Through Words of the Past Comes Understanding

[JOHNNY RAMIREZ]

I will be posting Blogs on the main site starting August of 2009, they will be my grandfathers stories that he shared with my brother, my sister and me as child.

As readers, you can recieve these stories that I share on the blog any way you want to accept them.

It makes no never mind to me, because I am just sharing, as a couple of friends encourage me to do.

I will also share some facts about the Indigenous Native American peoples that can be verified by other writers and books.

From time to time will pass along wisdom that come from my people as well as other Native Nations, these will posted on my page. I will share some Apache words from time to time, as the language is dying out with the elderly people like myself.

Understand, Native American's never had a written language, until after the European's came from across ocean and landed on these shores. Our written word was through stories, shared over and over again, and pictures on rocks, leather, pottary as well as some groups made totems.

To my people the spoken was of great worth and valued, so there was no need at the time to even think to place them down, where European Americans place the worth of words in its written word.

So, my fellow True West community, I've taken my friends advise that I need to perserve my Grandfather's words. To do that, I am taking my European American culture and education method of keeping my Grandfathers words safe for future generations.

Adapations, is a form that my people and others have done for centuries, there by using this method will keep my Navite American culture and words alive through my eyes, ears, mouth and hands.

N'dee Johnny

[Cherokee Kid]

I look forward to your writings. BTW, Sequoyah in 1821 completed his Cherokee syllabary making it possible for illiterate Cherokees to read and write. The syllabary allowed Cherokees to become more literate than their anglo neighbors.

Cherokee Kid

[Jim Catalano]

Good job, I look forward to more stories and culture and history of your people. thanks again

[JOHNNY RAMIREZ]

Jim,

Thanks for your support and encouragment, as I have my second one on the writing board now, and am looking at having it completed either at the end of the month or the beginning of next month.

Again thanks for your support, and God bless,

Johnny

[Ralph Bernklow]

Yes! Please share your stories with us. I did not know either of my grandfathers. They both passed away before I was born. They were both interesting characters. I must have gotten my love of the west from my father's side. Grampa Bernklow had a great interest in the west. Dad said he went to the movies to see the western scenery.(However he did own a Colt six-shooter, so I think he kind of liked the "romance" of the west as well). He planned to travel in the west when he retired. Sadly he passed away a year before.

[JOHNNY RAMIREZ]

Ralph,

I got two down now, and I am working on the third one for the end of the month or at the latest for the first of Sept.

Thanks fror your comments Ralph.

Johnny

[SerenityLupe]

Looking forward to reading your grandfathers stories and thank you for blessing all of us with them!

SerenityInTheWind.... :-)