Complacency in my vote.

As many of you know, Barak Obama has become America's 44th president of the United States of America. These long months and even years of rigorous campaigning has finally paid off. I congratulate Mr. Obama for this victory, but more importantly to the victory of our democracy. The American Dream is still alive. This has proven we are still a country of hopes and dreams.

As a Native American, Obama's victory means we finally have a president that has acknowledged our plight as well as our existence in this great country of ours. The promises he has made to 'Indian Country' was a moment we have waited more than a lifetime for. Our failing health care will finally get the much needed attention we so eagerly deserve. Treaty rights which have been abandoned by past administrations will finally be upheld. And finally, much needed funding for programs which will insure that our cultures and languages will not fade into the past. For without our culture and language, we are not a people.

For those who did not support Obama/Biden, I pray that you'll work together with everyone to ensure that our great country does not slip back into the dangerous cycle it has found itself in. For divide we fall but united we stand. Let us not forget why many flock to our shores and our cities for that ever elusive hope, the opportunity to live one's life free of governments which subject without mercy, that rule without compassion and religions which suppress. Now is the time to show the world that though we may have our differences, we are still one nation INDIVISIBLE.

Personally, I am filled with the hope which I thought burned out four years ago. My soul and my heart are full of joy and jubilation which I have not experience in such a long time, excluding meeting the love of my life. Here is to the future, here is to hope, here is to a country which has overcome its own diversity.

God Bless America and God Bless the World.