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POPSLearning The young have been weened on the easy ways of life, to live and learn the old ways do not interest them, unless they can gain some thing to make life easier for them. Life is not easier and will only get harder, life as we know it today will not last and it will be to late for the younger generation as the knowledge of our Elders will be lost to time. Cougar
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POPSThink I grow increasingly worried about man and his thoughts! When reading or watching the world as it is today, we can see what man has on his mind and unfortunately it is not the good, but the evil in mans mind that is winning. We see the continual search for the better weapons in which to kill each other, the growing hunger and killing of our children, the continuing raping of Mother Earth, with no respite in the future. We must look to our Grandfathers for guidance, however for the People of the Earth and I speak of the Indigenous Peoples who at one time lived and breathed the life of Mother Earth, it will be easier, not so for the others who live for greed with every waking breath. The destruction of man will come from within, so pray to the Great Spirit that the others will come to respect and seek the guidance of our Earth Mother and that of the People of the Earth, before it is to late. Cougar
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POPSYou have wandered I am one of those people who never grew up with the teachings of my ancestors, it was only later in life that I found my true identity, but I am still learning the path, with each day I learn more and more, but find I am still lacking. Creator, please guide me on my true path. Cougar
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POPSTested At this time in my life all I can do is write. It is my way of fighting for the equality, truth, Justice and Rights of my Aboriginal Brothers and sisters. It takes alot of research, time and patients with very little return, but with every response I feel a realization of recognition for my words and that maybe, just maybe, I have gotten through to someone. Cougar
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POPSEducation Education is vital for our survival, how ever the education provided is not up to standards with the rest of the world, you see the poor education programs provided to the Native communities lags far behind, for a reason, it's just another way the governments use to keep the Indigenous people under their control. Cougar
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POPSNative People It is most difficult to live within our culture and spirituality, in my experience, I have found that this generation do not even know their own culture, nor speak their own language, language is so important in understanding our culture. Cougar
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POPSOren R. Lyons, Spokesman, Traditional Circle of Elders Grandfather, Grandmother, bring the spirits to teach us. "Male and female is fundamental to life; partners in work to be done." We have lost our way in regards to this truth. Our culture taught us this simple wisdom, the destruction of our cultures has taken this away, we must return to our cultures to regain this knowledge and treat each other with the respect we have lost. Cougar
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POPSTessie Naranjo, Santa Clara Pueblo This is so, so true, we need to return to our roots, before it is to late, some have no idea what their roots are or culture really is, they try to find their way, but in these times it is very hard, they forget to speak to the elders because they are to busy following the white mans road. In the end they will never know who they really are. Stop, look around you, remember who you are and remember what is lost already. Cougar
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POPSGrandfathers Every thing are is attached to the earth, why is it that the Aboriginals of this world understand this? Cougar
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POPSWilma P. Mankiller, Cherokee Education has always been the back bone of the Native people, I say this as it has always been the Elders who provided us with the knowledge and wisdom, today the younger generation do not know this and are so wrapped up with the new world computerized agenda, that they have lost sight of the true teachers of our people. We can only pray to the Great Spirit that they will open their eyes before it is to late. Remember the ouness falls upon us to guide our children on the true path to knowledge.
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POPSYour Language I do not know my own Culture, as I lived in a Cree/French Metis Settlement, however they spoke to Cree language and never really understood their own Metis Culture, to much English was spoken. Cougar
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POPSWilma P. Mankiller, Cherokee This is the 21st Century, but the 13th Century is still alive within us, the combination of both is what it will take to make us whole. Cougar
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POPSLanguage Great Spirit, help us maintain our language, spirit, family, religion and our Mother Earth. Cougar
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POPSEdmund Ladd, Zuni Pubeblo Many Native Language's are lost, some are about to be lost, it is very true that we must hold on to our languages to preserve our culture, without our languages, we have no culture's. My ansestors language is almost gone, the Bungee Language, spoken by the Cree-Scott, Metis. Michif spoken by the Cree-French is another. It is to bad that we no longer take pride in our culture's. Cougar
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POPSDr. Henrietta Mann, Southern Cheyenne The white man and their churches sought to distroy the First Peoples culture by forbidding ceremonies. They never understood what they were so they must be evil, right? Cougar
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POPSChief Pontiac, Odowa Most people don't know this, but because our for-fathers had no alcohol to drink in our culture the Natives of North America were not born with the gene to cope with this danger. Natives of Turtle Island had good pure water to drink, where the Europeans had bad, polluted water thuse drank wine and beers to compliment there liquid needs and through generations acquired this gene. The people of Turtle Island do not have this gene and therefore cannot cope with alcohol. Cougar
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POPSTimes Most individuals concentrate on the outside and never consider whats inside. Cougar
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