last week i saw this boy at school dressed in a headfeather going woo woo woo woo and i said are you native american he said yeah i said well then why are you white as fuck and i also said what do we call our elders the answer was this shaman and i said noooo. wannabes
wanna be indians are showing up everywhere these days,people should just be who they are,if you wasnt born a indian then your not one...some people may have indian blood, that does not make them a indian it takes more to be an indian, if you dont know what i mean just ask i can explain.Daryl McLemore (di-ye-s-di)
@TheDragon967 unfortunately they do. Jay Tavare is just one example. He is deceiving so many wonderful people. He has started TEARS OF A SHAMAN (there are no Indian shamans) and he is writing for Huffington Post on Indian matters. Rather, his ghost writer, Margaret Doran, is. He is not listed on any of the reservation rolls. Those that know him from his london days have stated he is Iranian.
Jay Tavare is as fake as they come. Now he is has a CD about Shamans. He writes articles, rather has a not so ghost writer, on Huffington Post. It is sickening to think he is continuing lying and deceiving Indians. This needs to stop NOW
Stand your ground on this you guys. I KNOW very well how you feel. I'm an African-American woman-look at what they have done in Egypt in Africa. Our people have been fighting tooth an nail with them in representing the original Egyptian peoples in Africa as black. I've watched several videos on this but I had NO idea that it had gotten to this extent. Don't let them make you feel guilty for what you are doing because we aren't! Look at how they
@Prodma000 respect . But the ancient Egyptians were not black im sorry. evidence is the Art and statues. clearly of caucasoids. they were mediterraneans not White not black not Arab.
@MrPa1310 I'm sorry but I will definitely have to disagree on that. You what this man in the video is describing is exactly what has and still is going on in Africa today If you listen to some of their teaching they speak of how the white man, through materialism and war, has in essence created instability in the world. We would call it white aggression. As far as ancient Kemet goes well, If YOU chose to believe that then that you. Some if not most feel the way you do because of white
@Prodma000 supremacy. I won't waste my or anyone else time debating this because from watching these videos on how Native-American's very spirits if you will are being both and sold at whole sale prices for a profit is at the core as to why I don't accept ORGANIZED RELIGION. They are fighting for what little they have left and because your culture lacks any spirituality at all you feel it's ok to pollute their sacred beliefs. I, as and African-American clearly see why it is necessary
@Prodma000 for them and my people to fight this "by any means necessary." From them I'm able to see how people religious beliefs and customs can be taken and misused or incorporated as their own without ANY reverence from the originators.
Indians are very rare these days, not many around just people claiming to be, but dont speak their language,or even act like an indian,worship like their tribe does & i do not mean nation...most traditional indians are nonpolitical like me.
Thats ok, i just look at being a indian different because i was raised up traditional an beleive in the old ways that that the elders from the stompgrounds have taught me! We dance every 2nd & fourth saturday of each month, year round and no matter what the weather is like we dont cancel our dance for weather.
Drugs are bad for people, myself i dont take any drugs never had and i dont even take any whiteman medicine, the medicine i take is roots and plants i am a traditional indian, an grew up in the stompdance. "There are a lot of people with CDIB cards & indian blood, but very few indians"
I agree with you up yo a point, to me me being a indian is speaking your language, worshiping the way your tribe does and helping them... A card does not make you an indian, i am cherokee & i am a fullblood.
shaman is a eurasian word. white americans calling themselves shamans and using native american smudge and feathers and pinecones or whatever are not appropriating, they are using as much of their own as has been left intact by the "holy" romans, to get in touch with the land they happen to live on.
ive got some white blood in me. my grandmother on my mothers side was polish right from poland and i think for some reason she might have been a polish princess. every time im around the accordian i just want to get up and do the polka,, I attended my very first polka jamberee and it felt so natural. i felt my spirit move to the sounds of two spoons tapping on some guys leg.. and finally,, coincedence? i cant stop watching re-runs of the lawrence welk show.
it comes down to is white people that don't want to feel bad about living on stolen land (that they fail to take care of) so they try to make people who have Indian blood feel bad about their heritage. or tell them their not Indian (you look white/mexican/middleeastern/etc etc etc)
at all and that they're crazy. Indian People all need to band together & not Have children with any of these foreigners because they're still trying to breed us out of existnace. "tribal Id" is a good example
Or if they get really agressive and accuse you of being " A wannabe" I've had several white people try to pull that shit on me. I've learned really well how to tell someones nationality by their facial features instead of their skin color, yeah, but the people here really have NO exscuse, WA has one of the highest Indian Populations in the Country -I would wager besides SD- & there are at least 15 tribes in our state. so to say your cherokee is compltetly redundant, what
@hazubekishi lol another way you can get a fake Cherokee is to ask what band they are. There are three bands of Cherokee; Eastern, Keetoowah, and National. If they can't answer you straight, you know they are fake. Plastic Shamans you can tell right away; they use the word shaman. We have medicine men and women, not shamans.
You forgot to mention the Blood quantom theory too, another cute way to tell a wannabe is if they say " I'm something cherokee" you know how many times I've freaking heard that? I live In WA the cherokee Live in Ohklahoma.... common morons if your gonna lie about your heritage at least lie straight . lol btw sorry I post on so many of your videos, alot of them are pretty good : D
@TheMoonandSea LOL, go on and keep telling yourself that. Use it to ease your guilt of what your ancestors have done to my people if it makes you feel better. *sarcasm* God knows we need more ignorant people on this planet.
I have native american blood but I want to connect with the culture not just become a member of the tribe and try to get so called benefits or too dress up indian.
I have been researching my family we come from a small town in Oklahoma called okmulgee
my grandmother kept trying to teach me how important it was to connect with the culture for for years. Now I have decided to do so since I now see the importance...
I've felt kinda off kilter for a while. I've been told since I met my dad at age 12 that I had native blood. But I wasn't raised with the traditions and language. I had to learn on my own. I've researched history and language and everything I could get my hands on. Should I stop doing that? Am I trying to be something I'm not? I'm not so sure. When I'm on the grounds, or a gathering, or playing one of my native-style flutes, I just get this surge. Like drinking too many Red Bulls. What do I do?
@MickeyCuervo36 i think you should have a dna test to find out if you have native in you. & find out what tribe you're from & like he said, go to the reservation & if you still consider yourself native after that, help your people. i'm a filipino & for me being a filipino is more than empty words or pinoy pride, it's learning the culture & helping your people. are you willing to help your people?
@MickeyCuervo36 If you're comparing native spirituality to the feeling you get from pumping your body full of DRUGS which are known to damage your body and even cause DEATH on their own from single use, ("energy drinks") you know that you are not going into native spirituality with a good heart.
@nulwee That was probably a bad description on my part. I have quit drinking those things because they're messing with my stomach. What I meant is hard to describe. Just excitement and joy mostly. Sorry if I said something I didn't mean to. I was being immature and using an over-played metaphor.
I prefer the term Indian, because Asiantics weren't the Native peoples of the Americas, whites were.
When Siberian asians crossed the Bering Strait into the Americas, whites where already here. We've found their mass graves and tools. The Indians committed a white holocaust, then covered it up and claimed the continent was empty. This lie is being uncovered.
You want irrefutable proof that Caucasians were her before the Asiatics?
Check out the youtube video on the Windover Bog People in Florida. Scientists managed to take DNA samples of the remains and carbon dated them before the Native American tribes demanded they be handed over, The scientists were astonished when the results came back- THE DNA was European and thousands of years older than the earliest 'Native' remains found. The U.S Government is involved in covering up these findings.
Seems like it's gettin down to the nitty gritty on who's who in Indian country, it goes so much deeper than the words you said in the vid and what we're doing to ourselves.
I dig what youre saying man. As a whitey who grew up in migrant worker camps on reservations. Seems there's whole towns out there that don't show up on the map.
I do not try to claim American Indian heritage because my great-great-great-great grandmother abandoned her tribe to marry a French fur trader. She never told anyone which tribe, but people always ask my mother and maternal father 'which tribe' they come from. I don't know how to respond when people ask me about my mother, other than to get offended.
Blessings on your comments.... I am of African and Algonquin (Shinnecock) heritage, and i am so so proud to see you stand up and speak honestly with clear conviction...
@ AnAlakazam Well the reason We are called "Indians" is that eruopean colonizationist thought they had landed in "India". Because european culture was ignorant to the fact that the earth was round and that there was more continents out there. Hence they called the Native people "Indians". Since its their way they think they are never wrong, they continue to use that term for all Native people here in America.
cont.. Those people to me need to be welcomed and loved and be given their birthright. If you truly help the people and give of yourself you will know your own kind you will see them heal and also at times turn against you. It is not for us to judge people we all have to dance our own dance Tunkashila is the only leader and to serve the people is the only real freedom. I appreciate you speaking out, please think about what you say so your message can transmit farther
There are many nations in this country that have members that have absolutely been separated from their people. Through boarding schools, adoption, murder and other systematic oppression that affects our peoples directly. To carry a cannupa wakan is to serve the people..but all the people including the wasicus to feed the hungry and to heal the sick to be humble. But these traditions are not all that its is to be Indian and the Indian in the ghetto separated,.. to me is also legitimate
I think first I would like to say that I agree with you that the issue of wannabe indians is problematic and something I dont care for either. I am a Lakota Oglala and the critique I would offer you in order to assist your public speech is this. The dynamics of Oppression are intentionally created to keep oppressed people divided. While there is a lot of truth to saying "live it" and "help your people" this dosent fully encompass every person that is legitimately Indigenous. cont..
To all of you out there saying that he is not Native I can assure you he is. If you're Native and don't think he is one of us, you need to open your ears. He has the accent. I know that this sounds like this isn't anything, but it is a HUGE piece of evidence. Native American languages are the hardest to learn on Mother Earth; even harder than Chinese. I takes decades to learn, and you HAVE to be raised with it in order to develop the accent. All Native languages are different, but same voice.
2 points i just want to say. first of all- you hit the nail on the head, being NDN is not about "beads or feathers" (as Joseph Bruchac (Abnaki) once said) it's not how you "see yourself", it's how you live, whats in your heart and standing with your people you claim, serving them. there is a lot of need, if you're not there for them, quit saying you are. 2nd point is that it's not always about being from the 'rez'- lots of people are not from the rez or have the BQ to be NDN but still are.
Thank you @Moya304! My dad's a quarter native and i guess that makes me like an 1/8 or whatever, but I just say I'm black because I know nothing of my dad's family (except for my (15) brothers and sisters) or his ancestors. So I don't feel I have a right to even claim. I know your not saying don't claim it just how can I claim and as soon as someone ask me "what tribe", the only answer I can give is I don't know. So I agree with you 100%.
I think many people who aren't Native, assume if they wear long, straight hair, Native jewelry and do research promoting history about Native people, it makes them Native. I know numerous folks who are Black, Hispanic or White people consistently claim Native heritage. No one is registered. They just keep telling the same lies their family members told them. As far as Jay Tavare goes, when I first saw him, he never struck me as being Native. BTW I'm Caribbean.
I'm sure you have some Indian ancestry but you look more white than anything. I'm not trying to take away your little bit of Indian that you do have but you are way over the top on all this Indian talk. It seems like the only one your trying to convince is yourself. It seems that you are the wannabe Indian. No offence.
@spiritgirlsf good for you for having both of those fools as friends. here is a question for you and for them... CAN THEY LEGALLY CARRY EAGLE FEATHERS??? Yeah, don't think so. And if they say they can I want to see their PROOF! And if they show tribal ID, we'll be following up with the validity of that ID. Guarantee ya, they're both gonna FAIL, FAIL, FAIL, FAIL. And yes, it matters when they profit of their claims of being Indian. Girl get educated.
@michelleshiningelk I have both Jai (Jay) Tavare, Gray Wolf as Facebook friends & Jay does say he has causes for his people that he supports and Gray Wolf is always posting about the horrid and very much real things that have been done to Native Indians, is posting for donations needed at the Pine Ridge Reservation & has an openly hostile attitude towards Caucasians. How does one really know if a person is Indian or not when they do such things & when they do such things does it really matter?
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this! Thanks Simon for putting this out!! Great piece!! We have'em all over the place out here in LALA land and I'm fighting them everyday --> Jai Tavare, Gray Wolf, Katheryan Shay, and the list goes on and on...
Awesome. I'm catawba (Can't prove it cause everyone lied and said they were caucasion on the papers...yay for me) and go to the rez every week and help bring back the language, or at least try my best. Don't just sit around and say what a shame, do something! We have tried to get the rest of the Catawbas to come learn at least a little, and almost no one will come to learn their own language. It's sad.
last week i saw this boy at school dressed in a headfeather going woo woo woo woo and i said are you native american he said yeah i said well then why are you white as fuck and i also said what do we call our elders the answer was this shaman and i said noooo. wannabes
TheBoyscout13 1 day ago
wanna be indians are showing up everywhere these days,people should just be who they are,if you wasnt born a indian then your not one...some people may have indian blood, that does not make them a indian it takes more to be an indian, if you dont know what i mean just ask i can explain.Daryl McLemore (di-ye-s-di)
diyesdi47 2 weeks ago
WANNA BE INDIANS.....I DIDN'T KNOW SOMETHING LIKE THAT EXISTED!
TheDragon967 2 weeks ago
@TheDragon967 unfortunately they do. Jay Tavare is just one example. He is deceiving so many wonderful people. He has started TEARS OF A SHAMAN (there are no Indian shamans) and he is writing for Huffington Post on Indian matters. Rather, his ghost writer, Margaret Doran, is. He is not listed on any of the reservation rolls. Those that know him from his london days have stated he is Iranian.
AllRightsReserbed 2 weeks ago
shamen, and chanting.
SchleyFam1 3 weeks ago
Well said! Well said! U speak the truth my friend!
tawagner14 3 weeks ago
Jay Tavare is as fake as they come. Now he is has a CD about Shamans. He writes articles, rather has a not so ghost writer, on Huffington Post. It is sickening to think he is continuing lying and deceiving Indians. This needs to stop NOW
AllRightsReserbed 1 month ago
Stand your ground on this you guys. I KNOW very well how you feel. I'm an African-American woman-look at what they have done in Egypt in Africa. Our people have been fighting tooth an nail with them in representing the original Egyptian peoples in Africa as black. I've watched several videos on this but I had NO idea that it had gotten to this extent. Don't let them make you feel guilty for what you are doing because we aren't! Look at how they
Prodma000 1 month ago
@Prodma000 respect . But the ancient Egyptians were not black im sorry. evidence is the Art and statues. clearly of caucasoids. they were mediterraneans not White not black not Arab.
MrPa1310 4 weeks ago
@MrPa1310 I'm sorry but I will definitely have to disagree on that. You what this man in the video is describing is exactly what has and still is going on in Africa today If you listen to some of their teaching they speak of how the white man, through materialism and war, has in essence created instability in the world. We would call it white aggression. As far as ancient Kemet goes well, If YOU chose to believe that then that you. Some if not most feel the way you do because of white
Prodma000 4 weeks ago
@Prodma000 supremacy. I won't waste my or anyone else time debating this because from watching these videos on how Native-American's very spirits if you will are being both and sold at whole sale prices for a profit is at the core as to why I don't accept ORGANIZED RELIGION. They are fighting for what little they have left and because your culture lacks any spirituality at all you feel it's ok to pollute their sacred beliefs. I, as and African-American clearly see why it is necessary
Prodma000 4 weeks ago
@Prodma000 for them and my people to fight this "by any means necessary." From them I'm able to see how people religious beliefs and customs can be taken and misused or incorporated as their own without ANY reverence from the originators.
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zopi9 1 month ago
Indians are very rare these days, not many around just people claiming to be, but dont speak their language,or even act like an indian,worship like their tribe does & i do not mean nation...most traditional indians are nonpolitical like me.
diyesdi47 1 month ago
is he even indian
MrPa1310 1 month ago
@MrPa1310 Some native's are light skinned.
Jemiance 1 month ago
Thats ok, i just look at being a indian different because i was raised up traditional an beleive in the old ways that that the elders from the stompgrounds have taught me! We dance every 2nd & fourth saturday of each month, year round and no matter what the weather is like we dont cancel our dance for weather.
diyesdi47 1 month ago
Drugs are bad for people, myself i dont take any drugs never had and i dont even take any whiteman medicine, the medicine i take is roots and plants i am a traditional indian, an grew up in the stompdance. "There are a lot of people with CDIB cards & indian blood, but very few indians"
diyesdi47 1 month ago
I agree with you up yo a point, to me me being a indian is speaking your language, worshiping the way your tribe does and helping them... A card does not make you an indian, i am cherokee & i am a fullblood.
diyesdi47 1 month ago
shaman is a eurasian word. white americans calling themselves shamans and using native american smudge and feathers and pinecones or whatever are not appropriating, they are using as much of their own as has been left intact by the "holy" romans, to get in touch with the land they happen to live on.
nerdyharry 1 month ago
Right on!
7mugwumps 1 month ago
ive got some white blood in me. my grandmother on my mothers side was polish right from poland and i think for some reason she might have been a polish princess. every time im around the accordian i just want to get up and do the polka,, I attended my very first polka jamberee and it felt so natural. i felt my spirit move to the sounds of two spoons tapping on some guys leg.. and finally,, coincedence? i cant stop watching re-runs of the lawrence welk show.
mypantzez 1 month ago 2
it comes down to is white people that don't want to feel bad about living on stolen land (that they fail to take care of) so they try to make people who have Indian blood feel bad about their heritage. or tell them their not Indian (you look white/mexican/middleeastern/etc etc etc)
at all and that they're crazy. Indian People all need to band together & not Have children with any of these foreigners because they're still trying to breed us out of existnace. "tribal Id" is a good example
hazubekishi 1 month ago
@starlightkitty
Or if they get really agressive and accuse you of being " A wannabe" I've had several white people try to pull that shit on me. I've learned really well how to tell someones nationality by their facial features instead of their skin color, yeah, but the people here really have NO exscuse, WA has one of the highest Indian Populations in the Country -I would wager besides SD- & there are at least 15 tribes in our state. so to say your cherokee is compltetly redundant, what
hazubekishi 1 month ago
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CrazyNative4 1 month ago
pagan pride 4 life ps im a white native i got back in my ruts pess.
MrBushman1982 1 month ago
@hazubekishi lol another way you can get a fake Cherokee is to ask what band they are. There are three bands of Cherokee; Eastern, Keetoowah, and National. If they can't answer you straight, you know they are fake. Plastic Shamans you can tell right away; they use the word shaman. We have medicine men and women, not shamans.
Starlightkitty12 1 month ago
@Starlightkitty12 Also if the speak English as well, Most medicine men speak their native tongue during ceremonies.
Jemiance 1 month ago
You forgot to mention the Blood quantom theory too, another cute way to tell a wannabe is if they say " I'm something cherokee" you know how many times I've freaking heard that? I live In WA the cherokee Live in Ohklahoma.... common morons if your gonna lie about your heritage at least lie straight . lol btw sorry I post on so many of your videos, alot of them are pretty good : D
hazubekishi 2 months ago
@TheMoonandSea LOL, go on and keep telling yourself that. Use it to ease your guilt of what your ancestors have done to my people if it makes you feel better. *sarcasm* God knows we need more ignorant people on this planet.
Starlightkitty12 2 months ago
ummm cheroke reservations are not poor.
Monasukapanough 2 months ago
I was being a silly stuborn young lady but now I know better :(
she warned me.
MagicalOillusions 2 months ago
I have native american blood but I want to connect with the culture not just become a member of the tribe and try to get so called benefits or too dress up indian.
I have been researching my family we come from a small town in Oklahoma called okmulgee
my grandmother kept trying to teach me how important it was to connect with the culture for for years. Now I have decided to do so since I now see the importance...
MagicalOillusions 2 months ago
I've felt kinda off kilter for a while. I've been told since I met my dad at age 12 that I had native blood. But I wasn't raised with the traditions and language. I had to learn on my own. I've researched history and language and everything I could get my hands on. Should I stop doing that? Am I trying to be something I'm not? I'm not so sure. When I'm on the grounds, or a gathering, or playing one of my native-style flutes, I just get this surge. Like drinking too many Red Bulls. What do I do?
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@MickeyCuervo36 i think you should have a dna test to find out if you have native in you. & find out what tribe you're from & like he said, go to the reservation & if you still consider yourself native after that, help your people. i'm a filipino & for me being a filipino is more than empty words or pinoy pride, it's learning the culture & helping your people. are you willing to help your people?
nenabunena 2 months ago
@MickeyCuervo36 If you're comparing native spirituality to the feeling you get from pumping your body full of DRUGS which are known to damage your body and even cause DEATH on their own from single use, ("energy drinks") you know that you are not going into native spirituality with a good heart.
nulwee 1 month ago
@nulwee That was probably a bad description on my part. I have quit drinking those things because they're messing with my stomach. What I meant is hard to describe. Just excitement and joy mostly. Sorry if I said something I didn't mean to. I was being immature and using an over-played metaphor.
MickeyCuervo36 1 month ago
Right on!
insightstar 2 months ago
I prefer the term Indian, because Asiantics weren't the Native peoples of the Americas, whites were.
When Siberian asians crossed the Bering Strait into the Americas, whites where already here. We've found their mass graves and tools. The Indians committed a white holocaust, then covered it up and claimed the continent was empty. This lie is being uncovered.
Look up:
Ice Age Columbus: Who were the first Americans?
Windover Bog Mummies
The Aztec Massacre
Spriit Cave, Nevada Mummies
TheMoonandSea 2 months ago
@TheMoonandSea
OMG....LMAO
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You want irrefutable proof that Caucasians were her before the Asiatics?
Check out the youtube video on the Windover Bog People in Florida. Scientists managed to take DNA samples of the remains and carbon dated them before the Native American tribes demanded they be handed over, The scientists were astonished when the results came back- THE DNA was European and thousands of years older than the earliest 'Native' remains found. The U.S Government is involved in covering up these findings.
TheMoonandSea 2 months ago
cant you change it to native american, not indian, i'm a real indian (from india) and was looking for a good laugh. now am sad.
Jugsotron 2 months ago 2
Seems like it's gettin down to the nitty gritty on who's who in Indian country, it goes so much deeper than the words you said in the vid and what we're doing to ourselves.
RATHAHONNI 2 months ago
Blackfoot right here.
Rantalicious 2 months ago
I dig what youre saying man. As a whitey who grew up in migrant worker camps on reservations. Seems there's whole towns out there that don't show up on the map.
bunchof6 2 months ago
I do not try to claim American Indian heritage because my great-great-great-great grandmother abandoned her tribe to marry a French fur trader. She never told anyone which tribe, but people always ask my mother and maternal father 'which tribe' they come from. I don't know how to respond when people ask me about my mother, other than to get offended.
ehrenyu 3 months ago
YES i!
ASTRALSTREAMS 3 months ago
YOU ARE AWESOME, SIR!
lexpose 3 months ago
Blessings on your comments.... I am of African and Algonquin (Shinnecock) heritage, and i am so so proud to see you stand up and speak honestly with clear conviction...
noirnoticvibe 3 months ago
AMEN!
seantsosie 3 months ago
@ AnAlakazam Well the reason We are called "Indians" is that eruopean colonizationist thought they had landed in "India". Because european culture was ignorant to the fact that the earth was round and that there was more continents out there. Hence they called the Native people "Indians". Since its their way they think they are never wrong, they continue to use that term for all Native people here in America.
smlapointe2003 3 months ago
True
smlapointe2003 3 months ago
Why do Native Americans say they are "Indians"? They are not from India.
AnAlakazam 3 months ago
@AnAlakazam ummm think why else dude? think.
smlapointe2003 3 months ago
@smlapointe2003 I am not sure.
AnAlakazam 3 months ago
seriousl u ppl shud stop writtting sooooo much.
newyorkboy11001 3 months ago
cont.. Those people to me need to be welcomed and loved and be given their birthright. If you truly help the people and give of yourself you will know your own kind you will see them heal and also at times turn against you. It is not for us to judge people we all have to dance our own dance Tunkashila is the only leader and to serve the people is the only real freedom. I appreciate you speaking out, please think about what you say so your message can transmit farther
SittingBullBoy7 4 months ago
@SittingBullBoy7 well spoken like a true lakotah..hokah hey!?
chulah12 3 months ago
There are many nations in this country that have members that have absolutely been separated from their people. Through boarding schools, adoption, murder and other systematic oppression that affects our peoples directly. To carry a cannupa wakan is to serve the people..but all the people including the wasicus to feed the hungry and to heal the sick to be humble. But these traditions are not all that its is to be Indian and the Indian in the ghetto separated,.. to me is also legitimate
SittingBullBoy7 4 months ago
I think first I would like to say that I agree with you that the issue of wannabe indians is problematic and something I dont care for either. I am a Lakota Oglala and the critique I would offer you in order to assist your public speech is this. The dynamics of Oppression are intentionally created to keep oppressed people divided. While there is a lot of truth to saying "live it" and "help your people" this dosent fully encompass every person that is legitimately Indigenous. cont..
SittingBullBoy7 4 months ago
To all of you out there saying that he is not Native I can assure you he is. If you're Native and don't think he is one of us, you need to open your ears. He has the accent. I know that this sounds like this isn't anything, but it is a HUGE piece of evidence. Native American languages are the hardest to learn on Mother Earth; even harder than Chinese. I takes decades to learn, and you HAVE to be raised with it in order to develop the accent. All Native languages are different, but same voice.
Starlightkitty12 4 months ago
2 points i just want to say. first of all- you hit the nail on the head, being NDN is not about "beads or feathers" (as Joseph Bruchac (Abnaki) once said) it's not how you "see yourself", it's how you live, whats in your heart and standing with your people you claim, serving them. there is a lot of need, if you're not there for them, quit saying you are. 2nd point is that it's not always about being from the 'rez'- lots of people are not from the rez or have the BQ to be NDN but still are.
metta108 4 months ago
Who the hell want to be an Indian? If I were indian I would be ashamed as fuck
LorencHoxha 4 months ago
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@LorencHoxha
well who gives a fuck about what you think.
KABLE999 3 months ago
You hit the nail on the head
okieNDNgurl 5 months ago
you a want a be me but your nothing
runingblackbear 5 months ago
Thank you @Moya304! My dad's a quarter native and i guess that makes me like an 1/8 or whatever, but I just say I'm black because I know nothing of my dad's family (except for my (15) brothers and sisters) or his ancestors. So I don't feel I have a right to even claim. I know your not saying don't claim it just how can I claim and as soon as someone ask me "what tribe", the only answer I can give is I don't know. So I agree with you 100%.
Emily13blackcats4 5 months ago
I think many people who aren't Native, assume if they wear long, straight hair, Native jewelry and do research promoting history about Native people, it makes them Native. I know numerous folks who are Black, Hispanic or White people consistently claim Native heritage. No one is registered. They just keep telling the same lies their family members told them. As far as Jay Tavare goes, when I first saw him, he never struck me as being Native. BTW I'm Caribbean.
Softbird27 6 months ago
I'm sure you have some Indian ancestry but you look more white than anything. I'm not trying to take away your little bit of Indian that you do have but you are way over the top on all this Indian talk. It seems like the only one your trying to convince is yourself. It seems that you are the wannabe Indian. No offence.
zuniga6412 8 months ago
@zuniga6412 Lol. He knows what he is talking about and he is more native than you.
john19362 6 months ago
@spiritgirlsf good for you for having both of those fools as friends. here is a question for you and for them... CAN THEY LEGALLY CARRY EAGLE FEATHERS??? Yeah, don't think so. And if they say they can I want to see their PROOF! And if they show tribal ID, we'll be following up with the validity of that ID. Guarantee ya, they're both gonna FAIL, FAIL, FAIL, FAIL. And yes, it matters when they profit of their claims of being Indian. Girl get educated.
michelleshiningelk 8 months ago
@michelleshiningelk I have both Jai (Jay) Tavare, Gray Wolf as Facebook friends & Jay does say he has causes for his people that he supports and Gray Wolf is always posting about the horrid and very much real things that have been done to Native Indians, is posting for donations needed at the Pine Ridge Reservation & has an openly hostile attitude towards Caucasians. How does one really know if a person is Indian or not when they do such things & when they do such things does it really matter?
SpiritGirlSF 8 months ago
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE this! Thanks Simon for putting this out!! Great piece!! We have'em all over the place out here in LALA land and I'm fighting them everyday --> Jai Tavare, Gray Wolf, Katheryan Shay, and the list goes on and on...
michelleshiningelk 8 months ago
respect!
npk503 8 months ago
Awesome. I'm catawba (Can't prove it cause everyone lied and said they were caucasion on the papers...yay for me) and go to the rez every week and help bring back the language, or at least try my best. Don't just sit around and say what a shame, do something! We have tried to get the rest of the Catawbas to come learn at least a little, and almost no one will come to learn their own language. It's sad.
Spottyhorsez 8 months ago
Bravo.
PinkNinjaMaster 8 months ago