Welcome to Native American Heritage Month 2015!
November is Native American Heritage Month in the US. On this blog that means there will be two to three posts a week having to do with Native Americans. Last year was a bust, I know. I hope to do better this year.
If you have a suggestion for a post or want to do a guest post, please email me or leave a comment below.
I hope to post at least ten of these (I will fill in or add links as posts go up):
- Algonquian languages
- A Tribe Called Red ft Northern Voice: Sisters
- Bartolomé de las Casas
- Black Indians
- bison
- Buffalo Bill’s Wild West Show
- Chinese and Native Americans in the 1800s
- Dakotas
- Dark Water Rising: Backbone
- Dead Indian Land
- Eastern Woodland
- John Trudell
- Judy Kuhn: Colors of the Wind
- maize
- Manhattan: the 1500s
- Manhattan: the 1600s
- National Museum of the American Indian
- Native Americans
- Native Peoples of the Chesapeake Bay Region
- Occupation of Alcatraz
- Pine Ridge Reservation
- Seminoles
- Settlement of North America, English Style
- settler colonialism
- settler colonialism: consciousness
- settler colonialism: narrative
- settler colonialism: population
- settler colonialism: sovereignty
- Stereotypes about Native Americans
- The Pamunkey: Quest for Federal Recognition
- The Piscataway
- The Piscataway: pre-European Contact
- The Piscataway: English Colonial period
- The Piscataway: Identity Suppression through Slavery and Jim Crow
- The Piscataway: 20th Century Revival
- The term “redskin”
- The term “savage”
- Tracy Bone: Woman of Red
- Trail of Tears (play)
- Unthanksgiving Day – see the Occupation of Alcatraz
- Walter Plecker
- wampum
– Abagond, 2015.
See also:
Please do several posts on the Lumbee, Choctaw, and Seminoles during this month. This is long due. Native Americans are alive and well, not as mascots, symbols, or treated like third-class citizens just like us African Americans.
Thank you Abagond.
SB/Stephaniegirl/La Reyna
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Agabond,
Have you ever heard the song “Burn Your Village To The Ground” by Tribe Called Red?
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@ Anne
No. I will check it out. Thanks.
Something the list is missing is music!
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Wow, two requests for the Choctaws already!
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Make that Three for info about the Choctaws.
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I will try to get a music recommendation.
You had a post on Redbone before.
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A general post regarding the depiction of Native Americans in westerns? I’m not quite sure how that would be formatted but it’s an interesting subject.
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Here’s a group called ‘A Tribe Called Red’:
(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_zH9wHWMi_k)
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All these topics are great.
The only one I would add (as I think many of the readers here are interested) is the Cherokee Freedmen, as a follow up post to Black Indians. Black Seminoles might need a separate follow-up to both Seminoles and Black Indians.
Any or all of the Five Civilized Tribes (Cherokee, Chickasaw, Choctaw, Creek and Seminole) are all excellent topics.
I already spent too much time on Native American stuff this time, but in the future, something on the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) and the United National Indian Tribal Youth (UNITY) would be good. I attended one of the events of the latter in Washington, DC this past July.
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I think Ben Franklin’s view of the ‘savages’ would be interesting.
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As far as the stereotypes, I think that Ben Franklin’s account would be interesting.
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Found about this book to learn more about Black-Indian relations. It is on sale at the National Museum of the American Indian (but I suppose one can get it elsewhere).
IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas
(http://diasporicroots.tumblr.com/post/38980136150/would-you-know-of-any-books-that-relate-to-the)
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http://www.thedailybeast.com/cheats/2015/10/12/alaska-renames-columbus-day.html?via=newsletter&source=CSAMedition
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