Sorry. Didn't mean to rant in your comments but @friendly-fenix tripped a trigger and I had to get my thought out of my head or risk going further down the rabbit hole of insanity. I have a few good friends back home that are Cherokee, Acoma, Seminole, I miss my native friends harassing me about my blonde hair and such. It's a pet peeve of mine the pius attitude certain people have towards things. It's laughable only to relieve the angst.
My philosophy teacher drilled it in to my head to pay attention to word choice and intention. Like the mention of the trail of tears as noble, that the white man was being generous in giving them the bloody red land I came from. Ha, deplorable. Should have been called the trail of rape, bloodshed, and thievalry. It's all so sad.
When I was in highschool I got sit sit out back of a friend of mines house in a full blown tee-pee where grandpa lived. They had to put him out back because the square walls inside caused him distress and made him depressed. Many times Chapa and I would go out back and smoke pipe with grandpa and listen to the stories he would tell as he would break out in native song and chant to yah ho i Ho or yeaweh. Those were blessed times by sacred spirits in the morning fog, and for me always that damned coyote laughing at me with that evil grin...
yeah weird, i still can't get over the term "red land" meanwhile you are spilling your guts and yeah FF meant no harm. i do not feel you think that, but ppl who have lived it and know the pain of others and have seen it, well they feel it differently.
i totally get it, and i see that many do not when i get emotional and want to express my passion, empathy and sort of a flippant way of expressing "oh that again."
it kind of hurts to a certain extent but then again it is almost expected.
i totally feel what you are saying and OMG i love the pipe, song and coyote laughing/evil grin! how i would love and hear the stories you have learned.
it is time for me to go and hear some more stories myself ... i miss them so very much.
love,
eagle
ps. no worries on ranting, since i do not feel you really rant. not like others who are negative, you are Light and so very positive. you shine! :)
Stole a few pics from Oklahoma's red dirt. I'm telling you that land is red.
Red and more red.
And no Im in agreement with @friendly-fenix in it being an atrocity. Peace !
Wow that certainly is RED, and lovely. It almost looks like Brazil. I am so sad I never saw this part of Oklahoma only Oklahoma City and surrounding area. Thank you for sharing and glad you agree. Peace!
Sorry. Didn't mean to rant in your comments but @friendly-fenix tripped a trigger and I had to get my thought out of my head or risk going further down the rabbit hole of insanity. I have a few good friends back home that are Cherokee, Acoma, Seminole, I miss my native friends harassing me about my blonde hair and such. It's a pet peeve of mine the pius attitude certain people have towards things. It's laughable only to relieve the angst.
My philosophy teacher drilled it in to my head to pay attention to word choice and intention. Like the mention of the trail of tears as noble, that the white man was being generous in giving them the bloody red land I came from. Ha, deplorable. Should have been called the trail of rape, bloodshed, and thievalry. It's all so sad.
When I was in highschool I got sit sit out back of a friend of mines house in a full blown tee-pee where grandpa lived. They had to put him out back because the square walls inside caused him distress and made him depressed. Many times Chapa and I would go out back and smoke pipe with grandpa and listen to the stories he would tell as he would break out in native song and chant to yah ho i Ho or yeaweh. Those were blessed times by sacred spirits in the morning fog, and for me always that damned coyote laughing at me with that evil grin...
yeah weird, i still can't get over the term "red land" meanwhile you are spilling your guts and yeah FF meant no harm. i do not feel you think that, but ppl who have lived it and know the pain of others and have seen it, well they feel it differently.
i totally get it, and i see that many do not when i get emotional and want to express my passion, empathy and sort of a flippant way of expressing "oh that again."
it kind of hurts to a certain extent but then again it is almost expected.
i totally feel what you are saying and OMG i love the pipe, song and coyote laughing/evil grin! how i would love and hear the stories you have learned.
it is time for me to go and hear some more stories myself ... i miss them so very much.
love,
eagle
ps. no worries on ranting, since i do not feel you really rant. not like others who are negative, you are Light and so very positive. you shine! :)
Stole a few pics from Oklahoma's red dirt. I'm telling you that land is red.
Red and more red.
And no Im in agreement with @friendly-fenix in it being an atrocity. Peace !
Wow that certainly is RED, and lovely. It almost looks like Brazil. I am so sad I never saw this part of Oklahoma only Oklahoma City and surrounding area. Thank you for sharing and glad you agree. Peace!