Stephanie Currier

>>Since it wasn't made "honestly," I sent the reply I did.

From the responses from several "experts" about Indians, you are correct,
there is "a long history of intentional blindness that some don't recognize
as being alive and well." This thread has clearly demonstrated that.

Lynda
>>>


Honest **representation** was what I mean in the first place.
Not that you knew me from Adam.
Not that you inquired before you put on your show.
I didn't represent myself as someone who knows Indian life, either, but as
someone
who appreciated many of the things you had said in the post that I popped in
on. I felt
that it was timely that I had watched the movie just before reading it. I
later expressed
my own heritage as a way of saying that I wasn't attempting to insult anyone
else's by
enjoying the movie...which is what I had felt you were accusing me of and
THEN addressed.

*I* have been honest in my representations of myself, and of my thoughts
on this subject. That the making of the movie wasn't as simple as I first
believed...fine. I'm usually THRILLED for further information.
But...
There are things just as important than information...which as an Unschooler
I
try to teach my kids.

Some people just pick arguments without hesitation for the sake of doing so.
That's pretty blind.

Steph