How do prove your Native American heritage if you’re considered BLACK and your physical features are not ?

Posted October 31st, 2008

nell_jen asked: Family history/stories(elder family members) tell of Native American blood in the family tree.Some Native Americans found it easier to obtain land and have more rights if they were considered “colored or black” in certain parts of the country .N.Carolina law in the 1800’s forbids “indians” to own property.Elder Law Services

I am looking for emergency housing in the Ma. area, how do I get this?

Posted October 28th, 2008

itsmylifemyob asked: I need a place to stay real quick, I am disabled and i need machines to sleep. I have my furniture I need a place with appliances and hopefully utilities. I would like to live in the Salem Ma or Beverly Ma area. My mother in law lives in that area and [...]

How do I stop getting trampled by my sister in law?

Posted October 27th, 2008

Trampled asked: Help. My elder brother’s wife has made it her favorite mode of torture by picking on my smallest flaws and creating a big drama about it. I really feel like I’m under a microscope and am not comfortable when she’s around because she uses me as an excuse to threaten for divorce! I’ve [...]

can my cousin elder brother kiss me?

Posted October 23rd, 2008

music asked: he is my cousin elder brother who is married & have 2 kids (11th & 1st year)he loves me a lot & really cares for me but when he was mentally very very upset he tried to kiss me as he says he finds peace in my company & his tensions are lessened. [...]

Do we owe it to our parents to uproot our lives, jobs, spouses, children, to care for them?

Posted October 20th, 2008

Nurse Diesel asked: If your parent refuses to move to your home, to an assisted living facility, or receive any in-home care whatsoever, do you owe it to them to uproot your own home, life, business, children, or separate from spouse, job and children for long periods to move to another state and take care [...]

Problems with alcoholic father-in-law..help?

Posted October 17th, 2008

JenJen asked: He retired at the young age of 60 without a plan for his time and is now drinking very heavily and calling at *all* hours every day for 3 months now. I am pregnant and have a 4-year-old, I need my rest! I have family member in the hospital and elderly parents so [...]

How do you burn cedar?

Posted October 12th, 2008

Wolf_of_the_Wind asked: Okay when I was little my elders used to burn cedar, not the wood the leaves. Like most Native Americans the burning of sage or cedar is used to purify and cleanse homes and people.
I would ask my elders how to burn the cedar but I recently move away from them to care [...]

How would you feel if someone said this to you?

Posted October 5th, 2008

Okay Hero asked: This morning, my mother gave me the “why are you not searching for someone to marry” conversation.
In the afternoon I bumped into a guy from an old job who basically told me that no one liked me at work and they always talked bad about me when I wasn’t there.
The same night [...]

Should space research be redirected to the preservation of humanity?

Posted October 1st, 2008

Richard F asked: The case has been made for accidents and violent crimes being the products of an energy deficit (1), that is a decline in Daniel Atkinson energy charge which is reflected in the tissue pH (2). It might be instructive to consider the problem very broadly in terms of the entropy paradox confounding [...]