Welcome to Native American Heritage Month, which in the US is in November. During this month I try to do some posts having to do with Native America, particularly that of the US.
Here is my current working list of possible posts, listed in alphabetical order. There is no way I can do them all in a month. I will be thrilled if I get ten of them done. If you have a suggestion, please add it in the comments below.
- Aleut prison camps
- Algonquian languages
- Andrew Jackson
- Attawapiskat First Nation
- Aztecs
- Bartolome de Las Casas
- Cherokee Freedmen
- Choctaws
- Columbian Exchange
- Crazy Horse
- Dakota Access Pipeline (#NoDAPL)
- Dead Indian Land
- Doctrine of Discovery
- Eastern Woodland
- Leonard Peltier
- Lumbee
- maize
- Manhattan: the 1500s
- Manhattan: the 1600s
- Mayan calendar
- Munsee
- Native Americans and police brutality
- North America: the last 13,000 years
- Pine Ridge Reservation
- Seminoles
- Two Spirit
- UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- US triumphalism
- Vikings and Native Americans
- Vine Deloria Jr
- wampum
- Wovoka
In addition, I have some guest posts by Jefe in the pipeline, which might go up if he is available.
Here are the posts I have done so far (to be filled in as they are posted):
- Americans
- Blue Flamez: Rez Life
- Rona Yellow Robe: Shoot for the Moon
- Thanksgiving 2016
- Ghost Dance
- Redbone: Witch Queen of New Orleans
- Sage Honga
- Jackie Salyers
- Young Bear: Mama’s Boy
- #NoDAPL
- Navajo Night Chant
- Leonard Peltier
- The Natchez
- maize
- Munsee
– Abagond, 2016.
See also:
I would be excited to see your posts on Vikings & Native Americans and on the last 13,000 years of Turtle Islander history.
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These are all interesting, but I would really like to see the Dakota Access Pipeline and the one on police brutality since they are going on right now.
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@Solitaire
Me too and how whites actually thought a great “costume” was to mock those protesting the pipeline.
http://indiancountrytodaymedianetwork.com/2016/10/30/nodapl-water-protector-halloween-costumes-hit-social-media-166276
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@ Sharina
Wow! I hadn’t seen that one yet. It’s bad enough the usual war bonnet Halloween outfits, but this one really takes the cake.
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Reblogged this on The Militant Negro™.
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@ LoM
It wasn’t my suggestion — it’s in Abagond’s list above. I’m just voting for it to happen this month.
Is the Republic of Lakotah even a thing anymore since Russell Means passed?
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Solitaire
Agreed. I just can’t not understand what would make a person hinkle this is a joke.
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@Abagond,
Sorry, been very busy lately, but if you decide to select any of those old drafts, I’ll be happy to take a final look. I also have about 3 more that I started but never sent to you. Maybe I could try to finish them too.
All of the other topics are good. If there is any other interest, I’d like to see some posts on the treaties with the US (or its colonial predecessors). It could be about a specific treaty, or about treaties in general. They could also tie in with some of the other topics.
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@ Sharina
Same here. I just can’t get my mind around why someone would do such a thing.
I mean, obviously there’s some deep racist stereotypes going on with the booze and all. But how can anyone joke about a protest to (among other things) protect clean water???
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@ Jefe
Dude. I was seriously worried you’d been abducted on the mainland. Don’t scare me like that.
Welcome back.
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@Solitaire…“…I would really like to see the Dakota Access Pipeline and the one on police brutality since they are going on right now.”
Agreed! Saw this today — https://nycstandswithstandingrock.wordpress.com and the #STANDINGROCKSYLLABUS page so far, (cuz I’ve not read all of it) offers some very good information laying out the hows, whys and wherefores of how it got to this point.
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the cultus of st kateri tekakwitha
the life of st junipero serra
the life of bishop vasco de quiroga
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@ Deb
Great links, thanks!
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@Solitaire…No problem! Abagond’s is definitely a learning place for my old behind, so whenever I can add/share something — I try to reciprocate.
Peace…
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Native Americans and police brutality, Cherokee Freedmen and if you can find anything out on Choctaw Freedmen.
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I would love to see a write up on Native Americans and police brutality. There are fewer cameras on the Rez so a lot of beatings, killings and jailhouse “suicides” are never reported to the public.
Counterpunch writer, Paul Street describes some of the extreme violence being used against the protesters/protectors in North Dakota:
http://www.counterpunch.org/2016/10/28/standing-rock-water-protectors-waterboarded-while-the-cleveland-indians-romped/
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Vine Deloria would be a great choice.
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@Abagond…another helpful link? https://www.fold3.com/?xid=2039&utm_source=content&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=odp-na-nov2016
Also, I’d like to hear your take on the Black Seminoles, Gullah people who fled slavery in SC & GA about whom Joseph Opala wrote extensively. Thanx!
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@ Afrofem
All three of those techniques in the part you quoted were used at Abu Ghraib, which makes me wonder how many of the Morton County officers are former military from the Middle Eastern oil wars.
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@Solitaire
When I read about the abuses of Abu Ghraib, I wondered how long before they showed up domestically as blowback from that war of aggression.
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@Deb
Thanks for the link. Great resource!
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Oh please, yes, let’s have a post on French Quebec’s relations with First Nations people.
We can start here: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oka_Crisis
And for your viewing pleasure: https://www.nfb.ca/film/kanehsatake_270_years_of_resistance/
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Reblogged this on Steph's Blog and commented:
I love this post!
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Please do Vine Deloria, Jr!!! I vote also for Cherokee Freedom. ~^_^~
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@lord of mirkwood -If Spanish territories and French Quebec are opposites and Quebec was an example of racial co-existence, why are there nearly Native people left in Quebec (mixed or otherwise), and nearly every person in Latin America is at least part Native? It is not as straightforward as you are portraying.
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*nearly no Native people in Quebec
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@ Deb
Thanks for the link. A post on Black Seminoles is a wonderful idea. Thanks!
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@ Jefe
Doing a post on a treaty is a great idea. I will probably wind up doing the one underlying the #NoDAPL protest.
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@Afrofem…You’re welcome, Sister! We all gotta keep teachin’ & learnin’, right? I’m so damned grateful I get to do both, here at Abagond’s!
@Abagond…You’re welcome, Dear-heart! I’ll be lookin’ for that post on the Black Seminoles should you decide to do it. I promise, I’ll share it far & wide here at home because, having been home now for a little over two years, there are so many of us here, who’ve NO CLUE (cuz we were never taught, nor did most of us seek out — the truth) of how absolutely GRAND were the ancestors from whence we came!
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Abagond, in an earlier thread on Native Americans you had published a quote of a Native American chieftain on how the white settlers, no matter the hospitality shown them, were bent on wiping out the Native Americans. I should have saved that but I didnt and could never retrieve it. Have you an idea of what I’m talking about?
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@ Joe
It sounds like something I would have done, but I cannot recall if or where I did that.
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@ Abagond
Will you be doing any Native American music on Sundays?
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I think another good topic for this month would be implication for Native Americans under a Trump presidency. Is he expected to reverse any of the initiatives under Obama?
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@ Jefe
Good suggestion. His track record is less than stellar:
“In 2000, when New York was considering expanding Native American casinos in the Catskill Mountains, a series of TV, newspaper and radio ads popped up in the state accusing the Mohawk Indian tribe of having long criminal records and ties to the mob. The ads showed pictures of cocaine lines and syringes and asked: “Are these the new neighbors we want?”
“As far as the public knew, the ads were sponsored by a newly formed group called the Institute for Law and Safety. The group claimed that it was funded by 12,000 “grass-roots, pro-family” donors.
“But in reality, it was bankrolled by Trump’s casino company. [Trump’s lobbyist and adviser Roger] Stone asked a friend to pose as the group’s leader, but Stone designed the ads and Trump signed off on them. “Roger, this could be good!” Trump scrawled on a proof of the ad with the cocaine lines and syringes, according to documents first reported last month by the Los Angeles Times. Another ad warned of the ills that casino gambling would bring to the community: “increased crime, broken families, bankruptcies, and in the case of the Mohawks, violence.” Trump paid more than $1 million for the campaign.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/donald-trumps-long-history-of-clashes-with-native-americans/2016/07/25/80ea91ca-3d77-11e6-80bc-d06711fd2125_story.html
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There is absolutely no doubt in my mind that he would like to dismantle the American Indian tribal federal recognition system, recover their land, discontinue their tax breaks, and break whatever treaty that the US has not been broken yet.
Obama relaxed it to some extent, eg, relaxing the need to demonstrate blood quantum (at least on a federal level) to apply for federal recognition – many individual tribes have blood quantum requirements).
Now, I might welcome some control on the malfeasance of some tribes, esp. those which oust members in order to concentrate the benefits of federal recognition into a smaller pool of hands. But, he won’t do that.
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I support the Native Americans in North Dakota Water Is Life.
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I support the Native Americans in North Dakota at Standing Rock. Water Is Life.
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