Post by last one in line on Sept 25, 2017 19:17:45 GMT
Im my native culture our position is based on relationships. From our parents, siblings, aunts, uncles, cousins we find our position in life, and in the community. I do recall as a young boy driving down the road and my father pick up a white guy, who I assume my father knew, and we gave him a ride to his house. I never saw race as something divisive, or something that should break relational ties.
Today, I do seem to break almost every stereotype of being Native American. I've been married to my wife for 15 years (just the one wife or as Jim Gaffigan would say "married to my first wife"), I am very involved father to 3 girls (my only kids, with said wife), received my BA in Business from NMSU, MA in Intercultural Studies at George Fox, and work as a Campus Minister. Where I fit the mold is in my worldview or "lifeways." My time perspective is circular (which means im never late), I still live with relationships at the forefront, and long to retain much of what we Native people lost to relocation, assimilation, and attempted annihilation. CRT I think can help bridge the gap in language, concepts and ideologies that separate us, and other natives from sitting at the table of national dialogues, talks on immigration reform, and esp the gap in the white-black binary.
Today, I do seem to break almost every stereotype of being Native American. I've been married to my wife for 15 years (just the one wife or as Jim Gaffigan would say "married to my first wife"), I am very involved father to 3 girls (my only kids, with said wife), received my BA in Business from NMSU, MA in Intercultural Studies at George Fox, and work as a Campus Minister. Where I fit the mold is in my worldview or "lifeways." My time perspective is circular (which means im never late), I still live with relationships at the forefront, and long to retain much of what we Native people lost to relocation, assimilation, and attempted annihilation. CRT I think can help bridge the gap in language, concepts and ideologies that separate us, and other natives from sitting at the table of national dialogues, talks on immigration reform, and esp the gap in the white-black binary.
