I live in a city... where I am the only Native. I am a lonely soldier. But you are right. We have no recognition. I think our time is well over due to be heard, seen and recognized. > > From: Pmcleod0@aol.com > Date: 2005/04/19 Tue PM 03:12:42 GMT > To: NISHNAWBE-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: [NISHNAWBE] Native American Literature and Publications > > Hello All, > > I just needed to share this information and blow off some steam. I went into > Border's bookstore last night to find some Native American books I had seen > on-line. I went to the history section and there were cases and cases of > Afro-American, Arab, Korean, Irish, Scottish, Japanese, Chinese, Celts. I could go > on and on, but you get the idea. Then, I went to the language section. They > were English, Italian, Iraqi, Arab, Spanish, French, Russian, German, > Japanese. Again, the list goes on and on. Do you want to know what I found on > Native Americans? There were 5 shelves not completely filled in the history > section and nothing in the language area. I felt really hurt that Border's seems > uninterested in promoting our Native American history or language. > > I would suggest we all start to advocate our heritage to all around us. We > should have a movie similar to the Afro-American story "Roots". At least the > Afro-Americans can trace their history back to Africa. Heck, they could even > go back there and live as they were. Their culture still exists and has not > changed. Not so, for our native history. We are going to have to do some big > time pushing to get others to see we want our story heard and our culture back. > > If you have gotten this far in reading, thank you for listening. :-) I'd > love to hear your comments on the subject. Thanks again. > > Paula (Williams) McLeod > > > ============================== > View and search Historical Newspapers. Read about your ancestors, find > marriage announcements and more. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13969/rd.ashx > >