Create my own blog, or start a forum ?
A thirsty bobcat comes down to the stream for a cool drink and an otter tells him to dig his own well somewhere else.
For material wealth or a sense of power and control, it doesn’t matter what is attained by certain individuals. What matters is the way traditional minded Indians are looked upon by those who have received such misinformation about them. Think about how an Indian feels at a social gathering or conversing on a internet forum when others assume that Indian is what some new age guru has described at one of their cheezy sessions, or what one has written about in his or her new age books. Sometimes these people are so misinformed that they cannot seem to grasp that the Lenape, Muskokee, Haudenosaunee, or Shawnee they’re talking to didn’t have ancestors that lived in teepees and carried on like stereotypical plains Indians. Often times those non-stereotypical Indians are then scrutinized, or unaccepted, or sometimes segregated from others. What’s really odd is having some European greet an Odawa, Choctaw, or Pawnee in Lakota, assuming we all speak Lakota or some common Indian language.
It’s not all about con-artists ripping off some moon eyed new age follower for a pile of bucks, it’s also about how the world sees American Indians.
Some of us are also aware that certain other large religious groups apply clever methods in order to sway Indians over to their faith as well as contending with those Indians who openly resist and speak out against such.
