Journal entry of a subordinate group member

Journal entry of a subordinate group member

3/7/2009
Today my father is going to take me to visit my grandmother again.   I love it when I get to visit grandma because she always has the best stories to tell me.   Grandma lives on the reservation, and it takes us a long time to drive there.   Grandma says that a reservation is a place where Native Americans live and are able to continue to live the way they did before the Europeans came to America.   I think that we should be able to live and practice our cultural ways everywhere.   I don’t think that it is fair that we were here first and then some other people came and took our land and tried to get us to change the way we live to be more like them.   Grandma says that life isn’t fair and that is something that I am going to have to learn to deal with.   Grandma says that I will experience many injustices in my life time and that they are only to test my character as a person.   Sometimes I don’t understand the things that grandma says to me but she says that one day I will.
Grandma says that I need to know all about my heritage and where my people came from so that one day I can tell my children stories about their heritage.   She says that every one should know where they came from and that story telling is the best way to teach history to children.   Grandma said that our ancestors got to America by crossing a land bridge from Asia a long, long time ago.   I didn’t know there was a land bridge but that’s what grandma says.   Grandma tells me many stories about Sioux history and Native American history.   She says that when the Europeans came to America there were about 900,000 people living in America with over 300 languages but now we are a minority.   There was a lot of resistance from Native Americans when the Europeans tried to take over.   They established their own government here and started building cities and taking our land.   Grandma said that there were treaties between the new government and the Native Americans about land and peace but that...