In this case all German Sites are inconspicuous, because they are using “.de??? which is just a sign for Germany. Like the one in the uk have “.co.uk??? and the American ones have “.com???
As your site is commercial, you should have it registered appropriately. And you are the one to be mistaken about the way these endings work.
My real name was Fehlauer, because I was married to a German Guy with the name Fehlauer. And I know a native woman, who lived in Germany and married a German Guy and is still wearing his German name. I just forgot to change this. Oh what a big deal.
Yeah, right, one 'just forgets' to change a surname, no big deal at all, people forget that all the time. No, under Grrman law, you were and are required to register a commercial site under your legal name, Tanni. Your legal name is the one mentioned in your passport and "Personalausweis" (ID card).
And since the German Authorities could not accept the name Tonya, we made Tanja out of this, otherwise I would not be able to register the domain.
Now, this is rich!! And not true! German authorities - since Grrmoney has lots of imigrants meanwhile - accept foreign names of all sorts. Provided, mind you, you can present proof that this is your legal name.
Anyways, you claim you had a mother with US citizenship and a father with German citizenship. Alright, in case one of the parents is of foreign origin and they want to give their children first names usual in their home country, German authorities can and do accept all spellings and names. Or how do you imagine a Muslim would manage to have his children registered as Ibrahim or Ayse in Germany?
No, Tanni, Hanau authorities insisted on the site being registered under your legal name. Your legal name is Tanja because you're German. When it comes to having a child registered at birth, non-German parents have more possibilites than German parents, so if you had a non-German mother, registering you as 'Tonya' would have been quite easy. This may be very different if both of your parents are German. Civil servants may reject names that sound silly, or will be a matter of ridicule for the person named.
What no German authority would have accepted though is: to register the site under anything but your legal name. So if your legal name was 'Tonya', no prob. Thank you for clarifying your legal name is not Tonya.
Let me emphasize: no German authority would have told you 'Sorry, dear, but you got such an exceptional first name and we're so bad about foreign names - could we possibly do the site registration under a name we're more used to?'
And again this is no concern of yours, where I registered the domain. In matter of fact, I was living pretty long in Hanau. What is wrong with that I was living in a town with US barracks ? I did not choose this, but my former job was in Hanau, so I moved there.
I personally don't care where people register their sites, as long as they don't b.s. people. As your site is commercial, this information is required under German law, and therefore I looked for it as I was interested under which name you run your business.
But if you are, who I think you are, then you of course should know this.
Dunno - who d'you think I am? Inquiring minds would like to know.
And by the way, I was official translator for the Graham defence page, till my sickness, and if you are that smart, like you would like to show here, then you would see, that the donation button, went straight on their page. At least I can say, and I can prove this as well, I helped in a Native American issue, to free an innocent Native American person. What have you done to support them? Searching Web pages, just to call somebody a Fraud?
Thanks once again, Tanja, for exposing what you are not. From the way you express things, an "NA issue" obviously is not speaking about your people, it's what have you done for
them. Apart from that, those who need to know what I do and have done already know, and I'm not inclined to engage in a bragging contest with you.
How would you translate “ Indianer-Stones “ ? Of course it is Native American Stones.
I don't use the term 'ndn stones' in the first place. Apparently, despite having read quite a lot on ndn cultures for some 40 years, I seem to have missed information on this issue. But I'm always eager to learn. Can you please explain to me what 'ndn stones' may be?
It is not always easy to translate different German words in English, so it can mean the same. This still don’t make me a fraud.
Errors in translation don't make you a fraud. Selling dubious 'ndn stones', dreamcatchers, alleged ndn jewelry 'made by a friend' etc, and claiming ndn ancestry does.
The reason, why I didn’t mentioned the person, who made some of items, was his wish not to be mentioned namely.
Comes in handy, I suppose, that person's modesty. Why should an ndn producer of handicrafts ask not to mention their name?
We know, who we are, and I proved it.
No, you didn't prove anything.
And we will still attend on Pow Wows, if you like it or not, because I have all the right to attend, and so has my husband, even he is not Native. We have been told from different Native American Tribes, that we should not give in, and we will not give in.
There will be lots of powwows to attend, I agree - all in Germany, where you don't have to be ndn to participate. Just out of curiosity: which ndn nations told you this?