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WHO IS MOSES J. BRINGS PLENTY?
A few words from Mo...
I am not of this world. Yes, I can sit here and tell you all about who
and how great my family and ancestors are, but if I can't live as they have and
do -- then their lives and efforts are meaningless. I can also tell you where
it is that I come from; say how proud I am to be what is it again? Oh yeah…Native
American, and then tell you of all the things that I am and have done, but here is
the thing -- What good is any of that if I can't or fail to "LIVE IT".
My words could be beautiful, I may even look like a real Indian, but if
my actions don't match with those beautiful words, then the Great Mystery will
no longer see me for being a native, a Lakota, or foremost a human being. And then, if it comes to that -- then what is life? Maybe that is why the
children are lost and have no idea who they really are, or know where they come
from.
I would die before I change my way of life and who I am to fit in this
world, or to please people that don't want me to be what it is I was created
to be. I will live without fear in this day to give a beautiful way of life to
those of tomorrow just as my Grandfathers, Grandmothers, Fathers and Mothers. I
will be the living proof because I want to be. One can read, dig and look the
world over to find who you are, but it would never be found because what it is
that you are looking for is in the depths of your heart and beyond the stars.
It is there you must look, and you must live without fear to find it...
Yes, I am LAKOTA. I was born one,
so I shall live as one. And, I will die…not only a Lakota, but a human being.
I would like to ask all of you who are so proud to be Native American.
The lives and deaths of our ancestors what do they mean to you, and how are you
living in this day to show your thanks for what they have done and do for you. Will your actions give life to those of tomorrow …just as our ancestors had
given you life? That is what a real human being would ask himself/herself with
each new day that they are given.
So live life without FEAR for the sake of tomorrow. Be a real human being , and I also ask this of the non-natives that take the time to read this. So,
no more excuses!
Jesus, Crazy Horse and Sitting Bull, great human beings, why? Because
they never made excuses, they just did, for whom? YOU!!!!
Don't let the good things of life end with you....I am who I am, so who
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