The Power of Cherokee Women - Warrior Nation2024-03-28T10:07:44Zhttps://warriornation.ning.com/forum/topics/the-power-of-cherokee-women?groupUrl=nativeamericanwoman&feed=yes&xn_auth=notag:warriornation.ning.com,2019-02-25:6193495:Comment:5966962019-02-25T15:13:54.358ZSharikeehttps://warriornation.ning.com/profile/Sharikee
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1200818975?profile=original" target="_blank"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1200818975?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1200818975?profile=original" target="_blank"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/1200818975?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p> Sadly the white mentality of…tag:warriornation.ning.com,2015-12-22:6193495:Comment:4522562015-12-22T23:13:44.030ZTsoi Tawodihttps://warriornation.ning.com/profile/TsoiTawodi
<p>Sadly the white mentality of being superior to women has also fashioned their mentality to our Earth Mother whom they now see as a woman to not be honored, but a woman to be conquered and brought into submission. The great white male has held dominance over women from the landing of the pilgrims and their abuse of their women , the subjugation of these women has been their way of dealing with our Earth Mother. These all wise 'men' began to boast their superiority over the natural world and…</p>
<p>Sadly the white mentality of being superior to women has also fashioned their mentality to our Earth Mother whom they now see as a woman to not be honored, but a woman to be conquered and brought into submission. The great white male has held dominance over women from the landing of the pilgrims and their abuse of their women , the subjugation of these women has been their way of dealing with our Earth Mother. These all wise 'men' began to boast their superiority over the natural world and they saw nature as not something to get along with as did the Native people but rather a piece of ownership. The took Earth Mother's face and cut it into sections, fencing her skin, cutting her open and pouring their poisons into her abdomen and creating cancers on her very skin. This is the approach of this mentality to this day when the People have ways to heal they will not listen because there is no money in 'healing' and as industrialized societies tend to place men above women still...so it is with their mother...this one who gives them all they need to live and continue, yet like an child who is obnoxious...so they treat their wives and our Earth Mother...<br/> Here is some food for thought....I wrote this some years ago...</p>
<p>There is a Woman....</p>
<p>A most beautiful woman<br/> None exists like her<br/>
Elegant<br/>
Proud yet giving</p>
<p>Her breath is refreshing<br/> Skin so soft and yet firm<br/>
Hands gentle and rough<br/>
A woman of perfection</p>
<p>Provider of warmth when needed<br/> Coolness for balance<br/>
Water for those thirsty<br/>
Food for the hungry</p>
<p>A mother she is<br/> Loving yet firm<br/>
Her children are many<br/>
Each suckles her breasts</p>
<p>Of birth pains she knew few<br/> Until one came to her belly<br/>
Something was wrong<br/>
This she knew</p>
<p>Her family gathered close<br/> A new child now born<br/>
Different than the rest<br/>
And the family mourned</p>
<p>Seasons passed<br/> The child grew arrogant<br/>
Refusing to listen<br/>
He went his own way</p>
<p>Ego filled his heart<br/> He pushed his mother aside<br/>
Then took her captive<br/>
And tore into her skin</p>
<p>He dug at her face<br/> Opened her belly<br/>
Filled her with poison<br/>
And sewed her back up</p>
<p>His family looked in horror<br/> At his lack of concern<br/>
He looked at them<br/>
And did much worse</p>
<p>His mother sings her death song<br/> Not his concern<br/>
Little does he know<br/>
She will have the last say</p>
<p>She gave him all<br/> Offered him a way<br/>
He refused all reason<br/>
And now she must say:</p>
<p>To you humankind, I have given all<br/> All that could sustain you<br/>
Has been my gift to you<br/>
Asking little in return</p>
<p>But you have abused me<br/> Poisoned my body<br/>
Cut me and fenced in my skin<br/>
Thinking you own portions of me</p>
<p>Now it is time for you to awake<br/> Your crime will not go without notice<br/>
A price you will pay<br/>
Gentleness is not its path</p>
<p>I am Earth Mother, and once had a child<br/> I called him human<br/>
Evil filled his heart<br/>
In time I let him go</p>
<p>Once, my child<br/> Your race was mighty with weapons, ego and greed<br/>
And now<br/>
You are a mere memory.</p>
<p>Sidanelai<br/> 3 Hawks</p>