#Native American Heritage

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"We Indians know about silence. We are not afraid of it. In fact, for us, silence is more powerful than words. Our elders were trained in the ways of silence, and they handed over this knowledge to us. Observe, listen, and then act, they would tell us. That was the manner of living.

With you, it is just the opposite. You learn by talking. You reward the children that talk the most at school. In your parties, you all try to talk at the same time. In your work, you are always having meetings in which everybody interrupts everybody and all talk five, ten or a hundred times. And you call that ‘solving a problem’. When you are in a room and there is silence, you get nervous. You must fill the space with sounds. So you talk compulsorily, even before you know what you are going to say.

White people love to discuss. They don’t even allow the other person to finish a sentence. They always interrupt. For us Indians, this looks like bad manners or even stupidity. If you start talking, I’m not going to interrupt you. I will listen. Maybe I’ll stop listening if I don’t like what you are saying, but I won’t interrupt you.

When you finish speaking, I’ll make up my mind about what you said, but I will not tell you I don’t agree unless it is important. Otherwise, I’ll just keep quiet and I’ll go away. You have told me all I need to know. There is no more to be said. But this is not enough for the majority of white people.

People should regard their words as seeds. They should sow them, and then allow them to grow in silence. Our elders taught us that the earth is always talking to us, but we should keep silent in order to hear her.

There are many voices besides ours. Many voices…”

-Ella Deloria

(Native American Heritage)

[massbaylibs]

November is National Native American Heritage Month

About National Native American Heritage Month: What started at the turn of the century as an effort to gain a day of recognition for the significant contributions the first Americans made to the establishment and growth of the U.S., has resulted in a whole month being designated for that purpose. (https://nativeamericanheritagemonth.gov/about/)

National Day of Mourning

The National Day of Mourning is an annual demonstration, held on the fourth Thursday in November, that aims to educate the public about Native Americans in the United States, notably the Wampanoag and other tribes of the Eastern United States; dispel myths surrounding the Thanksgiving story in the United States; and raise awareness toward historical and ongoing struggles facing Native American tribes. Learn more about the National Day of Mourning and its close ties to Massachusetts history at the GBH news story: https://www.wgbh.org/news/local-news/2020/11/26/for-native-americans-its-not-thanksgiving-its-a-national-day-of-mourning 

MassBay Land Acknowledgement

Massachusetts Bay Community College wishes to acknowledge that the Wellesley, Framingham, Ashland campuses sit on land that was appropriated by the US Federal government from the Nipmuc, Massa-aschu-es-et (Massachusetts) and Pawtucket tribes. MassBay cannot change the past but what we can do is honor the land, the ancestors, and the indigenous traditions as we at MassBay use this sacred land as a communal place to nurture learners to move forward and make a more inclusive world.

Native Land Digital Interactive Map

You can take your first steps in honoring indigenous and native lands by learning about the land you currently live on and occupy. Take this step by visiting Native Land Digital Interactive Native Land map: https://native-land.ca/

The 2020 list of federally recognized tribes through the Bureau of Indian Affairs

Learn More at the Native American Heritage Libguide and View Resources at the MassBay Library

Celebrate and pay tribute to the rich ancestry and traditions of Native Americans. Learn more at the Native American Heritage Libguide with links to eBooks, journals, articles, events, podcasts and websites that are sources of information on Native American culture and history.

You can also see our display of native American tribal maps in the study area near the computers at the Wellesley campus library.

[vinceschilling]

It's November! #HappyNativeAmericanHeritageMonth

So, you might wonder, What is Native American Heritage Month?

A brief article with videos, photos and ways to celebrate by Akwesasne Mohawk journalist and author Vincent Schilling.

#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth

via Native Viewpoint

[alienelvisobsession]

Elvis trying on a Native American headdress in December 1960, when he was inducted into the Los Angeles Indian Tribal Council on the day “Flaming Star” opened. The reason for the induction was the constructive portrayal of Native Americans in that movie. He played Pacer, a half-Kiowa character. Elvis himself was 1/16th Native American through his maternal great-great-great grandmother Morning Dove White, who was a full-blooded Cherokee Indian. He paid homage to his heritage in the details of some of his jumpsuits in the 1970s.

Happy Thanksgiving to my American friends. I hope this post is not offensive to anyone. The whole world needs healing.

[sweetyoungthingy]

So I read somewhere that Micky claimed to be part Native American in an interview once. (Specifically Chickasaw.) I was wondering how true that was and whether or not all the photos I see of him wearing Native America dress is appropriation or appreciation. And also whether or not this headdress is authentic.

Here’s the interview from somethingelsereviews.com (I won’t make you go searching for it.) The reply is in response to a question regarding his inspiration for “Mommy and Daddy”.

“You know, I’m part Chickasaw,” Dolenz adds. “There was a bunch of [Native Americans], I think it might have been in Oregon or Washington state. They had all been arrested for protesting fishing rights. It was something between them and the government about the right to fish their tribal lands. They’d been fishing in that particular area for, you know, 1,000 years. There was an issue, and they got arrested. Somebody came to me in Los Angeles and said, “they need some money to be bailed out.” I guess they knew I was part [Native American]. It was a lot of money at the time, like $15,000 or something like that. But I put up the money, and they were very grateful. They sent me some very beautiful Indian artwork. That might have been the inspiration for that.”

[littleblackmirrors]

I am a feather on the bright sky

I am the blue horse that runs in the plain

I am the fish that rolls, shining, in the water

I am the shadow that follows a child

I am the evening light, the lustre of meadows

I am an eagle playing with the wind

I am a cluster of bright beads

I am the farthest star

I am the cold of dawn

I am the roaring of the rain

I am the glitter on the crust of the snow

I am the long track of the moon in a lake

I am a flame of four colors

I am a deer standing away in the dusk

I am a field of sumac and the pomme blanche

I am an angle of geese in the winter sky

I am the hunger of a young wolf

I am the whole dream of these things

You see, I am alive, I am alive

I stand in good relation to the earth

I stand in good relation to the gods

I stand in good relation to all that is beautiful

I stand in good relation to the daughter of Tsen-tainte

You see, I am alive, I am alive

//The Delight Song of Tsoai-talee By M Scott Momaday

[whosoeverdotorg]

The day after Thanksgiving is Native American Heritage Day. 

For LGBTQ+ Native Americans, Thanksgiving can be a bitter reminder of how the accepting traditions of their people have been whitewashed in racism and homophobia.

[totemxweb]

𝕋𝕙𝕖 𝕋𝕦𝕨𝕪'𝕚𝕥𝕒 𝕊𝕡𝕚𝕕𝕖𝕣-𝕎𝕠𝕞𝕒𝕟

Name: Spider-Woman Alias: Hania Tintreach Hania's father is of Irish decent while her mother is from the Native American tribe of Hopi. Meet my Spidersona. I'm finally confident enough to post her. Her faceclaim is Jamie Clayton. I am going to in the future work on some photoshop edits at a later date but for the moment the top six were A.i. Generated from the site at the following LINK. The bottom picture was made someone very close to me. @marvelmyriad. A huge thanks to Nyx for that along with Hania Tintreach's logo. Here is her BIO.

-℘ɛŋŋɛɖ ცყ ƙɛɬ

[heavenboy09]

WELL EVERYONE

OCTOBER IS OVER WITH & SO WITH IT. THE SEASON OF HALLOWEEN 🎃

BUT NOW WE CAN FOCUS ON THE OTHER BETTER HALF OF THE FALL

NOVEMBER

FOR TODAY IS THE TIME OF THE NATIVE AMERICANS 🪶

Today Marks The 1st Day Of One Of The Greatest Heritage months of them all. For this is the month of the 1st Americans who if Americans who walked and carved this carved this land we call home.

Before there was any know people here.

White, Black, Asian, Latino, Hispanic, European, Hawaiian or other wise.

There was the people who Made a trail and started to carry that trail throughout I'll do out the 50 known States before they were even States.

They all made Small but also Vast communities known as tribes throughout this Great Land.

From California to the New York islands.

East, South, Northwest, and West.

Everywhere you go in this vast and once Majestic country you will find their footsteps yeah footsteps and their mark in history all history all over this New World.

But once the Forth coming of the White Man and their Supremacy, Suppression and Desecration to this once Beautiful Land that was once called their Home had been.

Taken .....

Pillaged ....

Burned....

Raped....

& Evidently MURDERED as well.....

Well like a lot of great civilizations that were once there and now are no more...

Like the legends of the great stories of the dinosaurs that once roamed this Earth and were the 1st ones to be here....

all of their significance of Life itself, their life, their lively hood, their creations, inventions that make up most of American Culture to this day.

All of their Hard Effort.

Mostly Vanished off of this Land.

Yet The Remnants Of The Past. Still Linger and Remain to this Very Day....

Like them so did too these 1st people who

Made this land their home and more importantly made it what it is and what it would have become and would have still been this very day.

Today i want you all to learn THE REAL HISTORY AND CULTURE AND HERITAGE OF THE PEOPLE WHO REALLY FOUNDED THIS NEW WORLD.

IT WAS NEVER THE WHITE MAN. DONT BELIEVE THAT $***. THEY DIDNT DISCOVER JACK $***

IT WAS NEVER THE BLACK MAN. THEY HAD NO CHOICE BUT TO BE SLAVES TO A OPPRESSION THEY NEVER WANTED NOR SHOULD ANYONE HAVE TO ENDURE SUCH TRIBULATIONS OF EVIL.

IT WAS NEVER THE EUROPEANS, ASIANS, LATIN, HISPANIC, HAWAIIAN. Though they were related to The People who Fled this Once Great Land only to be

REMOVED FROM THE HOME 🏡 THEY ONCE KNEW AND LOVED

AND TRAVELED ELSEWHERE TO FIND SHELTER AND MORE IMPORTANTLY.

PEACE ✌ ☮ 🕊

THIS IS THE MONTH THAT RESPENTS

THE PEOPLE

THE CULTURE

THE LANGUAGE

THE CELEBRATIONS

THE BATTLES

THE HEARTSHIP

THE TRYANNY OF THE WHITE MAN

AND THE LEGENDS OF OLD THAT STARTED IT ALL

HERE.

IN

THE NEW WORLD 🌎 WE CALL

AMERICA 🇺🇸.

THE 1ST AMERICANS. MY ANCESTORS AND MY PEOPLE AS WELL AS THE OTHERS I WAS BORN INTO.

GET READY Y'ALL

FOR THIS IS NATIVE AMERICAN HISTORY AND INDIAN HERITAGE MONTH

RESPECT OUR CULTURE, OUR PEOPLE, AND OUR LAND.

YOU ARE ON NATIVE LAND. DONT FORGET THAT. 🏞

#NativeAmericanHeritageMonth #nativeamerican #nativepride #NativeAmericanHeritage ✊🏾 🦅🏜🐎🐻🐺🦊🐦🍁🍂⛰🌄🐢🏹🐃🦃🐓🪶🌲👦🏾👧🏾👨🏾👩🏾

[dorr-township-library]

[ami-ven]

Happy National Native American Heritage Day!

[znxu]

🕊️freedom from settler colonialism now and forever🪶🇵🇸

[laugardagur]

Lummi ceremony at UCLA

[spaceysoupy]

If you’re outside the US and want to help, here are ten things you can do to protect ICWA, Indigenous children, and Tribal Sovereignty as a whole.

Share information about ICWA, Brackeen v Haaland, and Tribal Sovereignty

Share information about rallies, protests, and strategy meetings

Share the donation information of organizations that are fighting to protect ICWA

Donate to those organizations to help them continue to fight

Share the stories of Indigenous adoptees, survivors of residential schools, and the families involved in Brackeen v Haaland

Follow @protectICWA on twitter for live updates

Educate yourself on Tribal Sovereignty, residential schools and the 60s scoop, and cultural genocide as a tool of genocide.

Educate yourself on MMIP/MMIWG2S and familiarize yourself with the tactics those against Tribal Sovereignty use to undermine us.

Learn exactly who is fighting to get rid of ICWA and why. Hint: Gibson Dunn (representing the Brackeens) is the same law firm that supported the Dakota Access Pipeline (DAPL) Now I wonder who benefits from slowly but surely removing Indigenous people from our lands? 🤔

Uplift Indigenous voices that are speaking out and speaking up on ALL platforms. Tell your friends, tell your family, and show up to support us if you can. If ICWA is struck down, we will not be going without a fight. Be prepared.

This linktree has tons of information about ICWA, why it is important, what’s at stake, and what you can do to help. Even simply sharing an article link from here to 10 followers that go on to share to their 10 followers can help!

Every Child Matters 🪶

[icedbatik]

Marc-Andre Fleury Native American Heritage Night November 24, 2023

[linguisticdiscovery]

Indigenous vs. European perspectives on etymology: pumpkin

There are two theories about the origin of the word pumpkin, which represent two very different perspectives on history:

All major dictionaries say that the most likely origin for pumpkin is the French word pompion ‘melon’ + the English diminutive suffix -kin ‘little’.

The Wampanoag tribe of Massachusetts says that pumpkin comes from its word pôhpukun ‘pumpkin’, but literally meaning ‘it grows forth round’.

The Plymouth settlers borrowed lots of words from the local Wampanoag people, including moccasin, skunk, squash, and the name of the state, Massachusetts. Tisquantum (who history knows as Squanto) taught them a great deal about local plants and wildlife, so it stands to reason they would have also learned the word pumpkin from him, butchering the pronunciation in the process.

But the way they butchered the pronunciation is important. When English speakers heard the word pôhpukun without realizing it was an Algonquian word, they thought it was actually based on English or French. To them, it sounded like pompion with the -kin suffix added to it. The word pompion (or some similar version of it) appears in English documents in North America prior to the settlement of Plymouth, so it’s likely the Pilgrims were familiar with the word (but probably not strongly so, given that the word was only borrowed into English 80 years prior). As a result, they misanalyzed pôhpukun as pumpkin, thinking it was a combination of the French word pompion and the English suffix -kin.

This kind of misanalysis is called a folk etymology. Other examples are cockroach (< Spanish cucaracha) and woodchuck (< Cree otchek). Folk etymologies happen when speakers analyze a word as having different parts than it actually does.

In this particular case, it seems that the folk etymology is the one that made it into the dictionary, rather than the original Native American one.