
White skin and Blue eyed Native
Liberty Cullen, Saint Ignace, MI My white skin and blue eyes do not change the native blood in my body.
The Race Card Project
By Michele Norris
Liberty Cullen, Saint Ignace, MI My white skin and blue eyes do not change the native blood in my body.
Taylor Danielle, Morris, MN. Being a “full” Native American is not defined by phenotypic gene expression. Yes, I am a blue-eyed, blonde Native American.
Ryan Flanagan, Mountain View, CA A friend in high school asked me this question after meeting my grandmother, who is Filipino. I grew up eating...
Eric Robinson People look at me and assume I am purely Scandinavian because of my blond hair and blue eyes, but my mother is Sioux....
Katie Moore New Echota, GA I used to hate the way I looked growing up. My mom & brother had fair skin & freckles &...
Jessica Elaine Burks, San Diego, CA. I am Black, Irish, and Native American. My paternal grandmother had straight long hair. My maternal grandmother had 4c...
Vered W, CT I have bright red hair, pale skin, and blue eyes. Everybody thinks that I am Irish. I am Ashkenazi Jewish from Ukraine,...
Janice Davidsson, Norfolk, VA. You can’t help who you fall in love with and this American girl fell in love with an African boy. So...
Nicole Minneapolis, MN As a descendant of Germans and Scandinavians, I am termed WHITE. My daughter is is a strawberry blonde with creamy white skin...
Emily Carter, Needham, MA. I am un-mistakenly white. I have blonde hair, blue eyes, grew up in a neighbourhood full of other white people, and...
R.E.A.L. Talk, High Tech Middle Media Arts, 7th Grade Trailblazer It has always confused me when people call others “white”, or “black”, because no one’s...
Cynthia Moreno, San Jose, CA. Since my daughter’s birth I have been asked why she has blue eyes! I was constantly asked if I was...
James Edward White, Indianapolis, IN. You look at me and you see a white man with blue eye. But on my mom’s side my great...
Jessica Aubrey France I just moved to Paris, France from the United States. My mother is Brazilian but my dad is a blonde haired, blue-eyed...
Dilyn Grasp, Boring, OR. I am a white woman from a small town in Oregon (look it up, it’s a real place). My boyfriend is...