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Content: Recently I read the American Heritage Magazine (July-August
        1998) article on the "New Indian Country." The article mentions
        our revolts various nations have made over the many white men -
        and Native caused issues. Without saying so, it makes us out to
        be an Indian raiding party mindlessly killing homesteaders from
        a John Ford movie. And that made me wonder...
"What does being Native American
            mean?" To me it isn't just going to pow wows, watching the dancers,
        wearing buckskin dresses and letting the steady drum beat
        restart my heart, my soul. It's more. My great-grandfather, Chief Bear Hunter, chief of his own
        Shoshoni Band, was Bear Clan, as was my grandmother. I, too, am
        Bear. It's not just wearing my bear claw necklace and choker
        every day to honor my grandmother, my clan. It's more.