I would love to get out and return to my aboriginal homelands, But I am still living in them..It is now a place called Vermont, which is still a part of NdaKinna...That would be Quebec, Maine, New Hampshire Vermont and western Massachusetts...Unfortunately peace between the French and British in the 1800s divided these Homelands with the Canadian Border...
One day I will Rteurn and reside at the Abenaki village of Odanak at Saint Francois Du Lac...and be freed from American Influences...But from what my relations are telling me is that the Canadian/British influences are the same as here..
Maybe we will be granted a considerable piece of aboriginal lands south of the canadian border where our tribal peoples can conduct government and Justices in sovernity...But even with the land grants and United States Federal recognition...the Bureau of Indian affairs and the States Governments would still tell us how to conduct our Spirituality, living styles and Hunting/fishing laws....maybe we will not be granted lands, nor even our rights to the acestral burial grounds, as putting up houses in the forests of old are way more important for the rich and powerful to do, then to Just leave these grounds as they have stood for 100s of years...
I certainly need to use the lands to keep my family afloat, like taking the meats from the Game animals and the flesh from the fish at will as needed...Not when the government says I should..I still can not live in these manners, as I have miserably failed to understand these ways...and will probably never understand it..and for that failure to understand, My family will live in poverty, without, and in many hardships to come...But In the creator I trust we will survive and not be seperated as my grandparents before me...These children were taken from them, and put into orphanages..Due to their inability to understand these American ways...That and that in itself are my biggest fears that Haunt me each morning I arise...and come to the sleeping Mat each night I close my eyes in rest...
Anyways I still have my crafts, Fulltime Job status, and a family to keep me occupied during these times of great disgust....
I continue to feel the trials and tribulations of those who were pushed out from home and genocidically cleansed...Now it is only in manners other than diseases and settlement pressures from the british who pressured us to sell out our home, and the Americans who Just took it ...
either way..Greed in this country is still the deciding factor..at whatever costs is necessary..
This post is not pointing anyone out in particular..It is only in reponse to your solution...Of get out, Fast..
so now I ask you where do I go...Maybe to my homelands???
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