well I don't know how to start with this, but I don't actually know if I'm proud to native or not. But please just listen up & tell me what you other "native" people think.
The other day, I was in Geography class and my teacher was talking about the native settlement. I'm not quite sure what exactly he was talking about cause I was half a sleep, because that night I kept on thinking about alot of stuff.. anywho, he was talking about how Natives should be proud of who they are. And he also said that they were once the healthiest people before the russians came and kind of took over and gave us diseases and other nasty stuff.
I was gonna say that I wasn't really proud to be native, cause of how other native people make us dreamers look like. Alot of my friends don't even know what they wanna be when they grow up, most of them don't even believe in theirselves. And some just drop out cause the education is supposibly not good enough.
And most of them are either parents at a young age or stuck with drugs/alcohol and such, and I'm scared to go back home sometimes. I'm scared of who I might become, I already have good education... great friends, outstanding goals I wanna accomplish. And don't get me wrong or anything but I could say alot of other stuff but I don't really want to right now.
so tell me, are natives suppose to be proud of who they once were? or what they've become now?
kristen koostachin from north bay!
mistissini,quebec/attawapiskat ontario?
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Re: Proud to be native?
The knowledge that young native people are missing today is they were never given the positive aspect of native society before the Europeans and Asian corporations invaded the Americas.
One has to always keep in mind that these forign people were invaders and the history that present present as truth is historical propaganda instituted through their school system to denigrate the native cultures of all the tribal nations they invaded circa 1492.
The knowledge of how native people lived before the introduction of the horse was also lost by the native people because of what was believed to be advancement by their leaders.
The encroach upon a neighboring tribal nations lands and resources. Neighboring tribe were not born traditional enemies some thing had to cause this break in relations and the introduction of the horse was one of them.
The horse allowed the native people to break away from the river system which once unified all native people indigenous to the America, as a single continental tribal nation and encroach upon a neighboring tribal nations lands and resources.
Take the Mississippi or Amazon and all their tributaries, this was once how vast our domians as individual tribal nations were. The river were our national and international communication and trade routes.
The knowledge of this system still exists and basing the future of all native people on it is the solution to all of our problems.
No matter how great one may think the U.S. Canada, Mexico and Central American states as individual or unified states are, they would be minor states if this original river system were to be instituted and adhered to by all the indigenous tribal nations of the Americas.
Does this make you prouder of the people you are descended from and more sure of who you are and were meant to be?
Peace Michael Tahl.
Re: Proud to be native?
Hi.. im new here, but thought i would reply to this,,,
Ive always thought you should be proud of who YOU are, not WHAT you are...its you as a person not your genetics, so be proud of that....
another thing i would like to mention, and i hope i dont offend anyone,, but ive noticed a lot of natives seem to be living on the backs of their ancestors, almost living in the past...and blaming all their woes on what happened 200 years ago..no one should blame the past for their actions now, we are all responsible for our own actions,,, and wether we make the right choices in life is all down to us, not something that happened to our ancestors..