American Indians

Welcome to the Southern California Indian Center's Weblog page.  Our objective is to provide a network for the American Indian community and non-natives to interact on all productive levels of information sharing and opportunity.  Our blog categories will change and expand as the climate dictates.  You are encouraged to participate with comments and links to your area of interest and expertise.  Just click on the comment link below each post and you be blogging in no time.

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Posted by SCIC in American Indians at 23:57 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

The preservation of American Indian culture & tradition has been the cornerstone of our existence.  These elements of the past have given American Indians their identity.  A effort to maintain this identity has been nothing less than an uphill struggle.  First with the attitude of of social genocide and now with dilution of Western Pop culture, the lines have become blurred.  How can we foster to duality of progress and the preservation of the past without compromising our Sacred ways?  As you share your thoughts and suggestions please provide your ethnic background.

Posted by SCIC in Culture & Tradition at 17:29 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)

This question is still being answered to this day.  The answer may not be what you are expecting.  Depending on who you ask, the response could be as simple as an adjective or as complex as a thesis.  American Indians have been defined in many ways.  Most non-Indian people have a perspective that is very distinct from what American Indians see as themselves.  But even within the American Indian community there exists a diverse identity.   American Indians may live on the Reservation or in the Urban community, we may be found across the socio-economic spectrum in today or yestrday's society; yet we all have common issues that bind us together.  Ask questions and give us your thoughts on this subject.

Posted by SCIC at 19:01 | Comments (0) | Trackbacks (0)