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. If I can get ten of them done, I will be thrilled.
- Algonquian languages
- Amazonia
- Andrew Jackson
- Black Seminoles
- bow and arrow
- Cherokee Freedmen
- Cherokee language
- code talker
- Crazy Horse
- Dennis Banks
- Doctrine of Discovery
- Eastern Woodland
- Indian reservation
- Indian treaties
- Las Casas
- Manhattan in the 1500s
- Manhattan in the 1600s
- Mayan calendar
- Mound Builders
- Native Americans and police brutality
- Navajos
- North America, the last 13,000 years
- Oka Crisis
- St Kateri Tekakwitha
- Trump and Native Americans
- UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples
- vanishing languages
- Vikings and Native Americans
- Vine Deloria Jr
- wampum
In addition, I have some long overdue 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):
- Kashtin: Tshinanu (Our People)
- Maria Tallchief
- How to study the Whites
- Indian miseducation
- Robbie Robertson: Peyote Healing
- The Delaware Indians – where are they now?
- Gnadenhutten
If you have any suggestions, especially on music, please leave them in the comments below.
Thank you!
– Abagond, 2017.
See also:
WOW, sure, but they are from, like, 2 years ago, I’m not sure if they have to be checked for updates or not. I had to return my book on Indians of Southern Maryland to the original owner, so I no longer have my key reference book in my hand. I can easily ask someone to verify information.
I was going to get a private tour of the Pamunkey reservation on my last trip to the USA, but it didn’t work out. I am still planning to do it next time. I have joined an online group seeking to revive the Piscataway Algonquian language, which is using the Lenape language as a reference point.
I also started to draft a few other posts back then that I never finished. I guess there is no rush.
2 other updates:
I took a friend from HK to DC with me 2 months ago, and we got a private tour of the Smithsonian NMAI by one of their Native American educational consultants. My friend, who is a journalist in HK, then wrote a post on HIS blog about the experience. Maybe I can ask him he would like to share it here.
I also took him to see a recreated Native American village in Maryland illustrating what the local longhouses looked like.
I strongly recommend that you go down to DC to the NMAI, not just the one in Manhattan, which really doesn’t have much stuff there. There is a lot of information at the one in DC, esp. on Treaties. What’s more, maybe you can spend a day in the Vine Deloria Jr. Library in Suitland, MD (about 20 mins. metro ride from the National Mall).
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My votes on the list above:
** Cherokee Freedmen (esp. given the court ruling 2 months ago about their status in the tribe)
** Trump and Native Americans (esp. re: DAPL and his policy about native Americans in New York and New Jersey)
** Treaties / Wampum (Actually, these are quite linked together which is explained in the NMAI in DC — not so much at the one in NYC). Treaties were woven into a wampum.
I can try to get a recommendation for music maybe.
Maybe include at least one post on Inuit?
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Reblogged this on Project ENGAGE.
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Music Suggestions (all are on YouTube):
⚬Stand Up / Stand N Rock (#NoDAPL)
⚬A Tribe Called Red
⚬Supaman
⚬the Northern Cree Singers
⚬the 1491s comedy group (some of their skits are in song form)
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Perhaps not this year, but I think a post about the Comanche Horse Empire would be a fascinating read.
I can relay an article that cites source material that might be helpful. Let me know if you want me to email it to you.
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Votes:
⚬Cherokee Freedmen
⚬Dennis Banks
⚬Native Americans and police brutality
⚬Oka Crisis
⚬Trump and Native Americans
⚬vanishing languages
⚬Vine Deloria Jr
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Everything that Jeff’s and Solitaire recommended and the following:
Black Seminoles, Crazy Horse, Vikings and Native Americans, Robbie Robertson, Carlos Nakai, Ghost Dance.
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@anonymous
A post entitled “Ghost Dance” was already posted last year.
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Lumbee Indians
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Tiya Miles would be a great person to guest post on the relationship between Native and African Americans.
I also vote for a post on the doctrine of discovery.
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A post should be done on Prima ballerina Maria Tallchief and Native American spirituality and Native American folklore. And a post on the offensive mascots of sports teams America is so hypocritical about patriotism and and respect for the flag but the dominant culture will not respect the first Americans.
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@ Jefe
Thanks
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Doctrine of Discovery
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I think a post on the Esopus Wars would be interesting.
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A post on Pontiac the Ottawa War Chief.
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Koyaanisqatsi?
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I don’t know if the URL will show up, but my friend GW Galbreath has a radio program dedicated to Native music called “view from the shore”. You can find his playlists here:
http://spinitron.com/radio/playlist.php?station=kaos&djuid=44#here
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So, do you want to put up any of those posts drafted a couple years ago?
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I think a post on Tecumseh would be good he was a fighter and resistor against the colonization of his people. I was listening to Chauncey DeVaga podcast and he read a very impassioned speech by Tecumseh speech to the Osages (Winter 1811- 12) is very powerful. He was very intelligent and eloquent.
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A post on The Code Talkers and 45 and his disrespect at event honoring Navajo Code Talkers is so disgusting and disgraceful.
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OMG, could anything be any more cringetastic?
Trump makes ‘Pocahontas’ joke at ceremony honoring Navajo veterans
Addressing Native American veterans of the second world war, the president repeated a favorite racial taunt about Democratic senator Elizabeth Warren
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/nov/27/trump-makes-pocahontas-joke-at-ceremony-honoring-navajo-veterans
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@ jefe
Yes, I saw it at CNN website too,
http://edition.cnn.com/2017/11/27/politics/trump-pocahontas-navajo-code-talkers/index.html
It was not right.
I can’t believe that an adult individual can’t understand that a joke that makes him/her laugh can also hurt other people and therefore shouldn’t be told at their presence.
The President should have keep that joke to himself and his closest friends.
Just my opinion.
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^ I first saw it posted by Native American friends.
I didn’t realize until after I posted that he said those things with a prominent portrait of Andrew Jackson on the wall behind him. Does he have any idea what that image means to Native Americans?
This is precisely why we need to have this stuff taught in school. How can we ever heal from the nation’s legacy of pain and sorrow if we simply ignore it?
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@ Abagond
I don’t know if we are already past the Native American Heritage Month and I don’t know if you would accept to extend the reflections about descendants of these First People in the USA to other American Nations, but, anyway I thought if you could bring the folks in this forum to think about Evo Morales.
Evo Morales was the first Native American of his nation to become President (breaking the usual unwritten rule that allowed only Whites for Presidents there).
Kinda a Mandela or Obama of sorts!
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Just learned that the word “Eskimo” is derogatory. The Inuit people are what the proper name of thiese Native Americans from Alaska should be referenced to. I can’t phantom how they must have felt about the ice cream treat called “Eskimo Pie.” Eskimo means eater of raw meat.
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@ Mary
What about the broader term, “Native Alaskan”. We have a family friend from the Aleutian Islands and I’ve heard her correct people that have referred to her as Inuit. Although, I’ve also heard her use Eskimo in conversation with kids.
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@Open Minded Observer
I was just going to come back and post that i read “Native Alaskan” was a more preferable term. Thanks for the entertainment I appreciate your post.
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