I've decided this website shall finally have a purpose. It has been a long time since I have personally been involved in making any kind of political statement, and while I don't consider myself an activist I do want to start brining awareness to different issues. I cannot cure the world, and people may never listen to anything I say, but I refuse to sit by and pretend the lies and injustices don't exist. I like to think that my actions can make life for someone else better.

Whether it be through letters written to political leaders calling for change, letters to political prisoners letting them know I support them, or simply being a face in the crowd at a peace march. One step is better than no step.

I have a voice and I know how to use it.
I'm sure you do too.

Back in the 1970's my grandparents, Jane Deerheart and John WhiteEagle Tomkus, took part in different events that strove to bring awareness to the issues Native American people were facing. I was too young to take part, but these events have stuck with me. I remember being chased by police, I remember being afraid in my own house and being told to stay away from the windows. There are stories of family members being beaten and abused. There was the incident of the family business being burned to the ground. All these things just because we decided to use our voices.

These events helped create a place in me that now and then rises up and takes action. I have been to the United Nations and to Washington, DC. That was 10 years ago. Faces I remember seeing at those places are gone now. Voices I heard at those places, also gone. It is time I get involved again.

I was recently asked by a woman if the Native American's still wanted revenge. Revenge? I didn't realize we wanted revenge. I believe we want justice and justice is not revenge. Justice is fairness. Revenge is violence.

I've decided that I am not going to travel along any kind of angry, political route (at least that is not my plan) but that I am going to work with human rights organizations. I have too much compassion and empathy to do nothing. I have too much love for people as a whole. I have become a member of the United Peace Council, Amnesty International and United for Peace and Justice. This is not to say that I will not lend my voice or my support to issues that might be more unstable in nature, it all depends on how passionate I feel about the issue.

Yes, this is how I feel:I want my country back.