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Hometown

Barnum, Minnesota ~ born in Cloquet, MN hospital

Places I've been

As a child I loved to be at my Aunt and Uncles farm in Owatonna. I felt free and safe there. I think we moved once a year if not every 6 - 9months.I went to 6 different elementary schools Hectic, non-military, we just moved. My family finally stayed put in 1961 in Mahtomedi, MN and there I stayed until I was 19. Got married and went to Beaufort, SC where my husband was in the Marine Corps. We then moved back to MN, out to CA, then to NH where my son was born in 1971. Then back to CA where we divorced, what a relief. So, back to MN and I drank and abused drugs until 1979 and had another marriage end in divorce...God is Good! Have any of you jumped off the bridge yet? In 1979, I literally met God when I had od'd..His hand came down to me, for real. I have been sober and clean ever since. Other places God has taken me are: Montana, Iowa, Florida, Nevada, Texas, Mexico and I now live in Wisconsin. As I am, my 36 yr old son Erik, is also a walking miracle for the past 3 years. I like painting figurines, making Christmas presents for my 7 great niece's and nephews, venturing into painting on glass and glass-etching. I love to read Cherokee history, as well as other Native American cultures good mysteries and books on Spirituality and Healing. If I could go anywhere and have a real vacation in the sun, I would go to Wounded Knee and just lie down in the grass. By next fall, my man friend and I hope to be living on 5 acres of land he owns, lots of woods, God, animals, God, gardens, God..ya get my drift. I am done talking..Thank God, eh?

More about me

OSIYO,

Welcome to my page ~My name is Carol, I am proud to be of Native American descent My father's Great Great Grandma was from the Cherokee Nation. She married a white man and they became Quakers in PA. Very little is known about her; the family was quite ashamed that one of the Atkinson men married 'that Indian' woman. My father was told to tell people that his family was Welsh, when people asked if they were part Indian, so my dad didn't share much with us due to his families denial issues. While growing up, I was asked are you Indian? I responded with yes, I am a wild Indian...lol I loved to run on pebbles and gravel barefoot, and just run free,and it was a neighbohood teasing thing. From the time I became cognitive I never could wrap my head around prejudice, and since Creator made us all, why do people blame the Creator for making unwanted races; I still struggle with that.....how come we can't have friends from different cultures? My best friend in 3rd grade was latino and through the ignorance of people I was ordered NOT to play with her. Did I mention I am defiant?

I also determined that if I had to sacrifice my own worth just so I could have friends or be with the popular people, I would rather be alone. And so I conducted my Life to never talk trash about anyone of any color.I do not like cliques or people that walk around in airs of something they are not. That does not please Creator and violated everything I was taught and knew to be true in Sunday school. I am of mixed bloods, like so many other gazillion people. My heart would be very sad if people abused animals, took more than what was actually needed of anything. When I was 25 my cousin told me that yes, we are of Native American decent; so I finally had someone to share my feelings and beliefs with....the rest of the family just thought I was abnormal and I was not allowed to talk about Native peoples or ask questions.

So, since age 25 I have had the doors open up as far as my thoughts and feelings of being Native American...consequently some family members think I am a heathen and I am abnormal and if that is the case I am darn glad to be alive! So my quest is to find out, learn, read, and put into my everyday Life the Native side of me. There are times, when I find myself being angry with Europeans/my other part. I don't know how other mixed bloods feel about their heritage or deal with it.   I am what I am.

WHO I am is another question that  trips me up!!!!!! But I think that is  part of my journey during this Lifetime.

I believe in Black Elk's Vision and that all of us are living some of that history as we speak. What an Honor to be a part of the big picture. What little I do know about Life and Nature I try to pass on to children because they need that positive support and knowledge. It is the wisdom of our great Chiefs that needs to be imparted to the young ones....we are all related!!!!

 

 

 

 

Activities

outdoors, Native American music, walks in the rain, alone time, holding new babies, painting decorations, glass etching (beginner), giving to other people.

Favorite Charities

donations to Cherokee Nations/buying at the store!, St. Joseph's Indian School in Chamberlain, SD

Favorite Music

Native American: Cherokee Youth Choir, Walela, Paul LaRosch/Brule, pow wow music, good blues music, old rock and roll, gospel, meditative, Mozart and Bach, Gregorian Chants

Favorite TV Shows

anything that says CSI, Kyle XY, Supernatural, Ghost Hunters, National Geographic, Discovery, History, any show dealing with the paranormal or Spirits oh yeah...football

Favorite Movies

Harry Potter, any movie with Johnny Depp, Dances with Wolves, Black Robe, Last of the Mohican's, Little Big Man, old Westerns, old Walt Disney movies, Skins, Smoke Signals

Favorite Books

Voices of our Ancestors, The Cherokee, Black Elk Speaks, Panther in the Sky, A Cherokee Feast of Days, books by Mary Summer Rain

Favorite Quotes

...so you say Psycho like it's a bad thing!' To Thine Own Self be True', Check your negativity at the door, Live and Let Live, Control is for insecure people, When God closes a door, He opens a window

Favorite People

Creator first, Jesus, Sitting Bull, Crazy Horse, Chief Joseph, Red Cloud, Chief Seattle, Buddah, Ghandi, Mother Teresa, Pope John Paul, my great nieces and nephews, Albert Einstein, my sister Helen and my son, Erik

Favorite Places

our property south of Balsam Lake, WI, the river walk ways in Taylors Falls

Favorite Animals

Cowboy our dog, wolves, eagles, black horses, and all the rest of Creator's critters

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