Rhonda Warren
Name: Rhonda Warren
Tribe: Pokagon Potawatomi
Tribal Position: Tribal member.
Profession: Tribal receptionist.
Education: High school diploma, certified massage therapist.
Favorite Sports: Football, Notre Dame.
Hobbies/Special Interests: Beading, exercising, Native language.
Religion: Traditional Native American.
Ways you celebrate being an American Indian: The way I live my life, the NDN way.
Ways you preserve your culture and heritage: Listening to elders, learning something new everyday about our ways, passing it on to my children and teaching them.
Do you speak your tribal language? Somewhat.
Misconceptions: That we don’t exist anymore, that we act the way the T.V. has us acting.\
Offensive words/actions: squaw, savage, red man, scalping, “whooting” with their mouth, the media with their stereo typing.
Edited 11/15/12: Image removed by request.
