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- From: <PSUVM.PSU.EDU!BLD110>
- Subject: Re: Question of Nativity
- Message-ID: <9301090241.AA15158@BU.EDU>
- Date: Sat, 9 Jan 1993 02:41:00 GMT
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- Hi - I'm a new subscriber so if what I say already has been said please
- excuse it. It seems to me that you are all missing the point, and that makes
- me wonder if you understand what it is like to lose your culture. Native
- American is an important designation because it validates the place the Native
- Americans have in the history of this land. When you talk of all of us living
- in harmony, I know that your heart is in the right place, but what you are
- saying is basically the same argument given by the people who took the children
- from the people on the reservations to educate them into "society" so that
- they could be assimulated into the general population. This was to the people
- who did it, the highest form of acceptance. Unforturnately for the Native
- American population it nearly robbed them of their culture.
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- We are now learning what a rich and spiritually connected culture the people
- of North America had when the Europeans came to this land. There is much that
- we can learn, and it is only because the Elders have managed to keep some of
- it alive that we can learn from them now.
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- We can only live in love and harmony when we learn to value the differences and
- honor each other for the people we are, not for how much we are alike.
- Peace - Betty Lee Dowlin
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