NativeStrength.com, as you may see it, is one among millions of blogs. Native Strength, is an idea…an ideal…it is a fundamental concept regarding how the native peoples of North America have been able to survive as an ethnic group through years of what can almost be considered ethnological genocide. Native strength is the ideal that even though we are from different tribes, languages, customs, we are still one people. Native strength is the idea that even though one group may be able to prosper while others fail, as many groups acting in accord, we may be able to uplift and prosper as a culture. This project was started as a thought. A thought that by attempting to unite, we might succeed where other efforts to approach us individually have failed. No claim or desire is made in this gesture to undermine to sovereignty, individuality, or status of any single tribe or group. The goal is to pool our resources so that as a whole, we can all progress. Native Americans were the first to inhabit this american continent. We were the first to use its resources while still respecting the environment around us. Native American ideals have been pillars to the structure of state and federal governments on the continent. We have been a source of pride and a symbol of strength and dignity even with the gross negligance of majority culture. We are the farmers, the teachers, the lawmakers, the scientists, the leaders, the windtalkers, the warriors. We have a voice. Its time we are heard. This project is dedicated to the loving memory of Abraham C. Crews, a great man whose genorosity and concern is an inspiration to the author.