I come from a long line of colonizers.

Let’s just be real about this.

Photo by JINZHOU LIN on Unsplash

My dad and I did DNA tests earlier this summer.

I didn’t meet him until I was 23 years old (I wrote a story about that a few years ago), and I haven’t really had a lot of opportunity to get to know other members of his side of the family except via social media, so I was glad that he was willing to do it and maybe help me…