#The Amery Legacy

[woseysims]

Meet Amerie

Named after one of my fave artists, Amerie (she/they) is a foodie, impulsive, awkward, an introvert, and a child of nature. Their aspiration is “Country Caretaker” and is currently unemployed. She lives in Henford-on-Badgley, after living in San Myshuno for most of their life. Amerie decided to move into their Aunt's country home to take a break from the fast-paced energy of the city.

Very excited to start my first legacy challenge and to see all the mess this sim gets into! Posting their home soon.

[saturdaytimesims]

[the-starry-seas]

So I guess it's as good a time as any to have a pinned post?

Hi, I'm Sticks! I use vae/vaer/vaers/vaerself and it/its pronouns. This is a multifandom blog with a dash of many other random things. I'm a proshipper, cloneshipper, multishipper, and polyshipper.

I'll tag things to the best of my ability if you ask. Sometimes I'll forget. I love being tagged in ask games, WIP games, last line challenges, literally whatever. Mutuals can DM for my discord.

You can check out my fics on AO3 at lizardwrites (Star Wars) or purpleturtle9000 (Rise/Bayverse TMNT). Or check the tag for sticks' fics to see drabbles and previews. My askbox is open for requests for more drabbles, headcanons, and general rambling.

Consider this a blanket permission for any and all transformative works of my writing. You may post translated versions of my fics on other sites but you may not repost the original work. And please show me what you've made!

I have a lot of OCs and I love talking about them. I also want to hear all about yours! In the meantime, there's a list of mine below the cut. tumblr wouldn't let me link all of them, but you can try copy-pasting the-starry-seas.tumblr.com/tagged/ and put in the character name (I tag with ranks, so put in CT Racer instead of just Racer).

The Murderbot Diaries:

Jude (she/they rogue SecUnit)

ROTTMNT:

Kestrel

Star Wars:

212th Squad (Boot, Mik, Squeaker, Moxie, Onion, Crumpet)

Aces Squad (CT Racer, CT Fury, CS Blue, CT Whisper, CT Ember)

B Roll, all-girls clone squad formed of Bark, Bite, Bumble, and Bee

Clone Force M (CT Winter, CT Bee, CT Indigo, CT Jewel, CC Nebula, CT Zenith, CT Sunny, CT Star, CT Sky, CT Silver)

Mar'eyce, modern AU Clone Force M, featuring the Smokejumpers

Ghost Squad (CL Harlow, CS Karla, CT Shay, CT Cavalry, CT Boom, CT Ray, CT Nox, CT Tally) and their associated Mandalorians

Green Squad (formerly) now civilians Aralyn, Berry, and Prey Drive

Royal Squad, five tubies adopted by the royal family in a nobody-dies Bail/Breha/Fox AU (Bug, Jaonyc, Yancy, Helio, Vidal)

Shili Squad (Chen Nihaan, Alyx, Bella, Corvin, Watcher, Atlas, Ginger, Circuit, and Synch)

Shiny Squad: Kit's batchmates CT Lucky, CT Shrike, and CT Carno

Grafitti & Rence of the Corrie Guard

Kit also of the Corrie Guard and Fox's shiny/adopted son

Legacy and Legend, a pair of Force-sensitive batchmates who are smuggled to a Jedi temple

Prim Fett (clone, Mandalorian, and adopted daughter of Boba)

Riye Verda (Kamino-cloned, Mandalorian-raised)

Switch (clone, reconditioned, cyborg, mercenary)

Kryndi (florist and Kit's girlfriend in the royal OT3 AU)

Cathedi (Jedi)

Xerin (Jedi)

Clan Merit, composed of Quin, Aya, and Amery (Mandalorians)

Mirshko (Mandalorian)

Torrak Varkus and Torrak Vermil (Mandalorian)

Vinir (Mandalorian)

Senaar, Rish'ak, Marev, and Maiangi from the Suum Ca'nara AU

Soruli and Seryla (Nautolan Jedi and Force-sensitive smuggler)

A'Hidayat (Tusken)

U'Rajya (Tusken)

Tusken OC umbrella tag

Ripper (Yautja in Star Wars)

Valkyries (all-women pirate crew-slash-polycule)

CC Kamor, Eixes Judarri, and Padawan Rivi from the Better or Worse AU, where a clone captain finds and adopts his general's padawan, with the help of the Zabrak smuggler who becomes his queerplatonic partner

Chen Xunielah, a Togruta ambassador and duchess, and her clone husband Chen Nihaan, who form the Chen family with their kids

Scrapper Crew, a collection of troublemaking ladies

Come Home AU, about Mando spouses separated by the Empire and later reunited

Mordex, a Force-sensitive kid enslaved by a Sith who later becomes a bounty hunter during the Clone Wars

And various SWTOR OCs, also an umbrella tag

Transformers:

Button

Chromeblaze

Demoiselle

Goldshot

Neutrobolt & Nitroblitz

Nightflash

Stormbrake

Voltcast

Various:

Rowan

[mademoisellefantasy]

" There has never been another Steve Rogers,has there? " | Captain Ameri...

Actually, this is soooo trueee!!!!!

As much as I like Sam Wilson as a character, it just wasn't the right decision for Marvel to replace Captain America. Maybe it makes sense in the comics where, because the storylines literally continue over decades, passing on the mantle of certain characters to others is narratively helpful and refreshing.

But in the MCU, it feels totally wrong. The whole point of Captain America being Steve and vice versa is that NO ONE ELSE had the moral integrity and strength of Steve Rogers. That's the reason he was chosen and no one else, no matter how great of a character they might be on their own right, could ever feel in his role.

Kinda how no one else is as brilliant, eccentric, and self-sacrificial as Tony Stark, thus no one but him can be Iron Man. I think that Steve and Tony were kinda supposed to be mirrors of each other, the one the heart and the other the brain of the Avengers. And so both should be irreplaceable.

I also think that it would have been much more honorable for Sam to accept that his old friend left a legacy behind that shouldn't be changed or affected by anyone (including himself), and go make his own arc focus on the future of America, symbolized by him AS THE FALCON.

In previous movies, because Steve (and Bucky, tbh) was always the main focus, we never got to see the full potential, backstory, motivations, etc. of the Falcon, just vague mentions. He was just a loyal friend and sidekick to Steve.

Imagine if the Falcon FINALLY had an arc that didn't center Steve Rogers, imagine if he was allowed to keep his core hero identity but also evolve in it. It would have been SO MUCH BETTER.

Additionally, I think that most of that passing on the mantle stuff, is just pandering to minorities, which in of itself isn't bad AT ALL, but they were SO LAZY about it in TFATWS.... Seriously, the script was mostly trash (apart from the more intimate Bucky and Sam interactions and Zemo's storyline), and it didn't allow Sam, the AFRICAN AMERICAN MAN THE WHOLE SERIES IS ABOUT!!!! to actually evolve in his own right and be a truly good protagonist.

Anyways, after TFATWS it became apparent to me that Marvel is no longer interested in good storytelling, character development, and representation. So, at least for me, Captain America in the MCU will forever only be Steve Rogers.

[thatpinkobooknerd]

Revolutionary Politics in the Music of Michael "Killer Mike" Render: A Comparison with the Ideology of the Black Panther Party And other Black Activists of Note:

Introduction

Michael Render is a rapper, activist, and public intellectual whose music, both as a solo artist and as one-half of Run the Jewels, articulates a radical political perspective rooted in Black liberation, anti-capitalist critique, and community self-determination. His lyrics often echo the revolutionary politics of the Black Panther Party (BPP) and key figures such as Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and Chairman Fred Hampton. While Michael Render operates within the realm of contemporary hip-hop, his ideological foundations draw heavily from the Black radical tradition. This paper explores how Michael Render’s political message aligns with and diverges from the ideological framework of the BPP and its prominent members.

Michael Render’s Political Philosophy in Music

Michael Render’s music consistently addresses systemic racism, economic inequality, police brutality, and the need for Black empowerment. Tracks such as Reagan (2012), Don’t Die (2012), and Walking in the Snow (2020) showcase his sharp critique of American imperialism, neoliberalism, and state violence. His lyrics emphasize self-determination, armed self-defense, and economic self-sufficiency—principles that resonate deeply with the legacy of the Black Panther Party.

One of Michael Render’s most famous songs, Reagan, dismantles the mythos of former President Ronald Reagan, exposing how his policies fueled the crack epidemic, mass incarceration, and the militarization of the police. The track’s refrain, “Ronald Reagan was the devil”, directly challenges the revisionist history that has sanitized Reagan’s legacy. This anti-establishment critique aligns with the BPP’s rejection of American capitalism and state violence, mirroring Fred Hampton’s assertion that “we do not fight capitalism with Black capitalism; we fight capitalism with socialism.”

In Walking in the Snow, Michael Render condemns police brutality and state-sanctioned violence, particularly in the wake of George Floyd’s murder. The lyrics, “And you so numb you watch the cops choke out a man like me / Until my voice goes from a shriek to whisper, ‘I can’t breathe’”, evoke both the radical rhetoric of the BPP and Assata Shakur’s famous statement: “It is our duty to fight for our freedom. It is our duty to win.”

Parallels to the Black Panther Party and Its Leaders

The Black Panther Party, founded in 1966 by Huey Newton and Bobby Seale, was rooted in Marxist-Leninist ideology and focused on self-defense, community programs, and opposition to police violence. Michael Render’s political vision aligns with several key aspects of the BPP’s philosophy, including:

1. Self-Defense Against State Violence:

Michael Render, like the Panthers, has repeatedly emphasized the need for Black communities to protect themselves against police brutality. His advocacy for Black gun ownership echoes the Panthers’ belief in armed self-defense, as exemplified in their police patrols and Newton’s assertion that “the racist dog policemen must withdraw immediately from our communities.”

2. Community Control and Economic Empowerment:

The BPP’s Ten-Point Program called for “land, bread, housing, education, clothing, justice, and peace.” Michael Render frequently discusses the importance of economic self-sufficiency in his music and public speeches, advocating for Black-owned businesses and cooperative economics. His support for local economies and Black banking institutions reflects the Panthers’ Free Breakfast for Children Program and community health initiatives, which sought to provide resources outside the capitalist system.

3. Anti-Capitalist and Anti-Imperialist Stance:

Like Fred Hampton, who famously declared, “We’re not going to fight capitalism with Black capitalism, we’re going to fight it with socialism,” Michael Render critiques neoliberal economics and American imperialism. His lyrics often frame capitalism as a tool of racial oppression, similar to Angela Davis’s critiques of the prison-industrial complex.

4. The Role of Women in Liberation Struggles:

Angela Davis and Assata Shakur played critical roles in the Black liberation movement, emphasizing the intersection of race, gender, and class oppression. While Michael Render’s music is primarily male-centered, his collaborations with feminist and revolutionary artists (such as his work with poet Joi Gilliam and his Run the Jewels partner, El-P) suggest an awareness of these struggles. However, his perspective does not always fully align with the radical feminism of figures like Davis, who argues that true liberation must dismantle patriarchal structures alongside racial and economic oppression.

Points of Divergence

Despite these ideological similarities, there are key areas where Michael Render diverges from the Black Panther Party and its most radical members:

1. Electoral Politics and Reformism:

While the Panthers were highly critical of the U.S. political system, Michael Render has supported electoral engagement as a means of achieving change. He has endorsed progressive candidates such as Bernie Sanders, arguing that radical change can come through both grassroots organizing and political participation. This stance contrasts with Fred Hampton’s and Assata Shakur’s more revolutionary approach, which rejected reformism in favor of direct revolutionary struggle.

2. Capitalism vs. Socialism:

While Michael Render critiques capitalism, he does not fully embrace socialism as the Panthers did. His advocacy for Black entrepreneurship and local business ownership sometimes aligns more with economic nationalism than the revolutionary socialism promoted by Hampton and Davis. While he acknowledges capitalism’s exploitative nature, he also sees Black economic power as a means of self-determination—an approach that some Marxists critique as insufficiently radical.

3. Mainstream Engagement:

Unlike the BPP, which was targeted by COINTELPRO for its revolutionary activities, Michael Render operates within mainstream media and entertainment. His ability to navigate both radical politics and mainstream culture has given him a platform that differs from the Panthers, who were often vilified and violently repressed by the state. While this accessibility makes his message more widely disseminated, it also means that his critique is sometimes tempered compared to the outright revolutionary rhetoric of Assata Shakur or Fred Hampton.

Conclusion

Michael Render’s political philosophy, as expressed in his music, shares significant ideological ground with the Black Panther Party, Angela Davis, Assata Shakur, and Fred Hampton. His critiques of police violence, economic oppression, and systemic racism echo the Panthers’ radical vision of self-determination and resistance. However, his willingness to engage with electoral politics and support Black capitalism marks a key divergence from the Panthers’ revolutionary socialist framework.

Ultimately, Michael Render serves as a bridge between radical Black liberation ideologies and contemporary activism, using hip-hop as a platform to educate and mobilize. While he may not fully embrace the revolutionary socialism of the BPP, his music continues to inspire a new generation of activists who seek to challenge state violence and economic oppression, much like the Panthers did decades ago.

[sporadiceagleheart]

Rest in peace Those Who died deserves this honor of their names that's why this is Thursday edit April 18th to remember the legacy of the Angels that died Jesus healed them and they went on to heaven home in the sky

Rebecca Jeanne Riley, Sally Ann Chesebro, Jane Eilish Preston January 3, 2017 - October 3, 2020, Calla Adelaide Andrus, Gabrielle Renae “Gabby” Barrett, Lauren Victoria “Tori” Windsor Whetzel, Gabrielly “Gabi” Magalhães de Souza, Arthur Labinjo-Hughes, Terence Pinder the 18 year old that was shot and killed in 1800 block of Hicks Street, Star Hobson, Saffie-Rose Brenda Roussos, Lily Peters, Olivia Pratt Korbel, Elizabeth Shelley, Sara Sharif, Charlotte Figi, Jersey Dianne Bridgeman, Charlotte Bacon, Charlotte Louise Dunn, Emily Grace Jones, Ava Jordan Wood, Olivia Engel, Josephine Gay, Emilie Parker, Jackie Cazares, Makenna Lee Elrod, Eliahna Torres, Nevaeh Bravo, Layla Salazar, Jayce Carmelo Luevanos, Jailah Nicole Silguero, Bianca Devins, Catherine Violet Hubbard, Taylor Jean Moore, Destiny Norton, Destiny Riekeberg, JonBenèt Ramsey, Kelly Ann Fleming, Judith and Maria Barsi, Heather Michele O'Rourke, Lucille Ricksen, Indie Rose Armstrong, Rachel Joy Scott, Skylar Annette "Sky " Neese, Tristyn Bailey, Olivia Dahl, Lily Rose Diaz, Riley Faith Steep, Rylie Nicholls, Ava Martin White, James Bulger, Amerie Jo Garza, Maite Rodriguez, Alexandria Rubio, Joan of Arc, Jimmy the Crow, Dickey Betts, Kinsleigh Welty, Gracie Perry Watson, Inez Clarke Briggs, Annie Kerr Aiken, Grace Budd, Sloan Mattingly, Audrii Cunningham, Happy Birthday Isabella Nardoni, Bella Claire Callaway, Calla Adelaide Woods, Rose Pizem, Riley Ann Sawyers, Riley Ann Fox, Anne and Margot Frank, Shan'ann, Bella&CeCe, Lallie Charles, Isobel Elsom, Jordan Rosales, Jeremiah, Ava Cole Nichols, Pauline Adelaar and Peter Fuchs, Anna D. Crnkovic, Irmgard Christine Winter, Olga Chardymova, Eliza Adalynn Moore, Lois Janes, Louis XVII, Sarah Payne, Alicia Lynn Clark, Mercedes Losoya, Norah Lee Howard, Sandra Cantu, Jessica Lunsford, Sierra Lynn Newbold, Samantha Bree Runnion, Samantha Davis, Dr. Jeremy and Avielle Richman, Beatriz Mota, Danielle Van Dam, Baby LeRoy, Shirley Temple and more kids

[call-me-liquid]

I'm a McDonald's loving American, so do you think you could clarify what makes Lily so "Ameribrained"? What kind of differences are there in American and Canadian politics that make Lily's views seem so misguided?

This post I just did on sort of comparing Lily's politics to JJ McCullough I feel gives a good idea, but to elaborate further:

Canadian politics, history, culture, and national identity is in it's own right far more complicated, confusing and resistant to simplifiable than most other countries. That already breeds a kind of strained social conscious in the population-- but it ends up exacerbated tenfold by us being the eclectic little brother of the world's most dominant superpower.

For almost our entire history, to the beginnings of our founding as a nation even, happened because something going on somewhere else was dictating the trajectory of the country and her people. The blunt way of framing it is, the most independence Canada ever truly had (for the colonials. Indigenous were doing pretty good till we showed up obviously) died when the British ceased control of New France (independent French colony that would eventually become Quebec.) To the point it almost feels like this placed a groundhog-day curse on the nation to be. Which, if the surviving Acadians could maybe consider lifting some time, that's be nice. You made your point. For the love of French Jesus. Love, your northern cousins.

Even if we aren't officially a territory of the US like we were the British-- it has long treated us like we are. Something Canada, to some extent, welcomed from both England, then the US. A sort of mild-mannered compliance since resource export has always been the foundation of our economy, and so we aren't getting constantly invaded for other people to get those resources.

In almost all the international conflicts we've participated, we're not even listed as an active player. Because, we were either there as the spare army for the British, the US, or as peace officers or relief aid trying to mediate the conflict, like during the Rwandan genocide.

I'm telling you all this to try and give you enough context to explain WHY you get Canadians like Lily who have more or less adopted a deeply ingrained Americanized identity.

When you're us, functioning economically, socially, and ideologically as the companion party members to other people's campeigns, ESPECIALLY the US, what else would you expect? In sharp contrast, the US has such a national identity, so mythologized, romanticized, sensationalized, and propagandised-- it's leaked into the entire global conscious, but especially here.

I would not say anything close to the majority of Canadians functionally act like they ARE Americans, but it's common enough everyone here has encountered these sorts. Lily's brother Cameron is even worse than her-- literally still boomering all over Facebook defending Trump-- a man who continues to actively threaten our sovereignty. Who's political influence changed one of our legacy, dominant political parties so drastically the pre-Trump and post-Trump Cons barely fucking resemble each other. Something caused, very likely, by active foreign interference.

Like, what other fucking country has a problem like that?

The frustrating thing about most Ameri-brained Canadians, they don't seem to realize how much they are acting like they're Americans. They will assume things are or aren't against the law based on American laws, they will make statements about Canada's history and/or national identity that are Americanisms they've attempted to retrofit into Canada, and in the most baffling cases, they will culturally appropriate American symbols . . . Beyond all rhyme or reason. Canada never had plantations, and therefore never had the sort of slave economy America did. Not because colonial Canada was woke before it was cool, just, our climate couldn't really permit something like that. This is the even more northern north. YOU WOULD THINK the last thing you'd see being flown in Canada is a fucking CONFEDERATE FLAG, and you would be WRONG. What does that flag supposed to mean to the braindead habs who fly them? I actually, don't even know. Here you can't even say it's supposed to symbolize states rights and heritage-- I believe it's supposed to just be unambiguous racism.

Lily only cares about progressive liberalism as far as it will serve her to begin with. But she is also uninformed and insulated enough that she's somehow failed to notice she already lives in a country that is already ideologically more generally liberal and progressive THAN SHE IS.

And it's not like Canada's a fucking socialist utopia either. We're on the right compared to a lot of countries in Europe.

That's what I mean when I say Lily is an Ameri-brained Ameriboo.

I mean, she was born in Halifax yet somehow isn't aware apparently of what islander weather is like.

I live in the fucking middle of the mainland. If I know what Scotia weather is like, Lily's got no fucking excuse.

Lily lives in a fucking bootleg Alabama pocket dimension, I swear.

[adventuring-spark]

(OOC:

some info about everyone:

Both Penny and Azura are lesbians

Claricia is panromantic

Amery is demiromantic and apothisexual

Penny knows how to use an absolutely ridiculous amount of spells

Azura is GNC

Azura, Claricia, and Amery have mastered multiple weapon techniques

Azura and Amery use elemental imbuements (lightning for Azura and fire for Amery)

Penny came from a high-status family and has dedicated herself to carrying on her family's legacy

Amery has committed regicide before

Both Penny and Claricia are bookworms who are obsessed with history in particular

)

[starbright-sunset]

so here’s who we have:

Penny Ainsworth, a nekorata mage who’s dedicated herself to living up to her family’s legacy

Azura, an enlightened who defied what she was encouraged to be and is trying to walk her own path with the others now

Amery, a demon who’s become very protective and has major survivor’s guilt because of how many friends he’s lost

Claricia, an elf trying to help whoever she can as both a healer and a spearwoman

Daaaaaamn Amery sounds cool

[h0urglcss-the-madman]

I’m so normal about my OC Jonathan you guys.

I’m so normal about Jonathan Amery, runaway prince.

Im so normal about Jonathan Sylios Amery, crown prince of the kingdom of Writhia, son to Dietrich Amery and the late Adelaide O’Conner, brother to Travis and Callum Amery, runaway prince who no one has seen or heard from in years when all along he has been living in the small thief town of Sylcras only a short distance away from the kingdom, hidden in the woods.

Im so normal about the Amery family and how fucked up their family dynamic is. About how Jonathan’s only crime was being born to a woman who did not love the king, Travis’s only purpose in life is to please others, Callum can only sit and watch as people assume he is innocent and pure and unable to feel anger or guilt or sadness because he is young. About how Dietrich cares not for his deceased wife who did not love him, who died at his own hands; he cares not for the son she birthed when he started to act too much like her and showed promise not of being a king but of being a rebel, a filthy rebel who would not submit to his will even by force or by punishment. King Dietrich cares for his middle and youngest as long as they behave, as they don’t become stains on the family legacy as their grandfather had been.

I’m so normal about how in every AU, Jonathan never makes it out unscathed. Scars both mental and physical plague him. He cannot cry nor cannot explain his reasons for why he would. He cannot sleep, cannot look at himself without wondering what his purpose in life is but to destroy himself and everyone around him when he inevitably lets his guard drop and lets them see the disaster he’s become, and not the wild party boy he wants them to see.

I’m so normal about how there’s AU’s where Jonathan does not make it out. Where he’s recaptured. Where he has no chance to escape in the first place and is instead left chained up in a basement somewhere, broken and waiting for a rescue that will never come until he realizes that maybe, just maybe, everyone is right and he’s the epitome of evil.

I’m so normal about my ocs guys <3

[misfitwashere]

November 29, 2024 

HEATHER COX RICHARDSON

NOV 30

In 2008, Congress passed and President George W. Bush signed into law an act making the day after Thanksgiving National Native American Heritage Day.

About a month ago, on Friday, October 25, President Joe Biden became the first president to visit Indian Country in ten years when he traveled to the Gila River Indian Community in Maricopa County, Arizona, near Phoenix. Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland traveled with him. The trip was designed to highlight the investments the Biden-Harris administration has made in Tribal Nations.

At a press gaggle on Air Force One on the way to Arizona, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre noted that under Biden, Tribal Nations have seen the largest direct federal investment in history: $32 billion from the American Rescue Plan and $13 billion through the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to build roads and bridges, bring clean water and sanitation, and build high-speed Internet in Tribal communities.

Jean-Pierre added that First Lady Jill Biden has also championed Native communities, visiting them ten times to highlight investments in youth mental health, the revitalization of Native languages, and to improve access to cancer screening and cancer care in Native communities.

Secretary Haaland, herself a member of the Pueblo of Laguna, agreed that the Biden-Harris administration has brought “transformational change” to Native communities: “electricity on the Hopi Reservation in Arizona for homes that have never had electricity; protecting cultural resources, like salmon, which Pacific Northwest Tribes have depended on for thousands of years; new transportation infrastructure for the Mescalero Apache Nation in New Mexico that will provide a safer travel route and boost their economic development, their local economy; addressing toxic legacy pollution and abandoned oil and gas infrastructure that pollutes our air and water for the Osage Nation in Oklahoma; providing clean drinking water for Fort Peck in Montana.”

“Tribal leaders are experiencing a new era,” Haaland added. “They’re at the table. They’re being consulted.”

When Biden spoke at the Gila Crossing Community School, he said he was there “to right a wrong, to chart a new path toward a better future for us all.” As president of the United States, Biden formally apologized to the Native peoples—Native Americans, Native Hawaiians, Native Alaskans—for the U.S. government policy that forced Native children into federal Indian boarding schools.

The apology comes after the release of an Interior Department study, The Federal Boarding School Initiative, that Secretary Haaland directed the department to undertake in 2021. According to Assistant Secretary of the Interior Bryan Newland, a citizen and former president of the Bay Mills Indian Community (Ojibwe), the initiative was “a comprehensive effort to recognize the troubled legacy of Federal Indian boarding school policies with the goal of addressing their intergenerational impact and to shed light on the traumas of the past.”

The initiative set out to identify federal Indian boarding schools and sites, to identify the children who attended those schools and to identify their Tribal identities, to find marked and unmarked burial sites of the remains of Indian children near school facilities, and to incorporate the viewpoints of those who attended federal Indian boarding schools and their descendants into the story of those schools.

The report looked at the Indian education system from 1819 to 1969 as a whole, bringing together federal funding for religious schools in the early 1800s with later explicitly federal schools and their public school successors during and after the 1930s. But historians generally focus on the period from 1879 to the 1930s as the boarding school era.

In 1879, the government opened the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, a boarding school for American Indian children in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, explicitly designed to separate children from their families and their culture and to train them for menial jobs.

The boarding school era was the brainchild of Army officer Richard Henry Pratt, a Civil War veteran who, in the years after the war, commanded the 10th United States Cavalry, a Black regiment stationed in the American West whose members Indigenous Americans nicknamed the “Buffalo Soldiers.” Pratt fought in the campaigns on the Plains from 1868 through 1875, when he was assigned to oversee 72 Cheyenne, Kiowa, Comanche, Arapaho, and Caddo prisoners of war at Fort Marion in St. Augustine, Florida (now known as the Castillo de San Marcos National Monument).

Many Indigenous prisoners at Fort Marion, taken from the dry Plains to the hot and humid coast of Florida where they were imprisoned in a cramped stone fort, quickly sickened and died. Pratt worked to upgrade conditions and to assimilate prisoners into U.S. systems by teaching them English, U.S. culture, Christianity, and how the American economy worked. He cut their hair, dressed them in military-type uniforms, and urged them to make art for sale to local tourists—it’s from here we get the world-famous collection of ledger art by the artists of Fort Marion—but focused on turning the former warriors and their families into menial workers.

After the Battle of the Little Bighorn in 1876 and the subsequent pursuit and surrender of leading Lakota bands throughout that year and the next, leading to the murder of Crazy Horse in 1877, popular opinion ran heavily toward simply corralling Indigenous Americans on reservations and waiting either for their assimilation or extermination. At the same time, with what seemed to be the end of the most serious of the Plains Wars, Army officers like Pratt had reason to worry that the downsizing of the U.S. Army would mean the end of their careers.

Indigenous survivors of Fort Marion returned home to see that the American government had no real plans for a thriving American Indian populace. There was little infrastructure to link them to the rest of the country to sell their art, and Indian agents rejected tribal members for jobs in favor of white cronies.

But Pratt considered his experiment at Fort Marion a great success, and he came to believe he could make his system work even more thoroughly by using a loophole in the treaties between Plains Tribes and the U.S. government to force Indigenous Americans to assimilate as children. He planned, he said, to “Kill the Indian and save the man.”

Treaties between Plains Indian Tribes and the government required the U.S. government to educate American Indian children—something their parents cared deeply about—but the treaties didn’t actually specify where the schools would be. So Pratt convinced the U.S. Army and officials at the Interior Department to give him the use of the Carlisle Barracks to open an industrial school, designed to teach American Indian children the skills necessary to be servants and menial workers.

In summer 1879, Pratt traveled to western reservations of the Lakotas and Dakotas, primarily, to gather up 82 children to begin his experiment in annihilating their culture from their minds. He forbade the practice of any aspect of Indigenous culture—language, religion, custom, clothing—and forced children to change their names, use English, practice Christianity, and wear clothing that mirrored that of Euro-American children.

Crowded together, many children died of disease; bereft of their family and culture, many died of heartache. Some found their newfound language and lessons tolerable, others ran away. For the next fifty years, the Carlisle model was the central model of government education for Indigenous children, with tens of thousands of children educated according to its methods.

In the 1920s the Institute for Government Research, later renamed the Brookings Institution, commissioned a study funded by the Rockefeller Institute—to make sure it would not reflect government bias—to investigate conditions among Indigenous Americans.

In 1928 that study, called the Meriam Report, condemned the conditions under which American Indians lived. It also emphasized the “deplorable health conditions” at the boarding schools, condemned the schools’ inappropriate focus on menial skills, and asserted that “[t]he most fundamental need in Indian education is a change in point of view.” In 1934 the Indian Reorganization Act reversed the policy of trying to eradicate Tribal cultures through boarding children away from their families, and introduced the teaching of Indian history and culture in federal schools.

But the boarding schools remain a central part of the experience of American Indians since the establishment of the U.S. government in North America, and the Federal Boarding School Initiative recommended that “[t]he U.S. Government should issue a formal acknowledgment of its role in adopting a national policy of forced assimilation of Indian children, and carrying out this policy through the removal and confinement of Indian children from their families and Indian Tribes and the Native Hawaiian Community and placement in the Federal Indian boarding school system.”

It continued: "The United States should accompany this acknowledgment with a formal apology to the individuals, families, and Indian Tribes that were harmed by U.S. policy."

On October 25, 2024, President Joe Biden delivered that apology.

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[woseysims]

Auntie's Cottage

With the older furniture of their aunt's cottage, Amerie is starting to feel a bit more grounded in their surroundings. The darker wood adds to the cozy feeling and makes Amerie excited for her fresh start.

furnished by me build by @farfallasims

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BRIOR (@brior.sl) • Amerie Set Located at Collabor88

Why dnt we fall in Love (Amerie) cause this set is fire cute beach fit or out on the town with the Matching heels comes in 10 regular colors and 9+ fatpack exclusives colors. Hud Driven.

Rigged For:

Rigged For: ✅Legacy ✅LaraX ✅Reborn (Waifu) ✅Kupra ✅Peach

[Betrayal] (@betrayalsl) • Sunny Isles Home Located at the Stadium Event. (Entry)

comes in 2 version Entry version and Garage version

Let's go SHOPPING:

🚕Your Uber: Collabor88 http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/8%208/165/173/1085

🚕Your Uber: Stadium event http://maps.secondlife.com/secondlife/STADIUM%20EVENT/113/112/45

Ciao♥