<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