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I most certainly agree with all that's been spoken here.
I don't have anything hid out because there's to many guys around here with metal detectors searching for the old Jesses James and other outlaws of the past treasures.( I could do some Real Good Stereotyping about these people now! LMAO.)
And the part of Oklahoma I live in is way to crowded!!
The safest place to put anything is on the Indin lands of which there is little left.
We adopted a young gangbanger into our family as a grandson.
A friend of ours had brought him a long way.He wanted to get back to his roots and the old Indin ways.He is Sac and Fox,
Cherokee and Scot,Irish.
He was doing really well and he had advanced to being our Firekeeper forour Sweatlodge.That's a very responsible,honorable position!! All of us were so very proud of what he was doing ad how he was doing it.Then....
He had never been made responsible for his own actions and often wondered why he had consequences to pay.
He has retired from the gang he is in,because that gives him an out not to participate in gang activities.They're not something that a person can easily walk away from if you want to live.
He is trying to turn several other young warriors from the gangland ways.He does good most of the time.Many of them have came here to Sweat with us in our Sweatlodge.
A while back he was going through some rough times and started pulling some stupid,foolish stunts like taking the electric meter out of it's box so he could plug it in when he wanted electrical power.He was turning the water back on for the same reasons.
I told him he was stealing those things and he got rather indignant and said it didn't matter because it was the "Whiteman" (Yonegs) that he was taking it from.He _wouldn't_ see where it was wrong.
He also made a mistake of trying to get in a pissin contest with me in the Sweatlodge while we were having Ceremony.What was really bad about this is that he told the two young boys he brought with him that there was gonna be an argument and that he was gonna win!
( All of these things were taking place at the same time.
Barb and me really do want to see this grandson succeed.We have invested about $600.00 in him to see that he does.)
I had to send him away until he could see where he was doing wrong.He kept getting in deeper and deeper and the consequences were becoming more severe.
He finally called and said he wanted to talk.I told him okay,but I wasn't putting up with his attitude.
He came out and apologized to me
and I told him he could come back to the Sweats,but that he was gonna have to apologize to the people he had offended and for disrupting the lodge.He did that and I am proud of him.I have made him start at the beginning again and it's gonna be awhile before he can have the responsibilities he once had here.That's the way things work in the Old Ways.
He has a girlfriend that has spiked hair and multiple body pierceings and dresses mostly in black.She is a real nice little ol' girl with the same problems of hundreds and thousands of other kids her age.She has set in our Lodge also and gets a lot out of it.She doesn't have a drop of Indin Blood and it doen't matter.
Black Elk spoke about the healing of the nations and this is my small part of helping the world do that.
I get really aggravated hearing the vulgar language that has become commonplace in this day and age.You know that the kids learned it from thier parents and that they use it around them too.
The parents are the ones I get really angry at.
It's my opinion that the family unit is the most important
component of society today and yesterday and tomorrow.
It seems the affluence of the US after WW II is a large part of the problems today.Familys started moving away from family in order to prosper.Then grandma and grandpa weren't around to help with the raising of the little ones.Momma and Daddy were and are too bsy too look after thier kids and most believe that _thier_ kids can do no wrong.
I finished growing up next door to family like that.If thier parents had of only known half of what thier kids had done they would have killed them.They wouldn't believe what anyone tod them about thier kids though.
A kinduv funny thing about our adopted grandson... He told me a while back that some Christian lady had told him to YELL at God about his circumstances!!
Well he did and things really got bad.
I asked him why he had done that after what had happened after he Yelled at me.
He said,"I hear you!!"
it's one thing for an Elder to send you away until you learn what's right.
The Great Mystery can really bring pee upon a person!!
Sorry for the rambling.
Daniel these are some of the things I feel are important.The Indin people have not only the same problms your age group does,they also have the stereotyping that all ethnic and minority groups such as yours has to put up with.
If you ever find yourself headed this way you are welcome to come set in the Sweat with us.I do know there are a lot more youngens your age trying to set some things straight.
All of you have my support and respect.
Back in the '50's when I was a teenager we talked about these same hings.Everyone thought that all young people were juvenile delinquints and dope heads.Some things never change and now people lie me are aghast at what language we hear in the parking lots and the Malls.
Makes me wonder what word the kids are gonna use when things get really bad,like when one of thier own gets blown away by some foolish peer of thiers
trying to impress someone or something.Our prisons are full of those kinds of people....
I wish it was like it was back in the '40's.
People were friendlier back then and kids called adults Mr.and Mrs.
You could take your .410 out to shoot rabbits or squirrels unsupervised when you were 11 or so years old.
Help us get back to those kinds of values.
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