we all knew we had native ancestry. My dad told me when I was a little kid, just as my granddaddy told him. A family secret passed down through the generations. ‘Shhh, don’t tell anyone. You’re an Indian.’” Indan, if he were being honest. No i. Or Yesah, the people. But genealogy was for guys who cared. “My life started with a secret, and the secrets grew.