Idle my paddle!

It has been awhile since i have posted any provoking thoughts or rant lately! However, the year is 2013 and we are still facing the same problems and  continue to deal with solutions, to our Native problems from a Euro-American/Compartmentalized cultural frame of mind! I watch Facebook postings and I get the fact that we all have things, issues, problems and struggles however, i have many concerns if you are an individual that is taking the crayons and making a bigger mess.
    Since one of my last posts, i lost my job at the Nay Ah shing school on the Mille lacs reservation. I have a big mouth and speak my mind.There were numerous times I would stand up for the Elders and their teaching principals  I would take their concerns and voice them to the White principal and white staff. Of course, i was never taken seriously because that is the way of the education system; that if you do not hold an important decision making position in life, you are a useless, non participating, no team player. But i never gave in or gave up. Never did I ever sell my or my family short, i confronted the beast and machine and when the beast came to eliminate me, my Native Peoples and elders were nowhere to be found, to make matters worse they turned on me and should have said " Why are you making problems for that White lady and white people?"
     Native Spirituality and Wisdom are in new times. The new times are that most of the educated people who maintain their licenses, masters and Ph. D degrees are the new medicine women and medicine men.This could be one of many reasons why the Youth of today are less interested in the Disciplines and workings of becoming true-OLD SCHOOL leaders. Because by the time their community realizes that they have healing properties and ways, the  frame of mind tends to be like the workings and programming of the Military. Most people and individuals have to be deprogrammed and than reprogrammed to make sure that they are going to be strong, healthy leaders. But, we as First Nations communities are missing these principals because they are like the elephant in the living room, the ideas and principals of mind control are so obvious that we all look past the individuals frame of thoughts and where the mind set sits.THIS IS NORMAL and its a normal response to Historical trauma. I always wonder why Native peoples do not help themselves but are quick to jump on the band wagon of Idle no more.
      Now back to MS. Paul SIMON, who was and continues to be the Principal at the Nayahshing schools on the Mille Lacs Reservation. MS. Simon is your typical Euro-American person who says she is concerned about Native Traditions and concerns. She has typical responses of most Non aboriginal peoples, like "follow the chain of command, bring it up to your supervisor, I will look into the problem, ELDERS DO NOT SELL THEIR PRESCRIPTION PILLS." Excuse me what? Most of Ms. Simons Non-native teaching staff are all one click or a unified decision making body and they are the only team when it comes to their agendas and work load! They cannot or ever will admit that they are not "team" players or that they isolate themselves from the Aboriginal children and families.Okay fine!Go and drink your alcohol and talk about your mortgages and tax saving ventures because Natives do not need people like you!!!!Most, if not all of the teaching staff live off the reservation or do not live in the local community. So how can they say, "we all know what you feel, we all know what you are dealing with, WE WANT TO HELP! No wonder why many Native Children are so confused and cheated. We allow these people to come to our communities and lie, cheat and steal from us THROUGH OUR CHILDREN!!!!
       When you cross people like MS. Simon, you will notice that MS SIMONS compartmentalized mind takes over and she whips out her trump card and crushes your family. She crushes your Native Spirituality and she crushes the Love for your people! All without ever feeling remorse, blinking or hesitating! I have been saying this about Foxy and White Foxy. We as First Nations people  will always deal with the Fort/Colonized attitudes and beliefs and we have to take steps farther and much more faster and continue to deny the Fort peoples ways, which means eating less of their food, excepting less of their devious ways in the form of Alcohol, drugs and certain technological norms. We need to replace much of the Fort peoples common working attitudes, which is alive and active in all of our communities  We also need to except less of their working environments, which is to say, we need to teach our children to be outside at all times and to be productive outside. Our people have become weakened by the Fort peoples way of life and our elders tend to die much more younger now a days. We need to walk more and say no to diabetes. We need to be in shape in all traditional elements of our lives before we can take to the streets!
     Lets say that when I lost my job, many feelings and thoughts came to my mind in the form of good and bad. I wanted to pray against the Drum peoples of the local community, I wanted to pray against Ms. Simon, I wanted to hate, hate-hate and for what. SO I TOOK DEEP BREATHS AND TRIED TO GAIN MY COMPOSURE. FOR SURE I WAS BEING TESTED AND LOOKED UPON BY THE MOTHER EARTH AND THE SPIRITS TO SEE HOW I WOULD HANDLE MY NEW LIFE CHANGING EXPERIENCE.
Guess what, I think I passed. I did not pray against the things that i felt in my mind, but i was able to work through my issues by possessing the faith that my Grandfathers and Grand mothers had relayed to me in the form of ceremonies and love.