Arrived have been called by many names that were given to describe who we are native american american indian indigenous people anything that i’m seen as as long as it’s seen as something respectful i don’t have a preference the way i was raised to be proud of what i am
No matter what people call you that makes sense thanks sure we like to teach people about our cultures i want to see further education of our heritage of our culture of our respect for the earth for the creator and an understanding of where we come from
And what we are what we respect what we want to maintain as our culture and preserve this for the future generations so that’s why they want to vote matanock that’s right and it’s going to
Take a lot of land another tribe that used to have a lot of land is the monacan indian nation the monacan indian nation is in amherst county but a long time ago the monacan controlled half the
Land that would become virginia wow so there were a lot of them still are with about 1400 members right now the monacan owed a large piece of land on bear mountain where they have their travel museum school church cultural center and even burial grounds kind of creepy to live near
A barrel ground no actually the mona can bless this ground so that the land is very sacred and spiritual to them our people have always been a culture of folks who honor their ancestors we were the mound builders in virginia and there are still several mounds throughout virginia
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