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In a message dated 7/2/00 1:02:27 AM Eastern Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << Independence? What Independence. There will be NO Independence as long as we have people suffering, hurting, dying for our Independence. As long as the government allows continued annihilation of our people, I will continue to fight for our independence. >> Hi Mike, I hope you know that I plan to fight as well. And I agree completely with what you say.I have learned things on this list and others as well. In private mail, I have been called N----- lover, and Indian lover, and trator. I delete these messages. Some on my hometown list, have even called me on my stand with NA and slaves. But in my mind, I would rather soar with the eagles(NA), then flock with the buzzards. Bright Star

Whoa....hold on and listen to yourselves. You are operating from frustration and bitterness and anger. You stay in that place with your intention and you will continue to be a co-creator in your own victimization....be at cause rather than at effect. It is important to forgive any perceived slights in order to free yourself from the prison that you create for yourself by clinging to negativity.....do not allow your beautiful soul to be subjected to this ! You have to take responsibility for your part as co-creator in whatever situation you find yourself in......otherwise you give away all your power , and won't be able to transform things . Remember....the world is very old and we will all experience everything there is to be experienced throughout the long cycle of life.....getting hung up in anything (but most especially anything negative ) is a bad decision. It keeps you from progressing and it kills off joy and hopefulness......why create a bummer like that ??....it also has a damaging effect on your immune system and teaches your children to do the same thing. There are important issues that need to be dealt with...but , you need to re-claim your personal power before you can do anything. Please re-examine your position .....hugs,malinda [email protected] wrote: > Well Mike, You are right on that one. You will get no argument from me. The > only independance I have had for years is in my thoughts and somebody is > bound to make that illeagle and unconstitunial, but untill they do guess i > will continue on with them. Grandma Tsi Tsi > > ==== BLACK-DUTCH-AMERICA Mailing List ==== > Are you interested in the term Black Irish? > BLACK-IRISH-L welcomes all colors of the Creator's Rainbow. Go to: > http://lists.rootsweb.com/index/other/Ethnic/BLACK-IRISH.html > > ============================== > The RootsWeb WorldConnect Project: > Tens of millions of individuals... and counting. > http://worldconnect.genealogy.rootsweb.com/

Well Mike, You are right on that one. You will get no argument from me. The only independance I have had for years is in my thoughts and somebody is bound to make that illeagle and unconstitunial, but untill they do guess i will continue on with them. Grandma Tsi Tsi

In a message dated 7/1/00 10:45:10 PM Eastern Daylight Time, GLewis2035 writes: << . There doesn't seem to be any ceremony envolved with a lot of it and much drinking, cursing and fighting. Guess my independance is better off at home facing reality >> Hi Grandmother, Yes I agree. I will spend the next few days, reflecting on things that are true and close to my heart. I have 1 boy who searved with honer, for 4 years. I have another one in basic training right now. The first one was an United Nations Peacekeeper, and I am very proud. It is alot harder for a Peacekeeper. The reason being, is that you have to put in reverse what you are trained to do in war. I have nothing against the men who fought the Civil War. It was a war that needed to be. But in the early days of westren military, our calvary soldiers, I have many ill feelings. The NA are called savages. Yet they were not the first to take a scalp. They did nothing more then we would do today, if someone tried to take our America. I am very sad for us as a people, that we don't seem to want to look at this. Others say, WE CONQUERED YOU, deal with it. Well, if another country invaded us today, would we allow them to say, DEAL WITH IT <WE CONQURED YOU AS WELL? Like hell, we would. We would have groups all over this nation, of all our races, ready to kick their butts out of our America. And you know what? Our NA brothers and sisters would be right there next to us, as they have been in other wars. Luv, Bright Star

In a message dated 7/1/00 9:46:19 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << Guess my independence is better off at home facing reality. (((((((HUGS)))))))Grandma Tsi Tsi >> Independence? What Independence. There will be NO Independence as long as we have people suffering, hurting, dying for our Independence. As long as the government allows continued annihilation of our people, I will continue to fight for our independence. Mike the uncivilized Cherokee

In a message dated 7/1/00 9:46:19 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << There doesn't seem to be any ceremony envolved with a lot of it and much drinking, cursing and fighting. Guess my independance is better off at home >> ME TO GRANMOTHER May Your Waters Run Gentle. Little Hawk.

Three cheers for you Bright Star !!!!!!! That makes at least two of us. I myself will try to stay home away from all that confusion. I have yet to determine what a lot of those people are celebrating. There doesn't seem to be any ceremony envolved with a lot of it and much drinking, cursing and fighting. Guess my independance is better off at home facing reality. (((((((HUGS)))))))Grandma Tsi Tsi

In a message dated 7/1/00 6:14:15 PM Central Daylight Time, [email protected] writes: << My heart ,does not feel like celebrating, when my brothers and sisters are living like sardines on a goverment reservation.My heart does not feel like celebrating, when the elders of their tribes, are being disgraced`>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>BLESS YOU FOR YOUR WORDS, Bright Star May Your Waters Run Gentle. Little Hawk.

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Palmer to Commissioner, 8 October 1853, in United States, Office of Indian Affairs, Letters Received by the Office of Indian Affairs, 1824-1880, National Archives Microcopy 234, Roll 608 (excerpt), NADP Document D20. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ -- [Page 1] It is proper however here to state that before signing this, it was fully understood that a treaty of purchase for the extinguishment of their title to the lands claimed by them should immediately follow the treaty of peace. And in accordance with this understanding we met in council on the 10th day of Sept. and agreed on the terms of purchase. It was doubted whether according to an Act approved Febry 27th 1851 providing "that such Officers and Agents in the Indian Department as the President of the United States may designate shall hereafter hold treaties with the Indian tribes," we were warranted in assuming that power, as no person now engaged in the Indian Department in this Territory has been designated in accordance with this act. But the necessity of some immediate and permanent arrangement by which the citizens as well as the Indians could hope to be secure in the possession of life and property, demanded, if not warranted by any existing statute, according to the great law of humanity, in consonance with which our Government has ever professed to act in her intercourse with the Indians, an assumption of power somewhere, to effect such an arrangement. It was believed that a treaty of peace, without extinguishing the Indians title to the country, would fail to restore and preserve it, as treaties of a similar nature had formerly been intered into with this tribe without any permanent good effect. Nothing short of the purchase of their entire country and assigning to them of a certain district for their temporary residence until a permanent home shall be provided for them in common with other tribes, could procure this desirable object. There is no doubt that the failure heretofor on the part of the Agents of the Government, & others assuming to hold treaties with these Indians and other tribes, to comply with the stipulations of such treaties [...] Bright Star

<A HREF="http://www.honoradvocacy.org/">Click here: HONOR's Native American Support and Resource Information Center</A> http://www.honoradvocacy.org/ To all my friends and listers, Though I appreciate the wars my familys fought to protect me, on foreign soil, I cannot find it in my heart to condone any Independence on American soil. I will not celebrate Independence Day, when my fellow NA brothers and sisters, have lost theirs to American treaties. These treaties in my eyes are nothing but lies, and have never been held up to. This is my opion only. This is not meant to disgrace in any way, other family members, and their feelings. I have to worry about my own heart. My heart ,does not feel like celebrating, when my brothers and sisters are living like sardines on a goverment reservation.My heart does not feel like celebrating, when the elders of their tribes, are being disgraced in museums and their bones and brains, kept in jars. I will not celebrate when soldiers like Custer, have relations with NA woman, and give birth to an NA child, "YELLOW BIRD'', and turn to kill his childs people. They did consider him family at one time. I will not celebrate, when people like Thomas Jefferson, have babies by slaves, only to say, " ALL MEN ARE EQUAL''. Where were their equal rights? I love my country, but I can honestly say , from my heart, the the Declaration of Indepence,as the way it was written said, ALL MEN ARE EQUAL. That was a lie as well. It meant that all white men were equal. Though it was great in the aspect, of the framing, and left the door open for many changes, it still at the time written, did not include all men. Bright Star

The first day of school our professor introduced himself and challenged us to get to know someone we didn't already know. I stood up to look around when a gentle hand touched my shoulder. I turned around to find a wrinkled, little old lady beaming up at me with a smile that lit up her entire being. She said, "Hi handsome. My name is Rose. I'm eighty-seven years old. Can I give you a hug?" I laughed and enthusiastically responded, "Of course you may!" and she gave me a giant squeeze. "Why are you in college at such a young, innocent age?" I asked. She jokingly replied, "I'm here to meet a rich husband, get married, have a couple of children, and then retire and travel." "No seriously," I asked. I was curious what may have motivated her to be taking on this challenge at her age. "I always dreamed of having a college education and now I'm getting one!" she told me. After class we walked to the student union building and shared a chocolate milkshake. We became instant friends. Every day for the next three months we would leave class together and talk nonstop. I was always mesmerized listening to this "time machine" as she shared her wisdom and experience with me. Over the course of the yea Rose became a campus icon and she easily made friends wherever she went. She loved to dress up and she reveled in the attention bestowed upon her from the other students. She was living it up. At the end of the semester we invited Rose to speak our football banquet. I'll never forget what she taught us. She was introduced and stepped up to the podium. As she began to deliver her prepared speech, she dropped her three by five cards on the floor. Frustrated and a little embarrassed she leaned into the microphone and simply said "I'm sorry I'm so jittery. I gave up beer for Lent and this whiskey is killing me! I'll never get my speech back in order so let me just tell you what I know." As we laughed she cleared her throat and began: "We do not stop playing because we are old; we grow old because we stop playing. There are only four secrets to staying young, being happy, and achieving success. You have to laugh and find humor every day. You've got to have a dream. When you lose your dreams, you die. We have so many people walking around who are dead and don't even know it! There is a huge difference between growing older and growing up. If you are nineteen years old and lie in bed for one full year and don't do one productive thing, you will turn twenty years old. If I am eighty-seven years old and stay in bed for a year and never do anything I will turn eighty-eight. Anybody can grow older. That doesn't take any talent or ability. The idea is to grow up by always finding the opportunity in change. Have no regrets. The elderly usually don't have regrets for what we did, but rather for things we did not do. The only people who fear death are those with regrets." She concluded her speech by courageously singing "The Rose." She challenged each of us to study the lyrics and live them out in our daily lives. At the years end Rose finished the college degree she had begun all those years ago. One week after graduation Rose died peacefully in her sleep. Over two thousand college students attended her funeral in tribute to the wonderful woman who taught by example that it's never too late to be all you can possibly be. In loving memory of ROSE-Remember, GROWING OLDER IS MANDATORY, GROWING UP IS OPTIONAL. The Rose by Bette Midler Some say love, it is a river that drowns the tender reed Some say love, it is a razor that leaves your soul to bleed Some say love, it is a hunger, an endless aching need I say love, it is a flower, and you it's only seed It's the heart, afraid of breaking, that never learns to dance It's the dream, afraid of waking, that never takes a chance It's the one who won't be taken, who cannot seem to give And the soul, afraid of dyin', that never learns to live When the night has been too lonely, And the road has been too long And you think that love is only for the lucky and the strong Just remember in the winter far beneath the bitter snows Lies the seed, that with the sun's love, in the spring becomes The Rose May Your Waters Run Gentle. Little Hawk.

Natchez North American Indian tribe of the Macro-Algonquian linguistic phylum that inhabited the east side of the lower Mississippi River. In the early 18th century at the time of the first French settlement, the tribe numbered about 6,000, living in nine villages between the Yazoo and Pearl rivers near the site of the present-day city of Natchez, Miss. Relations between the French settlers and the Natchez were friendly at first; but three French-Natchez wars--in 1716, 1723, and 1729--resulted in the French, with the aid of the Choctaw, driving the Natchez from their villages. Some 400 Natchez were captured and sold into the West Indian slave trade; the remainder took refuge with the Chickasaw and later with the Upper Creeks and Cherokee. When the latter tribes were forced to move west into Indian Territory (present Oklahoma), the Natchez went with them. A few Natchez retained their language into the early 20th century, and there were still a few tribe members living in northeastern Oklahoma in the late 20th century. (See France, history of.) The Natchez, allied in general culture to other Muskogean tribes, were a primarily agricultural people. They made clothes by weaving a fabric from the inner bark of the mulberry, excelled in potterymaking, and built large temples--similar to those of the Creeks--of wattles and mud set upon eight-foot mounds. Their dwellings--built in precise rows around a plaza or common ground--were four-sided and constructed of sun-baked mud and straw with arched cane roofs. They were sun worshippers, ruled by a monarch called the Great Sun, who had the power of life and death over them. He maintained several wives and a household of volunteers to work and hunt for him; all were killed at his death, along with any others who wished to join him in the afterlife. Integral to their religion was a perpetual fire kept burning in the temple. It was allowed to die once a year on the eve of their midsummer festival, the Busk, or Green Corn, ceremony (similar to that of the Creeks). The fire was remade at dawn of the festival day, and all the village fires were then made anew from the sacred fire. The Natchez were notable for the peculiar caste system, in which the people were classified as suns, nobles, honoured people, and commoners. The chief, or Great Sun, and the heads of the villages claimed descent from the sun. Persons of the sun caste were not allowed to intermarry. Rather, they were required to marry commoners. The offspring of female suns and commoners were suns, while the children of male suns and commoners belonged to the caste of honoured people. source info Encyc. Britta. 2000 Bright Star

county, west-central South Carolina, U.S. The Saluda River and Lake Murray provide the northern boundary, and the western corner lies within Sumter National Forest. The county consists of a piedmont region of low hills, with large areas forested in pine woods. In the late 17th and early 18th centuries the region was inhabited by Algonquian-speaking Saluda Indians; by the mid-18th century European settlers were well established there. Saluda county was formed in 1896. Throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries cotton was a leading element in the region's agriculture. Since then the raising of chickens and cattle and the production of milk and eggs have been the basis of the economy, along with lumbering and textile production. The town of Saluda is the county seat. Area 451 square miles (1,169 square km). Pop. (1990) 16,357; (1998 est.) 17,025. source info Encyc. Britta 2000 Bright Star

Timucua extinct North American Indian tribe that inhabited the northeast coast of Florida. Their name has been given to a group of closely related languages. The estimated population of Timucuan-language speakers was 13,000 in 1650, with 8,000 speaking Timucua proper. Their first European contact was probably with the expedition of Ponce de León in the 16th century. They were later missionized by the Franciscans, who compiled a grammar of their language. In the early 1700s their territory was invaded by the Creek Indians and the English, and the last knowledge of the Timucua was sometime after 1736, when the remnants of the tribe moved to the area near the present Mosquito Lagoon, Fla. Presumably some of them were absorbed by the Seminole. Source info Encyc. Britta. 2000 Bright Star