pechanga wrote on April 27, 2012 08:32 PM:" Now we have learned how to exclude, which is not traditional, nor cultural. The same prayers our ancestors made impacting our lives are the same prayers that affect the lives of those who are an eighth blood, a sixteenth blood, or more who want to come home. Do we enforce the mannerisms and legalism defined and dictated to us or do we, as Sovereign Nations, define and dictate and dictate our own existence and who our relatives are? If we don't, then are we really sovereign entities?"Warren Petoskey in Native Condition »