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In order to
correctly help you understand an answer to your question, let us first dive
into a
(Watered down
tribes)!
O.K?
Wannabe Leaders!
From an earlier
post.
Wannabe Tribe
There
were no leaders and this is why.
At the beginning of
first contact, a time of contact from outside of our area by non-native people
and tribes from other areas.
The Dutch and French
trappers and the Spanish conquistadors devastated
the tribes up and down the east coast with their disease, treatment of the
women and their weapons.
And then along came
the English and then the government!
So hundreds of these
tribes up and down the east-coast and west to the Mississippi River, were
forced to keep their culture with just a skeleton group of families.
Remember, we were
the ones called Savage!
In the 1940's 50's
and early 60's because our ancestors were able to keep together in a small
group under the radar so to speak, my grandfather, the family and elders from
his meetings would visit these groups of people in their Native American
Villages.
Yes, real Indians
(Native Americans) long before this government disowned them and the Government
Controlled Casino Indians, Shunned (turned their backs) on them!
Because of a lack of
leadership and no longer under a Shechaim or Matriarch Clan Mother
because of what had happened to them in their past, they were desperate to
learn the keeping of their culture and ceremonies and would meet us with open
arms.
Remember that in my
Grandfathers meetings were many elders from all over the New York, New England
area.
In the late 1970's
and 1980's 'Renegade Indians' from west of the Mississippi river, shunned by
their tribes, started showing up in the east trying to teach our people their
ways!
If they could not
make it in their tribes what would make our people think that they could make
it in ours?
Simple, lack of
strong leadership!
The Shechaim, their
Head Clan Mothers and chief's had to go underground, so to speak, to stay
alive.
This meant that it
was next to impossible to openly teach our ways in some splinter tribes.
Also
many Canadian Patriarchy Tribes started coming
down to infiltrate the area.
The area still has a
hand full of those tribes today!
To top this off
along came the Euro-Americans with their Celtic Occult beliefs in the late
1980's and 1990's!
Mind you that none
of this outside corruption means that they no longer have a tribe of good
people, just because their leadership, ceremonies and culture is now polluted.
This is now my
destiny, to keep our Traditional culture, ceremonies and teaching alive for our
and their Descendants.
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