From - Sat Sep 06 06:09:12 1997 Received: from ren.globecomm.net (ren.globecomm.net [207.51.48.3]) by mail1.voicenet.com (8.8.6/8.8.5) with ESMTP id CAA11375 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 02:21:23 -0400 (EDT) Received: from dts ([208.8.100.88]) by ren.globecomm.net (8.8.7/8.8.0) with ESMTP id CAA23118 for ; Sat, 6 Sep 1997 02:14:44 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: <3410F4D8.A9CE7307@technologist.com> Date: Fri, 05 Sep 1997 23:14:50 -0700 From: Lakota Web Design Reply-To: lakota@technologist.com X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: peterst@voicenet.com Subject: Monument X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-UIDL: 6f99ee1c1b5c4edb1bb87304ec4a8f6c X-Mozilla-Status: 0001 Content-Length: 3475 RedHeart; I just couldn't resist pointing out something about your monument idea, Don't feel I am criticizing you for I am not, There are many who do not understand why such a monument is not a tribute to those who died but an insult, in fact such an insult has already been committed and by the same man who desecrated are sacred Black hills by carving white presidents into the most sacred spiritual location the Lakota (white people called us "SIOUX" which was a derogatory term used by our enemies the Choctaws who were the favorite scouts of the whites for hunting Lakota) Crazy horse died trying to save the black hills from the whites who were destroying them for the gold, recently (late seventies) a mountain was destroyed to create a monument in the image of Crazy Horse, many do not understand why this is such an insult but it is because we wish Mother earth not be scared further than she already is. My ancestors fought to stop the iron rails that made the earth ugly, the barbed wire that cut their horses, we could have lived with the whites and tried to do so many many times but all they cared about was adding more black smoke to the blue skies and tearing the heart out of the earth so that they could have the gold. I am sorry my friend I do get carried away on this subject I do not wish to lecture you, I would just wish I could send you the lessons I was taught about our ancestors and their beliefs, You see for my people were happy to not have attention drawn to them in the first place only to be allowed to raise their families, hunt when needed, there are many things about the indian that unfortunately have been corrupted by the movies and books written by whites and in many cases written by indians who have traded traditional beliefs for the "Wall street journal" The mountain that was destroyed to create an image of Crazy Horse is as bad as the rubber tomahawks made in Japan or Taiwan and sold by "Indians" in souvenir shops any where within ten miles of a reservation these days. I no longer attend the Sun Dance ceremonies anymore because even this has been sold to white tourist. I was given the name "StormRider" by an "Ogala" holy man named "John Fire-Lamedeer" when I was 14 years old he gave me this name not because I ride a Horse named Storm but because I am so hard headed that even at 14 I would not come in out of the rain from a hunt, I still have this tendency when it comes to the fight to preserve the indians wish to protect Mother Earth from being destroyed further, for this, I will not apologize but I will say I am sorry for carrying on and filling up your e-mail with such a lengthy message :-) StormRider ///////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\ Visit One of my Web Sites Below D.T.S Home Page: This site is dedicated to Indians the all over the world, Please, take a moment to visit. http://www.sisna.com/users/dts Lakota Web Design Home Page: Gotta pay the bills. This is our commercial Site. http://www.teleport.com/~mikwin/lakota Lakota Web Design Specializes in Personal as well as Commercial web site creation with emphasis on unique Design. /////////////////////\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\