Native Americans in the Media.

Native Americans in the media is a sketchy subject. I mean now days there isn't much to tell, but if we talk about the "Cowboys and Indians" the classic tales of Cowboy, he who usually in every show beats the "bad guy Indian." And not only that, but most of the time is wasn't even a real Native American! It was a white guy painted "Indian Red." It would be a lie if I said I didn't cheer for the Cowboys when I watched the old films and shows with my grandparents. But it was hard no to. They showed the Natives as bad people, like they were villains and the Cowboys was the hero. They might have had a lot wrong about the Indians, but they sure did know how to persuade people. A blessing and a curse. I will say though, for the time being, they were very crafty at doing it to. Some say they were even crafty enough to have some Native Americans cheering for the cowboys.
Again it's a sketchy subject. Because after all, they did basically take an entire race of people and put a stereotype in eveyone's head about them, using live television. some of those stereotypes are stll alive today. The sad part of that one is that once people are labeled in today's society, it's pretty hard to get a new one and Native Americans have had the role of "the Bad Guy" on the big screen of a mighty long time. And getting that stereotype put back in the box is hard enogh, there are about a thousand more to eliminated after that. So, it can be tough to think of an actual Native American in the media sometimes and not think of the classic "Cowbos and Indians" stereotype.

LNI

Wow, LNI best time of the year. I hung out with my friends and family. It's like the NBA but for the reservations. We all get together and have a lot of fun and laughs. I even met some cousins I never met before. Our school got to go home Champions of the whole thing! It was truley amazing. I'm glad for our boys, I mean thier hard work paid off. I couldn't be there for all the games.But I still watched them onTV and listened to the games on the radio.
LNI is short for Lakota Nation Invetational. Besides Basket Ball we have other categories we can win at to represent our schools. Like Wresteling, Hand games, Art, Quiz Bowl, and many more. Our school is also a big hit in the arts. I can truley say i a Proud to be a White River Tiger. (I dont care what the other schools call us) #TIGERNATION!

Lakota Nation Invitational basketball tournament...

Well I had a great weekend overall, playing basketball . We got 8th out of 16 teams. We could have did way better, all 3 of the games we lost were really close games. We won or 1st game against Custer. Our 2nd game we played Crow Creek but lost by 10 points. Our 3rd game we played Red Cloud and lost by like 6 points. Our last game we played Saint Frances and lost by 4 points. But overall we played hard and never gave up. I think we should have won our last 2 games, because we were ahead the hole game, unlit the end. But its OK though. We always have next year. I hope we do even better next year, because its going to be my senior year. But i love my team. Over the years we grew so close like a family. We had a lot of ups and downs together, but we never gave up on each other. I know i can always count on them. They are all like sisters to me now. The bond we share is going to last for a long time. Next year we are going to lose our only senior. And i am going to miss her so much. To be completely honest i think its going to feel kind of weird not being able to play with her next year. So i want to make this basketball season the best it can be. =))

after LNI

LNI was alot of fun. It was 15 native schools (well and one school whose entire team was white so how they got to come I have no idea).  Our boys team battled for first place with them and came out victorious clearing out the other school 69 to 32. It was cool because the last 5 min our coach put the JV team out on the floor to finish out the tournament. We are happy that the only injury we had on our team was a wrist which was an old injury.  When he fell it was sore again but I expect him the be playing again come out next game.  A boy from Todd County (who was actually my classmates brother) hurt his knee when he dove for the ball along with the largest and quickest from White River.  Our boy got out of it without even a bruise. I don’t imagine the Todd County boy will be playing for a while. As far as I know, that was the worst of it and when u are playing 1 game a day for 4 days that’s pretty good. Our girls ended up with 6th I do believe which isn’t too bad. We played hard we won the knowledge bowl.  We also got many awards for art all. All and all, a great success from white river at the LNI tournament

LNI

So this week is LNI (Lakota Nation Invitational) which is a huge basketball tournament in Rapid City. It also has a quiz bowl, archery, and art contests. It spans over 4 days and people who go have a lot of fun. They take 5 starting varsity, 5 bench people, 2 stat keepers, and a ball girl / boy.   For art, our teacher brings about 10 to compete.  Our school only has 2 or 3 competing in archery and about 20 in the quiz bowl. Since we have a basketball team going, that also means our 3 cheerleaders (which also compete) are there. All the spectators that go watch left us with 100 some students yesterday. There were only 38 kids in school and today so we have study hall all day because teaching us something new and then reteaching it to the 60+ people that aren't here would be almost pointless.   I have taken advantage of this and am just relaxing with the few friends have left after everyone left.

My Veiw On The End Of The World

The end of the world. Sounds a little bit dramatic there right? Well believe it or not. Somethings going to happen (I'm assuming) I've listened to many theroies from Nostradamus, but they've been proven wrong also. But there must be something big about to happen right? I mean everybody talks about it, they have a code/profit about it in every religion. It's kinda crazy/scary if you read too much into it like me. But anyways whether you think it or not theres always something big on its way.
But if there were to be an actual WW3 Where on earth would I be? Where would you be? Possibly under a rock? Possibly meeting the chaos head-on? In a cave? In a morgue...the possiblities are hard and cold.
But thier are others that say it will be a good change. That thiers going to be peace and Rejuvenation. But you never know...till the day someone can predict the future 100% accurate, no questions asked, then I'll believe. But untill then we're just going to be patient and live "In the moments" Thats as much as I can give.