{"id":1086,"date":"2014-10-30T16:57:51","date_gmt":"2014-10-30T21:57:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/?p=1086"},"modified":"2014-11-25T10:11:05","modified_gmt":"2014-11-25T16:11:05","slug":"who-are-they-we-neighbor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/30\/who-are-they-we-neighbor\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are They-We are Neighbor?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt;\">During a class about American Genocide, I was presented with an opportunity to reconsider what I knew to what I have heard about Native Americans. \u00a0What is it that we want to hold onto? \u00a0In response to a particular negative report about Native Americans on the Rose Bud Reservation, a group of Native American high school students, took to a silent response of words. \u00a0This intriguing and compelling video gives an alternative and realistic view of who the native people of America see themselves as. \u00a0We are and they are people like us, like them. \u00a0We are and they are our neighbor.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"embed-youtube\" style=\"text-align:center; display: block;\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" class=\"youtube-player\" width=\"700\" height=\"394\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FhribalNXr7A?version=3&#038;rel=1&#038;showsearch=0&#038;showinfo=1&#038;iv_load_policy=1&#038;fs=1&#038;hl=en-US&#038;autohide=2&#038;wmode=transparent\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" style=\"border:0;\" sandbox=\"allow-scripts allow-same-origin allow-popups allow-presentation allow-popups-to-escape-sandbox\"><\/iframe><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a class about American Genocide, I was presented with an opportunity to reconsider what I knew to what I have heard about Native Americans. \u00a0What is it that we want to hold onto? \u00a0In response to a particular negative report about Native Americans on the Rose Bud Reservation, a group of Native American high &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2014\/10\/30\/who-are-they-we-neighbor\/\">[Read more&#8230;]<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"_uf_show_specific_survey":0,"_uf_disable_surveys":false,"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[77,14,52,58,83,53],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-1086","6":"format-standard","7":"category-acceptance","8":"category-love","9":"category-reconciliation","10":"category-response","11":"category-sermon","12":"category-vision"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2m6h5-hw","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":338,"url":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2013\/01\/04\/feeling-stirred-at-pine-ridge\/","url_meta":{"origin":1086,"position":0},"title":"Feeling Stirred at Pine Ridge","author":"Douglas Dill","date":"January 4, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"Yesterday I visited Lakota College on the Rez. 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