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everyone wants to belong to be accepted I was born with the name Barbra Jean mashiki I didn't get to keep that name because I was adopted I grew up knowing I was part Native American but many years later I learned that I am half my life was good I had a great family but I wanted to know more of my genealogy modern technology makes the research possible and I learned there is a Durant role a census for Native people and I could find the mashiki name and guess what family I came from I found that name in Michigan records but the Michigan adoption records are sealed but I was able to find my family and my trial I found a lady that could be my mother and found her death raillery also found her brother's death notice and on the bottom of the death notice had said special services were provided by the Little Traverse Bay bands of Odawa now I knew what tribe I came from and I called the tribal office and asked to put a notice in the paper and asked for family to contact me I learned that the