I have answered this many times but here we go again.

I do not agree with every single belief he had.

I understand what his intentions were and how tradition and culture is lost or divided when making room for another culture in your child’s life. I understand why he believed the way he did. That doesn’t mean I agree.

I am mixed race and I am not ashamed of it.

I also am a mother and I raised my child with much of the culture that I was raised in. I want my children to be raised in a Native culture. That doesn’t mean I would only be with another Native person to have children with. I would raise our children with both cultures; if my partner were not Native. Since, my child’s father is not in her life, she is raised the way I was raised.

If I only loved people who I agreed with 100% of the time then I wouldn’t love anyone.