possumheart
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I am not meaning this to sound rude or trying to be funny, but are most of the members of this tribe related? I see so many references to cousins and so many people with the same last name. Also, in a photo on SG's FB she went to a concert with a bunch of older Frybergs. I know they have been dating a while, but that still seems strange to me for a 14 year old to be spending time with "in laws".
Also, I read a comment on twitter that the Fryberg and George families were related. Could this be true? Are the bloodlines so long that it is not frowned upon for people who are (very remotely) related to date?
Please don't take this like I am trying to bash the NA community, just trying to understand it. And it seems there are some on here who understand the workings of that community.
If you look at this early Tulalip census (3 - 4 generations ago), there were many Georges and only one 'Friberg'.
http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~wasigs/TulalipCensus1.htm
I don't know how literally contemporary NA's use the word cousin. Contemporary Bejing Chinese call their cousins brother or sister. Terminology can be used differently.
Interestingly I went to an Ethnography in Education Seminar presented by a Canadian Professor yesterday. So much of what she said ran parallel with what I have observed with JF's tribe. Both boys and girls are introduced to serious fishing and hunting (guns) at eight years of age. The meat of the kill is offered first to the oldest and weakest. Further north where the schools have introduced traditional Indigenous cultural practices into the curriculum they have had an increase in enrolments and a reduction in the general crime rate. Families are extended and close. The grandparents generation were stolen and sent to boarding school which was very damaging. The younger generation is healing the older one ... No wonder their children and families are so precious to them!