Saturday, January 21, 2017
Tuesday, January 17, 2017
Monday, January 2, 2017
THE LARGEST INDAN POPULATION IN THE USA
Largest Indian Population East of the Mississippi
North Carolina has the largest American Indian population east of the Mississippi River and the eighth-largest Indian population in the United States.
As noted by the 2000 U.S. Census, 99,551 American Indians lived in North Carolina, making up 1.24 percent of the population.
This total is for people identifying themselves as American Indian alone.
The number is more than 130,000 when including American Indians in combination with other Indians who are not counted or listed as Indian but have proven 1st-3rd generational indian ancestry.
NC Tribes
Cape Fear Indians
Catawba people
Cheraw
Cherokee
Coharie
Coree
Croatan
Dasamongueponke
Eastern Band of Cherokee Indians
Haliwa-Saponi
Joara
Lumbee
Machapunga
Meherrin
Natchez people
Neusiok
Nottoway people
Occaneechi
Occaneechi Band of the Saponi Nation
Pamlico
Person County Indians
Roanoke tribe
Roanoke-Hatteras tribe
Sappony
Secotan
Shakori
Sissipahaw
Tuscarora people
Waccamaw
Waccamaw Siouan
Wateree people
Waxhaw tribe
The CAPE FEAR INDIANS are still here....We never left our ancient land, never signed treaties, never gave our land away, we never became extinct, we never became a people who don't exist anymore and we never will be nor do any of those things.
(Who are the Cape Fear Indians? Are they a tribe, a confederacy, a group of smaller tribes or villages?)
Does the Cape Fear territory stretch from the coast westward past Waccamaw to Lumbee and Tuscarora territory and South to Pee Dee and Little River SC and northward to Burgaw?
All of these tribes are interconnected to each other.
Colonial and tribal war caused us to retreat to the swamps which connected us and made us family.
We have a rich, fertile, deep and spiritually universal earth balancing history on Turtle Island....most don't know the martial arts part of our history which I’m obviously passionate about.
Our history for survival against colonial occupation IS MARTIAL ARTS HISTORY.
According to critics and people who just don't know what they are talking about, they are saying martial arts didn't exist here on Turtle Island either.
People who are led by ignorance are quick to say, make and create bogus articles, blogs or videos about certain tribes being extinct; some of the same ones saying things like there were no martial arts here.
Wrong, wrong, wrong....We are Proud and alive. My Grandmama said we were always here, my mama said we never left and my aunts & uncles say to keep telling the truth and shame those who love to lie.
Our graveyards and burial mounds in this region (area) of birth say differently then what people are saying about us. They are saying we died off, left, assimilated into other cultures like White and African cultures.
Well that’s true and false…..wouldn’t you like to know the complete truth on this matter.
Who else is more qualified to speak, teach or tell the truth and shame the devil other then the descendants of those you are talking about who assimilated and unassimilated into and out of the White and African cultures.
Why we assimilated, why we lived underground, why we are coming out, the loss of memory for some and blaitent disregard of family who are blood relatives by others, why we are taking a stand, why we are who we are, who we are related to, neighboring tribes who share the same ancestors but have diferent tribal names, (my great great granddad is also your great great grand dad but we are not cousins)...etc, etc, etc.....
Wouldn't you llike to know what our DNA results, genealogy results and blood results say about all us?
We have mountains of papers, (we know how people love paper work), lab results, region of origin, congressional records, recorded historical documents, tribal relatives who are accepted and confirmed by state and federal governments, genealogists, attorneys and academics who know all about us, what we are doing and have their full support.
With the advent of Paper Genocide & the Pen is Mightier then the Sword, paperwork today becomes more important than ever. For example, I've had my genealogy completed by three different sources.
It wasn't cheep but well worth it. I found out that my grandmother had a son named Tecumseh who died at 2yrs old.
My mother had no idea & never knew that grandma had a 4th child....this is valuable information for my aunts, uncles & cousins & it's priceless.
Many court houses throughout the south mysteriously caught on fire, 45 NC counties, the records departments with land deeds, identities of land owners, marriage licenses, etc...
The harm to North Carolina courthouses has a tremendous impact on genealogists in each and every way.
Not only are these types of historic buildings torn from each of our lifetimes, so are the records they stored: marriage, wills, probate, land records, among others.
Once destroyed they’re destroyed permanently. Even though they happen to have been put on microfilm, computers and film burn as well.
The most heartbreaking side of this is that the reason that almost all of our courthouses are destroyed is as a result of arson. However, not all records were lost.
A number of North Carolina counties have endured a loss of records due to courthouse fires, floods, and theft.
The first item is the county name, followed by the date of courthouse destruction, () describes what caused the destruction and if records were destroyed.
https://www.raogk.org/northcarolina-genealogy/nc-counties/
This is why some people don't know about their indigenous roots. If I have any close cousins reading this & you have questions, let me know. If you'd rather not know, that's ok too. Still love you.
Public: Of course we can't share all but we will share enough. Some things are not suppose to be shared publicly and other things are meant to spread like wild fire.
So much to share later from many teachers, lots of interviews to share with you from our area so for now here’s a TINY BIT of martial arts history from the southeast.
Pt 1
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gi-4NB-kPw
Pt 2
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rJ-LQ0WPKnM
Thursday, July 28, 2016
Wednesday, April 6, 2016
LET GO MY EGO
My humble view:
Mans Ego has created, power, control, fear, guilt, class, status, race, material values and hero worship.
All of these attributes are the characteristics of Religion.
So Is Religion bad,....Yes in the hands of one or those led by Ego.
No- in the hands of those who are able to act outside of religious doctrines to do good by people regardless of race, religion, national origin or ethnicity.
EGO is the great Colonizer and Demonizer.
Judaism, Christianity & Islam have all done this at some point in history.
White, Yellow, Red & Black have all done this at some point in history.
If you continue failing to see commonality in the human struggle and continue to be ruled, led and controlled by EGO, it will eventually destroy you (us).
What is ego? I'm not going to define it or debate it, I am going to tell you outright what ego is: ego is the false self we build up from the day we are born. It is a character, or a persona if you will. It is not "real" or "legit" or "authentic"....
Let me explain...
When you are born, you are innocent, trusting, requiring nothing more than love, nurturing, and care. As you grow up, your family, eventually your school and friends and society around you, help you to shape your personality...
Imagine for a moment, that you grew up completely differently than you did. Imagine you were rich, if you grew up poor, or that you were black if you are white or Asian or Latino. Imagine that your childhood was completely different than it was in your memory, and then ask yourself "Would my personality be the same?"...
Of course not. There would be different factors, status-wise, heritage and culturally, societal. You would be a completely different person on the "inside" if your outside circumstances were different than they had been for you...
So now come back to you - who you believe yourself to be. You can probably define yourself in a few words or statements, such as "I am strong" or "I am compassionate" or "I am depressed", right? You can sum up your personality, your persona and character. This is because you have finely tuned, honed and perfected your persona as the years have gone by. You have been told by family and friends "you are so funny!" and so you continue to be funny. Or you were told in school "you have a learning disability" so you continue to perpetuate that disability upon yourself. You may have been told "you are ugly" by someone in the past, and that has sat eating at your confidence for years later...
All of these things, these definitions and labels, are nothing more than collected information of a "past you" which is not real. The past is gone. So should be the "you" who you identified yourself being in that past. Hold on to the memories, for they are part of your whole heritage in this lifetime, however, let yourself be liberated of the stereotypes, labels, and stigmas...
The Spirit - the truth of who you Are, is God. The Universe. Oneness. Essence. Light. Call "it" what you will, but in the grandest scheme of all things - you are the only One of you there is. Beyond your mind. Beyond your identity... ....
When you realize that the ego is nothing more than a collection of responses, insecurities, fears, and doubts, you can then easily shed it, watch it fall away and reveal the true Self. The ego is a character in a play - the true self is the Author...
It is natural to identify with your personality, in fact I was quite attached to mine for a very long time, having an internal struggle of faith based on my fear of letting my identity go. But I eventually realized, I am not letting go any of the beauty I love about "my Self"... rather I am stripping away the false layers of ego (pain) by revealing the truth of Self - One...
Ego will fight to remain as you...
Ego is nothing more than a tool - created at a very early age to help you relate and identify in your human body - conditioned by all around you to behave the way it now does. And when you really grasp within your heart that it is not "real", it will rebel. That is a wonderful thing to move through, because it gives you opportunity after opportunity to re-align your thoughts to those of your truth, and to put ego in it's place - which is nowhere...
Ego is not real. It is a character on stage. Nothing more. Scripted - and scripts can be re-written...
As for the ego of other people - you can not change them. You can only accept that they are letting the character on stage call the shots, and you can love them for being lost in the illusion of the performance, and you can see within them a reflection of yourself...
Because we are all One outside of the ego game...
I hope this is helpful to anyone who is reading it...
By FireWalker
