Date Posted:17:08:30 08/28/09 Fri Author:Da'he'tih'hi Subject: With all due respect......regarding current pet peeve
After reading the pet peeve of John Two-Hawks, with all due respect most surely, I sometimes wonder if we have become too touchy in regards to such "things".
There is ignorance of most people of the Indian ways and beliefs and such practices of "dressing up a child" as an Indian I'm sure is not meant to offend. I ask if we don't look too deep sometimes into reading things. Does this parent purposely dress this child as an Indian to insult the Indian race. Surely not.
I think as children, at least in my childhood, we felt honored in doing such. We did not know the meaning of the feathers, or the face paints or the clothing, but we did know and were aware even as children that the Indian hold their heads high and are a proud people as all should be. How could a child not want to emulate that?
Maybe kids feel it's just cool to hold the bow and arrow, wave a tomahawk, but I wonder, after a visit to Cherokee N. Carolina, why it is that the Indian sells these wares in tourist town stores that are owned and operated by the Cherokee people? Is that not an act of condoning the very thing that some see as an insult?
I respect the opinions of others and John Two-Hawks, but maybe there would not be so much troubles in this world, this Mother Earth, if people would stop looking too deep into innocent actions.
My opinion only and as stated, I mean no disrespect and am not attacking anyone or their opinions. Open dialogue is good for the soul.......yes?
