This is going to sound weird, but when I was a kid my old man used to tell us that he was a Sioux Indian warrior in his former life. Native American culture was always big in my house - I don't know why.
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My family is Native American, and I was raised with Native American ceremonies.
I'm Lakota Sioux.
My grandfather, Jesse Bowman, was of Abenaki Indian descent. He could barely read and write, but I remember him as one of the kindest people I ever knew. I followed him everywhere. He showed me how to walk quietly in the woods and how to fish.
I have a cousin who is a spiritual advisor for Native veterans in Canada, so I'm very familiar with the history of Natives in the military. And growing up as an American Indian myself, the story of Ira Hayes is one that is often told.
In the John Wayne movies, the Indians were savages that were trying to scalp you. That culture has really suffered because of the stereotype you see in those westerns.
Yeah, my family is of Indian heritage.
Tribal man is not an individual in the western sense. Psychologically and emotionally, he is the present living personification of a number of forces, among the most important of which are the ancestral dead.
When I was a kid, I really loved Indians. Native Americans. Pardon. Me.
For decades, Indians have immigrated to the United States, joined our communities, and raised their families while maintaining their cultural heritage.
I never fit in. Everyone knew my dad was Indian. I was half-Indian.
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