>>10881560is has always seemed odd to me that so few bother to attempt to correct the missnaming of the american peoples
americo was a portuguese map maker
he signed his name on the unnamed landmass and it stuck
columbus believed he had reached india
so the term native american indian has two terms that are not valid
native.. has the meaning of 'born'
for that matter.. my fathers fathers bloodline has been on this land since 1650s and my fathers mothers bloodline was in salem and the surrounding area - one of them even got a few(more than 70) 'witches' burned/persecuted through accusation {was sorry about it later..}
i have roots further than 7 generations
i have the dreams and i know the people
i am white but i am also native
the old ways are not gone but they are no longer really here either
seems so odd at times to watch the two worlds struggle to overlap
i am closely connected to people from many tribes
at times i see more in the dreams than the people who have the heritage
a great deal of it is squandered and mismanaged in my opinion
tecumseh was the last hope for a united native people to rival and equal the european powers
..his effort to unite the tribes was too little and too late
..i usually post as X