfather and my great great great grand mother, but they is a good chance there is more scottish) i went so far back on the scottish line that i found ancient kings of ireland and wales, a roman, a few vikings and one or two gods.( we are talking in the year 674 type thing. ) all the rest is english. so yeah, basicly celtic and norse. blessings xxx
