I could buy what you say, Dianavan, if I thought that this physical life was the only time I've ever been here...but I don't. ;-)

I believe that most human souls have by now incarnated in probably every race in Earth and in both genders, so I regard these sort of divisive "our group versus your group" squabbles as pointless and zenophobic. That's why I equate it with fascism. Fascism loves to divide blocs of people against one another. It thrives on division and the feeling of "specialness" being attached to one's own identified group.

All of us longhaired kids in the early 70's tended toward that sort of exclusionary fascism in our sense of 'specialness' and moral superiority to the "straights", as did many of the conventional societal forces we were pitted against. In my opinion, fascism can be practiced just as much from a position of weakness as from a position of strength...it simply requires having no empathy for "the other", seeing the other as "bad", and seeing one's own people as better than the other. It is more successful when practiced from a position of strength, that's all. ;-) That's why it's remembered in association with forces of great power.

I agree with you 100% that squaw is a word which is not acceptable to use for labelling Native American women today. Absolutely not. That's because of changes in cultural awareness over the last few hundred years, but mainly over the last few decades, since roughly the 1950's.

The name "Little Hawk" came to me in a rather mysterious way, and I accepted it, because it came. No one owns it. No people own it. It's a name. I can have it if I want, and I expect I did have it before in another life (and a different language). I, like all human souls, belong spiritually to all races and I know it.

I am of no race. I belong to no group or category. I am of no gender. My race and gender now are details of a momentary passing role, like a part in a play. I am a shining spirit. So is everyone else. Spirits do not have race or gender, but they can take on the appearance of both when they incarnate, and of course, they do...as long as they're here in the physical.

We will all get a good laugh out of this one day when we are not in the physical anymore, and at that point our ridiculous, tragic wars and our illusionary false divisions over issues such as race, nationality and gender will have vanished like the dream that they are. We are all One in Spirit.

That's why I see it as I do.