#First Peoples

[troythecatfish]

[blondebrainpowered]

Leather jacket Arizona, United States, Western Apache culture, 19th century 

[tlatollotl]

textile

Cultures/periods: Nasca

Production date: 100-400

Made in: Peru

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

Funerary mantle fragments; cross knit loop stitch; camelid fibre; row of knitted birds alternating with flower motifs along the centre with flower motifs along each edge; mutli-coloured: reds, greens, blues, browns.

British Museum

[ancestorsalive]

(via The Prehistoric Ages: How Humans Lived Before Written Records)

[victusinveritas]

This post is about a Paleoamerican skeleton found in the Yucatan.

"In pre-Mayan Mexico, a slender, bucktoothed 15- or 16-year-old girl fell into a flooded, underground cavern about 12,000 years ago. She was a Paleoamerican, with features more akin to Africans and Southeast Asians than modern Native Americans. DNA collected from one of her molars reveals a direct connection to the people who crossed the Bering land bridge from Siberia more than 18,000 years ago. The discovery greatly extends the range of DNA information about Paleoamericans." Credit: The Washington Post.

[ometochtli2rabbit]

[forgedfromlove]

From @ttnewsday on Instagram:

"The Santa Rosa First Peoples community remember their ancestors at the Red House on October 16. Chief Richardo Bharath Hernandez spoke on the significance of the event.”

[salrikstrongbow]

From the amazing island empire of Waori'lu'kalai, one of the Great Powers in my City of Wizards book series! The Island of Waori is home to the capital and is roughly the size of Australia, with many similarities to the real world continent - including the amount of deadly land flora, fauna and landmarks.

Waori'lu'kalai has approximately two hundred smaller islands united under what was originally a federation of sea-faring tribes. One of the most famous locales is the Island of Wah'hi, which has a staggeringly large population of dwarves. An ancient settlement, Pahak'hi, was actually built into the local volcanic mountains by the locals who have flourished over time, and were one of the founding cultural members of the original Waori federation. The Pahak'hi people are legendarily daring warriors and skilled craftsmen, and honor their history and traditions very strictly - examplified by the Pahak'hi smith featured above!

[flightyquinn]

So...

Middle Earth has potatoes and pipeweed. There are mounds where the dead were buried. And according to Tolkien, they didn't actually speak any known European languages, so he had to translate it all.

I think I know where the Shire is.

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

Can you talk about Gladue Reports for Native criminals? I was SA'd as a child by a Native man and I remember his lawyer reading a Gladue Report for him during sentencing and it felt like such a slap in the face to me, because it basically excused everything he did to me without him actually having to take responsibility. That's just my opinion though, would love to hear yours.

To be honest, I had to look it up as I'd not encountered the term before. And I agree with you, the whole thing is repugnant.

Essentially, a Gladue Report is the opposite of a victim impact statement. Instead of a victim describing how the crime has impacted their life, it's the perpetrator saying why what they did is somehow mitigated by the fact they're native/indigenous/first peoples.

What this says is, this group of people over here can't be expected to behave according to the norms of the society in which they live and were born into, so we should lower our standards and stop expecting them to. It's the bigotry of low expectations.

That somehow the sexual assault this man perpetrated against you is lessened or less of a crime because the man who did it is indigenous/native/whatever we're calling it now. He's less in control of and responsible for his own actions and less able to learn to behave right.

Imagine being able to say, I'm of Slavic descent and my ancestors were enslaved throughout the Middle East, therefore when I murder someone it's less of a crime because history or something. Or, many of the first Europeans in Australia were convicts who were shipped out having committed only minor crimes in Britain, so a descendant of those people gets a lighter sentence because history and deportation and shit.

Ridiculous.

In looking into this, I went down a bit of a rabbit hole regarding indigenous violence. As I've mentioned before, there's a myth that native people were peaceful and coexisted with each other and nature until the evil settlers arrived. Except this isn't true. Natives made alliances with settlers in many cases, in order to gain access to the weapons to exterminate their enemies. (They really needed Starfleet's rules around the Prime Directive, First Contact and not granting access to alien technology back then.)

In many communities with a high percentage of native people with tribal backgrounds, violence occurs at a higher rate per capita than other communities/populations. And this is across multiple countries: USA, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and so on. Tribal customs of retaliation or score-settling are common. But nobody wants to talk about or address this because racism, colonialism, white guilt, something, something, something.

And yet, the existence of Gladue Reports at all is covertly an admission of this reality.

Lower violence is actually associated with strong centralized government, where violent deaths occur in the low single digit percentages... at their worst. Which is the absolute lower band of tribal societies and only goes up from there.

Bringing it back to the point, the legal system said to you, what you went through is less serious or less of a crime because of who he is.

In essence, it's like saying that he owes you $1,000 for what he did to you.... but you owe him $500 because of something he didn't experience that you didn't do, so he only owes you $500 and then you're even.

Or, more insidiously, that society owes him some proportion of a sexual assault, and disturbingly, you're the one to pay him the reparations he's owed.

Ridiculous, racist and utterly immoral.

[troythecatfish]

[vinylluver]

Vote YES and lets recognise the first Peoples of Australia 💛🖤❤️

[blondebrainpowered]

Leather jacket decorated with glass beads. Great Plains, Lakota peoples, 19th century 

Museum. This jacket features beaded pictographic motifs that likely detail biographical and historical narratives. For centuries, Plains Indian artist painted buffalo hides with family and community histories. The United States’ buffalo eradication program forced artists to adapt their paintings to paper, canvas, and muslin in what came to be known as ledger art. A female artist beaded this buckskin jacket with pictographic motifs, reinterpreting the art form back onto leather.

[tlatollotl]

textile

Cultures/periods: Tiahuanaco (?)

Production date: 600-900

Made in: Peru

Provenience unknown, possibly looted

Textile fragment; cotton warps with camelid fibre wefts; tapestry (?); segemented design; row of bird (or llama?) figures on coloured rectangular backgrounds, each dangling a trophy head from the mouth; red, green, indigo, browns and white.

British Museum

[ancestorsalive]

(via Mammoths and early human society)

“Bones and Ivory: Mammoth bones and ivory were valuable resources for early humans. Bones were used for crafting tools, such as needles, awls, and harpoons. The ivory tusks, which could reach several meters in length, were especially prized for their durability and suitability for carving into various objects, including weapons, jewelry, and art. Mammoth bones and tusks were also used as construction materials by early humans. Mammoth bones and tusks also served as fuel sources. They were burned as a source of heat and light, particularly in regions where wood was scarce.”

- Source: https://archaeologymag.com/2023/08/mammoths-and-early-human-society/

Photo above: "Mammoth House" as shown at the "Frozen Woolly Mammoth Yuka Exhibit" made with real mammoth fossils (bones and tusks). Image by Nandaro CC by 3.0 “Archaeologists have recently uncovered the remains of a 40-foot wide, circular hut made entirely of mammoth bones. That includes tusks, skulls, and bones of over 60 woolly mammoths in Russia. The structure appears to be about 25,000 years old. Now they’re wondering what the structure could have been used for.” - Source: https://www.thevintagenews.com/2020/03/23/mammoth-bones-structure/