tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887382220113280558.post6358322017917275462..comments2024-03-28T06:01:57.947-04:00Comments on <center>Original Pechanga Blog</center>: Shannon Prince: Cherokee Imitating The Enemy and Info on Freedmen MeetingOPechangahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10687743661360604165noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887382220113280558.post-7444474823306273272008-05-18T13:23:00.000-04:002008-05-18T13:23:00.000-04:00Sometimes you have to hope for success with other ...Sometimes you have to hope for success with other tribes in order for your own to come to their senses. We need to stop this foolishness and let those members we kicked out back in the tribe.<BR/><BR/>The Cherokee need to follow the treaties they signed. Just because the white men didn't, doesn't mean they shouldn't.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2887382220113280558.post-46271074133668706742008-05-17T04:15:00.000-04:002008-05-17T04:15:00.000-04:00I am astounded by my northern American Indian sist...I am astounded by my northern American Indian sister's ignorance of the American Indian collective but also, her unethical argument, since I my self am a member of the Pokomam clan of the Mayan people in El Salvador, who suffered the same persecution at the hands of imperialist. <BR/><BR/>Upon examining her argument, I find it contradictory, since unethical in her sense of the word is based on Christianity's absolute dogma of equality, because her tribe by association has become more assimilated to Euro-American society. What is home? Can we belong to a place we have never been, or a place we know only through our dreams and imaginations? No, we cannot, the words of Dr Martin Luther King are elusive in the writings of Dr Vine Deloria Jr in that African Americans wanting to have equality is contradictory to having their own businesses, schools, and a lost identity, that can only be attained by practicing their own tribal beliefs and having their sacred places in a land far far away. It is the American Indian way to use English or Spanish to defy and gain access to their erroneous ways in order to correct them. <BR/><BR/>In American Indian tradition and spirituality, whether you are in the North or South part of the Americas, we are not the authoritative, but the flexible kind; that is, we do not hold truths to be absolute, because our people are shaped by our relationship with the spirits of our forefathers of the land, for as long as the rivers and the mountains have formed and because we have traversed the Americas with shared histories.<BR/><BR/> For the Cherokee people to return to the sacred fire is not an internalized colonial expression of sovereignty, but it is the duty of its members to negotiate as national bodies , not as nation- state nationalism which is dependent on the expulsion of blood relatives to increase political might, self-fulfilling prophesies (religious dogmas/Armageddon/end-of-world), military might and economic wealth which is attained through coercion.Walter Moraleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06712732789206896461noreply@blogger.com