[fish hawk]

Don't get your panties in a bunch folks. Almost every president in the last fifty years has said the same thing. What you need to be worried about is that this one wants to bring your healthcare down to reservation standards. And please try to keep the Indian bashing down to a minimum here. We don't all have casinos, we don't all drink, thousands of us have moved off the rez and have jobs just like you and pay taxes. Most of us have accepted your God and worship Him. Most of us love Old Glory and this great country.

[dsutah]

Right on! Many of them, for a very long time, have also fought for this country right along with non-Indians. Although I’m not Indian myself; there is a lot I can admire in them as a whole, as well as many individually!

I had a few friends that were Indian. One I worked with and some I was in school with, and some who brought their kids to a day-care I worked for! The one I worked with gave me a lot of valuable insights into what it was to be Indian. Not in so many words at once, but what I gleaned in many conversations! We had many similarities.

Both of us were mothers of teens, both close to the same age, both of us had families with drinking or drug problems, both of us had troubles with spouses or boy friends in the past, etc..