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AMMA,AMMA,AMMA,AMMA,AMMA,AMMA,AMMA,AMMA,AMMA,AMMA............

 

Ammachi: nierika: Sun, 26 Oct 2008 14:37:35

-0400 Re: to Temba about the forgotten ones

 

 

 

 

Dearest brother Temba,My heart too has been very heavy for a long time because

of how our ancestors chose to use and abuse the indigenous peoples and the very

land. I am part Cherokee, and of course, White. Yet, I may also have some black

blood because my great great and great grandparents owned slaves. I remember how

shocked I was when I learned of this. I also remember being taken out the back

porch to look across the field to the stand of trees in the distance. This was,

I was told, a " slave ditch, " where the black people fleeing slavery would hide

in their journey on the underground railroad. I was horrified, yet I could not

tell anyone my feelings. I was happy they had a place to hide on their escape

route. I remember going to church there, in Tidewater Virginia, and it was

before the Civil Rights Era, so the black people had to sit in the balcony, as

far away from the whites as possible. This hurt my young heart.Dear brother, you

have done so much for so many; you yourself have likely been the target or

subject of racism, and it isn't just racism. A lot of what " looks like " racism

is really or is also classism. The upper and middle classes not accepting those

who were and are lower on the economic rung. I should beg your forgiveness for

what my family did. But Temba, please, please do not take this pain on. You can

in gather so many people to help in whatever ways may be possible, and you do so

much. Please keep your strength in Amma. If you make yourself part of the cause,

it may be harder to be part of the solution because your grief, perhaps, might

get in your way. I say this as someone who has strongly felt this grief. When my

mother took me to a new high school to look it over, the Principal apologized to

her because there were so many blacks. I was shocked. Why would he do such a

thing. But in the area where I lived, there were only whites in the schools.

When I was very little I found someone to play with in my (paternal)

grandparent's neighborhood. We had such a good time; I was so happy that I came

home and told my grandmother and my aunt about it. Then I was really in trouble,

getting yelled at, and even the next day, my aunt saying what would be the all

to familiar punch line, " Well, if you love them so much, why don't you marry

one? " !!!!!!!! I was just a child. I didn't understand. I don't know how I

escaped having the racist attitudes of my family passed down to me; I never

identified at all with what they said and did, but only continued to feel

shocked, horrified, and then as I grew older, very sad for them ... to be

trapped in these vicious untruths. And these were people, please understand, who

were Christian and who were very serious about their religion.To me it just

never made sense.During my working years, in my own way I did what I could. In

one peace group I worked for, I helped create a multicultural info/action " kit "

for teachers to use with school children. Later as I began to get more into my

Native American roots, I created something called the " Earth Blessing Ceremony. "

This was very much experiential, not just me getting up in front of a group and

singing, but instead getting the group in a circle and having them directly

participate in all aspects, from saging the group to singing the chants. I was

very blessed to be able to do this in a variety of settings with a variety of

age groups, from small children to adults. I have been saddened by the loss of

my voice because I miss this. Yet, even in my art, there is that influence. My

latest work has been 4 " Medicine Sheilds, " each with a different animal. These

are my Animal Totems, but I feel others could identify with them. I still have

two to complete.You are doing good, important work/seva, dear Temba. Please

don't fall on your sword. We all need you. Jai Jai Ma ~ LindaP.S. If there is a

central group or agency that I could donate to I might be able to make a small

contribution periodically that way. To physically help is beyond my means, and

the other thing I can also do is pray. But please understand Temba that your

work is valued; you stand for many of us. Let them know their sister Linda

cares. The link made me very sad, but I saw a lot of this with my own eyes when

I lived in New Mexico. On the one hand the commercialization of Native American

culture by white people for white consumers, and, on the other hand, the

devastating poverty. Temba wrote:dear beloved family and darling children of

AMMA.if there is anyone out there who has a little spare time, an open heart and

would like to serve the poorest community in this nation,please call AMMAs sun

temba @ 641-233-8255.the spiritual masters have said that until the native

american sitution is worked out in this country,lo to this country.it is so sad

to me that this country is the suppossed richest country on the planet ,yet we

have third world poverty right here in good ole n.america and to make it so

sad,it is the indiginous people of this land.the same people that welcomed us

into this country with open hearts and hands are now starving and freezing to

death.only AMMA and those beings with love awareness could look into this dark

situation and bring light to it.if no one can help in a physical sense.can you

all just please help the AWARENESS of this situation increase.that is all i

ask.let people know so their hearts can make the decision in how they can

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