i know this image was posted within the past 24 hours here, but my heart is feeling so burdened to share my feelings now..... lately i have read several posts about Cultural Appropriation here in this circle and how we are benefiting from certain cultures...... please bare with me and i humbly try to explain this from my personal point of view, and know that i come here with humility and gratitude for the principles and wisdom shared and taught, and that any benefiting that may occur for me would be a closer walk with Great Spirit and embracing the values that our indigenous ancestors taught and exemplified. To look at me you would see outwardly an anglo, i have a variety of cultural lineage, german, scotch irish, french, and a smallest amount of Cherokee..... i was born with jet black hair and red skin which stayed with me for almost 6 months, i did not look like anyone in my family even though i was completely blood related to them. As i grew i always wanted and yearned to know more about Indians, watching westerns i cried for the Indians, i would be in my silent times and hear native chants and see images of tipis and drumming circles. My family were westerners who in some circles would be termed red necks..... there was no teachings of things associated with Native Indigenous cultures in my family..... so where was all of this coming from to me??? As i grew older i became more aware of natural things around me, the trees and plants would whisper to me things that i found out later in books, but which i already knew because my brothers and sisters of the Earthly families had already shared with me..... the animals would speak with me too.... i was so different from my family that i felt like an outsider for many many years...... in my early 30s my first Spirit guide came to me...... a Cree warrior Running Wolf who shared with me things about a tribe that i had never known existed!!!! he gave me a phrase Oshishka tu wa kawnee he said it meant hope....... upon researching the language it phonetically fit in with all we found at the University of Arizona, but it was seven years in the process that it was loosely translated because Great Spirit led authentic Cree souls into my life who would help to translate the language which from an Cree elder was told that it was very old phrase....... why did this come to me??? an anglo???? i could go on and on with the amazing things Great Spirit has given to me as my most precious gifts that are indigenous in relation!!!! Please understand i am not trying to pump my ego or boast, i am trying to show something here in relation to the words spoken in the post...... i did not consciously set out to appropriate anything from any culture i was just a child who always felt conflicted because i was white on the outside and Red on the inside....... i believe that there are many many many born like me, who embrace all that is good from the Red Road. i personally know the founder here, and many of the members..... and in my heart i know that they are like me in that they truly embrace the good qualities of our ancestors and feel compelled to share the traditions, even though, in this white body have not been given those teachings as part of our birth families...... but believe me when i say to you, we are Red in our hearts, we have such compassion and reverence and respect for the Red Road. My biggest question is, what is wrong with that?? We are all here on Planet Earth to learn to walk the right path.......... for me that is the Red Road and i shall with my dieing breath be Red through and through....... Mitakuye Oyasin
Posted on: Fri, 01 Aug 2014 18:54:07 +0000
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