I AM AMERICAN : NATIVE FORGOTTEN PART 1 of 3
written by Ms. Winnie Shields also known as MIISRAEL
This picture has become blurred...No this is not another Obama won blog!
We as Americans have a great cause to celebrate. We have a elected our first Black President Elect of the United States of America. "I am remembering a race of people." Although this is an essay of personal means, I am attempting to bring attention to the “true roots” of America. The one which are Native Americans. Ones who can state: I Am American--Forgotten. Where have the true Americans gone to? These are one of the least celebrated, and the least acknowledge race of people. Yet, there is so very little accredited to the importance they have portrayed in the making of Americans and this great country of freedom to become.
Forgotten in the society of American cities, few natives choose to live among the cultures of changes of society. They take the refuse of reservations and survive with the upbringing of the most enduring simplicity of life still known to them by past generations. They display the unity of their nation, and harvest in everyday living like their ancestors before them. Living in some moderation the modern homes where they may be surrounded by the wilderness of a free country. Many of them simply refuse the progress of high performance changes and attitudes of fast-paced living of technologies. They; the old ones have the yearning of seeing the bison roam, and hunting in a country contributed by beauty and natural resources.
During the month of November, present day civilized or a traditional Americans will celebrate a Thanksgiving Holiday. Giving thanks to the early Pilgrims who sailed and were welcomed to a land of plenty and opportunity-- to live in the new land with their native friends. They were welcomed by a people who I believe meant well for them, but have much destroyed a land what was called home of the free and the brave! So much of this history of this people is now forgotten.
I feel compelled to write of this. Not exactly knowing why. It could be it's something I must express, or something inside me that has it’s roots running my veins, in the blood of the Native Americans and it’s tribes. I have roots as many blacks and whites of the Native American Indian.... However, when it comes to knowing them, so few of us know any American Indians at all. Have we overlooked, forgotten them completely and depleted their existence, --and so little is done for them by our own government. Many of them are impoverished and survive mainly on the hand-outs of the society that has forgotten who they are. Very little is accredited with them being known the forefathers of this land.
We are Black in America and we have our own social, economic and problems of growth. We have made a change. It not only took blacks, it was by many, Black, White, Hispanics and Asians and Native Americans to elect a new face on the pages of history. So often, we remember and too often we forget.. I am writing this about the I AM AMERICAN: FORGOTTEN. There is so much more…In order to form a even more unity everyone must be remembered. Bare with me, I will have more to write of them. I have not forgotten who they are.
I AM MIISRAEL
Posted By: MIISRAEL Bride
Sunday, November 9th 2008 at 11:24AM
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