I didn’t read this in an aricle or see anything on the news, but I’m generally wondering why natives are always portrade as a people of the past. It’s actually against the law for people to live the way indigenous people did before the Declaration of Independence. Does that mean we are extinct? Some natives don’t sing. Some natives can’t dance? I know people who can’t sing or dance, not even at the club. When is an Indian, not an Indian? never I hope. Most tribes aren’t even refered to as nations although they were once soveriegn. Also, most domesticly soveriegn nations are still battling the U.S. beuracracies over land rights, water rights, religous rights, human rights, and burial rights (just to name a few). We used to be apart of the ecosystem, now everyone must go to a store and be a consumer or die. What do people do when extreme natural disastors occur? Hurricane Katrina was a chance to see what happens when modern technology and today’s government fails to sustain what they have promised. We are as a people very far away from mother earth. Western European phylosophies and the Robber Barons of the past have used their wisdom to deny us the beauty of true freedom and a Garden of Eden lifestyle. There was a time when we recieved all the nuriousment we needed to be healthy from our local environment. Where has progress lead us?
