Okay so yesterday was Martin Luther King Jr Day. My only question is why do you celebrate him but never celebrate some of my heros. There are alot of Native American heros that should be celebrated for what they did and are still doing to make young Native Americans love who they are. What about Sequoyah and the language that he established for the Cherokees? Or Wilma Mankiller who showed young women not only in her tribe but around the states to go after their dreams? What about the many cheifs of all the tribes who worked to keep their tribes together after many trials and tibulations? I just don't understand why the celebrate a man who did do alot for our country but don't even give a second glance to the people who were here long before his people ever came to America. Banks are closed to observer Columbus day. Believe me he wasn't the greatest man to walk the earth. He thought he had actually reached India when he arrived in the New World and yet we recognize him. You do realize that his first trip wasn't his only trip. He came back again and enslaved many of the people that lived in the islands and in Central America. What do you think of your hero Christopher Columbus now? It is a known fact that he wasn't the first European to set foot on the New World. It is a known fact that the Vickings came and established villages long before he came. Why not celebrate the original people along with all the other "heros" we love so much? I bet if our governement ever really looked at history they would see that the Native Americans did contribute alot to America. I may be a little biased considering I am part Cherokee, but I have to be anymore. To keep my culture alive I have to fight for it. I do know that we have a month but do you realize what month that is. It is November and I wonder why it is November. Our children have to listen in school and on television how great and how wonderful the black sommunity is. What about all the other communities. Have we forgotten that America is a melting pot of many different creeds and cultures. February is Black History Month, why, what happened that was so big that they get a whole month. What is sad is if our government were to have a White History month many people would be up in arms about it. That is what our children are always learning, let them learn something else. Maybe I am prejudice and I am proud of who I am, but to be forced to remember people that really mean nothing to my culture isn't right. Don't forget we are a melting pot and the Latinos and the Blacks aren't the only ones that exist in this country!!!!!!
