My great grandmother was a Catawba, I spent a lot of time with her as a kid, and I remember her telling me about a few things. She used to make little trinkets and decorations because her grandmother taught her how, and I wish I had paid more attention because that’s so cool and I hate that her knowledge died with her.

Instead, I was very little, so the only thing I actually got from her is some memories and my resilience against the sun. I’m a fairly pale lady due to being inside a lot, but I have an uncanny ability to recover from sunburn real quick, just like my mom and her mom. My wife will burn after 2-3 hours and be in pain for days but I’ll be fine the next morning after the same amount of time in the sun. The burn will have already become a tan.

… But importantly, I have never used that to say I am not white, and it confuses the heck out of me that anyone does.

I recognize LadyButterfly from /c/womensstuff@piefed.blahaj.zone but that’s basically it