I cannot prove my ancestry because there is a lot well hidden and unknown. I am Native American as well as many other things, among these is Cherokee. I know I am Tsalagi because my great-uncle told me so. He was told by his grandfather. There are others back farther who were taken in and one's real name is not known so it is nothing I can ever prove, just something that I know. But more important than what I am or am not is who I am, and who we all are. I feel all people in the whole world should work together more and we will have a better world, and that is what I would love to accomplish in some small way with my poetry. We must work together for the sake of the Earth and for peace.