RUNNINGWOLF AND THE TOPIC OF MIXED BLOODS

Vodpod wanted to start charging me money to create more pods…not this poverty stricken girl!! I did like having the videos on my sidebar though.

I first encountered the mixed blood issue when I read CEREMONY by Leslie Marmon Silko and more recently when a woman named Runningwolf on alt.native was accused of not being an Indian. Being a white person that lives in an area where many people claim to be Indian shaman’s or medicine men…I did have a bit of a negative bias that even transferred over onto enrolled Indians. It is easy to confuse the two when you are not familiar with Indian issues. But in reality it doesn’t matter as far as personal relationships are concerned..either you like someone or you don’t. There are many people who have ancestors who for whatever reason did not enroll…probably because they did not trust the government and now they have ancestors who wish they had enrolled because their tribes do not recognize them as such. But then if the United States was systematically rounding up Indians and shooting them in the head…they would be grateful to their ancestors for not trusting the United States Government.

I think the best way to live would be to honor your ancestors decisions, they had their own reasons…and make the decisions in your life that are best for you. Don’t worry about how others view you. YOU need to honor YOU and live the way that is best for YOU  and do what is best for YOU. And hopefully that means teaching the next generation to be proud and embrace of every drop of blood that makes them such a unique addition to the human race.

YOU CAN’T PLEASE EVERYONE…IF YOU PLEASE YOURSELF AT LEAST ONE PERSON WILL BE HAPPY!

Having said that I cannot imagine that any human could look at a little baby and instead of oohing and ahhing over the wonder of life; would turn their back because the baby had a certain skin tone…or worse because of the blood that coursed through their veins. I have witnessed this behavior mostly with Asians…where big round eyes are desireable.

Of course being a mutt myself I can acknowledge that I don’t know what it feels like to belong to a tribe to have pure blood coursing through my veins. Maybe it does matter. But from my point of view race does not matter…or rather it should not matter

What I have learned is that being mixed blood can be a very painful experience. Rejection for any reason is painful.  Hopefully this pain lessens with each new generation as they learn to recognize one another for more than their outward appearance.

From those whack jobs at FOX NEWS we have this video declaring anyone not white a different “species” or “ethincs”???

And more pertaining to the mixed blood issue where Native Americans are concerned…

A young woman talks of her ancestory

I like this young man! He embraces it all!!!

This to me is sad. I heard about it on the Mark Thompson MAKE IT PLAIN SHOW. African Americans who have created the myth that they are Native American to cover their own painful history. I don’t like the implications of the person who put these on youtube he looks at the videos as if the African Americans are less than human and trying to use Indians to rise above their station. I look at it as a wonderful exercise in learning your true history.  And the video wasn’t produced to knock down African Americans but to re-establish peoples history. People should always be proud of who they are no matter what blood courses through their veins.

and my personal favorite mixed blood video..