No, not a poser at all!

That part of your heritage obviously calls to you for you to get involved as you are. By being involved with it you build it and strengthen it, as opposed to allowing it to slowly disappear!

The interesting thing is, and this is just my opinion, that the Native American, is the true American, as analagous to the native Scot or native Irishman. The rest of us are Americans, but by nature of geography. We are the "melting pot" and have become an amalgous mass of traditions and customs, homogenized so to speak. This is why I think many are attracted to such cultrues, it gives them a way of connecting with traditions that are almost one thousand years old, or more. As Americans, I feel, we can freely celebrate not only the ideal of what an American is, or should be, but that to which we are drawn for whatever reason.