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The loss of family members is something horrible to have gone through. I don?t think the story is saying their culture is better then anyone else?s, but it?s presses to Native American?s.
I think to lose your culture takes losing your home. Where generation of your family was raised and lived. I can tell you where my great grandmother?s village was, and how they lived and what they believed in. I know where the young men would go to prove themselves on a vision quest. Our people meet every year to relive the old ways, and celebrate our culture.
Native?s and just like white?s, some are very spiritual and not driven my money but some are. On the outside people have casinos and Indians as one. That?s because that what they know, they don?t know any Indian?s. Don?t judge if you all you know is what you read in paper. Go to a Pow Wow, dance and eat with us. Spend a couple of days around us then make up your own mind.

posted 3 years, 6 months ago
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