I have had a number of friends growing up in North Dakota.  More than my share of friends have died from drinking and driving.  Their lives were out of control and they affected themselves, family , and friends to people they did not even know,  long before and long after their deaths. 

I do believe marijuana to be the wiser choise over alcohol and tobacco which have physical side effects,  compared to phycological dependency of pot.  As far as I am concerened I dont see the reason for jailing someone who makes a choice untill they have done something actually criminal instead of being straped and saddled into a law that absolutely makes no common scense .  

Well, finally, I am home.  Feels so goods to know my bed is where I will sleep tonight.  We have been in Fargo since last Thursday.  I had a nice time with my grandkids but I love leaving too.   It is hard to be in someone elses home for days and days.  I guess I should be greatful but i am TIRED and coming down with a cold. 

I am way behind reading all of your posts and will woke on that tomorrow. 

For now, gotta go make food to eat.

later ladies

Shop that is exactly how stupid stuff happens when one dont have the respect  for the land owner. 

Called the neighbor and i asked if they knew who was driving across my yard and their driveway.  As it turns out she just saw the Power Truck out with a big boom.  They could have asked and everything would be cool.  But when they rip up your yard and leave and not even leave a note or a venture to ask makes me wonder if I have any rights anymore.   I dont expect a spike in my bill infact i expect no bill in exchange for lawn repair.  settled

I can't speak for the original creator of this post, however, I can tell you exactly what I was told by the school superintendant. 

We have five kids total, ages 17-2.  We (Myself & my wife), thought it would be better served for our children to learn a language that they could use in a broader sense than Hidatsa.  We approached Mr. Bluestone about this, he stated that the school had wanted to teach Hidatsa to promote tradition and culture at the school.  This is fine with me, however, seeing as though we have no family attachments to the Hidatsa culture, we wished that our kids not learn this language.  Mr. Bluestone then stated that the school was making it manditory that all students take this class, and there was no way to take our kids out of the class.  He then stated that when our kids would get to the high school they would then have a choice in which classes that they take.  The school then relabeled the Hidatsa class, "Native Studies".  Our kids are still having to learn to speak Hidatsa in this class.  As I have said before, I really don't care if the school teaches Hidatsa or not, however it should be an elective.

So, in all I think that the title is fairly accurate for this post.   Our kids had no alternative to taking this class, so what would you call it.

I was born and raised in New Town, and continue to live here.  I graduated from NTHS, never learned a second language, and continued my way to a four year college.  So unless some new policies were inacted recently, you didn't need a second language.  I agree that finding adequate teachers to teach foreign languages might be a problem, but if the school district doesn't pursue getting these teachers, they aren't going to fall out of the sky.  From everything that I heard from my meeting with the school, it doesn't sound like anyone there is even trying to find a teacher for any other language.  This in it's own right is very close minded, and futher limits any options our kids have.  And the kids after all are the MOST IMPORTANT thing. 

I just don't see my kids finding any use for this language anywhere except here on the reservation.  How many people do you think speak Hidatsa in France, Germany, or even New York City?  I think it would be a better use of school funds to teach our children a more main stream second language, but that means the school would have to actually look for one of these teachers.  It shouldn't be up to the parents to go find the teachers.   I know it is possible, when I was in NTHS, they offered Spanish,French, German, and Japanese.  So don't say it isn't possible.  The school board just has to quit being so narrow minded and look to offer these options. 

 This has nothing to do with what race you are, which race I am.  THIS HAS EVERYTHING TO DO WITH OUR CHILDREN'S FUTURE.

I will guess George Washington.

SICKO, PAIN.. both right.  It was a good article too.

KXVUHUR ... STOP MAN.... don't even talk like that.   Fossilman lost a dear young friend just over some stupid stuff like this.   Don't even go there.    Let the police deal with it.   This is not  Tombstone and the OK corral.

I got civil unrest, I just got home to find my neighbor made a 4-wheeler road across my property just put signs up and am ready to put an ak-47 in the side of his machine.   He has some signs to come home to this should lead to us on an approach killing each other and I cant stand the sonofaB*t*c* anyway.   I hope the altercation is soon i can taste it and his blood scent is in the air. filling my nostrils with satisfaction.

Who drives across someones yard unless they have no respect for you in the first place?  Crap is going to start flying in this neigborhoood.  Soon.  

First of all, I do not like the title of the subject. No one is forcing anyone to do anything. How would I know, I work there, and I graduated from there. First thing, in order to get into a 4 year college you need a second language on your high school transcript, whether that is german, spanish, or chinese. Doesn't matter. Second, there is a shortage of teachers that can speak a second language. So if there is a teacher out there that can speak dutch or whatever the language may be, contact the superintendent, Im sure he would be glad to talk to you. So all you you think its about race or forcing children to do whatever, you are so wrong. Take a step back and look at the picture once and awhile.