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Sometimes we end up looking in the wrong places for what is present in another place - and sometimes in the places we least expect it do we find out what it means to see what we're about.I am feeling better, having stepped away from the computer for a little while. I got out of the house with my mother in law and spent some time with her. She listened while I talked. I really needed that. And while we were out, I was able to help a woman (a non-native woman) in the store where my mother in law and I were in shopping. She had a sick child and it was obvious to me she needed help getting her groceries out of her shopping cart, so I helped her. It made me feel really good to help her. She didn't criticize me or judge me for being who I am. She didn't shun me or mistreat me for being who I am. I was just someone trying to help her because she was in need. And that experience has given me some well needed perspective on the situation that happened to me earlier today.
Ah found the thread. It is in one of the folders where we heathens are not allowed to post. I notice the person who made that commented claimed he was of Norwegian descent whose ancestor came relatively recently. He also mentioned that it might have been worse had his Viking ancestors arrived first since they were so barbaric. Apparently he does realize that the Vikings came centuries before the Spaniards and other Europeans. Yet they left no visible mark on the native culture. Why was that? Probably because Northern Europeans had not yet been exposed themselves to all those diseases which would eventually wipe out the bulk of Native Americans. Northern Europe seems to get all those diseases in the 14th century (along with a massive die off) and the Vikings came in the eleventh century.
Truth is that getting to America was no big deal. It is what happens afterwards. Polynesians almost certainly made it to the coast of what is now Chile, for instance. We know this because they left their chicken bones behind (there were no chickens in the Americas.) And they took back with them the sweet potato which then spread throughout Polynesia. But the Polynesians were nearly as disease-free as the Native Americans.
Sometimes we end up looking in the wrong places for what is present in another place - and sometimes in the places we least expect it do we find out what it means to see what we're about.
smaneck, as the host of our Talking Circle, I'm asking you to please not reply to the above post and allow yourself to be drawn into an argument within our Circle. The purpose of this Circle is to be a safe haven from all and any arguments and debate. We want to keep our Circle peaceful and in balance, with no arguments or allowing ourselves to be drawn into arguments. I thank you for your participation here, my friend, and I ask that you help me protect our Circle. I ask this of everyone who is now a part of our Circle, our family. Please help me protect our Circle from harm. I am grateful for your friendship in our Circle.
Hi Mikhael, let's just keep this thread separate from other things that happened elsewhere. (handshake smileyI was responding to a misrepresentation of what I said. I do not wish to argue. This is a rather goading reply, Red Fox. Also, you've used this thread to get your friends drawn into arguments elsewhere.
A Pow Wow brings such joy into my life.
Portraits of Diversity 21 Vivid Pics from Pala Pow Wow
I'm curious to know who has been to a Pow Wow before.
Not a Pow Wow, but I was allowed to come to the buffalo dance at Santa Anna Pueblo couple years ago.
Me? Get drawn into an argument?
I understand what you are going through. Being persecuted by your own people could be really painful. But it also could be bitter being disrespected by some Christians that you do not 'look' or behave like them.That is correct. I have been told more times than I care to count that I have to give up my entire NDN identity to be a true Christian and to be saved. I have been told if I want to be truly civilized and accepted into white society, I must first reject everything NDN about myself. And on the other hand, I have been told more times than I care to count by other NDNs that I can't be a real NDN if I remain Christian. I have been told I betray and dishonor my people and my ancestors for being Christian. I'm told I have sold out my NDN soul for the white man's religion. I mean no offense when I say that but I have been told this before by some other NDNs. I feel trapped spiritually and there is no escape for me. I have spent the last 24 and a half years living in emotional and spiritual turmoil.
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