Happening in Indian Country: “Rock Your Mocs” Friday, November 15
Rock Your Mocs
WASHINGTON – In celebration of Native American Heritage Month, Friday, November 15, 2013 is “Rock Your Mocs” Day.
It is a day to celebrate your Native heritage by wearing your moccasins all day. Wear them to school or work. Wear them at home. Wear them if you go shopping.
This is the third year of the grassroots effort to “Roc Your Mocs” during Native American Heritage Month. It is a great way to demonstrate to non-Native people American Indians and Alaska Natives are still here.
This message is from the Rock Your Mocs November 15, 2013 Facebook page:
Be a part of a world-wide event. Happening everywhere. Going on 3rd year. I picked November because it is Native American Heritage Month. The Date is random. You’d wear your moccasins all day.. to school, to work, around the house, to the store. Basically showing everybody that us as Native Americans are still around. Invite & share with all your Native Buds, Cousins, Sisters, Brother, Grandmas, Uncles, Mom, Dad. Let people know who aren’t on Facebook!! I wanna see people wearing their Mocs on November 15th!!!! WHOOOO!!!
“It means that you can kill us by the thousands, take our land, force us on death marches, but we’re still here. You can put us in boarding schools, cut our hair, forbid us to speak our languages, take us away from our culture and traditions, yet we’re still here. I was born a Native and I will die a Native and there will be more after I am gone. We will always be here”
Send us your photos you wearing your moccasins tomorrow, we will post on Facebook. Send them to: levi@nativenewsonline.net.
Dancing in Regalia
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I am so glad I found the link to this page on face book……I love my Indian heritage what I know and my dad had shared with me….I want to learn of our ways back then…….I truly loved the video…OUR FIRES STILL BURN…I found it heart touching….I have been to one awesome convention and watched the dancers so beautiful in full dress and I felt at peace and so comfortable like I belonged with my kind……
I want to know Where you get them mochakins
I am a Mohawk from Tyendinaga Territory, I wear my moccasins proudly on a daily basis, I dance every chance I get in my traditional regalia and will until the creator chooses to put me to rest. I teach my children about our culture and believe we are a strong force on mother earth. Be proud, we are here, we are one!
Having Cherokee blood by my granmother and no teachings of some truths beyond the tex books has had me in the dark for many years……..today I yern to know , because what I do know is something is missing!