The Mayan Long Count date for November 10th 2018.
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.
Because Hispanic Heritage Month was such a bust, this year I am giving most of my attention to Meso-America, past and present.
Posts I might do:
- The caravan
- Hondura
- Chiapas
- Olmecs
- Zapotecs
- Maya
- The Maya in the 900s
- The Maya in the 1900s
- Mayan religion
- Mayan languages
- Mayan books
- Toltecs
- Aztecs
- Quetzalcoatl
- The goddess Tonantzin
- Montezuma
- Bartolome de Las Casas
- The Three Sisters (maize, beans, squash)
- burrito
- rubber
- tobacco
- chocolate
- chilli
- turkeys
Posts I have actually done so far:
Suggestions: If you have a post suggestion or want to second one, please leave a comment below.
Thank you!
– Abagond, 2018.
See also:
- Native Heritage Month: 2014. 2015, 2016, 2017
- Meso-America
- Columbian Exchange
Abagond 
I’d like to suggest the encomienda system, with emphasis on its effects on the Indigenous peoples of Meso-America.
Seconding:
– The caravan
– Honduras
– Chiapas
– The Maya in the 900s
– The Maya in the 1900s
– Mayan books
– Montezuma
– The Three Sisters (maize, beans, squash)
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@Abagond: Surely you will do a post on Sharice Davids and Deb Haaland the two Native Americans elected to Congress?
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@ Mary Burrell
Excellent suggestion!
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@Solitaire: You made good suggestions for post as well.
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@ Mary Burrell
It is so exciting to have two Native women in Congress!
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Senate[edit]
Picture
Senator
(lifespan)
Tribal Ancestry
State
Party
Term start
Term end
Notes
Hiram Revels
(1827–1901)
Lumbee
Mississippi
Republican
February 23, 1870
March 4, 1871
Resigned to become the President of Alcorn State University
Robert Owen
(1856–1947)
Cherokee
Oklahoma
Democratic
December 11, 1907
March 4, 1925
Retired
Charles Curtis
(1860–1936)
Kaw,
Osage,
Potawatomi
Kansas
Republican
January 29, 1907
January 3, 1913
Lost reelection
March 4, 1915
March 4, 1929
Served as President pro tempore and Majority Leader
Resigned after being elected Vice President
Paul Husting
(1866–1917)
Menominee
Wisconsin
Democratic
March 4, 1915
October 21, 1917
Died in office
Ben Campbell
(born 1933)
Northern Cheyenne
Colorado
Democratic (1993–1995)
January 3, 1993
January 3, 2005
Retired
Republican (1995-2005)
House of Representatives[edit]
Picture
Representative
(lifespan)
Tribal Ancestry
State
Party
Term start
Term end
Notes
John Floyd
(1783–1837)
Powhatan
Virginia
Democratic-Republican
March 4, 1817
March 4, 1829
Later served as Governor of Virginia
Retired
Richard H. Cain
(1825–1887)
Cherokee
South Carolina
Republican
March 4, 1873
March 4, 1875
Retired
March 4, 1877
March 4, 1879
John Mercer Langston
(1829–1897)
Pamunkey
Virginia
Republican
September 23, 1890
March 3, 1891
Lost Reelection
Charles Curtis
(1860–1936)
Kaw,
Osage,
Potawatomi
Kansas
Republican
March 4, 1893
January 28, 1907
Retired to become U.S. Senator from Kansas
Charles Carter
(1868–1929)
Chickasaw
Oklahoma
Democratic
November 16, 1907
March 4, 1927
Lost renomination
William Hastings
(1866–1938)
Cherokee
Oklahoma
Democratic
March 4, 1915
March 4, 1921
Lost reelection
March 4, 1923
January 3, 1935
Retired
Will Rogers Jr.
(1911–1993)
Cherokee
California
Democratic
January 3, 1943
May 23, 1944
Resigned to join the U.S. Army
William Stigler
(1891–1952)
Choctaw
Oklahoma
Democratic
March 28, 1944
August 21, 1952
Died in office
Ben Reifel
(1906–1990)
Rosebud Sioux
South Dakota
Republican
January 3, 1961
January 3, 1971
Retired
Floyd Hicks
(1915–1992)
Paiute,
Shoshone
Washington
Democratic
January 3, 1965
January 3, 1977
Retired
Clem McSpadden
(1925–2008)
Cherokee
Oklahoma
Democratic
January 3, 1973
January 3, 1975
Retired to run unsuccessfully for the nomination to the Oklahoma gubernatorial election, 1974
Ben Campbell
(born 1933)
Northern Cheyenne
Colorado
Democratic
January 3, 1987
January 3, 1993
Retired to run successfully for the United States Senate election in Colorado, 1992
Brad Carson
(born 1967)
Cherokee
Oklahoma
Democratic
January 3, 2001
January 3, 2005
Retired to run unsuccessfully for the United States Senate election in Oklahoma, 2004
Tom Cole
(born 1949)
Chickasaw
Oklahoma
Republican
January 3, 2003
present
Travis Childers
(born 1958)
Chickasaw,
Choctaw
Mississippi
Democratic
May 13, 2008
January 3, 2011
Lost reelection
Markwayne Mullin
(born 1977)
Cherokee
Oklahoma
Republican
January 3, 2013
present
This is a list of Native Americans who served as senators or congressmen. Solitaire, were you “excited” by any of them? What makes these ladies exciting? Their gender and race, or their political programs?
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black and native american? ooh i had a girlfriend once, anyway
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@ Gro Jo
You just have to rain on my parade.
“This is a list of Native Americans who served as senators or congressmen. Solitaire, were you “excited” by any of them?”
How many of them served before I was born? Looks like the majority. Kind of hard for me to have been excited by their election when it happened 100+ years ago.
“What makes these ladies exciting? Their gender and race, or their political programs?”
I’m quite willing to admit it mostly is that they are Native women. It is always exciting to see someone break a barrier and become a “first,” especially when that makes our federal government more representative of the
diverse nation we live in.
Native women face some very specific problems that have largely been swept under the rug (and in the midterms they just lost one of the few non-Native senators who actually was trying to do something for them). It’s fantastic that Congress will now include Native women in seats of power advocating for their own causes.
It would be lovely if the election of Native women was nothing to get excited about — but that would mean it happens all the time. Which it doesn’t. Not yet.
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The caravan. LOLLOLOLOLOL, open the borders and let the illegals in poor black people don’t need jobs, while the middle class whites and blacks don’t have to worry about the caravan.
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@ Gro Jo
Also, just so this is clear: If I lived in either woman’s jurisdiction and she had been on my ballot, I would have thoroughly researched her political programs and platform. And if I felt that I in good conscience could not vote for her, I would have voted against her.
I won’t vote for someone just because of their gender, race, religion, sexual orientation, etc. That doesn’t mean I can’t be happy when another glass ceiling is broken.
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“How many of them served before I was born? Looks like the majority. Kind of hard for me to have been excited by their election when it happened 100+ years ago.”
Cute but irrelevant. You are among the better educated people who hang out on this forum, so, I felt you’d be up on the history of Indians elected to congress and the senate. What did they do that benefited the average Indian? How will the women you found so exciting do better?
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@ Gro Jo
“Cute but irrelevant.”
I beg to differ. You asked me if I found them exciting in the same way. I don’t get excited about “firsts” that happened over a century ago. Why would I?
But I’d be excited in the same way about a contemporary Native American man if he had just broken a similar glass ceiling, like becoming a Supreme Court justice or POTUS. Ceiling-breaking represents progress, and that in and of itself is exciting to me.
“How will the women you found so exciting do better?”
You’re putting words in my mouth. I don’t know that they will do better. Part of the excitement is that I’m interested in seeing how they will do and what they will do. Nevertheless, I’m fully aware they may turn out to be disappointments.
But if nothing else, they will serve as inspirations to Native American girls and young women of what it is capable to achieve. Hopefully some of those young Indian women will go on to not just equal but surpass their role models.
“You are among the better educated people who hang out on this forum, so, I felt you’d be up on the history of Indians elected to congress and the senate.”
God in heaven, why do you expect me to know everything? You really might as well be my dad, you sound just like him.
First off, your list includes people who had — or may possibly have had — a small amount of Indian blood but who were not necessarily Indian in upbringing, culture, heritage, and/or affiliation.
As far as I’m aware, Hiram Revels identified primarily as black and dedicated his career to issues intended to help black people. There seems to be some doubt as to whether he had any significant connection to the Lumbee either by blood or culture.
Richard H. Cain and John Mercer Langston also appear to have identified primarily as black.
The following politicians on your list appear to have primarily identified as white: Paul Husting, John Floyd, Will Rogers Jr., William Stigler, Floyd Hicks, Clem McSpadden, Brad Carson, and Travis Childers.
So on to the remainder.
“What did they do that benefited the average Indian?”
Robert Owen’s legal career prior to his election is full of positive work for Natives, especially territorial and mineral rights issues. Once elected, he played a major role in the passage of the act that granted U.S. citizenship to residents in Indian Territory and continued to advocate for a variety of Native causes.
Charles Carter was also involved in Native concerns throughout his life and was chairman of the Congressional Committee on Indian Affairs.
Charles Curtis supported and expanded the Dawes Act, which is now seen as a huge mistake but at the time was a very progressive policy in that it assumed Indians were fully capable of anything whites could do instead of being an inferior race doomed to rapid extinction.
Ben Campbell was a strong advocate of Native issues during his entire political career.
Ben Reifel was an active proponent of bettering Native education and eliminating the notorious BIA boarding schools.
Tom Cole has advocated for Native sovereignty issues.
As far as I can tell, Markwayne Mullin has done jacksquat.
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Seeing as how huge swaths of lands which are now States, were stolenfrom Mexico; I see it as reclaimation. Sod off!
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Second:
* The Caravan
* The Three Sisters
and any selection from historical Meso-America.
Would prefer a couple of topics from modern Meso-America, including perhaps, some explanation of the social factors which create such caravans.
Finally, I sent in a number of drafts a few years ago, but not on meso-America. If there is any interest in those, I can revisit them to see if they need to be updated.
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@Jeff
You can blame Brazil for the crisis in Honduras. Obedrecht is like the financial site of a huge criminal organization whose boss was brazilian former president Lula (2003-2016). And the dictatorship of Honduras was financed by this ORCRIM
https://www.laprensa.hn/honduras/1215442-410/odebrecht-honduras-corrupcion-pago-soborno-marcelo-odebrecht-
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@ Alberto Monteiro
The blame for the crisis in Honduras leads back to Washington, not Brasilia. HRClinton, the Republicans and the US military all worked together to support the people behind the 2009 military coup in Honduras.
According to a 2017 Intercept article, after the coup, high level Honduran military officers, politicians and business leaders came to Washington to lobby Congress and the Obama administration.
How did they sell the coup? The Intercept reports:
https://theintercept.com/2017/08/29/honduras-coup-us-defense-departmetnt-center-hemispheric-defense-studies-chds/
It is their brutality and degradation of Honduran society that is at the root of the current caravan and the others that came before. They have created a society so violent and insecure that people are fleeing to save their lives and the lives of their children.
Lula and the Partido dos Trabalhadores had little to do with the current mess in Honduras.
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Another way to combine Native American Heritage Month:
Discuss how the relationships between Native Americans and Hispanics
(and between Native tribes) evolved in the Southwest quadrant of the US during the Spanish colonial period and the Mexican period, and how that developed after the US wrested that territory from Mexico.
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@ Abagond
Native American relations with non-tribal police.
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