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Recieved: 2000/12/27 15:10
Subject: Re: [K-list] Heritage poll note
From: Sylbar
On 2000/12/27 15:10, Sylbar posted thus to the K-list:
> Hudson Jackson II wrote
> I first of all hope everyone had a happy holiday season. The new millenium
> is coming right around the corner, I see, so I'm all psyched for that.
>
> Second, after hearing anecdotes from family members, and I hope I heard it
> correctly too. . . there's a Cherokee in my family, probably four or five
> generations back. I hope a recount in the poll wasn't necessary. hehehe.
> ;-)
interesting... I have also since found out about an aboriginal ancestor
6 generations back- in the late 1700s soon after white settlement.
[ Australia]
>
> I'm not really surprised with the statistic there. I'll bet, however, that
> there's probably more out there than we would think. Especially when you
> consider the idea that folks in the U.S. were for quite a time pushed into
> doing what the mainstream considered acceptable, which in many cases
> required a lot of us to walk away from those ancient traditions. Some
> probably went as far as to hide their roots, too.
too true :( I'm surprised that my ancestors were actually married back
then.. It would have been extraordinarily unusual and difficult for a white
man and an aboriginal girl to legally marry. I wonder much how they
lived.... Outcasts? cut off from both realms?
> Fortunately for me, I'm
> getting the truth. So I'm learning quite a bit when I can. As far as those
> traditions go, I'd like to check these out; they may help me out as far as
> spiritual development goes.
Yes.. I wonder... I went away for a weekend in the country some years ago.
[I was much in avoidance then.. he he!] I went to see a place called the
Blowhole. I went across a ridge and was coming down the other side ... an
increasing sense of the air becoming 'live'... a warning not to proceed any
further... then I felt a spear hit me in the back, between the shoulder
blades... and I knew that others around me were killed..and higher on the
ridge.. I saw figures as shadows from behind the trees...alarmed..trying to
stop something very terrible happening. I just froze still.. I had no right
to... sacred... outrage urgency..and then it was if I was recognised... that
they had been mistaken about me... and that I was one who was known to them.
I don't know why.. I did try to make it very clear that I meant no harm to
them, respected their wishes and would not intrude.... perhaps an ancestral
link though?
I went to the local historical society to find out what had happened there.
Very little was known but I did find out that there were aboriginal sites in
the area and that the gold rush decimated them. The relevant bit was that
the blowhole was caused by miners using explosives to cut through the ridge.
They had changed the course of the river there. [The river is sacred to our
indigenous people...so no wonder]
I hope everyone will forgive this.. for so much of my life I tried to avoid
seeing these things which I saw anyway.. so desperately wanted not to have
to see - to be 'normal'.. avoidance.. avoidance :)
Still sifting through..
much love to all,
:)
Sylvia
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