AQUINE (Peace to you)
Welcome to the visitor
to some of my teaching websites and blog postings
looking for information
about the term
wannabe native
Americans
First let me write
about an answer that keeps coming up on search engines when this question is
asked.
"Top answer: a wannabe is someone who wants to be seen as native, but isn't. if you are not a citizen of a native nation then you are not native. it is very simple."
Well Wannabe people, you are wrong!
At no time did American
Natives become citizens of a tribe, their people were not in a nation.
The word citizen is a
European word like the words Nation and
Reservation!
With your way of
thinking Ishi was not a native?
Ishi by the
way was The Last of His Tribe, not the last of his nation!
A wannabe native
American (American Native), like this person I was just writing about,
is not a person without a government card or a
government controlled card holder allowed by non native people told that he/she
is allowed to be called an Indian.
Wannabe native American
people are some people with the blood, no matter how much, that go around
without the traditional knowledge of the ancestors telling people how they feel
a person can be a true American Native.
Again like these people
I was just writing about!
I have met so many of
these card carrying people, fooled by the government into giving up so much of
what their ancestors loved about their culture, ceremonies and land, just to
carry a piece of plastic, you know who you are and shame on you for giving up
on your true traditional elders and your people, if you truly do have native
people!
Second~ A wannabe
native American person is not necessarily a person without American Native
blood, a wannabe native American person is a person without American Native
blood that tries to convince people that he/she is an American Native.
As you may or may not
see while traveling around the internet, some teaching about our people will
not compute with what the elders taught as the truth and many times taught by
non native people or people not from our tribe!