bein NDN

[suthernwaterbird]

I know these go in the joke section but I just had to post it here...besides everybodies all serious...CHILL!!! woosa

Indians Forever



You can change it never

For Indians will always ride

Forever......

Being Indian Is...

Being Indian Is......feeding anyone and everyone who comes to your door hungry, with whatever you have.

Being Indian Is......knowing to duck or hide when you see the cops from a mile away, even when you were a kid!

Being Indian Is......being broke all year long because you try to make every Pow Wow, gathering, and ceremony... Being Indian Is......loving frybread and soup.

Being Indian Is.....knowing history started before 1492.

Being Indian Is......full of acronyms that affect your world (BIA, CIB,etc)

Being Indian Is......losing your job after the grant ends.

Being Indian is ......getting to go to a conference because you work for a new grant program.

Being Indian Is.......knowing how to snag and then lie about it.

Being Indian is.......knowing all the quick remedies to get rid of hickies.

Being Indian Is......playing outside, unsupervised on the REZ til 3:00 am.

Being Indian is .......either borrowing or lending money to your NDN brothers and sisters at least once a week.

Being Indian is......having people ask if they can touch your hair or take your picture or how long have your been growing your hair...and so on...

Being Indian is......to be asked constantly if you still live in tee-pees or ride horses every where you go.

Being Indian is......worrying about diabetes.

Being Indian is......knowing why the REZ car in "Smoke Signals" as funny!

Being Indian is.......knowing why in "Smoke Signals," the line "do you have your passports?" is funny!

Being Indian is......knowing how to barter or trade for things you need and things you don't!

Being Indian is.......having more cousins than trees have leaves.

Being Indian is......laughing with your friends so much your facial muscles hurt.

Being Indian is......singing 49 songs using a garbage can for a drum or

remembering the days.

Being Indian is......road trips cross country, back home OR just because!

Being Indian is......knowing your treaty rights, and political JURISDICTIONS!

Being Indian is.......having the strength to move your family at any given moment, and making it.

Being Indian is......reading about your ancestors and relations in an anthropologists paper.

Being Indian is......knowing someone in Pawhuska, Anadarko, San Carolos, Browning, Pine Ridge or Window Rock and hoping to make friends with a dividend Indian from California.

Being Indian is.......losing your job because you're different or think your different

Being Indian is......having a song come to you at the oddest times. A-ho!!!

Being Indian is......celebrating the buffalo hunt, or the ripening of the corn, Indian days or the time of year!

Being Indian is.......not a part time thing.... ALL DAY, EVERY DAY!

Being Indian Is.......PRIDE

Being Indian is.......BEAUTIFUL

Being Indian is.......FOREVER

And If your Not Then the hell with You!!
then for K Kiowas..
1.You can eat kidneys and frybread for breakfast.
2.You point with your lips.
3.You believe that getting the "already sliced" kind of commodity cheese was the best thing that ever happened.
4.You direct deposit you paycheck to the local Wal-mart.
5.Your vehicle always seems to have a coating of fine red dust all over it.
6.You drink coffee before you go to sleep.
7.Your car has more than two dents and a hole in the trunk where the keyhole used to be.
8.You use the expressions like "is it", "ayeee", and "oh-guh"
9.You describe someone as acting "some kinna way."
10.You give all your directions by reference to the "Pache Y."
11.You think that meat is best cooked when it is boiled
12.You have a "boat", but it doesn't belong in the water.
13.You find long lost family members at the Red Carpet Inn buffet line.
14.You go to the Carnegie movies just for the hot dogs You put "ah-tat-hi" on everything you eat.
15.You crave Crown Pilot crackers.
16.You know that when someone is "stink" it doesn't refer to how they smell.
17.When out of state, people ask you to start the 49 songs.
18.You don't look back when driving through "The Gap."
19.You think John Cope is the best "taw-koy" ever bore because of his pre-made dried corn.
20.You hoard number 13 chech cut beads, especially the "periwinkle blue" ones.
21.Your dogs like left over stew, cold frybread, bote, and corn soup better than dog food.
22.You have a relative nick-named after something to eat (e.g. cornbread, chili, biscuit,...)
23.You know that no burger compares to a Meers burger or a Schaferburger.
24.You're always on the lookout for boards, sawhorses and cinderblocks to make an even better tso-sane at your next camp.
25.Your child thinks that "maw-bane" is his Indian name.
26.It's not Christmas until you get your "candy sack" from the local Indian church.
27.You save your best shirt for the "main day"
28.You have a dog with the mange that looks like it is a cross between a hyena and Lassie.
29.You have an auntie that can turn a pile of rations into a 12 course dinner.
30.You're proud of your "commod bod."
31.You prefer to travel down the "Indian road" rather than Highway 9.
32.You know someone who has got stray mescal beans, cut beads, bucksin pieces, and shaw fringes under the mats in there car or down under there sofa cushions.
33.You don't know the real name of at least one relative, having always referred to them by their childhood nickname.
34.You hold out your hand and twist it back and forth to get someone's attention.
35.You know where "Spur, Squaretop, Greg's Corner, and Dirty Shame" are located.
36.You have 450 persons you call "my cousin."
37.Your "off-tribe" friends think that "pah-bee" is someone's first name.
38.You know what the "pizza" song is.
39.You used the word "Bay-gah" at least once today.

[kiowakat]

And If your Not Then the hell with You!!
then for K Kiowas..
1.You can eat kidneys and frybread for breakfast.
2.You point with your lips.
3.You believe that getting the "already sliced" kind of commodity cheese was the best thing that ever happened.
4.You direct deposit you paycheck to the local Wal-mart.
5.Your vehicle always seems to have a coating of fine red dust all over it.
6.You drink coffee before you go to sleep.
7.Your car has more than two dents and a hole in the trunk where the keyhole used to be.
8.You use the expressions like "is it", "ayeee", and "oh-guh"
9.You describe someone as acting "some kinna way."
10.You give all your directions by reference to the "Pache Y."
11.You think that meat is best cooked when it is boiled
12.You have a "boat", but it doesn't belong in the water.
13.You find long lost family members at the Red Carpet Inn buffet line.
14.You go to the Carnegie movies just for the hot dogs You put "ah-tat-hi" on everything you eat.
15.You crave Crown Pilot crackers.
16.You know that when someone is "stink" it doesn't refer to how they smell.
17.When out of state, people ask you to start the 49 songs.
18.You don't look back when driving through "The Gap."
19.You think John Cope is the best "taw-koy" ever bore because of his pre-made dried corn.
20.You hoard number 13 chech cut beads, especially the "periwinkle blue" ones.
21.Your dogs like left over stew, cold frybread, bote, and corn soup better than dog food.
22.You have a relative nick-named after something to eat (e.g. cornbread, chili, biscuit,...)
23.You know that no burger compares to a Meers burger or a Schaferburger.
24.You're always on the lookout for boards, sawhorses and cinderblocks to make an even better tso-sane at your next camp.
25.Your child thinks that "maw-bane" is his Indian name.
26.It's not Christmas until you get your "candy sack" from the local Indian church.
27.You save your best shirt for the "main day"
28.You have a dog with the mange that looks like it is a cross between a hyena and Lassie.
29.You have an auntie that can turn a pile of rations into a 12 course dinner.
30.You're proud of your "commod bod."
31.You prefer to travel down the "Indian road" rather than Highway 9.
32.You know someone who has got stray mescal beans, cut beads, bucksin pieces, and shaw fringes under the mats in there car or down under there sofa cushions.
33.You don't know the real name of at least one relative, having always referred to them by their childhood nickname.
34.You hold out your hand and twist it back and forth to get someone's attention.
35.You know where "Spur, Squaretop, Greg's Corner, and Dirty Shame" are located.
36.You have 450 persons you call "my cousin."
37.Your "off-tribe" friends think that "pah-bee" is someone's first name.
38.You know what the "pizza" song is.
39.You used the word "Bay-gah" at least once today.[/SIZE]

whew that was good! had me laughin and cryin at same time, LMAO.....bay-gah!

[swbreez]

9.You describe someone as acting "some kinna way."

For us it's "somehow"...'he's acting somehow,'...'I feel somehow,'....