Pros And Cons Of Being Native American

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When you think about a Native American what comes to your mind? Being Native American is harder than you think. We don’t get everything handed to us like you expect. Everyone assumes that Swinomish gets everything just because we have Brian Cladoosby as our Chairman. Also, Brian is not the man you think he is. Yeah it looks like he’s the kind and loving Chairman of our community but it's the total opposite. When Brian said he was going to make our community better we never see him at our community dinners. He probably one been to 1 the past 2 years and we have one every month. It’s sad because he is going to be our chairman once again, no one notices because when someone stands up to him all he does is give people money to keep their mouth …show more content…

She served on the school board for 7 years. I come from a loving and caring family but no one notices that pain changes people. It's not easy you have to go thru the pain every day and cry every night, you try to be strong but every little thing you just brings all the memories and pain back.. From the teaching I have been taught we are never allowed to cry past 3 o’clock and every time you cry you go up to the mountains and wash all the pain away. After you lose someone close you take all the pictures down and put them all away for one whole year because if you don’t you will lose another close one. I never believed in it but I have seen it happen. My elders always told us if you don’t follow our teaching the stick indians will come after you and bother you until you fix your problems. Once stuff start falling in your house those elders won’t leave until you either get brushed off or get your house cleaned out. Death is the worst thing a community can go thru, Swin just recently lost a loved one she helped in any way she could it was not easy seeing everyone shed their tears but we always know they will always be watching over us and protecting us in any way they can. My uncle Tedo always says after losing a loved one your family will be blessed with a newborn and I’ve seen it happen because it has happened with both sides of my family many times it recently happened with my Auntie Holly after she lost her brother she ended up finding out she was pregnant 2 months later and my cousin Sammie after she lost her mom 3 months later she found out she was going to have a baby also. It also happened with my sister Siomi, after we lost our papa Todd 9 months after his death I was blessed with my handsome nephew named Greyson Anthony

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