Chapter 3

So when it was morning, White Hawk woke up to Jimmy applying ointments on his sides to make the swelling go down, he was very sore and his sides were tender to the touch. Then Jimmy helped him up slowly out of bed and over to his house and helped him inside and sat him down on the couch. 

“Son what happened?” asked Angel. 

“It’s my fault, I should have walked him home, a couple of guys beat him up last night,” said Jimmy.

“That’s why I didn’t come home last night,” said White Hawk in pain. 

“Do you want to go to school or stay home?” asked Jimmy. 

White Hawk looked out the window and saw the figure standing there in the street. 

“No, I am going, I can’t miss anymore,” said White Hawk getting up slowly from the couch. 

Big Ben walked over to the window and looked out, but nothing was out there. 

“What is it?” asked Nuka. 

“White Hawk looked out the window for a while, but then I looked and saw nothing,” said Big Ben. 

So they walked out of the house and walked to the bust stop. When the bus arrived Jimmy looked at White Hawk with a concerned look. 

“Are you sure you want to go to school today?” asked Jimmy. 

“Jimmy I’m fine, it only hurts when I move a certain way,” said Whit Hawk. 

So they got on the bus and walked all the way to the back of the bus, Victor stuck his foot out and tripped Jimmy. Jimmy fell and he got up quickly looked at Victor, then he walked towards the back of the bus. 

“Jimmy don’t let them walk over you, like they did me, if you’re not careful they’ll rob you blind,” said White Hawk.

So they bus drove away and into the school. When it came to a stop at the school all the children and young people got off the bus. Jimmy and White Hawk were the last ones off the bus. 

“Hey Jimmy, you still want to be friends with this guy?” asked Victor. 

“Yes, he is my friend, it looks like you had a date with him last night,” Jimmy smiling. 

“Yeah, so,” said James rubbing his jaw. 

“Why don’t you leave us alone?” asked Jimmy. 

“What are you going to do if we don’t?” asked Victor. 

“I will fight you, until you leave us alone, and I will make your life miserable,” said Jimmy angrily. 

“What? You can’t fight, we’ll beat you to a pulp little man,” James getting close to Jimmy’s face. 

“No, but I can, I proved it last night,” White Hawk standing straight up as much as he could. 

“I have to give it to Injun, you beat the crap out of us, it was dark so we couldn’t see very well, so you took advantage of that,” said Victor walking up to White Hawk. 

“But it’s not dark now,” said James smiling. 

“Yeah their days are now, let’s finish this,” said Victor to James. 

“Guys, come on, time for school,” said the Native Woman. 

“Yeah we better listen to the teacher,” said Victor looking at White Hawk. 

White Hawk looked past the Native teacher and saw the figure standing in the door way, so Victor turned around, White Hawk pushed Victor making him fall on the steps. 

“Toka he hwo heenun shun ye wa cetan” (what’s wrong, don’t do that White Hawk)?” asked the Native teacher. 

“Ha ho” (look at this),” White Hawk lifting his shirt up. 

“They did that last night to him, and this morning they tripped me on the bus,” said Jimmy. 

“I see White Hawk already handled them, they are bruised as well,” said the teacher helping Victor up. 

“Don’t help that “wa sicha” (white man) that’s what he wants you to do,” said White Hawk looking at the Native teacher with anger. 

“I don’t know what’s gotten into you lately but it needs to stop, this is a side of you I’ve never seen before and I don’t like it, now both of you go inside and go to class,” said the Native teacher.

So they both walked into the classroom and sat down. 

“You want to leave?” asked Jimmy looking at White Hawk in pain. 

“No, I am fine,” White Hawk out of breath and in pain.

Then James and Victor walked in and went to the back of the classroom and sat down. 

“Alright students were going to have a keynote speaker here with us today, so pay attention?” asked the teacher. 

So the speaker came in and said, 

“Hello, my name is Tommy Lee Jones,” said the Keynote speaker. 

All the kids laughed and giggled. 

“Yeah you thought that was funny, so did I, it’s good to laugh, now some of our people are what the elders call a lost generation,” said the keynote speaker. 

“So your saying were the lost generation, well you tell us what we should do then, how can we walk the red road when you have people like that, who try to make us hate one another, or people making money off of us,” said White Hawk looking back at Victor and James. 

“Well stay away from them and the drugs and gangs, and the drinking of course, tell stories, keep them alive, speak the language to others, so our language can live on, and people like that are ignorance, and they all care about hurting others, they’re the ones that are afraid of change and afraid of what is going to happen in the future,” said the Keynote speaker. 

“Why do Native’s and White Americans hate each other? It was in the past and you can’t go back and change it, they shouldn’t hate us today, and we shouldn’t hate them. It was our ancestors and their ancestors that hated each other, they try to help us today and we just throw it back in their faces and blame everything on the whites for how we live?” asked the Native girl. 

“That’s a very good question, you are right about all of it, we shouldn’t hate them and they shouldn’t hate us. The White Americans have brought us food, clothes, and other stuff, but we just throw back in there faces or throw out and let it pile up on the ground and get ruined, and say we don’t need your help, we also blame them on how were living, and we want people to feel sorry for us, but yet when they do, we say we don’t need your help. It makes us bad as they are, it makes us ignorant and can also lead your generation and mine off the red road, we start drinking and beating our children and wives, suicide, because there is nothing here, nothing to do, but yet we don’t blame ourselves for trying to make it a better place, instead we blame others for our problems and not even try to make it right. Even the whites are living like we are, in poverty, but they do not blame us for it, but yet we blame them for our poverty. Yes we all have our problems but blaming one another is not going to help,” said the keynote speaker. 

The bell rang and the keynote speaker said, 

“Never forget who you are, or where you came from, don’t be ashamed of who you are, keep you head of and keep going, things will get better,” said the keynote speaker.