Proud to be Native.

I'm a happy duck. I feel like, maybe things are looking up. I'm figuring out what I want, and hopefully going to go after it!

Aaah, I'm also happy about other things. My mom & stepdad will be in on Sunday. I'm not going to camp :(, staying here and probably getting a little druk tonight. Pow-wow next weekend! That is something that I am REALLY looking forward to. I know, 2 VERY different things in the same paragraph. I dont walk the "red path" , I'm not completely sober all the time. I'm not your "traditional" native girl. Never have been, maybe when I'm older...

This pow-wow I'm really looking forward to it, cause theres going to be lots of drums, lots of dancers. Lots of GOOD food, I'll be helping to cook feast on the Saturday. Its just going to be, an all around good time. I dont know if I'm going to dance yet, if I take off with my cousin & her friend I probably wont since we'll be partying, but I'd rather stay on the rez then go to Sagamok. If I dont drink then I might dance but probably not in regalia. I still need to finish my regalia, maybe I'll post pics of it when its finished.

I am a proud ojibway woman though, I'm proud of where my people came from and where we are heading. We can do so much good with our knowledge. If we could take the time and really work out the problems with the gov't, 3rd world country settings right here in Canada. It really is sickining, when we could change that! If we could get many voices together, we could do so much, so so so much good. I'm hoping with electing a new AFN Grand Chief and maybe a new NAN Grand Chief that, it brings new voices to the table and rasises even more issues that are going on that those Grand Chief's who are helping our people really do something. We need to wake up, and speak out on the issues that affect the us as a whole.