Very well stated.
Yes it is still happening today and in some ways its even worse than
it was hundreds of years ago. But we have survived !!! Even tho not
many pure bloods left, and most of us now of mixed ancestry, what
little blood is left is very strong. The ancestors are speaking
thru us and I find it all just amazing. AND we seem to be finding
each other in the most unusual ways, as on this list. We shall not be
forgotten, nor put in a cubbyhole for safe keeping.
zoe
Sandy wrote:
Yes, Zoe...I know. I've tried to learn from the things that have come my way
whether good or bad. If we learn to be better from the negative things then
they in one respect are a positive learning experience. My father's negativity
has taught me how to be a better parent...I will always be there for my
children and they know that.
I knew you all would understand what I was saying because we experience similar
things.
I guess the point I was making is...whether it happened hundreds of years ago
it is still happening today and unless you are aware of how the NAs were
treated most people would have no idea.
Prejudice is terrible and I have hopes that one day it will be done away with
but it will only happen through teaching the future generations not to practice
it.
Sandy
--- On Wed, 9/30/09, zoe w <[email protected]> wrote:
From: zoe w <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: CS> Native American stories--OT
To: [email protected]
Date: Wednesday, September 30, 2009, 6:47 PM
Sorry hit the wrong
button earlier.
Sandy thanks so much for sharing your story. It
is unfortunate, but many of us suffered
similar torments. Hang on to that pride,
it will carry you thru many a trial and tribulation.
zoe
zoe w wrote:
Sandy wrote:
My Great-Grandmother was full blood Apache but she
died before I had the opportunity to meet her. My Mother
used to tell us stories about Geronimo and the Superstition
Mountains in Arizona, my mother's birth place. She took us
to see the bluff [Medicine Bluff] where he and his horse
jumped from into the Medicine River to get away from the US
Calvary...he lived and did get away.
My Mother was a half-breed and as a child when
walking in Phoenix the white men would spit on her and her
family and then they [the white people] would cross to the
other side of the street so as to not be soiled by their
presence.
I lived with prejudice from within my own father's
family [his mother did not want anything to do with us
Native American brown skinned children]...even from my own
father. Now that my Mother has passed on my father claims we
are not Apache but he lies...my Mother was very proud of her
heritage and wanted her children to be proud of it too and
we are.
Just thought I would share some of my Native
American history.
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