#Chickasaw

[kittydoodle]

[ID: Art of a hairy fat brown native OC with a red mohawk, holding out a blunt. It's wearing an open black denim vest covered in patches, pins, and spikes with a mesh tank under it, a black leather collar with an o ring, a compression glove with spikes on the wrist, and several face and ear piercings. It has arm band tattoos made of spirals that represent water and a shoulder tattoo of a white dog and a red snake spiraling around a golden sun.

Patches and pins include: A wheelchair symbol with a sun shaped head and a spiral for the wheel, a symbol combining the trans and bio-hazard symbols with a concentric circle in the center, a bear paw patch in the bear pride colors, a disability flag, a polyamorous flag pin, a WOTWU (workers of the world unite) pin, a star that says "gay sex", a weed leaf, a beetle pin, a patch that says, "radical self love", a rainbow flower pin, a patch with the land back logo, an autism infinity symbol, a trans flag, a warning sign, and a patch representing Chickasaw heritage. It includes 2 crossing arrows in front of a shield with a sun on it and flowing spirals behind it to represent the Mississippi river. End ID.]

hiii heres toshbi, worlds chillest cpunk crustie chickasaw stoner who works as a queer therapist and loves volunteering at local causes (it/its)

[faggyrat]

[ID: A handmade 2 spirit patch. It's embroidery of 2 feathers with a circle where they meet at the top, with a rainbow flag as the background. The border of the patch is embroidered in hot pink thread. End ID.]

made a 2 spirit patch 😏

[shadeslayer]

sinti, shunti, kanunuk, & nunni. the crew will be adding them to designs on my merch asap <3

[mimi-0007]

Chickasaw freedmen. Let's talked about it!!

[linguisticdiscovery]

Rare intonation patterns in the world's languages

Chitimacha is one of the rare languages which uses rising intonation for statements and falling intonation for questions and commands (Swadesh 1946: 317).

This chart using languages from the World Atlas of Language Structures shows just how infrequent this pattern is in the world’s languages (Gordon 2016: 245).

Interestingly, the nearby Chickasaw language also has this unusual pattern, even though the two languages are unrelated (Gordon 2016: 245).

You can learn all about the sound systems of the world’s languages in the excellent book Phonological typology. (The book is aimed at linguists rather than a general audience. An intro linguistics class is probably a prerequisite for the book.)

References

Dryer, Matthew S. & Haspelmath, Martin (eds.). 2013. The world atlas of language structures online. https://wals.info/.

Gordon, Matthew K. 2016. Phonological typology (Oxford Surveys in Phonology & Phonetics 1). Oxford University Press.

Swadesh, Morris. 1946. Chitimacha. In Harry Hoijer (ed.), Linguistic structures of Native America, 312–336. Viking Fund.

[nocternalrandomness]

1968 photograph of a USAF Sikorsky H-19B 

[ker4unos]

EAST INDIGENOUS NORTH AMERICAN RESOURCES

The Anthropological Masterlist is HERE.

The Midwestern United States is a North American region that constitutes the northern central part of the United States.

HURON ─ “The Wyandot, or Huron, people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to the north of Lake Ontario.” ─ Huron Information ─ Huron History ─ Huron Language

LAKOTA ─ “The Lakota people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to North and South Dakota.” ─ Lakota Language ─ Lakota Language Reclamation Project ─ Lakota Dictionary

SENECA ─ “The Seneca people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to the south of Lake Ontario.” ─ Seneca Information ─ Seneca Culture ─ Seneca Language

The Northeast United States is a North American region that constitutes the northeastern part of the United States.

BLACKFOOT ─ “The Blackfoot people are an Indigenous North American military confederation that share the Blackfoot language. They are native to northeastern America.” ─ Blackfoot Culture ─ Blackfoot Language

LENAPE ─ “The Lenape, or Leni Lenape, people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to the Northeastern Woodlands.” ─ William Penn on the Lenape ─ Lenape Language ─ Lenape Dictionary

NARRAGANSETT ─ “The Narragansett people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to Rhode Island.” ─ Narragansett Records ─ Narragansett Language ─ Narragansett Language

WAMPANOAG ─ “The Wampanoag, or Wôpanâak, people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to southeastern Massachusetts.” ─ Chappaquiddick Wampanoag Information ─ Wampanoag Culture ─ Wampanoag Language Reclamation Project

The Southern United States is a North American region that constitutes the southern part of the United States.

CADDO ─ “The Caddo people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States.” ─ Caddo History ─ Caddo Language ─ Caddo Alphabet

CHEROKEE ─ “The Cherokee are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to the Southeastern Woodlands of the United States.” ─ Cherokee Information ─ Cherokee Culture and History ─ Cherokee Dictionary

CHICKASAW ─ “The Chickasaw people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to the southeastern United States.” ─ Chickasaw History ─ Chickasaw Language ─ Chickasaw Language and Word Stress

CHOCTAW ─ “The Choctaw, or Chahta, people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to Alabama and Mississippi.” ─ Choctaw Information ─ Choctaw Culture ─ Choctaw Mythology

CREEK ─ “The Creek, or Muskogee, people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to the Southeastern Woodlands in the United States.” ─ Creek Information ─ Creek Language

*GULLAH ─ “The Gullah people are an African American people. They live in the Lowcountry Region of the United States.” ─ Gullah Culture ─ Gullah Cuisine

KIOWA APACHE ─ “The Plains Apache are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to Oklahoma and Texas.” ─ Apache Information ─ Apache Culture ─ Apache Creation Myth

PAWNEE ─ “The Pawnee people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to Oklahoma.” ─ Pawnee Information ─ Tirawa of Pawnee Legend ─ Pawnee Dictionary

POWHATAN ─ “The Powhatan, or Powatan, people are an Indigenous North American people. They are native to eastern Virginia.” ─ Important Powhatan People ─ Powhatan History ─ Powhatan Language

* - The Gullah are not indigenous North American people. They are an African diasporic people.

[womeninfictionandirl]

Te Ata by Allison Adams

Te Ata (aka Mary Frances Thompson) (1895 –1995), was an actress and citizen of the Chickasaw Nation known for telling Native American stories. She performed as a representative of Native Americans at state dinners before President Roosevelt as well as for King and Queen of England. She went on to perform throughout Europe. She was named Oklahoma's first State Treasure in 1987. Her career spanned over 60 years and she collected hundreds of stories from different tribes.

[losahoma-prints]

Ofi’at losa means black dog in Chickasaw. In Chickasaw, colors are verbs (the grass is greening). The “at” suffix means that the dog is being black. Kinda cool huh?

[arthurdrakoni]

Flag of the Cherokee Confederacy

This is the flag of the Cherokee Confederacy. It comes from a world where the Spanish Armada successfully conquered England in 1588. While England did eventually regain its independence, the Spanish conquest severely stunted England’s growth as a world power, and lead to greater political instability. As a result, England never became a demographic juggernaut during the colonization of North America. The lands that would have become the Thirteen Colonies are a patchwork of nations and colonies founded by numerous European nations. There are also several independent indigenous nations, such as the Cherokee Confederacy. 

The Cherokee Confederacy also includes the Muskogee, Chickasaw, and Choctaw tribes. The Cherokee, as reflected by the name, were the founding tribe of the confederacy. The Cherokee Confederacy was one of the first indigenous nations of North America to implement westernization and industrialization programs. Today, most Cherokee dress in European-style clothing, but do wear traditional clothing on special occasions. Like most southern nations in eastern North America, the Cherokee historically practiced slavery. Slavery was formally abolished in 1885 as part of the modernization efforts. Racial divides and tensions still remain, but the Cherokee government has, in recent years, implement programs to help blacks integrate into Cherokee society. 

The Cherokee legislature, known as the Tribal Council, is organized into a semi-parliamentary democracy, with a prime minister as the Head of Government, and a president as Head of State. The Cherokee Tribal Council is closer in style to the French National Assmbly, rather than to the English Parliament. The Cherokee Confederacy is centered around what would be western North Carolina, Tennessee, and the northern bits of Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. The indigenous republics of North America, being sovereign nations, did not suffer an equivalent of the Indian Removal Act. 

Historically, the Cherokee Confederacy has been rivals with the Haudenosaunee Federation. However, in recent times the two nations have been putting their rivalries behind them. In terms of good relations, the Cherokee Confederacy has historically been an ally of New Neatherlands, which in located in Virginia. The various nations of North America have formed a European Union-style economic union, and there are hopes that this will eventually leads to a federation. There is a general spirit of good will and optimism. That said, North America still has a ways to go before its nation states become united. 

The flag contains seven gold stars in the shape of the Big Dipper, or Ursa Major, on an orange field with a green border. Ursa Major is an important constellation to several tribes within the Cherokee Confederacy. It also symbolizes how the same night sky shine over the entire Cherokee Confederacy. Blue would seem a natural color choice, but the Cherokee picked orange instead. There is some debate about why this is. Popular belief says that it symbolizes the Cherokee Confederacy’s ties to New Netherlands. However, the Cherokee actually picked orange to contrast with the blue flags several other North American nations use. The green border is to offset the orange.

Link to the original flag on my blog: https://drakoniandgriffalco.blogspot.com/2022/05/flag-of-cherokee-confederacy.html?m=1

[whitepassingpocs]

Shout out to BIPOC who have their ability to pass as white used to delegitimize their identity, especially by other white people. I know your pain, and you're not alone. You're not "salt with a dash of pepper" or "coffee/tea with too much cream." You're you, and you deserve to reconnect with every part of you. - Juno; white, mixed with Indigenous American (Chickasaw), Jewish (Ashkenazi), and East (Manchurian & Mongolian) + South (Bengali & Northeast Indian) Asian

thank you, juno <3

[fortheloveofdeaddove]

I fell off the wagon, and finally wrapped up today by telling the last person in my support network what was going on.

Folks, relapse is the rule, not the exception. Yeah, there are those stories. But they are legends and myths and not very good guidebooks for us normal folk.

I've joined a Wellbriety group, which is focused on recovery in the context of Native American culture. I received an invitation from a friend who, simply put, has never questioned my identity since she found out I was Choctaw. It started by inviting me to participate in the planning of the Native American high school graduation celebration in May. I donated a store bought cake to the cake walk. I was too nervous to attend, and I didn't know anyone graduating. Then through that networking, I found out about this new group that hadn't even had their first meeting yet.

The meetings are called Talk Circles. We smudge first, then a psuedo-Christian/Native American prayer is said. Then we pass the eagle feather and it proceeds much like an AA meeting. These are the only traditional practices I have ever engaged in, in a group or alone.

Tonight was the second meeting, and it wasn't an easy one for me. I feel like an imposter, and have been looking for a Magical Indian Elder to give me permission to be Choctaw for a long time. (I understand the permission and acceptance must come from me, but the wounds are deep and the feelings don't match the words I can type out about it). The trauma I carry about my grandfather's rejection sat very heavily on my heart as I listened to everyone talk about how reconnecting or engaging in their tribe's traditions and culture helped them heal. My grandfather quite specifically rejected myself, my sister, and my brother, amongst ALL his grandkids. WE were left out Christmas morning when he dressed in full regalia and danced and sung. WE were never included in any of the portraits he painted (believe me, every other grandchild was in one or more of his other paintings, this is not an exaggeration). We also happen to look super white comparatively, and all my other aunts' and uncles' spouses at least had some Native American ancestry. My mother did not.

An elder in the group tonight talked about how we were family, and everyone in the room was his brother and sister. Then he offered to talk with anyone if they ever need it, that he'd be happy to go sit with them in a sweat lodge.

"He doesn't mean you," said the horrible, awful voice that's been following me around since childhood.

Likewise, with all my religious trauma, though I yearn to fill this cultural void and find acceptance, I loathe the idea of exploring any spirituality. Find your higher power. Find your higher power. You don't have to believe in God but find your higher power and EVERYONE in the room is gonna call him God and refer to him as Him and talk about His Son Jesus Christ. I don't want to find reasons to be a cast out, to differ myself from them. But in that room where I felt like an imposter who just couldn't get with the script, I really struggled.

Am I just a white woman culturally appropriating and worse, taking up resources where I don't belong?

Grandpa's parents were both "half" - great grandpa being Choctaw and white, and great grandma being Chickasaw and white. Grandpa himself always said he was "half". How the fuck you go from that to two generations later being 9/256 as my tribal card says.... Who the fuck knows?

It occurred to me after I'd left that I'd received a back handed compliment. The sister of one of the organizers came up to me after the meeting (I'd been visibly crying, not fainting couch stuff I wasn't trying to center my white woman tears) and she told me how much she appreciated my being there, because she's had such imposter syndrome. It didn't take me long to figure out this VERY Native American-looking woman with a last name that included "eagle" and "feather" in it wasn't talking about my identity issues. She just felt better knowing there was someone who was an active addict in the group, because she only had a short time of sobriety accrued and she'd been worried because her brother was an organizer. (She was NOT trying to be mean. She meant it wholeheartedly and I'm sure she didn't realize I'd be sensitive to something like that.)

What I don't want is for other people to see me in that space and feel less safe or at home, or less like it's truly a Native event. I can't control other people's feelings. It's a strange combination of being raised white, female, and evangelical Christian, and having deconstructed a good deal of that. Be absolutely politically correct to EVERYONE (impossible). Be perfect and affable, obtain everyone's approval, do not take up space or if you do, you better not be disruptive. Make everyone happy, take care of everyone else first.

It's a serious lack of authority in one's own life.

I suggested adding a cake walk to the Halloween event that's being put on. Two non-white men, one after the other, both asked me what it was, and if it was a "white person" thing. Even though I had just told them I had the idea because of it being at the graduation ceremony. The Native American graduation ceremony. Where people, ya know, danced and walked... in a fucking circle. >_> Like ya do in a cake walk. Gee, so strange and different sounding. So white and colonizing!

(It was actually a celebratory game developed by enslaved African Americans on plantations. I looked this up after the fact because I just had a suspicion lol.)

What people see when they look at me isn't entirely in my head. I just have to learn to live with shit like that. I'll call them micro-resentments, because I don't think aggression is the right word. Sadly, I've always been extremely sensitive (gimme plenty of that bi-polar flavoring) and value highly people's approval. It's going to be hard for me.

When I obtain enough sobriety, I'm starting a secular recovery group. I think all these methods - AA, Wellbriety, S.M.A.R.T., etc, go pretty well together. We atheists in the Bible Belt deserve a safe place to be secular though. We really do.

[6ghassan]

Chickasaw by Wasfi Akab Via Flickr: The Chickasaw are an Indigenous people of the Southeastern Woodlands, United States. Their traditional territory was in northern Mississippi, northwestern and northern Alabama, western Tennessee and southwestern Kentucky. Their language is classified as a member of the Muskogean language family. In the present day, they are organized as the federally recognized Chickasaw Nation. Wikipedia

[shadeslayer]

new halloween design will be up on my shops soon <3

[mimi-0007]

Here to say it's unfair that my family can't get benefits because of a marriage. Why does the mixed children today get full benefits. It's nothing wrong with. They deserve it. I'm speaking of my Ancestry. My great great granddaughter married a black man. I live in Oklahoma. The Native Americans act like wp. They are rude. I see white ppl getting benefits. It's always the black man losing. We fought just as hard as you did and more!! July 18,1906.

[littlefeather-wolf]

Mary "Te Ata" Thompson Fisher

1895 - 1995 ...

Te Ata Thompson Fisher, whose name means

“Bearer of the Morning”, was born Dec. 3, 1895, near Emet, Oklahoma. A citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, Te Ata was an accomplished actor and teller of Native American stories ... ✊🏼

On October 26, 1995, Te Ata died in Oklahoma City.

She was just shy of 100. She had returned to Oklahoma in 1966. She however had continued to perform until 1980. Throughout her life she worked to educate society about the culture of Native Americans as well as advocate for them ...

She was an amazing woman !!!

B - 1895

D - 1995