My reply
Lakotiya TamakewasteWin iyuha cante wasteya nape ciyuzapelo!
My name is Tamaka waste Win I shake you hand from my heart
we do not pay to be enrolled, we pay to get a copy of our photo ID,
it is an option to have a photo ID but we can pick up our tribal enrollment
papers free. That is the difference in case you did not understand.
My people have story of different people we encountered as we traveled from
South America. I spent time with the Seminole and know from their history they
are Creek descendants. They keep the same culture as the Creek along with
the ceremonies.
When you live in Native Country you know that is the culture we have the right to
ask people who are u? What is your relatives names what band and clan do u come from?
Everyone in the old days would have witness to say I am come from this family and this
is who can tell you that.
Today we have people that dont understand native culture and get offend when we ask question of people.
We still live our culture and yes we still speak our langauge and live our culture.
I am not condeming anyone just asking question because the post was so strange to me.
Everyone we know is Native and that lives on our reservation.
We keep our family histories so i know who everyone is.
I dont have family who is not on our rolls as a tribal nation.
I have nothing aganist Black people this about people who make up history and make up cultures.
I again would like to say, that what I see, is exactly what you have said!
And reading their history, makes it clear.
They have shown relationship with our Great Chief Sam Jones " Aripuka" as our library say he was exactly in that area where they claim to be. They also was a matriarchal society and had to get permission from the elder women, to come out!
I want to again make note that not every tribe does things the same way!
And I KNOW THAT THEIR CHIEF HAS BEEN ON OUR LAND AND FESTIVALS AND EVEN SPEAK OUR ANCIENT LANGUAGE!
But what I do know and what have been passed down to me, is the Creeks do not speak our language and are not the seminole, even our history as Mikkisuki is false as our ancestors know of the word "Miki" was Council and suki Pig, so they call us , meaning the pale man Council Pig. Only that Knowledge is past down or known by the elders, but again You the Public do not!
Even the Appalachee Chief Gilmer has his story saying until recently, he was considered black, and met with Negativity and was told he was not Indian. They still have not truly shown what their Tribal tradition was, as they are not recognized, by the B.I.A. either.
There is a Benefit to be considered RECOGNIZED by the Pale face, and not just to say we ARE REAL INDIANS, As we fought them, more recent than most tribes and went unconquered.
Even the history you speak of is incorrect as the Creek did not exist, until it was made, in the 1800's. My people know of this, but do not argue. Read the Creation of the Creek nation.
I find that a lot of us get caught up as we should in our Native story and only hear about others, speak of things as we know first hand, and make our LIFE Everyone's life!
But what the Sioux go through is not what We as Seminole go through, or what the muscogee go through, etc...
HOW SHOULD a TRIBE CONTINUE TO SUSTAIN ITSELF WHILE WAITING ON FEDERAL RECOGNITION & Money!
Do your offices run on FREE Electricity, Free water from the state, was the buildings Paid for by Tribal citizens or the Government?
Sometime Like grandfather I feel we get so, caught up in the life Other Provide for us, we forget how we got there!
Should enrollment be free to a person we know nothing about until they file documents with the GOV, are the people in the office working for nothing, they have NO Bills to pay and the expense out of pocket expense to the Council. Because it is a honor to have people back in the Tribe, who will give us more mouths to feed!
OR DO WE ALL AGREE THAT THERE ARE countless tribes out there, who have kept their Tribal Ways, their Tribal Lands, yet recently choose to NOW want to be Recognized by the US gov because their people are Economicly POOR!
I am flabbier gassed at those who just do not get it.
I will say this , it was this type of thinking that caused the Red Stick and White Stick war, basically the old vs. the new!
And this is shown in every country now that America, tells that they should get rid of their old ways, and be more civilized like us!
And then the civil wars errupt!
When our Ancestors encountered a person or tribe, they never questioned if they were NATIVE AMERICAN "INDIAN" they embraced them unless their Tradition were Violated or their People disrespected, in their customs, while they broke bread with them!
This was how the White man came to this LAND, OUR LAND, he was different, he had his ways, he said he had a chief, that spoke and protected them, and we related to that!
Now we know the truth, and yet we spit at the feet of those trying to re-establish their Tribal roots, whom had to hide and do WHATEVER FOR SURVIVAL, like NONE of us had turmoil by the System that was being put in place. We dishonor Our Ancestors with this Talk and Thinking.
That is All I have to say about this!
Thank you all again for listening to me!
