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WELCOME.
Welcome to my web site. Here you will find both short stories and poems
dedicated to the life and times of the Lakota, Dakota, Nakota people.
Through my stories, poems and graphics I hope to correct some of the false images that have been manufactured for these
people, first by history being told by the victorious, then followed up through
the stereotyping of a whole native people by the film industry in Hollywood.
I
hope that you may all experience through what you find here, something of what it
may have been like to have lived, and often died, a Native of Turtle Island
during the latter half of the nineteenth century. Hopefully this site will be
the first small step upon your own road of discovery, as you learn more about
the true history of these people by going out and finding them in our world
today.
AUTHORS NOTE
I am not a Native of Turtle
Island,
the stories and poems, as well as the graphics, are all products of years of
studying and learning. I respect the true Native culture, their history, and their
continued struggle. Please go HERE for a fuller explanation of who I am.
EDUCATIONAL SECTION
What I hope is a useful resource section for
educational purposes has been placed within this website. I hope it will be
useful for any students wanting to study Native History and Culture. I hope to keep on expanding on this and
other parts of the site.
I
hope your visit to this site is both a happy and rewarding one, if it is
then please leave a message in my
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THANK YOU
"The white people, who are
trying to make us over into their image, they want us to be what they call
"assimilated," bringing the Indians into the mainstream and destroying our own
way of life and our own cultural patterns. They believe we should be contented
like those whose concept of happiness is materialistic and greedy, which is very
different from our way.
We want freedom from the
white man rather than to be integrated. We don't want any part of the
establishment, we want to be free to raise our children in our religion, in our
ways, to be able to hunt and fish and live in peace. We don't want power, we
don't want to be congressmen, or bankers....we want to be ourselves. We want to
have our heritage, because we are the owners of this land and because we belong
here.
The white man says, there
is freedom and justice for all. We have had "freedom and justice," and that is
why we have been almost exterminated. We shall not forget this."
From the 1927 Grand
Council of American Indians
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