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a lot of my family are from north carolina / tennessee were tsalagi, however they hid away during the trail of tears, many assimilated.

when my family tried to go back and rejoin their people, they were rejected. the reason they were rejected was because one of my grand aunts at the time married a sizemore, im not sure if you guys know a lot about sizemores, but the association with that sizemore made my family be rejected in enrollment. even though they were native, they couldn’t enroll due to the sizemore case going on at the time. am i even allowed to reconnect or try if something like this happened in my family?