The focus is on my relationship to famous Indigenous cultures. Per wikitree.com I am:

13 degrees from Sacagawea Charbonneau
31 degrees from Geronimo Apache
18 degrees from Douglas Cardinal
25 degrees from Lisa Carrington
17 degrees from Sequoyah Cherokee
17 degrees from Charles Curtis
14 degrees from Gabriel Dumont
29 degrees from Evonne Goolagong Cawley
25 degrees from Doug Nicholls
17 degrees from Will Rogers
20 degrees from Jay Silverheels Smith
19 degrees from Maria Tall Chief

More about them:

Sakakawea (aka Sacagawea) was a Lemhi Shoshone woman who accompanied
the Lewis and Clark Expedition as an interpreter and guide between 1804 and 1806.

Goyaałe (also known as Geronimo) was an shaman military leader of the Bedonkohe Apache known for leading resistance to settlement of what is now
the southwestern United States from the 1850s until his final surrender in 1886.

Douglas Cardinal, member of the Siksika Nation, is a Canadian architect distinguished for his inclusion of natural and indigenous themes in his buildings.

Lisa Carrington, New Zealand's most successful Olympian, having earned six Olympic medals, is Maori.

Sequoyah became world-famous due to his invention of the Cherokee syllabary,
a system for writing the Cherokee language.

Charles Curtis served as Vice-President under Herbert Hoover. He was a member of the Kaw Nation.

Gabriel Dumont was a Metis leader and military strategist who served alongside Louis Riel as adjutant-general during the 1885 North-West Resistance.

Evonne Goolagong Cawley is an Indigenous Australian and former top tennis player in the world.

Pastor Sir Doug Nicholls was a prominent Aboriginal Australian from the Yorta Yorta people who served as the 28th governor of South Australia (the first Indigenous Australian to be so appointed), was a pioneer of Australian reconciliation, and the first Aboriginal Australian to be knighted.

Will Rogers was a Cherokee American cowboy, vaudeville performer, humorist, social commentator and motion picture actor.

Jay Silverheels was a Mohawk actor and athlete best known for his role as "Tonto" in The Lone Ranger TV series.

Maria Tall Chief was considered America's first major prima ballerina, and was the first Native American (Cherokee) to hold the rank.

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I have some ancestors that were actors, architects, astronauts, Afro-American, authors, bank robbers, boxers, comedians, detectives, ghosts, holocaust survivors
Indian chiefs, pro hockey players, singers and musicians, painters, physicians,
politicians, poets, popes, writers, WW I heroes. I guess that I am a collection of
all of them, as we ALL are.

https://www.wikitree.com helps me gather this information with their weekly newsletters. It is totally free and very useful to genealogists.

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