Lakota Writings

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   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.

I am not a Native, 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 read the author's note for a fuller explanation of who I am.

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 Guest book before you leave this site.

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"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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