My family, friends, native issues/concerns, travel, elders, youth...and a whole lot more!WAVES TO ALL MY GORGEOUS NEICES, NEPHEWS,CUZZINS, SISTAHS, BROTHERS, "GRANDCHILDREN" AND ALL MY OTHER KEEN RELATIONS AND FRIENDS...LOVE YA! MYSPACE has made NDN COUNTRY a lil bit smaller...
I'd like to meet:
I would love to meet other KEEN people from all over!The late, great Clyder Warrior (Ponca):"Most members of the National Indian Youth Council can remember when we were children and spent many hours at the feet of our grandfathers listening to stories of the
time when the Indians were a great people, when we were free, when we were rich, when we lived the good life. At the same time we heard stories of droughts, famines,
and pestilence. It was only recently that we realized that there was surely great material deprivation in those days, but that our old people felt rich because they were free.
They were rich in things of the spirit, but if there is one thing that characterizes Indian life today it is poverty of the spirit. We still have human passions and depth of feeling, but we are poor in spirit because we are not free - free in the most basic sense of the
word. We are not allowed to make those basic human choices and decisions about our personal life and about the destiny of our communities which is the mark of a free
mature people.
We are not free. We do not make choices. Our choices are made for us; we are the poor. For those of us who live on reservations these choices and decisions are made
by federal administrators, bureaucrats, and their ‘yes men,’ euphemistically called tribal governments. Those of us who live in non-reservation areas have our lives controlled by local white power elites. We have many rulers. They are called social workers,‘cops,’ school teachers, churches, etc... They call us into meetings to tell us what is good for us and how they’ve programmed us, or they come into our homes to instruct us and their manners are not always what one would call polite by Indian standards or perhaps by any standards. We are rarely accorded respect as fellow human beings.
Our children come home from school to us with shame in their hearts and a sneer on their lips for their home and parents. We are the ‘poverty problem’ and that is true; and
perhaps it is also true that our lack of reasonable choices, our lack of freedoms, our poverty of spirit is not unconnected with our material poverty...""The whole country changed with only a handful of raggedy-ass pilgrims that came over here in the 1500's . And it can take a handful of raggedy-ass indians to do the same , and I intend to be one of those raggedy-ass indians ..."
AnnaMae Pictou Aquash
Music:
Music..hmmmm let's see...I love peyote jams, country, classic rock, motown, bluez, kinda depends on my mood..
Movies:
Movies? I don't have to watch movies as long as I have MY SPACE..I CAN SIT HERE AND WATCH ALL THE KEEN NDN MEN WITH HALF NAKED BABES ON THEIR TOP FRIENDS LISTS...who needs movies? IS LIKE A COMEDY! Come talk to me about RED POWER and NATIVE PRIDE...! Ayeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee! Am kinda kiddin' and kinda not.... I HAVE LEARNED "NOT" TO TRUST THOSE KINDA MEN!
Television:
Occasionaly I watch CSI (SO I CAN LEARN FROM PEOPLES MISTAKES), CNN (SEE IF DID ANYTHING WORTHY), HGTV (THEY MAKE SOME KEEN BUCKSKIN-LOOK'N WALL PAPER FROM BROWN PAPER BAGS) COOKIN CHANNEL...AND THE KIDS, SOUTH PARK...LOL! SERIOUS!! Other than that I don't really watch Television...
Heroes:
Who knows, you could be my hero...WHAT HAVE YOU DONE FOR YOUR PEOPLE TODAY? Doesn't cost to offer words of encouragement to our young...doesn't cost to pray for our elders, our poor, our people behind bars, the future of our people depends on those who are willing to speak out and stand up and fight! ALWAYS REMEMBER WHERE YOU COME FROM...Real people are my HEROS...young and old!
My grandparents..
