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Being Native American Indian is not to be hidden, it is to be celebrated. The Indians are the ones that taught the white man all different ways of hunting, fishing, finding food for themselves, they taught them how to make a home for themselves, they tried to be friendly to these new people and help them, they shared their food with them, and shared all their ways of survival with them. Only to be slaughtered by the white man when they had gotten all the knowledge they could out of them. The Indians also taught them how to protect themselves only for the white man to turn all they learned on them. They killed the worriers, stole their women and children and put them into slavery,made the women their wives, even though the women didn't want to be married to them they had no choice if they tried to escape they were either killed or punished severely. Even today the Native American Indians do not get any respect or any rights as people from other countries do, even illegal immigrants have more rights than the Indians do. And the Native American Indian is the TRUE AMERICANS they were here long before the white man was. I speak for myself I am Native American Indian and very proud of it and don't hide my heritage from anyone.

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