37 Common Characteristi(x)s of a Displaced Indian with a Learning Disability

Generally Speaking:

  X   he complains about missing bright sunflowers swaying in a field, back home

  X   he associates constant apparition of memories on old beer bottles labels

  X   he exhibits dangerous attitudes for not being full blooded enough, or criminal enough

  X   he measures I.Q. [Indian Quality] by not reading or writing well, only by mouthing off

  X   he often feels dumb and hides behind a stoic face, just being Indian

  X   his separates culture with a sense of addiction and prevailing incarceration

  X   he thinks daydreaming is the medicine man, Daydreamer, from the old days

  X   he loses his attention span, because there are just too many things

  X   he shies away from all public activities because it exposes his frontal skin

Vision Quest, Reading Trees, and Spelling Mountain Streams:

  X   he grumbles of nausea while being made to read or write at lower altitudes

  X   he confuses letters, numbers, word sequences because of his refusal to assimilate

  X   he repeats letters, numbers, and substitute sounds of words, just because

  X   he gripes about seeing spirits because he whistles at night summoning them

  X   he lies consistently about his vision, yet eye exams do not recognize broken glasses

  X   he is nosey, but lacks the acuity, mostly he just does not watch where is going

  X   he reads, rereads, rereads and rereads, with slight comprehension to rereading

  X   he spells phonetically, his teachers do not realize it is a pow-wow song

Select Hearing and Proper Speech:

  X   he is excellent hearing whispers of others, but is easily distracted by fast moving objects

  X   he stutters when caught cussing, and transposes phrases and syllables

Eating and Bread Making Skills:

  X   he has no trouble kneading dough; his finger is unusual as flapping arms

  X   he is poor at sharing or eating communal meals and fork grasping

Counting and Lack of Time Management:

  X   he ignores managing time, and prioritizes tasks important to his value of time

  X   he inventories refrigerator contents, but he cannot conceal food properly

  X   he can count, but has difficulty counting more than his fingers and toes

  X   he fails word problems, but always understands 2 for 1 sale on candy bars

Indigenous Memory and Western Cognition:

  X   he has excellent long-term memory during meal times, family, culture, and tradition

  X   he has poor memory about proper table etiquette, and overeating

  X   he cannot grasp the importance of math, only what has been taken

  X   he will always respond with a long o vowel, an acknowledging agreement

Indian Behavior, Spiritual Health, Cultural Development and Integrated Personality:

  X   he is extremely self-humorous or compulsively hungry

  X   most do not get his humor, ways of playing, or understand his apathetic look

  X   he can be ambidextrous with conversation, free spirit, substance abuse and hunting

  X   he evolves from frequent beatings, mal-nutritious foods, and explosive products

  X   he is expressive towards deep sleep, and may never outgrow his tendencies

  X   he has unusually high and low tolerance for loss of internal dialogue

  X   he has a strong sense of injustice, emotional sensitivity, strives for placement in a

      country that undeniably refutes his rightful location

  X   his cultural mistakes and Westernized symptoms surges with long exposure and removal

      from reservation; time is a distressing pressure on deteriorating cultural associations in

      identity