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If you keep on this way. one of these days, you will end up arguing with yourself as to which side of the bed you want to sleep on. When you are sleeping alone.
Submission/Review question
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ThisOldMan
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Judith
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Re: Submission/Review question
If you live your life worrying about what others will think of you then you are allowing them to live your life while you watch. (A little Abenaki wisdom.)BarryDavidson wrote:Never know who you'll meet on line.
Many of my ancestors were forcibly marched to Oklahoma. I have never attempted to register with my tribe though. After reading about all the people who flocked to register when the blood percentage was lowered to establish membership made me very sad - not to mention a little angry as well. The anger part was because I've met some of the people who registered (minimum blood), and they only did it for want of something to do as well as other reasons associated with greed. The sadness was because I truly wished to know more about my ancestors, yet I didn't want to be thought of like those who made me angry. (Sounds crazy doesn't it?)
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VersantScribe
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I never registered, either. Pretty much whatever part of me isn't French is Cherokee, on both my parents' sides. BUT, there is a rumor somewhere that someone on my dad's side is Choctaw, so who knows. I'm just proud of my heritage. I'm taken care of so I never felt the need to try to get the benefits that someone else could use. I have friends that are Sioux and they had their educations paid for. Kinda crazy!
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ThisOldMan
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Psst, here's an idea which may change things in the next few generations. Make as many babies as you can. Don't worry about the government policy regarding birth control. Let the other people limit the number of their offspring. Democracy is a game of numbers. We need more people to get more power.
One other thing, get back to the basics. The rich Quraysh Arabs in Mecca had an interesting tradition. Their young male children were sent, from infanthood, to be raised by the poor Bedouin herdsmen in the hills. The idea was that a tough childhood would produce a better man. Worth thinking about.
Maybe we cannot turn the clock back but it still rankles me that entire peoples were wiped out just because some technologically better-equipped people thought that they were no better than varmint.
I am very sure that the perpetrators will pay for their crimes, somehow, somewhere, sometime.
A couple of outbursts from
Hallelujah Lovelight
Tread lightly for love is in the air.
One other thing, get back to the basics. The rich Quraysh Arabs in Mecca had an interesting tradition. Their young male children were sent, from infanthood, to be raised by the poor Bedouin herdsmen in the hills. The idea was that a tough childhood would produce a better man. Worth thinking about.
Maybe we cannot turn the clock back but it still rankles me that entire peoples were wiped out just because some technologically better-equipped people thought that they were no better than varmint.
I am very sure that the perpetrators will pay for their crimes, somehow, somewhere, sometime.
A couple of outbursts from
Hallelujah Lovelight
Tread lightly for love is in the air.