tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1193206024924903477.post8581880793183790677..comments2024-01-12T18:29:00.527-06:00Comments on Thoughts from Polly's Granddaughter: "Wannabe Hunters" and CredibilityUnknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1193206024924903477.post-24798835172439949332012-05-31T03:09:25.252-05:002012-05-31T03:09:25.252-05:00im NOT a cherokee.....i am taos/pojoaque/nambe pue...im NOT a cherokee.....i am taos/pojoaque/nambe pueblo and some southern ute and chicano.....ever hear of an artist named carolyn grigg? someone tried selling me her art and i looked her up.....she grew up in oregon....and all of her art depicts MY people and plains people with a little bit of northwest indian style mixed in.......i dont know what cherokee art and design looks like nor do i pretend to......but i know what pueblo and plains and nw art looks like..................sadly she is just one of MANYmilehighsalutehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02561830518330816554noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1193206024924903477.post-50820782420587889962011-06-18T07:45:53.706-05:002011-06-18T07:45:53.706-05:00I dont care for fakes and phonies either and have...I dont care for fakes and phonies either and have stood next to community members to fight them. but one of these wannabe hunters called the center in my city and told them I was a fake and ever since I have been getting attacked because of her and by her and her new companions.I Also agree "Honesty is the best policy". I have been told even by a nun i am too honesty . I figured tell the truth and people would respect me for it and help me find my family. I have been honest in my search to everyone to find my birthfather from day one . i am a adoptee looking now for over 25 years I have no family after my adopted family past for some reason i don't understand the rest of the family just stopped talking to me. I was gifted a native flute by a card carrying elder and told i could play to my surprise i can and have. i am very protective about when i play it and what i have been ask to play it for . i have made mistakes but nothing I should be taking all these hits for by these 3 wannabe hunters . I go through enough pain not having a family .this is only part of my story.<br /><br />I took a hit from one wannabe hunter 5 years ago . i was asked by and elder from Lac Courte Oreilles to go on the recent water walk this wannabe hunter popped back up with her two new companions and started to attacked me viciously. i have no hidden agenda except to found my birth father and know my nation and continue to play native flute. that i am told by many elder to keep playing . I am insecure enough already with out these wannabe hunters coming in behind me and telling people stay away from me i hurt enough from the years of searching for roots, culture tradition FAMILY. and yet i am told i am a wannabe a fake a fraud. i not only have no family i am having everything else taken from me because of them slandering me around indian country. <br /><br />I am naive in thinking well if they only knew me they would know that i am not a wannabe if they only talked to these elders who encourage me telling me not to stop playing flute or doing what i am doing.if only ? they told me that the 5 days i walked from 7:00 IN the morning to 6 or 7 at night for the water walk recently meant nothing because i am a wannabe how mean and cruel to say that . I walked with a cane for those 5 days and to be told and then slandered for doing that . do i deserve that i ask. so where do i go now . funny thing is i would take a dysfunctional family over no family people you don't know how lucky you are at least your families would stand behind you . i have no one and am a easy target for these sick twisted people and this sick games they are playing . how sad are they that they have decided that this is what the creator wants them to do . i will pray form them this is what i have learned in the last 25 years of my search even though it hurts me deeply to my core . i think i am doing what they creator wants me too. <br /><br />for whatever it is worth thanks for listening <br />williamwilliamnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1193206024924903477.post-38822516393010033192011-05-22T16:56:56.894-05:002011-05-22T16:56:56.894-05:00I agree, md. Honesty is the best policy.I agree, md. Honesty is the best policy.Twilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17089424926707904002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1193206024924903477.post-10247004663356818072011-05-22T14:46:06.939-05:002011-05-22T14:46:06.939-05:00Wannabes are bad enough! But in many ways Wannabe...Wannabes are bad enough! But in many ways Wannabe hunters are worse! I read some of the line of argument on Facebook and the only thing this person really accomplished is to make a complete fool of herself and she sacrificed her credibility as well. Nobody is going to beleive anything shes says now. Honesty is always the very best policy!Mr. Mikehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02473393029600175769noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1193206024924903477.post-92164264156024907742011-05-20T13:03:35.570-05:002011-05-20T13:03:35.570-05:00Thank you both for the comments. The behavior of t...Thank you both for the comments. The behavior of the "wannabe hunter" is completely unacceptable. <br /><br />Feora, I am very sorry you have experienced something similar from the "wannabe hunter". Hang in there. The truth always has a way of overcoming lies.Twilahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17089424926707904002noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1193206024924903477.post-86067160238776571462011-05-20T11:42:03.031-05:002011-05-20T11:42:03.031-05:00Way to stand up for yourself Twila! I've been ...Way to stand up for yourself Twila! I've been following the postings made by the person mentioned above and it seems like they have absolutely NO interest in telling the truth about what's happened between the two of you. What she does seem interested in, is stalking you on all of the Cherokee pages you visit, and make irrational, dishonost posts about you and your family. You absolutely ARE NOT lying about who your ancestors are. Our families lives in the same Cherokee community, though yours were Cherokee Indian, and mine were once Freedmen. I'm disgusted at the behavior of someone who claims to value her Native heritage...why would you try to distroy someone that you once called a "friend" because you didn't like the wording of a comment? Why e-mail members of her family, and her friends and make nasty comments!? Time is better spent fighting to preserve Cherokee sovereignity, not destroying a fellow Cherokee. Priorities need to be re-aligned!Dvine_Shayhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07120606288741828335noreply@blogger.com