LOL. How bout , how native is your white world?

[Blackbear]

So what I'm saying is technological changes, I accept. Family changes, I don't.

I really don't have a white world. Just modern conveniences.

Very well put!

[Kiwehnzii]

My white world is pretty white. I got this computer, innit?

I liked it simple tho. It was good.

It still is good. My grandaughter uses my computer. she's almost five. She looks cute sitting there looking at the screen, very intent on her games that I installed for her.

But..................... I don't like change when it comes to culture, ceremonies, attitudes of the kids. Even our own children around here look at us funny and with smart alec remarks about our old ways. Complete lack of respect coming from the baggy pants generation. Heck, I even had the skin-tight pants of our generation but I didn't show that disrespect that is evident now. That's the change that I don't like.
Who's to blame for that? yeah, you guessed it. It's the parents letting their kids get away with too much. Traditional child rearing has to return to the time when the parents raised their children without government interference. Laws don't permit the occasional spanking. So, so stupid.

So what I'm saying is technological changes, I accept. Family changes, I don't.

I really don't have a white world. Just modern conveniences.

[matomani]

I like what technology has done for us, native or not, its part of a evolution i think...whether it be coming from a food-gatherers society to high tech x box 360 and mtv generation, but i know there is some things that bother me. we're losing our language, loss of respect, we dont call each other by our kinship names nor do the younger generation live the lakota (or any native tradition) way of life anymore. some many of younger kids are adopting other values...gangs and black culture dominating todays morals and values. what happened to wood cutting and burning cedar on the woodstove before dawn or outhouses and sweats and ceremonies. sitting around listening to elders share coffee and talk lakota. im glad that i am fortunate to have technology to make my life easier but i just hope i dot have to sacrafice anything else. my world was native enough...but i think about it and woodstoves, plows, wagons were all part of the technoliogical age back in the early 20th century. so it doesnt really matter. we can no longer go back to huntiing buffalo. money is our new buffalo we need it to survive. some just have more than others. anyways just throwing in my two beads lol...have a good one natives...

[nativechiqui]

Interesting point blackbear.

[Blackbear]

Do we have to live like we did pre contact to be living native? I mean does it make me less a native to have an indoor bathroom and a push button cordless phone or a microwave? Can I live with indoor plumbing and still grow a three sisters garden? Can I wear clothes made of cotton and polyester and still burn tobacco or speak my language? Can I wear tennis shoes and own an MP3 player and still sing the songs of my people? What if some of our modern conveniences were made by natives and we knew that for sure? Would this question still arise?

[**jdazmum**]

The question of the millenium is "how native is your white world?" I saw the other thread and thought about how we embraced our society into the new high-tech world. I'd have to say, in 1976, my native world was the beginning of new age Indians. Computers came along and swept us off our feet. We don't even drink out buckets from the well, 10 miles from the mountains anymore......it's sweetened and bottled. Every Indian child will have cell phones soon if they don't have any now. Everything is fast-paced and supersized. Convenience is everything and wagon-pulled is so stone age. So, how native is your white world????