We Americans should be doing whatever we can to preserve Native American culture, for it is the only true American culture that we have. I'm descended from Lebanese and European immigrants. There's no one group that I can say I belong to. I lived in North Dakota for more than 20 years, and I never truly felt that I belonged there. Native Americans belong to the land. They belong to the North American continent they have been inhabiting for 10,000 years. It was not ours to take from them. They earned the name "Fighting Sioux" defending their land from the settlers, and from other tribes. They earn my respect by the way they treat the land, by the way they value families, and of course, their bravery. I want every American to be able to appreciate Native American culture, and learn from it. If I still lived in Grand Forks, I would be fighting to protect the name by praising the people it belongs to.