This is how naive I was. There I was a couple of years ago I could hardly wait to see the Black Hills of South Dakota. Those Hills are sacred to the Lakota people I had to see them. As we drove up the long roll of Black Hills it was beautiful to me and then at the end I saw four faces carved on the sacred Black Hills. What I exclaimed Mount Rushmore is built on the sacred Black Hills? Now people that is a desecration. I was with a friend who was driving and she wanted to see Mount Rushmore so I agreed to go not willingly…. we saw the video show they put on and they mentioned the Lakota people very sparingly. They began saying Buffalo used to roam this area these people used to live here… later they were put in reservations. That was it the rest was about the Pioneers about how they build them like Rushmore excetera excetera excetera lot of colonial stuff. I was shattered I felt a great sadness. When we were leaving we decided to wait a little bit until the crowd die down yes there was a lot of tourists there. My friend turned me and she said why don’t you play your flute yes I play the Native American flute. There was still a lot of people Milling around in the area that we were at. I faced Mt Rushmore and I played my native flute…. the mournful sound echoed throughout the whole stadium. My friend was so used to me playing the flute and Gathering people all around me to hear my music. She turned around expecting to see a lot of people. She saw none. Oh she said where are all the people?.. You don’t get it do you I said to her they feel guilty that’s why they’re gone.

I bet the Native Americans wish there had been “immigration control” when ‘white men’ first hit the shores of this country. When they tried to control it themselves they were slaughtered for it, and then their food sources were slaughtered into extinction to force them onto ‘white man’ designated reservations. Imagine if another culture of people came along now and tried to do that to the different races of people populating this country. What was done to the Native American people was beyond reprehensible and I, for one, am glad that they are building casinos everywhere they can and taking back at least some of what was taken from them throughout history. Kudos to the Native Americans.

I too look mexican but am of the yacki tribe so yes flipping them off was a good thing!! #theystoleourland