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Question for all you out there who powwow, (mostly for lumbees)
i don't mean for this to be a blanketed statement--it's some individuals as opposed to a majority or collective group
(SOME) people have this attitude of.........
if you don't dance, you're not indian--
what do you all make of that?? i usually want to respond with,
1 do you know anything about your own tribe's history??
2 could you sit down and explain our communities down home and name your families 6,7,8+ generations back??
3 do you realize how many work behind the scenes to make your powwow & other programs/undertakings the successes they are?
there are plenty of lumbees (& others) out there who say these things & it irks me b/c anyone who's halfway intelligent or schooled in the ways of us, knows a powwow is not a lumbee thing---sure, it's a pan-indian gathering now, and that's fine.......i'm not knocking them, i love them myself!!!!!!!
but, whatever happened to knowing where you came from?? +++is that not important anymore?+++++
speaking from my own experience, sometimes it's city lums who are the worst-(not all, plenty know their stuff & have parents who grew up in lumbee communities or maintain those ties-or even may not but still know what it's like)-but, others....they didn't grow up down home (or in a tradish community), rarely visit their homeland (by choice or for some, circumstance,) they know nothing about how our communities function, and then.................................. they want to call US out for not being indian enough when all they've ever experienced is being socialized in a white society--they think a true lum is a locklear, oxendine, or hunt only!! OR someone who speaks lum ebonics--if you go to college & work a decent job you're a sell-out/white (which is ironic when lots of them have a white parent), and then you're also resented if you choose to work with your own indian people (which, believe me , pays nothing)--and it's not the older generations or those who've grown up down home, it's mostly the younger ones-that's not representin' the legacy our ancestors have worked so hard for
frustrating....................................... ............ :explode:
i don't mean for this to be a blanketed statement--it's some individuals as opposed to a majority or collective group
(SOME) people have this attitude of.........
if you don't dance, you're not indian--
what do you all make of that?? i usually want to respond with,
1 do you know anything about your own tribe's history??
2 could you sit down and explain our communities down home and name your families 6,7,8+ generations back??
3 do you realize how many work behind the scenes to make your powwow & other programs/undertakings the successes they are?
there are plenty of lumbees (& others) out there who say these things & it irks me b/c anyone who's halfway intelligent or schooled in the ways of us, knows a powwow is not a lumbee thing---sure, it's a pan-indian gathering now, and that's fine.......i'm not knocking them, i love them myself!!!!!!!
but, whatever happened to knowing where you came from?? +++is that not important anymore?+++++
speaking from my own experience, sometimes it's city lums who are the worst-(not all, plenty know their stuff & have parents who grew up in lumbee communities or maintain those ties-or even may not but still know what it's like)-but, others....they didn't grow up down home (or in a tradish community), rarely visit their homeland (by choice or for some, circumstance,) they know nothing about how our communities function, and then.................................. they want to call US out for not being indian enough when all they've ever experienced is being socialized in a white society--they think a true lum is a locklear, oxendine, or hunt only!! OR someone who speaks lum ebonics--if you go to college & work a decent job you're a sell-out/white (which is ironic when lots of them have a white parent), and then you're also resented if you choose to work with your own indian people (which, believe me , pays nothing)--and it's not the older generations or those who've grown up down home, it's mostly the younger ones-that's not representin' the legacy our ancestors have worked so hard for
frustrating....................................... ............ :explode:
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