UPDATE 2: Thanks so much goes out to our Rescue Rangers for rescuing this diary! This is only my second entry, and to make it this far is very inspiring! WOOF's to you all!
I am part Native American. Although the blood in me is thin and the ancestry is long, the few drops of Seminole burn in my veins. I feel the warrior in me come alive. I feel that I should don my feathers and my war shirt and sharpen my spear, for the battle to reclaim what is ours rages on.
Many Native Americans live in hideous poverty. Indians on the Pine Ridge Reservation live at the lowest level of poverty found in the United States. Unemployment is as high as 45%. Children run around barefoot, wearing clothes so worn out that their mothers are afraid to wash them because they may fall apart, then the kids would have nothing to wear at all.
My warrior soul weeps for my spirit brothers.
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