The struggles
of being native and being looked down
I see the problem of
being native and being looked down on as a problem because of how we are looked
at as a people. The reason why I’m saying this is because of how the U.S treat
us even after all they done to us. The government
still see us as savages that are uneducated because of how the native nations
as a whole did not bow to the will of the government when they forced our
elders into boarding school to kill our beliefs. The struggles I see is that
when natives Americans try to get a higher education we are looked down on because
of how the government see us still they believe that we are less of a people then
everyone else.
The struggles I see every day is natives that sit on the Conor asking for
changes just to go lluqior or mouthwash because it has some liquor in it. I see
this every day when I get off at the franklin station and I just be thinking
why are you doing this just go back home because your just showing the U.S that
they are winning when they see this image on many conors of the U.S or in the city’s.
this is a problem in our community that many of us turn in to alcoholic’s cause
many of us grew up looking at our elders doing it or just picked it up just because
it is fire water to us and we get addicted quick and that’s the down fall of
many young native men and women in our nation as a whole. Most of the native people
that start this addiction starts in high school because I have seen it happened
when I first started my freshmen year they was 60 of us in my class by the end
we passed on about 5 from our class and the rest either dropped out or move to
the other city school that was easy to make up credit’s because most of us didn’t
take school that serious.
The reason why I’m saying it the struggle to be a
native/black young man is because of how the government see me and my people
how they affect our community. The way I seen this has been through school because
even when I was 8 my teachers used to look down on me because I wouldn’t give
up my culture because I didn’t want to believe in a white god and to stop
talking my language so they see me as savage that’s what I seen all throughout school
and tell it change that how a lot of students felt when we attended school. The
reason why I’m bring this up is because during a meeting in high school this student
asked why is there an all nation program when they only pass 5-8 students every
year the question to me made a little bit of sense because this was true and
the reason why most of us do leave school is because we can’t understand most
of what they are teaching because most books are filled with lies and the other
half is filled with bullshit.
