#pueblo indian

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Pueblo Indian Kiva,

Room at the ruins of the Anasazi Pueblo People, Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado.

Stephen Oachs Photography

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Cliff Palace, the Ancestral Pueblo cliff dwellings at Mesa Verde, photographed on July 27, 1923. 

Record Group 95: Records of the Forest Service

Series: Photographs Relating to National Forests, Resource Management Practices, Personnel, and Cultural and Economic History

Image description: We can see a couple dozen of the sandstone-and-mortar rooms that make up the Cliff Palace site. The rooms mostly have sharp corners, but a few are round. They are built under an overhanging cliff. 

[thomaswaynewolf]

[yeeclaw]

As much as I enjoyed seeing Laura in Deadpool & Wolverine, one thing has been bothering me since opening night, and I can’t shake it:

Why did Marvel design her a shirt that says “Savage”?

It’s a fictional band t-shirt. I spent hours reverse image searching and browsing album covers and tour posters of bands with related names, album titles, and song titles, and while it’s clearly inspired by real rock bands and tours, it was nevertheless made up. They actively chose to make up a shirt with a derogatory racial term for a group Laura and the actress who plays her is not a part of for her to wear. Someone was paid by Marvel to design it. Why?

Now companies are selling copies of the shirt, so more people will be out in the world wearing a shirt with a term that, whether you want to call it a slur or just a “derogatory racial term,” has a dark, violent history and makes many Native Americans uncomfortable. It is a word that was used to justify cultural genocide within my parent’s lifetime, that has been used as a justification for racist discrimination and hatred within our lifetimes, not just Logan’s lifetime.

Logan had band logos, too. They used Awaken the Dreamers by All Shall Perish. The title track is about fighting for human rights and ending oppression, the design features the Statue of Liberty holding a gun, not a torch, surrounded by the silhouettes of swarming military planes. Now in Deadpool & Wolverine, we’re casually using the word savage, sticking it on a “feral” character with a reputation for violence. It could be powerful if Laura were Native. She escaped from a government run institution systematically abusing and dehumanizing children based on their heritage. Logan cast primarily people of color to play the X23 children. Gabriela Lopez died at the Liberty Motel and Logan died at what was described at “the last stop on the mutant underground to Canada”. They utilized the mutant metaphor very deliberately, and I feel that Deadpool & Wolverine’s choice of costuming for Laura did that a disservice.

(Yes, I’m aware of Savage Wolverine. Its potential as an Easter egg for a racist comic book title doesn’t make it not racist)

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Margaret Tafoya

Margaret Tafoya was born in 1904 in Santa Clara Pueblo, New Mexico. Tafoya was regarded as a master of Santa Clara Pueblo pottery making, and was known throughout the world for her ability to make uncommonly large clay vessels by hand. She decorated her work with symbols of survival, such as water serpents, bear claws, and rain clouds. In 1984, Tafoya was honored with a National Endowment for the Arts Heritage Fellowship.

Margaret Tafoya died in 2001 at the age of 96.

[ddelicadezas]

"Quando a última árvore tiver caído. Quando o último rio tiver secado. Quando o último peixe for pescado, vocês vão entender que dinheiro não se come."

"Quem sabe o que planta não teme a colheita!"

[petsincollections]

Taos Pueblo children, ca. 1915(?)

Portrait of Native American (Taos Pueblo) boys by a ladder and adobe walls at Taos Pueblo, New Mexico; they play with a puppy.

Photographs - Western History

Denver Public Library Digital Collections

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Come shop and save this holiday season.

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Santa Fe: Getting to Know The City Different

It has been more than a decade since I lived in Santa Fe. But it’s a city one cannot easily forget. In many ways, it’s a city that I will always miss. I fell in love with Santa Fe the first time I visited, about 1975, and I still cherish the years that I lived and worked there.   Long described by both residents and visitors as “The City Different,” Santa Fe was known by its earliest inhabitants…

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The buildings had been called Kivas after the sacred ceremonial chambers of the Pueblo Indians, whose priests approached them with the greatest awe.

"Brighter than a Thousand Suns: A Personal History of the Atomic Scientists" - Robert Jungk, translated by James Cleugh

[buddhismnow]

Brahma Faring in 21st-Century Mazes, by Sylvia Swain

Brahma Faring in 21st-Century Mazes, by Sylvia Swain http://wp.me/pFy3u-1Jk We all traverse pathways of many different kinds.

We human beings are all farers through life and will traverse pathways of many different kinds — tranquil woodland paths, busy city streets, highways, byways, even soulless, preoccupied motorways. Late and in a traffic jam, one mood can trigger another, taking us into an emotional turmoil of frustration, anxiety, anger, and enter into a different kind of transport which carries us away to…

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Lado sur de la plaza principal mirando al oeste. Jemez Pueblo, Nuevo México. Fotógrafo: Carlos Sierra. Fecha: 1915?

[todaysdocument]

“In the case now suspected the father stations himself by his little one and substantially says that he will fight to the limit to prevent any interference whatever.”

Letter re. diphtheria outbreak at Santa Clara Day School, 1/26/1903. 

Record Group 75: Records of the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Series: Letters Received from Day School Teacher Clara D. True

Transcription: 

In reply to:

Department of the Interior,

INDIAN SCHOOL SERVICE,

OFFICE OF SUPERINTENDENT.

Santa Clara Pueblo, Espanola, NM

Jan. 26 1902

Mr. C. J Crandall

Supt. U.S. Indian Schools,

Santa Fe, N. Mex.

Dear Sir:

It seems greatly like a confession of weakness to say I am unable to manage the epidemic now existing here, but I cannot further risk my life. I have been in the presence of the disease in every case when I would rather have charged up San Juan hill with the Rough Riders.

In the case now suspected the father stations himself by his little one and substantially says that he will fight to the limit to prevent any interference whatever. The grandmother is an old tigress whose house is a

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den of iniquity resorted to by law class Indians and Mexicans.

I must give the Governor and all respectable Indians of both parties here credit for being ashamed of the resistance. The Governor told the patient's father yesterday that it was an outrage to oppose your will in any way when you have been the only friend they ever had.

The Governor is really afraid to tell us to go ahead I think because the people we have to deal with are utterly mean and somebody would be pretty sure to get hurt.

I have done everything I consider my duty. I don't feel it necessary to get a broken skull nor to break one,

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which is about the only way out of our difficulty here.

A number of Indians from Santa Clara went to San Ildefonso. Indians from pueblos north of here went taking in Santa Clara en route both ways.

It seems impossible to enforce [underlined] adequate [/underlined] measures though we keep up something that passes for quarentine. The chief difficulty is that food is very scarce now and the people cannot be shut off from going to Espanola to trade pottery, work, and lug their daily apology for good. The infected district is under a rigid quarantine as I can get enforced.

The Doctor is faithful. He

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is nearly worn out, however, with Diphtheria everywhere. It appears to be universal in this valley, in the virulent form.

It is more than likely that I have blundered in this case as I am a new hand at this sort of thing. I am ready to take whatever of blame that is due me uncomplainingly as I guess I have bungled someway. If there is anything that I failed to do, it was the result of ignorance. Very respectfully,

Clara D. True

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Bert Geer Phillips, Pueblo Indian Family, c. 1920s, Oil on canvas, 7/20/22 #philbrook by Sharon Mollerus

[jstor]

In celebration of Native American Heritage Month and Indigenous Peoples Month, we reflect on the deep history, resilience, and cultural richness of Indigenous communities.

Sharing these stories allows us to honor traditions and contributions that continue to shape our shared world. For those interested in learning more, JSTOR Daily has curated a collection that highlights Indigenous perspectives, art, and histories.

Image: Detroit Publishing Co. Pueblo Indian Woman with Olla. 1902. Trinity College, Watkinson Library.

[ridenwithbiden]

"Native Americans across Indian Country shared mixed emotions this week after President Biden apologized for the U.S. government’s role in running Native American boarding schools across the country.

During the 150-year practice, at more than 400 schools where the U.S. partnered with various religious institutions, Indigenous children were separated from their families and stripped of their language and customs in an effort to assimilate into white culture. There were also documented cases of abuse and death.

Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland, who is a member of the Laguna Pueblo tribe and has been instrumental in bringing these issues to a wider audience through her Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative, applauded Biden’s move.

“I'm so grateful to [Biden] for acknowledging this terrible era of our nation's past,” Haaland, whose grandparents were taken to boarding schools, posted on X.

ederal Indian boarding schools have impacted every Indigenous person I know. These were places where children - including my grandparents - were traumatized. I'm so grateful to @POTUS for acknowledging this terrible era of our nation's past.

“I would never have guessed in a million years that something like this would happen,” she told the Associated Press.

At the Gila Crossing Community School near Phoenix, Biden celebrated Haaland’s historic role and apologized today for America’s “sin.”

“It’s an honor, a genuine honor … to right a wrong, to chart a new path,” he said. “I formally apologize as president of the United States of America for what we did. I formally apologize. It’s long overdue.”

However, Indigenous leaders and citizens across the country stressed that this is only the first step.

“This is one of the most historic days in the history of Indian Country, and an apology of this size must be followed by real action,” Nick Tilsen, who belongs to the Oglala Lakota Nation and is president and CEO of the Indigenous rights organization NDN Collective, told Yahoo News.

Tilsen believes that there are specific, actionable steps that need to accompany any apology. For him, that means passing the U.S. Truth and Healing Commission bill in Congress, rescinding medals of honor for those who participated in the Battle of Wounded Knee, releasing “longest living Indigenous political prisoner in American history Leonard Peltier, who is also a boarding school survivor” and “unprecedented investment in Indigenous languages and education.”

Principal Chief of the Cherokee Nation Chuck Hoskin celebrated the move, calling out Haaland’s role in particular, and echoed the sentiment of following any apology with action.

“The [Department of the Interior’s] recommendations, especially in the preservation of Native languages and the repatriation of ancestors and cultural items, can be a path toward true healing,” Hoskin said in a statement.

While many Indigenous leaders are calling for action, Tilsen stressed that this is also a time to hold boarding school survivors and their families close.

“At this moment in history, we have to remember many of the survivors of the boarding schools are still alive,” he said. “It's in every household and it's in every community. And it's directly tied to the struggles that our people have today.”

Dylan Rose Goodwill, who is Diné (Navajo), Hunkpapa Lakota and Sisseton Wahpeton Dakota, was visiting Sherman Indian High School in Riverside, Calif., on Thursday when she heard the news about Biden’s forthcoming apology. It’s a place that is part of her family history, as her grandmother (or másáni) was sent there when it served as a federally run Native boarding school.

She told Yahoo News that hearing the news there was “complicated.”

As the senior assistant director of undergraduate admissions at the University of Southern California, Goodwill was visiting the school as a college recruiter.

“I've always had these kinds of mixed feelings because it's been weird to be the admission counselor for the schools that my own grandparents attended,” she said.

“It was already a tough morning to go and then to receive the news on site was really a mixture of feelings because I felt anger mostly, where it was like disbelief that this was happening, excitement that at least it was happening, but also feeling like this isn't enough,” Goodwill added.

Sitting where her grandmother sat in the 1930s and '40s, Goodwill asked herself, “What is that gonna really hold for her now? She passed in '04.”

Biden’s statement comes 16 years after former Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper apologized for Canada’s role in the Indigenous residential school system — a topic filmmakers Julian Brave NoiseCat and Emily Kassie document in their film Sugarcane, about St. Joseph’s Mission School near the Sugarcane reserve in British Columbia.

NoiseCat is a member of the Canim Lake Band Tsq���escen and a descendant of the Lil’wat Nation of Mount Currie and whose grandmother attended the Catholic Church-run residential school and gave birth to his father there. He told Yahoo News that this moment was important for a “continentwide conversation about what happened to Native families and Native children at Native American boarding schools and Indian residential schools.”

Joining Biden and Haaland for the event on the Gila River Indian Reservation along with Kassie, NoiseCat continued, “The fact that the president has chosen to formally apologize to survivors and their families is a real testament to the significance of this story, which needs to be understood as a foundational story to North America.”

However, Kassie echoed that actionable steps must follow sentiment.

“As momentous and important as this day is, it's important that it's followed up with action,” she told Yahoo. “It's important that the records of what happened at these institutions that are held by the U.S. government and the Catholic Church are opened to Indigenous communities who are looking for answers. And it's important that those communities also have the opportunity to hold to account those institutions and individuals who abused them.”

For Tilsen, it’s also a time to “center the survivors.”

“As we sort of politically dissect this moment,” he said, “I also want to recognize the pain that is being resurfaced, and that our people deserve the right to have pain and they deserve the right to have rage in this moment while we lean towards moving forward in action.”

NoiseCat, who has a deeply personal connection to the residential school history, said, “I'm probably going to call my dad today after the apology and just check in with him.”