I have no papers. no number. nor a Nation nor any other authorization that my grandfather's mother was a Native American. I only have my grandfather's words. He'd not go into details and since I was too young to know to ask more and no one is alive to ask I only have his word. I know though who he was and who I am. I don't need all those papers nor a number. I would like to know my grandfather's Nation so I could learn more. That is all. Sent from my iPhone On Jul 23, 2014, at 2:01 AM, cherokee-request@rootsweb.com wrote: Today's Topics: 1. I want to tell you a story as it was told to me. - Lakota (Blue Panther) 2. I Will Walk [a long song] - Chippewa (Blue Panther) 3. Re: I am Native American (wthreerivers@aol.com) 4. Re: I am Native American (Theresa Buell) 5. Re: I am Native American (Barbara Young) ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Message: 1 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:18:59 -0500 From: "Blue Panther" <Blue_Panther@otelco.net> Subject: [Cherokee Circle] I want to tell you a story as it was told to me. - Lakota To: <cherokee@rootsweb.com>, "CherokeeChat" <CherokeeChat@yahoogroups.com>, <CherokeeMAINVillage@yahoogroups.com>, "Dan Perry" <runningtree@mediacombb.net>, "indigenous_peoples_literature" <indigenous_peoples_literature@yahoogroups.com>, <littlewolfstraditions@yahoogroups.com>, "Native_Village" <Native_village@yahoogroups.com>, "redroad" <Tradition_OF_The_Redroad@yahoogroups.com> Message-ID: <4B90F1BAD71E45FF96CFA10284A281F7@BearsdenPC> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" I want to tell you a story as it was told to me. - Lakota His name is Old Pete Chasing Horse, the storyteller of the Pine Ridge Reservation. Nearing a century old, it's his duty to share the legends and the wisdom of his people ? timeless moral stories that are a gift of life from the heart of the Dreamkeeper ? As they were told to him, they are told to you ? Legend of Coyote and Iktome Coyote is a trickster. His companion is Iktome, a spider person. When hunger overtakes them, Coyote gives Grandfather Stone his knife in return for helping him and Iktome find sustenance. But once he finds the food, Coyote realizes he will need his knife back to eat it. Betraying the Stone he bargained with, Coyote steals back the knife. While pursued Iktome climbs a tree to safety. Coyote finds his fate underneath a fallen Grandfather Stone. Legend of Coyote and Iktome, and Iktome's Wife Surviving his last trick, Coyote is invited to dinner by Iktome. Iktome instructs his wife on how to cook two livers for the both of them. For Coyote, a special duck. While Iktome is out hunting, his wife eats both livers and fears her husband's wrath. When Coyote seduces her, she gets her revenge by telling Iktome that it was he who ate the livers. On the run for his safety, the once-cunning trickster is transformed into a real coyote. Legend of Dirty Belly and The Dun Pony Dirty Belly and Old Woman are desperately poor. As scavengers, they are forced to live on the outskirts of the Pawnee camp. When Dirty Belly finds a dun pony he fearlessly rides it into battle against the approaching Oglala. The pony is killed but its spirit tells Dirty Belly the secret of amassing twenty beautiful white mares in return for his bravery. Honorable and heroic, he marries the beautiful daughter of Pawnee Chief, Iron Spoon. Legend of Quillwork Girl and her Seven Star Brothers Quillwork Girl dreams of working for the legendary Seven Brothers and becoming their Cheyenne sister in spirit. She finds them but her happiness is short-lived. Buffalo Calf arrives to marry her into the buffalo nation. When Quillwork Girl and her brothers climb a cottonwood tree for escape, they discover that with each arrow fired, the tree grows until they reach the safety of the clouds. With last arrow fired into the sun Quillwork Girl and her Seven Brothers are turned into stars that light the night sky forever. Legend of Raven Raven has a warning for the people of the Northwest. A great sickness has spread over the land because of man's greed. The Elder has a remedy for the plague: a chief's daughter must throw herself from the cliffs to the rocks below. The village Chief rules against this, but in the dead of night his own daughter leaps to her death to cure her people. In memory of her sacrifice a glorious waterfall flows from the cliffs high above the village. Legend of Ekuskini and The Ghost Hunter Ekuskini is on a game hunt with Whirlwind Dreamer and two Blackfoot hunters. He encourages them to follow him on the trail of his dead father, a great Blackfoot hunter. The two hunters refuse and turn back, but the curious Whirlwind Dreamer agrees. When Ekuskini sees the ghost hunter and rides toward him the ghost disappears leaving in its place a small stone. Ekuskini promises to keep the stone close to his heart, and in return for his beliefs, his buffalo hunting reaps great rewards http://abc.go.com/movies/Dreamkeeper/legends.html ------------------------------ Message: 2 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 16:19:58 -0500 From: "Blue Panther" <Blue_Panther@otelco.net> Subject: [Cherokee Circle] I Will Walk [a long song] - Chippewa To: <cherokee@rootsweb.com>, "CherokeeChat" <CherokeeChat@yahoogroups.com>, <CherokeeMAINVillage@yahoogroups.com>, "Dan Perry" <runningtree@mediacombb.net>, "indigenous_peoples_literature" <indigenous_peoples_literature@yahoogroups.com>, <littlewolfstraditions@yahoogroups.com>, "Native_Village" <Native_village@yahoogroups.com>, "redroad" <Tradition_OF_The_Redroad@yahoogroups.com> Message-ID: <F1654671C21D4FF6880C617C2EBE9E47@BearsdenPC> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" I Will Walk [a long song] - Chippewa I will walk into somebody's dwelling, Into somebody's dwelling will I walk. To thy dwelling, my dearly beloved, Some night will I walk, will I walk. Some night in the winter, my beloved, To thy dwelling will I walk, will I walk. This very night, my beloved, To thy dwelling will I walk, will I walk. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 20:19:15 -0400 (EDT) From: wthreerivers@aol.com Subject: Re: [Cherokee Circle] I am Native American To: Blue_Panther@otelco.net, cherokee@rootsweb.com, CherokeeChat@yahoogroups.com, CherokeeMAINVillage@yahoogroups.com, runningtree@mediacombb.net, indigenous_peoples_literature@yahoogroups.com, littlewolfstraditions@yahoogroups.com, Native_village@yahoogroups.com, Tradition_OF_The_Redroad@yahoogroups.com Message-ID: <8D17422DE8B5FE7-11C0-1AE90@webmail-d297.sysops.aol.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Thank you very much, I could not have said it better William Threerivers -----Original Message----- From: Blue Panther via <cherokee@rootsweb.com> To: cherokee <cherokee@rootsweb.com>; CherokeeChat <CherokeeChat@yahoogroups.com>; CherokeeMAINVillage <CherokeeMAINVillage@yahoogroups.com>; Dan Perry <runningtree@mediacombb.net>; indigenous_peoples_literature <indigenous_peoples_literature@yahoogroups.com>; littlewolfstraditions <littlewolfstraditions@yahoogroups.com>; Native_Village <Native_village@yahoogroups.com>; redroad <Tradition_OF_The_Redroad@yahoogroups.com> Sent: Mon, Jul 21, 2014 7:37 pm Subject: [Cherokee Circle] I am Native American I am Native American I am Native American; because I am Native American! Not because I carry a Certified Degree of Indian blood; not because I have a Federal Identification number; not because I possess a file of tribal papers; I am Native American; because I am Native American! My family heritage traces quickly to the Iroquois Nation; grandmother from the Onondaga, a grandfather born of Mohawk, a father adopted by relatives embarrassed by such parentage discarding family papers in order to hide the facts. I am Native American because I am Native American! Born of a mother of German descent I carry blue eyes and brown hair, but my heart is of this world of America enveloped by the spirit of my Native history. I am native American; because I am Native American! So often people are judged by unreal values. When I wear a certain style of hat I am a cowboy? Must I wear feathers and beads to be looked upon as Native American? I accept my physical appearance as it is and do with what I can. My heart, spirit, and mind are learning to be of my Native American culture. I am Native American; because I am Native American! Those who demand written proof ask the wrong questions. Those who need physical evidence ignore the essence of Native spirit. Those who search for proper identification seek paper gods. One needs to understand that a license to drive does not a driver make! G. Craig Young/Onondaga ======*====== List archives http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokee ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHEROKEE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 4 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:12:27 -0400 From: Theresa Buell <theresa.buell@gmail.com> Subject: Re: [Cherokee Circle] I am Native American To: wthreerivers <wthreerivers@aol.com>, "cherokee@rootsweb.com" <cherokee@rootsweb.com> Message-ID: <31F9FC8C-C145-42B1-98A8-923C42D09CB0@gmail.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Spot on!! Sent from my iPhone (please excuse any typos) > On Jul 22, 2014, at 8:19 PM, wthreerivers via <cherokee@rootsweb.com> wrote: > > > Thank you very much, I could not have said it better > > William Threerivers > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Blue Panther via <cherokee@rootsweb.com> > To: cherokee <cherokee@rootsweb.com>; CherokeeChat <CherokeeChat@yahoogroups.com>; CherokeeMAINVillage <CherokeeMAINVillage@yahoogroups.com>; Dan Perry <runningtree@mediacombb.net>; indigenous_peoples_literature <indigenous_peoples_literature@yahoogroups.com>; littlewolfstraditions <littlewolfstraditions@yahoogroups.com>; Native_Village <Native_village@yahoogroups.com>; redroad <Tradition_OF_The_Redroad@yahoogroups.com> > Sent: Mon, Jul 21, 2014 7:37 pm > Subject: [Cherokee Circle] I am Native American > > > I am Native American > > I am Native American; because I am Native American! > > Not because I carry a Certified Degree of Indian blood; not because I have a > Federal Identification number; not because I possess a file of tribal papers; > > I am Native American; because I am Native American! > > My family heritage traces quickly to the Iroquois Nation; grandmother from the > Onondaga, a grandfather born of Mohawk, a father adopted by relatives > embarrassed by such parentage discarding family papers in order to hide the > facts. > > I am Native American because I am Native American! > > Born of a mother of German descent I carry blue eyes and brown hair, but my > heart is of this world of America enveloped by the spirit of my Native history. > I am native American; because I am Native American! So often people are judged > by unreal values. When I wear a certain style of hat I am a cowboy? Must I wear > feathers and beads to be looked upon as Native American? I accept my physical > appearance as it is and do with what I can. My heart, spirit, and mind are > learning to be of my Native American culture. > > I am Native American; because I am Native American! > > Those who demand written proof ask the wrong questions. Those who need physical > evidence ignore the essence of Native spirit. Those who search for proper > identification seek paper gods. One needs to understand that a license to drive > does not a driver make! > > G. Craig Young/Onondaga > ======*====== > List archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokee > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHEROKEE-request@rootsweb.com > with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of > the message > > > ======*====== > List archives > http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/index?list=cherokee > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to CHEROKEE-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message ------------------------------ Message: 5 Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2014 21:57:23 -0400 From: Barbara Young <bayofcc@comcast.net> Subject: Re: [Cherokee Circle] I am Native American To: Blue Panther <Blue_Panther@otelco.net>, cherokee@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <53CF1683.4030403@comcast.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Hi Blue Panther, Thank you for posting this. There is wisdom beyond words in it for all. Congratulations to Mr Young for his wisdom and ability to express it so beautifully. All the best Barbara > On 7/21/2014 7:37 PM, Blue Panther via wrote: > I am Native American > > I am Native American; because I am Native American! > > Not because I carry a Certified Degree of Indian blood; not because I have a Federal Identification number; not because I possess a file of tribal papers; > > I am Native American; because I am Native American! > > My family heritage traces quickly to the Iroquois Nation; grandmother from the Onondaga, a grandfather born of Mohawk, a father adopted by relatives embarrassed by such parentage discarding family papers in order to hide the facts. > > I am Native American because I am Native American! > > Born of a mother of German descent I carry blue eyes and brown hair, but my heart is of this world of America enveloped by the spirit of my Native history. I am native American; because I am Native American! So often people are judged by unreal values. When I wear a certain style of hat I am a cowboy? Must I wear feathers and beads to be looked upon as Native American? I accept my physical appearance as it is and do with what I can. My heart, spirit, and mind are learning to be of my Native American culture. > > I am Native American; because I am Native American! > > Those who demand written proof ask the wrong questions. Those who need physical evidence ignore the essence of Native spirit. Those who search for proper identification seek paper gods. One needs to understand that a license to drive does not a driver make! > > G. 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