Who are the Wannabes

[soopashinaab]

Does that make me Zeke's big brother?? LOL

[kgirl7]

I don't think this should turn into an east coast tribe vs plains tribe thing though...

[soopashinaab]

I don't think this should turn into an east coast tribe vs plains tribe thing though...

No it shouldn't...

[wanjica_the_one]

No it shouldn't...

I agree it shouldn't but I wonder if Mikilipipukequke would agree? She may be out there steaming with anger.

[soopashinaab]

I agree it shouldn't but I wonder if Mikilipipukequke would agree? She may be out there steaming with anger.

Yeah I seemed to have ruffled her feathers! Funny thing is I was trying to be funny, someone needs to lighten up a little. Last time I looked I didn't name a specific tribe or anything, and do some research before she tells me about the Ojibwe people. Oh well...

[Zeke]

Does that make me Zeke's big brother?? LOL

Looked at in that way, it would appear so!

[Mikjikjpipuqwes-skw]

Non of you ruffled my fathers cause I know who I am and who my people and ancestors are and I have my people and family history straight, plus I have a large knowledge on other tribes history and do not sit in judgment on this here powwows.com to pone and joke with people.
It's not a east vs the others but I heard often enough that the tribes out east are wannabes and the rest of you are it and did the fightin, again, we did the fightin before you, you did the fightin after us and in the end what did we all get out of it???? a broken-down race that has succumbed to treachery and the fight still goes on everyday.
This is why I don't frequent this site much, cause, first you'll get my name right Mikjikj Pipuqwes (wanjica_the_one Mikilipipukequke), cause I don't poke jks on anyone avatar names or given names.
Second, being here is not my pastime like it is for some of you, n'mi'jan mijisit tela'kittu-piksa'q nuji aq nuqwe'k kijjimij!!!!!!!

[wyo_rose]

Yeah, we can see who you are by your hateful words that no self respecting elder would ever say. Too late to say that you don't sit in judgement of people here on pws.com. We all saw your first post here.

As Forum Admin, I'm leaving it up to show the stereotypical ignorance of some people that is all too prevalent.

[Zeke]

Non of you ruffled my fathers cause I know who I am and who my people and ancestors are and I have my people and family history straight, plus I have a large knowledge on other tribes history and do not sit in judgment on this here powwows.com to pone and joke with people.

Meh.

I'm unimpressed. At the moment, you're just my current example of:

1. Age doesn't make you smart.
2. Claiming "elder" status is always the first move by someone whose argument has no definitive merit.

You see, if an argument has truth, efficacy, logic, validity, soundness, can withstand scrutiny and holds up over time?

It stands on its own.

Saying "I'm an elder so it must be true," is invalid in TWO areas, is the opposite of an ad hominem, and is a crutch of the weak minded.

[MtnLiving]

Wannabees can be filtered out by the following questions. What nation claims you? Who are your elders? Who is your family?

Very simple questions that wannababees can't answer.

Aray....ignore this.

Living in Montana, I know plenty of indians who don't have enough of one tribe to qualify for enrollment in any tribe but are definently still indian. Some of them don't "speak to elders", does that make them bad indians? .....Indians don't always fit into a nice perfect mold either. None of that makes these indians any less indian, kwim?

I know a black gentleman that can't stand rap or even R&B...does that make him less black? I am best friends with a lady that weighs over 400 lbs and dresses like she weighs 150....does that make her skinny?

See my point?

[MtnLiving]

WOW!!!Kgirl7 you said a mouthful there, great advice to give ARay!!!
@ ARay, haven't you noticed that the only things you are getting here are insults from skins that haven't a damn thing to do with their life but mess up here insulting people cause they are a failure of human beings, living off tribal welfare in their shacks for a home on a broken-down rez for generation that made them this way, and internet in the day and the rez bar the night is the only pastime they have???
Didn't soopashinaab, an Ojib, which it's a very well known fact that 99.9% of their blood is mixed with some other kind of race in the past to survive the N.A. holocaust, has the audacity to write, "I thought the Wannabes were a tribe from out East???"
So ARay, she, him, whatever, has passed sentence on you since the Haliwa-Saponi is a eastern tribe.
I have some wonderful friends Haliwa-Saponi, so, as Kgirl7 said, do the legwork do not waste your time on here I rarely come on this site, and yet when I signed up I thought it was a good thing but I soon realized that there are some Injun trolls on here that only know how to spit venom, it's their past time since they haven't a damned thing to do all day than drink and feed their babies of unknown fathers and see where they can get the next one.
I'm a bit offended by the, "I thought the Wannabes were a tribe from out East???" I'm a 62 year old elder of the Mi'kmaq First Nation, an eastern tribe and I do not see my self nor my people as wannabes, is that understood!!!!!!!
75% or more N.A.s starting from the Caribbean sea across USA way up the north pole are mixed with some other race, even the ones that "claim" 100% blood are mixed between tribes, and if they look skin deep there is some European in them.
So, according to this good for nothing trolls, the only real N.A.s are from central plains going west???
Just remember that the east coast has been the one that took the worst beating first from colonization!!!!
ARay, you need to listen to your gmom, family and aunties that are in your culture the Haliwa-Saponi pow-wow is a good place to collect knowledge on who you are and who your people are and take it from there cause from these scum you wont get other than laughs and insults, they are here for that and maybe the WANNBES are them!!!!
I rest my case.
I'm sorry Paul G. it needed done!!!!

I can fully understand the need to put a few of the hostiles on this board in their place but DAYUM! The whole living off tribal welfare in their shacks for a home on a broken-down rez for generation that made them this way, and internet in the day and the rez bar the night is the only pastime they have??? is really insulting to all indians especially since the poor living conditions and the rez life were forced on them.

Sorry dude, 62 years old or not, you deserve a red bead and you got one from me.

[wanjica_the_one]

Aray....ignore this.

Living in Montana, I know plenty of indians who don't have enough of one tribe to qualify for enrollment in any tribe but are definently still indian. Some of them don't "speak to elders", does that make them bad indians? .....Indians don't always fit into a nice perfect mold either. None of that makes these indians any less indian, kwim?

I know a black gentleman that can't stand rap or even R&B...does that make him less black? I am best friends with a lady that weighs over 400 lbs and dresses like she weighs 150....does that make her skinny?

See my point?

You have no point. You have no background and you have no clue.

[yaahl]

For someone who sets out that she doesn't hang out much on the net ..82 entries with your name pop up including a site that is frequented by the French lady who charges for her dancing exhibits.

I lived in Nova Scotia for almost 20 years on and off and the Mi'kmaq people that I knew there were kind and gentle souls. Yes, there was some clashes with the mainlanders and the islanders but for the most part only a few cranky people surfaced.

So if I called some of my old buddies, the Keptins, would they really know who you are? I have worked with the council of elders out there and I don't recall seeing your name anywhere on the list. I've gone into every penitentiary out there with the elders and I don't recall you being mentioned. I don't recall you being around for the Marshall Commissions or the Residential School healing circles. The elders I know and have worked with in the Maritimes who are Mi'kmaq and Maliseet are all committed to their communities and work themselves into the ground trying to keep the kids from killing themselves and each other. When we were setting out the curriculum for the Indigenous Law program, I don't remember seeing you there. Did you only become an elder when you left the Maritimes?

You want to talk about shacks? The entire maritimes is riddled with them, some of the poorest people in Canada live there, your people are not immune to rez poverty, unemployment and despair... yet you sell your wares all over the internet and claim you are an elder and then deem yourself the one to inform others that their people are damaged and that somehow you have escaped that damage. I guess you have forgotten just how long that road to Rexton really is.

Zeke is correct in his statement that just because you are old, does not make you smart or correct in your world view.

[Zeke]

You have no point. You have no background and you have no clue.

Sorry.

There's not even CLOSE to enough data to accept that as true.

[wanjica_the_one]

Sorry.

There's not even CLOSE to enough data to accept that as true.

I guess I need to do a background check on Mtnliving.