You know you might be a Jine:
           if being on time means you're only an hour or two late,
           if your last name is someone else's first name,
           if you can tell what's in a commodity container without reading the label,
           if you own four cars, but only one runs, and then just when it wants to,
           if you have to walk forever to find a telephone that works and even further to find one that can call out long distance,
           if at least once you spent all your rent money going to a powwow, softball game or basketball tournament,
           if store security follows you the moment you walk in the door,
           if at least once in your life you've been called "Chief",
           if every white person you meet feels obligated to tell you about their "Cherokee grandmother",
           if everytime you read about the U.S. making a treaty somewhere you get a sour taste in the back of your throat,
           if everytime an older relative gets drunk they tell you the same old story about the horrors of  boarding school,
           if when you're getting ready to go to a Traditional Ceremony some Christian in your family starts talking about "Devil Worship",
           if the FBI is willing to perjure themselves, falsify evidence and coerce judges and jurors to put you behind bars,
           if teenagers you know start commiting suicide en masse,
           if half the young people around you have been killed in car wrecks coming back from the bars in town,
           if a relative was found murdered but the cops don't have any leads and close the case quickly,
           if all the officers at the local jail know you by your first name,
           if at least one of your relatives is in prison,
           if you're in a hurry to leave your home but miss it the moment you're gone,
           if your Elders make a game of telling the ten most cruel things done to them by Nuns
           if you live in the Rockies and Mormons try to get you declared unfit as a parent in order to adopt your children,
           if when you enter a classroom you go directly to the farthest seat in the back,
           if Grandpa talks about walking to school barefoot in the snow, and is telling the truth,
           if your Older Relatives talk about sitting way back in the back of the theater because they wouldn't let "our kind" sit down front,
           if you go to a sports event and the woo-wooing makes you feel violently psychotic
           if you're over 40 but your ball glove is still oiled and your court shoes are new,
           if at least one of your relatives talks to rocks, trees, animals and plants in the same tone of voice he talks to you,
           if your Grandfather is constantly praying and Grandmother constantly cooking,
           if no matter how mad you are at your relatives, you always feel better when everbody's together,
           if at least once you've had to hustle up every aluminum can you could find to buy gas or food,
           if your new baby is always being held by some relative for the first two years of its life,
           if more than half of your people at a community meeting have come there just to get their check,
           if a nearby casino finally opens and the number of your "relatives" triples,
           if after a per capita payment one of your alcoholic cousins buys a new truck, forgets where he parked it, and gos to buy another,
           if more family comes to a funeral than a wedding or graduation,
           if plywood and plastic are your primary home improvement materials,
           if maybe once in your life, you wished you weren't..., but then said "f--k it!"--and were proud.