Sublime

I’ve never met my half-brothers. I’ve never tried or wanted to. From a young age, I wanted to distance myself from any reminder of my origins.

Jackie will come to mean more than family to you, because the idea and feeling of family will be made a lie. Your white parents will not be your real parents, and you will find that out far too late. Finding out late will set you off searching everywhere for what it might mean that you are an Indian woman, born of an Indian woman who died giving

Most people have an Everybody made up of the people who raised them, plus a few individuals who became very important to them at crucial developmental stages in their lives.

Outside our families, our original tribe, we join tribes of our own volition.