Was not about War at all!

White Man believes that this is a war bonnet....

 

He gets everything wrong. He says we are warlike when we're peaceful.

See, he calls this headdress a war bonnet.

Sure, we used to wear it in war, but most of the time it is/was for ceremony, not war.

Each feather stands for a good deed. There are 36 in this headdress..

It's not about war...

It's about who we are.

When we sing songs White Man calls them war songs. 

But they're not war songs, they're prayers to Creator.

We have drums, so White Man calls them war drums.

But they're not for war, they're for talking to Creator.

There's no such thing as a war drum.

White Man sees how our warriors paint their faces, so he calls it war paint.

But it's not for war, it's to make it so

Creator can see our faces clearly if we have to die.

White Man says our people came to this country only a couple thousand years ago...

He's wrong.  We've been here millions of years. 

White Man says Creator made the world in seven days.

He's wrong there too.  Creator has been making the world

for millions of years, and He's still not finished.

He makes it new each morning when the sun comes up.

If he didn't then the world would be gone.

That's why we send up our prayers to Him each morning and each evening...

to thank Him for the world.

If we didn't thank him, He might not keep making the world new.

It would be all gone.

And what would White Man have to steal from us then??