By Lee Longhorn

I’m going to be straight up with you and tell you that I’m not the most athletic person. Ok, for almost 10 years, I was in marching band. Granted, while I do tend to think that I have strong legs, the rest of my body just isn’t with it. I’m working on it though, but we’ll talk about that later.

By Lee Longhorn

“Under the direction of Mr. Brian Britt, Director of the Pride of Oklahoma and assisted by Mr. Jeff Jahnke. The University of Oklahoma proudly presents the 2006 PrrrrrRRRRIIIIIIIDDDDEEEEE of Oklahoma!”

By Lee Longhorn

“You should say you’re multicultural.”

“I like saying I’m biracial.”

I worked with American Indian middle school students my final year of college. I enjoyed every minute of it. If you haven’t worked with middle school students, I suggest you give it a shot. They’re worth it. Most of my students were multicultural. For the purposes of being politically correct, I prefer the term multicultural instead of mixed or biracial. That comes from my training in my undergraduate career.

By Cynthia Lee

Facebook and other social sites have become a new portal of communication for the young and old. The status updates can be seen by both the people you are closest to and to people you don’t know. We can see who is where, what they’re doing, how they are feeling, who offends who. We may not see all of this, but we can shrug it off because it didn’t offend or may have even made us laugh.

By Lee Longhorn

Hensci. Estonko? Lee cvhocefket os.

By Cynthia Lee

Before I had actually started this series of blogs, I had a discussion with Jason Begay (the Reznet website’s director) about what it is I wanted to write about and so on. At first I wasn’t sure coming into this, what I wanted to be my main focus. So, far I’ve touched on more personal topics; coming out and fears about how my ‘lifestyle’ will affect my future. After being asked, “Who is it you’re trying to reach?” I thought, “I hope it doesn’t seem like I’m just ranting about these subjects,” because that’s not what I’m trying to do at all.

By Cynthia Lee

There was a petition to have Sesame Street’s Bert & Ernie get married last week in which 9,000 people or so signed. Now I’m one that is all for teaching children tolerance and so on, but personally I think that would have been going just a tad overboard. I am also not one to force anything on a child because that’s what it may seem like to parents. The petition had no effect on the show,Sesame Streettold The Today Show that the puppets would not be married. “…They remain puppets and do not have sexual orientation,” said the show’s creators.

By Lee Longhorn

I once had a complex that use to drive me nuts in high school. In college, I got rid of it because a new one came into my life. I’ll talk about the latter in another entry, but the complex I had in high school was about skin color and being an identifiable American Indian. I used to think that you had to be a certain degree of tan to actually look Indian.

The smaller the quantum and darker the skin gets you more noticeable?

By Cynthia Lee

By Lee Longhorn

Howdy. I think it’s time that I explore some language issues and how being multi-tribal can have its ups and downs.

I have spent most of my life growing up in suburban America. It had its own perks at times. There were times when I realized that my own accent was more “white,” proper and not filled with slang. But, just because you’re “Indian” doesn’t mean that you sound and act like someone else who is American Indian.

“Why don’t you sound Indian?”