Data mining you child's information "permission form" is now part of school enrollment!

Tomorrow morning many Americans will take their children to the local school and blindly enroll them for the coming year. They will be given a student handbook complete with a couple dozen forms that must be signed. Some really are necessary, such as the permission form to give your child a band aid should they get a paper cut. Then there are the NEW forms that are more frightening than necessary. Yet most parents will just sign these, too.
What new forms are there? This year many observant parents have already found forms that advise them that the FERPA laws that used to protect their children have since been obliterated. Now, some 400 points of data can be shared with anyone who calls themselves “authorized” to receive the information. Businesses, doctor’s offices, psychiatrists, federal agencies, salesmen, and virtually anyone who meets the approval of the state or a local superintendent can become authorized to obtain 400 pieces of information about your child.
Be careful what you sign in the morning. You may just be giving away the keys to your child’s identity.
~Temerity Dowell

http://thenewamerican.com/culture/education/item/16193-orwellian-nightmare-data-mining-your-kids

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Significance of Long hair for Native people

I found a wonderful website and really just wanted to share it and help expose the site to others.  I am enclosing a link.  The photo is not my image.  I am including this image as a visual accompanying the link.  The image is borrowed from this site.  I claim no copyright to this image.  Enjoy...Peace...BigMamaBlaze


http://www.whitewolfpack.com/2013/08/elders-talk-about-significance-of-long.html
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Oh Great Spirit...

Oh Great Spirit who made all races

look kindly upon 

the whole human family 

and take away the arrogance and hatred 

which separates us from our brother.

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~An Indian Prayer~Weary~

"Oh Great Spirit who walks the four winds of our mighty heavens, hear my voice, for I stand before you as but one of your many children.

I have traveled long and far and I have grown tired and weary. My heart has much sadness for my journey has taken me to a land i do not understand and fear.

My eyes no longer see the beauty you have created for all to see. They now only see shadows and darkness.

My ears no long hear the laughter of children at play. They now only hear the silence of night and the beating of my own heart.

I fear I have taken the wrong road in life, and with each passing of the sun my heart becomes more heavy with sadness for I no longer walk in balance with the

Universe and upon Earth Mother.

Oh Great Spirit must I be lost forever like a pebble within a mountain of stones. Am I to wander forever in darkness?

Will you not lend me the wisdom of my four legged brother, the buffalo, the keen sight and swiftness of flight of my feathered brother, the Eagle so that I may

return like the blossoms of spring after the long snows of winter, where once again my eyes may see the rising of the sun, the beauty of our land Earth Mother.

I want my heart to dance again to the many songs of the birds in Spring.

I want to know the happiness and feel the tranquility of walking in balance with Earth Mother, and my brothers and sisters and where my heart and spirit shall wander no more forever.

When my lift has ended like the setting of the sun, I want to stand before you, Oh Great Spirit, with a pure heart, straight eyes and unashamed.

~Lee (Little Fawn) Moquin

http://www.firstpeople.us/html/Indian-Prayer.html

First People of America and Canada : Turtle Island

Child friendly site about American and Canadian Indians. 1400+ legends, 400+ agreements and treaties, 10,000+ pictures, clipart, Native American Books, Posters, Seed Bead Earrings, Native American Jewelry, Possible Bags and more.

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