In a sense we have become trapped by our own hands and the expectations of others – we are caught up in promoting a romanticized version of who we are-of meeting the expectations of others.
Expectations that we live individual and communal lives wrapped in spirituality-that we are in tune with all forces large and small…and nothing could be further from the truth.
Crime is rampant, gangs, alcohol and substance abuse are as well.
Rape and the abuse of our women and children are off the charts, and it all results from breaking with tradition-a trend that is growing as our beliefs become increasingly corrupted and commercialized.
There are a lot of good people among the nations, but there’s also our share of sorry sobs, our share of thieves, drug dealers, and con artists.
Our communities are generally smaller and lack the “conveniences” that others have and consider a given. You don’t have to worry about your electricity being cut off when you have none to begin with.
Or your water either if you collect it in a bucket.
You don’t have the option of discount shopping or looking for a bargain when there’s only one or two stores colluding to price fix.
With this reality all the negatives that exist outside the rez such as crime, or abuse in it’s varied forms are exacerbated within ours, their presence and impact is felt by all, not just in the “burbs” or the “inner city”.
Law enforcement is woefully understaffed and inadequate-and historically when it has come to matters of federal jurisdiction for the most part indifferent.
We are burdened by the expectations of the non indigenous, whether they be confined to this hemisphere or global in nature.
And predictably some will play to this expectation as though it is some kind of cure all or escape from the reality.
We are burdened by all the new age crap that seeks to infuse itself into the core of who we are, and likewise burdened and betrayed by our own who seek to capitalize from it.
We are in a very real fight to survive, to be who we are and were created to be-no one can deny we have been victims, but to victimize ourselves isn’t going to change anything.
Neither will waving a crystal around, talking about “ascended masters, reincarnation, sacred chalices, or getting caught up in the expectations of others who know nothing about us or lived so much as a single day of the life.
We’ve got people who haven’t a drop of the blood calling themselves pipe carriers, giving themselves laughable names and going on about how they were instructed in the “sacred teachings” by a medicine man or elder- that’s bs from front to back, and any who buy into it and get separated from their wallet deserve it in my opinion.
Worse than that, we have people who are of the nations calling themselves “chief of chiefs” and selling everything that is ours except for the clothes off our back-and if they can figure a way to do that they will.
We’ve got con artists calling themselves leaders, liberators, and patriots, who contrive to profit in any way possible off of every misery known to us.
We’ve got ignorant punks undermining the very communities they live in calling themselves warriors and strutting about like peacocks.
Men who father children and abandon them-women who birth them and leave them with another to go party and get passed around.
We are in trouble regardless of all the high talk-serious trouble-everything we have and are is threatened. YT videos, the expectations of others, and talk isn’t going to change any of it.
The change must come from us-from within. We cannot dance to anothers tune, or attempt to mimic their behavior and values.
I do not often post in reply to your messages, but I read them all, appreciate them, and would like to take a little time to thank you for them. I always look forward to what comes out of your mind, your heart, and your pen. Please keep up the good work you are doing.
Thank you Helene and be well. Commenting on this blog can at times
come with an element of risk, it’s an easy way to be attacked, accused,
and labelled by those whose positions are anathema to the truth.
The truth can cut like a knife and be painful to all-just as the
truths spoken in this blog you have commented on wound me to speak
of-yet the greater wound of the reality if left to fester inflicts
a greater pain-a wound and a pain in my opinion all are obliged to
address and attempt to heal.
Silence may be golden as some say, but I have found few instances
when such is the case, this isn’t one of them, and I refuse to be.
I agree in Helne’s appreciation of Rezinate…he does what others fear to do.
Reblogged this on Looking Back Woman-Suzanne Dupree blog and commented:
Again another observation & opinion of Rezinate…definately worth the read!
Thank you LBW
Something for your consideration from a past email from a former AIM insider, which sheds more light on a subject recently up for discussion here….”Where does all the donations & non-profit $$$$ go for AIM & their online begging for donations off shoots????”
Into the pockets of AIM leadership for their personal expense money….
Wonder what kind of kickback we are looking at for James & Charlie for AIM’s immunity?
http://lookingbackwoman.wordpress.com/2013/03/30/this-deserves-a-repost-from-the-horses-mouth/
An excellent link all should follow-exposes the fraudulent claims
made by Means as being Lakota as well as the unrepentant grifter
he was.
More true strong words and some to be angry for them and say it
is not made to be but we know different and will not make the lie to say
it is not so.
Yes, I imagine they will anger some, and denials will be the way
of it for them-neither of which will alter the reality, and in the
end only serve to re enforce what is wrong.
teddi en tu nuff (sp?) , translated from the swamps, “a little bit of nothing, and everything of something” is in place for this blog entry, kinda like a child giving someone a bit of soil, the one receiving might think it is not much, thou in reality it is everything. merci beaucoup , many , many, many thanks Rezinate,
Thanks for the comment and your own efforts JP. A great analogy about
the land and a child.