so many today ... especially the wanna-bees and even our own people sometimes ... state that
this and that was traditional ... well ... not one of us lived how it was 100 or 200 or 300 or 400 or 700 years ago. some things we will never know how our ancestors lived and what they allowed ... and not all indians in north america did everything all the same ... like the history books seem to wanna generalize everything about indians and paint us all with one brush. i'm a native elder born and raised in our traditions and customs and superstitions ... and what we allow as our traditions the blackfoot indians in montana (and i lived up there once and hung around with a few breaking horses) they may have never heard off how we did things where i come from. and that is ok by all means. i do not follow much of the traditions of others natives or of this indian or that indian ... i follow what our native elders generational ancestors left us from one generation to the next. and it was a good life and it's still a good life (except that there are more drugs and alcohol though now-a-days in our indian communities). but now-a-days there are also so so so so so much invented and made up traditions and so many saying this and that on how it was among indians ... hum-bug ... each tribe and each community and even each clan had ways and practices known to them and yet not known to others ... the problems with wanna-bees and those like them is sorta this (but not all of them i suppose is like that) they have no indian community that they were born and raised into living or experiences the indian community... yet they seem to want more than us and they seem to have all the answers that are most times an invented this and that ... i simply leave them alone and practice what i was taught and help anyone when i can ... and i sleep good at night, also hoping that we all are able to still get along somehow with each other
this and that was traditional ... well ... not one of us lived how it was 100 or 200 or 300 or 400 or 700 years ago. some things we will never know how our ancestors lived and what they allowed ... and not all indians in north america did everything all the same ... like the history books seem to wanna generalize everything about indians and paint us all with one brush. i'm a native elder born and raised in our traditions and customs and superstitions ... and what we allow as our traditions the blackfoot indians in montana (and i lived up there once and hung around with a few breaking horses) they may have never heard off how we did things where i come from. and that is ok by all means. i do not follow much of the traditions of others natives or of this indian or that indian ... i follow what our native elders generational ancestors left us from one generation to the next. and it was a good life and it's still a good life (except that there are more drugs and alcohol though now-a-days in our indian communities). but now-a-days there are also so so so so so much invented and made up traditions and so many saying this and that on how it was among indians ... hum-bug ... each tribe and each community and even each clan had ways and practices known to them and yet not known to others ... the problems with wanna-bees and those like them is sorta this (but not all of them i suppose is like that) they have no indian community that they were born and raised into living or experiences the indian community... yet they seem to want more than us and they seem to have all the answers that are most times an invented this and that ... i simply leave them alone and practice what i was taught and help anyone when i can ... and i sleep good at night, also hoping that we all are able to still get along somehow with each other
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