These are children and they are learned behaviors. They honestly didn't know what they were doing and if it was wrong or not. I wouldn't say hate, but rather there's a history of injustice towards them and I was the closest thing related to it. It obviously wasn't my fault, but missionaries and government officials came in and stole children from them, sent them to schools and moved them off their native lands. I would say there's a lot of resentment about that level of interference and disruption to their lives. I didn't understand it as a child, but I understand it now.
They didn't hate us per se, their parents and their grandparents destested what we represented as 'Whites' or non Navajo. We were not of the People. They were not pleasant to the Hopi or Zuni kids either as there is a long standing rivalry there. Even as "Indian" as I could look when I tanned in the summer (I'm actually French Canadian) I still had to literally throw my weight around to stop the bullying. I always thought it was odd how such a 'pacifist Matriarchal society' was so bigoted.
I love listening to you talk. I miss your voice.
I cant believe the injustice in how you were treated by being white in an Indian world. Did they hate us?
These are children and they are learned behaviors. They honestly didn't know what they were doing and if it was wrong or not. I wouldn't say hate, but rather there's a history of injustice towards them and I was the closest thing related to it. It obviously wasn't my fault, but missionaries and government officials came in and stole children from them, sent them to schools and moved them off their native lands. I would say there's a lot of resentment about that level of interference and disruption to their lives. I didn't understand it as a child, but I understand it now.
It makes me sad. Even today in society. We need to find a way of living where we get along with each other:(
They didn't hate us per se, their parents and their grandparents destested what we represented as 'Whites' or non Navajo. We were not of the People. They were not pleasant to the Hopi or Zuni kids either as there is a long standing rivalry there. Even as "Indian" as I could look when I tanned in the summer (I'm actually French Canadian) I still had to literally throw my weight around to stop the bullying. I always thought it was odd how such a 'pacifist Matriarchal society' was so bigoted.
I love your writing style. That was fantastic. Your stories are always a mind traveling experience!