Schools seldom teach the truth about America’s mistreatment of Native Americans. The story presented is very one-sided: the White Europeans are nearly always the “good guys” while the indigenous population is represented as “primitive savages” . . .
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Sometimes I go anyway because my deep down Indian mind is very strong and willful and oftentimes it doesn’t wish to listen to any more bullshit from my non-Indian European-style mind at all. And I can’t say as I blame it; when your bones and blood run strong toward the Indian way of life by temperament and purpose, it’s very hard for me or anybody else to impose a different set of norms upon it.
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What makes up a person’s character? Is it the things we do and the things we say? In some ways, we can say “yes” . . . but aspects of a person’s character go deeper, combining emotional qualities with intellectual traits: a synthesis of conscience, moral values, and ethical decisions. Physical ability and academic training may go hand in hand with a person’s emotional and mental make-up, but they are not identical with character.
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Awake now, like the rising sun, and go forth with love in your heart and peace in your soul. Be as one with Mother Earth, and let Mother Earth teach you her gentle ways, so that you may grow straight and tall like a giant redwood Sequoia and like a true son and daughter of our People.
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But I am a man of peace and I seek justice, not revenge. I speak the truth as it has been given to me to understand and speak the truth. The giving of a Native American name is not done lightly or in jest. It is an honor name. Thus, I give this class the name Red Heart and it is with that name I shall remember each and every one of you.
Whenever you see a new baby born, your own or someone else’s, whenever you even think about such a scene in the hidden recesses of your mind and imagination, then remember us here, this class, and this name, and these names you gave one another.
I am very proud of each and every one of you.
I Am He Who Speaks the Truth.
I have spoken.
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