{"id":1155,"date":"2014-12-02T09:27:38","date_gmt":"2014-12-02T15:27:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/?p=1155"},"modified":"2014-12-02T09:27:38","modified_gmt":"2014-12-02T15:27:38","slug":"who-are-we","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/02\/who-are-we\/","title":{"rendered":"Who are we?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think many people have a preconceived notion of just what\/who Native Americans are and how they act. \u00a0These brought on by our inaccurate recorded history, movies, books, articles and news stories. \u00a0I have posted two videos here.<\/p>\n<p>One is a news story done by Diane Sawyer did on the Lakota Children of Pine Ridge Indian reservation. \u00a0Although she highlights the issues that face the people of the Lakota, there is an argument of why not let the Lakota tell the story, rather than potentially exploit them through this news story.<\/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\/7yl4bD4l_GQ?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<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Here is a response from the Lakota children. \u00a0This video was done by the children and teachers of Rosebud reservation, a neighboring reservation to Pine Ridge. \u00a0At the time of the video, Rosebud is in the second poorest county in America. \u00a0Only second to the county that Pine Ridge is in.<\/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\/FhribaNXr7A?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<p>For a listing of the most current stats in an accessible format, please\u00a0see:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_lowest-income_counties_in_the_United_States#References\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/List_of_lowest-income_counties_in_the_United_States#References<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think many people have a preconceived notion of just what\/who Native Americans are and how they act. \u00a0These brought on by our inaccurate recorded history, movies, books, articles and news stories. \u00a0I have posted two videos here. One is a news story done by Diane Sawyer did on the Lakota Children of Pine Ridge &#8230; <span class=\"more\"><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.messy-spirituality.com\/wordpress\/2014\/12\/02\/who-are-we\/\">[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":[77,29],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"entry","1":"post","2":"publish","3":"author-admin","4":"post-1155","6":"format-standard","7":"category-acceptance","8":"category-community"},"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p2m6h5-iD","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":1155,"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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