#north american indigenous peoples

[phoenixofthestars]

just another little white boy

[psychologeek]

Thank you.

If you have a list of reliable places/NGOs to donate for, I'll be happy if you could share.

For example: reliable funding for pipelines (?), community things, even history resources (like keeping the stories).

I think I read about something that buys many woods and bring to people for winter, but I can't remember what or where I read it.

I ask because you know better. It's closer to you.

the topic of indigeneity has been on my (jewish) mind quite a bit since oct 7 for obvious reasons. and like. as an american, the conclusion i've kinda come to has been, "well jeez, shouldn't we be doing more for indigenous people where we, like... live?"

i cannot Imagine how endlessly frustrating it is to see people constantly treat your struggles as ancient history & your peoples' genocide as something "over and done with," not more than a talking point in the context of the more popular political conversation, while it is ACTIVELY STILL HAPPENING TO YOUR PEOPLE.

i'd love to hear if you have any thoughts on how NA jews can put in the work be better allies to NA indigenous people.

Thank you so much, I am so glad I can help.

A lot of what we as Jews can do is educate ourselves (yourselves) on what the indigenous tribes in your area are dealing with.

Right now I'm in contact with a localish reservation to see if there is a donation site available or government officials to contact to raise the level of this concern. The issues are broken pipeline in the water and the reservation is to my knowledge still in a state of emergency.

We need to bring active attention to indigenous issues and not let them be twisted by media outlets. Many issues are actually not what we hear about in the news, it is twisted to make you believe that they are doing bad things, or that they deserve to have bad things happen to them. When we protest for the child services and healthcare system being so racist and cruel to first Nations people, media says "First Nations protest against child service and criticize the health care system". That dramatically changes the mood of the situation and makes outsiders mad at us. When all we really want is child services to stop taking out children thinking"they are better off in a white home, without their savage culture and parents ". I've heard a once respected colleague say this to me after they moved to work with a Tribe.

We need the world to know these issues that are literally killing us.

If you listen to what the natives have to say and not the media you see things in a whole new light. One that humanizes aboriginal peoples and their struggles.

Another issue I find North American wide is that you either stay on the reservation to basically live in poverty, but also be with your family and culture. Or you can leave the reservation and lose everything aboriginal about you, to your old friends and family you are now considered white, and also you lose status with the government and can no longer have access to certain grants such as some for post secondary education.

Aboriginal peoples are abused either verbally or physically when they enter "settler areas".

The health care system needs to wake up as well.

We are not all junkies

In the reservation rates of addiction can be higher, but there are a lot of trauma these people face. Going to the hospital can be horrible as even I am seen as a junky because I'm darker, have a native jawline, and cheekbones [to die for 😊]. But the prejudice I face going into any hospital is insane. I am not a native person with status, so I can't even imagine the bad treatment when having status... I was with a young client and she was a 16 year old white girl, in the room next to us was an Aboriginal couple begging to see their newborn, that the mother wanted to hold her baby. The nurses kept refusing her. I learned later they wanted her to sign a paper allowing the hospital to sterilize her to receive the child she had just given birth to. That is beyond and it is so buried. You never hear about it in the media.

Also spreading awareness for missing native people (especially women and children) in your area is always a good idea.

I'm not sure if this was the answer you were wanting/ expecting but basically listen to the native peoples. Research a local tribe and maybe ask the council if there is anything you can do to help. Just keep in mind they can be weary of any settlers.

Spread awareness to aboriginal issues and support the local community.

There are many tribes so I can't give you one link, since each reservation/tribe has their own council, similar to a regular city.

I understand that right now many of my native brothers and sisters are mad at Israel. Let's talk about it.

So, media is heavily influenced by bias as we know. Well many residents do not have a lot of disposable income so their entertainment may be just television, or they just read news outlets like the rest of the people. I'm not saying that people don't have phones and stuff, but those people are young people who are perhaps mad at the world and feel like they have something to prove, while the elders of the village are watching basic news networks for their source of news. So it can be hard for people in general to understand the complex issues in the middle East. It also doesn't help that many ways to find more credible sources are usually taught in post secondary education which very few aboriginal families can afford, even with grants.

I am trying to get our communities together.

I mean they did at least a few times because I know a few Jewish Aboriginal people from tumblr. We are not that different in reality and we just need to get past the blind anger to see the truth.

Sorry if I rambled on.

Thanks 🙏🏾

[emerging-jew]

Okay here's my spicy take:

It's really convenient for white westerners, especially Americans, to have the stance that being indigenous expires a certain time after colonization and I think that stance isn't pushed back against nearly often enough. And to go a step further I think the take is itself a subtle act of colonization

[gwydpolls]

Time Travel Question 62: early Modern and Much Earlier

These Questions are the result of suggestions from the previous iteration.

This category may include suggestions made too late to fall into the correct grouping.

Please add new suggestions below if you have them for future consideration.

I can't remember if we did this one. It would have been late last summer. i think we did some specific species, but i can't remember if it was done in total. I am quoting the whole suggestion here: "Carboniferous forests, before Angiosperms became dominant. I want to see the lepidodendrons and the huge equisetes and all the many Araucaria and gnetophytes and ginkgos that once thrived."

It is too late to fix the typo, but the First item should read somemething like: "People, species, and landscapes of California circa 1400.

[ciderjacks]

everyday my “half-foots are indigenous coded” theory becomes more and more real in my mind palace

[ihearttseliot]

A Dakota Sioux man named Goose Face. 1900.

Goose face was part of Buffalo Bill show. They were headed to Washington DC on a train to see the president (before going on to Europe to perform) and due to an error a mail train crashed in to theirs. There were many deaths. He lost his wife Annie Goose Face.

The paper talks about the old chief who demanded they not make efforts to save him since death was inevitable. He demanded to be brought over to the pile of the dead next to the tracks and sat there giving instructions and messages to loved ones back home. He smoked a pipe and all the others chanted a death song.

Several of them sued for damages, medical costs and for transportation back home. Goose face got $2,500.

[bucephaly]

Just curious, where would you recommend starting genealogy research? I’m mostly curious more than anything, thought I don’t think having Native American lineage is likely for me?

Start by talking to your family and writing down as much info as you can. Names of grandparents, great grandparents, aunts, uncles, whatever you can. Birth dates and places they lived as well.

I do genealogy thru ancestry.com and it's mostly great but I know some people have problems with it. You can get a 2 week free trial and you might be able to get plenty of your tree filled out in that time.

Then, just put in what info you got from your parents, and look for census records. US Census records from 1950 and earlier are public, so start there. I was able to go back to my gg grandfather just thru censuses, and then I was able to find his Dawes card. I have gone back further but the farther back it goes the less reliable anything is. Be wary of anything on ancestry or other sites where the only source is someone else's tree, because people can put whatever they want down and a lot of it is wrong. [For example, on other parts of my tree it's tried to connect me to pocahontas 3 times.]

Ofc this advice doesn't just apply for those looking for native ancestry, it's just general genealogy stuff and it's really interesting for anyone to learn about their ancestors (:

Sorry this might be specific to the US, I'm not familiar with how records work elsewhere.

Good luck!

[arthurdrakoni]

Flag of the Pueblo Sultanate

This is the flag of the Pueblo Sultanate. It comes from a world where the Ottoman Empire established colonies in the New World. The Ottomans began in the Caribbean, and soon went on to conquer Mexico. Eventually, the Ottomans made their way to the American Southwest, and subjugated the Pueblo peoples. Life was harsh for the Pueblo people under Ottoman colonialism. Pueblo people were forced to toil away in silver mines to feed the Ottomans’ hunger for precious metals. Several madrasas were established with the intent to convert the Pueblo peoples to Islam. In theory, the madrasas would provide aid, education, and social services to the Pueblo people. In practice, however, the imams often subjected their charges to horrific abuse. Despite this, Islam did manage to spread among the Pueblo peoples. The Pueblo peoples begged for a savior. But where could he be? 

The Pueblo people received their answer in the form of a charismatic preacher named Po’Pay. Despite the similar name, he is a separate individual from the Po’Pay of our world. This Po’Pay preached the highly syncretic religion that combined indigenous Pueblo beliefs with Islamic liberation theology. This was in sharp contrast to the Islam of the Ottomans, which frowned upon syncretism, and suppressed indigenous beliefs. Po’Pay teachings began to spread, and soon Po’Pay a revolt against the Ottomans. Though the fight was hard, at last the Pueblo peoples were free from the Ottoman yoke. The Pueblo peoples began to think of themselves not as a collection of disparate tribes, but as a united people sharing in a common destiny. 

 Po’Pay organized the tribes into a sultanate, with himself as the first sultan. However, the sultan would not rule alone. An assembly of tribes was created. Representatives of each tribe could voice the opinions and concerns of the tribe to the assembly. Thus, the Pueblo Sultanate became the first representative monarchy in the New World. The Pueblo Sultanate stretches over much of what would be he American Southwest.   The Pueblo Sultanate is famous for begin very tolerant, open-minded, and accepting of peoples with different beliefs. Most citizens practice Pueblo Islam, but don’t try to push it on other people. Most women do not veil, and most Pueblo citizen wear traditional indigenous-style clothing. to Po’Pay developed a written script based upon Arabic, and the Pueblo Sultanate is home to several libraries and other centers of learning. In fact, the Great Pueblo Library is world renown for its expansive collection of books. Qurans are written in the Pueblo script, and the call to prayer to announced in the various Pueblo languages. The Pueblo Sultanate is also quite famous for its cooking. Pueblo cuisine combines cooking techniques from the Eastern Mediterranean with spices and ingredients of the American Southwest. The Pueblo Sultanate has a noticeable minority of Greeks, Serbians, Bulgarians, and Amazighs. They are mostly descended from slaves brought over during the days of Ottoman colonialism.  

Also, the Pueblo Sultanate isn’t actually called the Pueblo Sultanate in-universe, but I couldn’t think of a better name.  The flag includes the sun symbol of the Zia people, and the crescent moon of Islam. This is a reference to the Sultanate’s mixed indigenous and Islamic heritage. The blue band represents turquoise, an important stone to many Pueblo peoples. The green band represents prosperity, and green is a color associated with Islam. The yellow band is there because it goes well with everything else. 

Link to the original flag on my blog: https://drakoniandgriffalco.blogspot.com/2022/06/flag-of-pueblo-sultanate.html?m=1

[nordfjording]

Also just as an fyi using "norse" as a collective term for current-day nordic or scandinavian people and languages is both incorrect and also, notably, a very common narrative in white supremacist and neonazi communities so like. I'm not saying anyone's inherently a bad person for this but it might be worth having a think about why this is the word used okay thank you 😊

[cindydacatpink]

My CountryHumans OC aka Country Humanize character (Cindy Nilo Evelyn country doppelganger) Part 9

I drawing Native North American as Countryhumans

- Aiyana Tabananica (Apache Country) (Native American) 🇺🇸

- Jessica Kaiah (First Nation Canada: Blackfoot) 🇨🇦

- Yatzil Adriana (Indigenous people of Mexico) 🇲🇽

- Agapeta Ivaana (Greenland) 🇬🇱

- Cora Agueda (Taíno) (Cuba) 🇨🇺

- Maria Xaviera (Taíno) (Puerto Rico) 🇵🇷

- Jane Sikway (Kalinago/Caribs) (Dominica) 🇩🇲

- Alizay Tahiris Leahchayy (She Lucayan later reincarnation to Taíno by her same name) (Bahamas) 🇧🇸

[stankhead]

it really cant be understated just how fucking horrible education about pre-columbian North America is in US public schools

[cuntwrap--supreme]

Finally, some delicious fucking news

[note-a-bear]

So wild. This white southern chef, Vivian Howard, had this show on PBS for a long while. And her whole thing was history of southern foodstuffs and foodways.

I was always struck by how minimized and sometimes outright absent Black Folks were from her chronicles.

She has a newer show, apparently, and every episode I catch she's featuring a Black chef, cook, or producer and highlighting Black culinary history. Which like, yknow what? Pretty impressive for a white southern chef.

Not many white chefs make a point of doing that, so to see this, even if it's a belated apology for the earlier erasure, is a great step.

[corythesaxon]

This girl is missing please help get the word out!

Also on the Instagram page I got this from people had the audacity to say she isn’t Native enough. She’s MISSING!

[thejayalejandra]

If liberals really cared about decolonization, they would be working towards giving natives in the Americas their land back. Just a thought.