I just returned from the United Tribes International Pow Wow in Bismarck, ND. This will be the second time I have attended. It is fascinating! I experience a people's pride in their heritage and culture.
There was a time when this was not understood. This was heathen and evil. I say no. It was judged by someone who could not open their mind to something that was not their way of thinking. Or their experience with someone in that culture was not a good one. Their are good and bad individuals in every culture. It not not specific.
How many cultures have been down-trodden or destroyed because of bias. Have we missed seeing the beauty of their ways? I really am disappointed the way religion and strong armed their way into other cultures. Religion has destroyed beauty, all because they feel the have the correct way of doing things. It is so closed minded that it is frightening.
I believe in a deity greater than myself. I don't believe in a deity that destroys. I believe in a deity that evolves all people into a greater understanding.
