#Pequot Indians

[writingwithcolor]

Thanksgiving/Day of Mourning

Last year, I made a very quick, basic post about thanksgiving: Indigenous Day of Mourning aka Thanksgiving. if you want the sources for what I’m about to say, check there.

This post will be about why you cannot just go “fuck the pilgrims, we deserve a harvest festival no matter the origin” or anything else that tries to sanitize the holiday.

You Are Still On Stolen Land

As a result, you are still actively profiting off the genocide the pilgrims committed.

I don’t care how educated about racial issues you profess you are. I don’t care how you behave the other 364 days of the year. If you try to distance yourself from the origins of Thanksgiving simply because it makes you uncomfortable to see the blood under the tablecloth, you’re not practised in sitting with actually being anti-racist. You know what to say, but you don’t practice what you preach.

You Are Eating Our Food

Pumpkins/squash, beans, turkey, cranberries, potatoes, corn, sweet potatoes, pecans, maple syrup?

Those are all Native American foods that we taught you how to grow and harvest.

You wouldn’t have any of your traditional Thanksgiving foods without us. The ideal meal of Thanksgiving is ripped right from Indigenous practices and cannot be separated from it.

The fact that these foods have been taken out of Indigenous hands and appropriated by colonizers as the bounties they somehow deserve for landing here is a tragedy, and people need to remember where their food comes from and who had been growing it for thousands of years.

You Had So Much Because Of Massacre

Thanksgiving became an annual tradition after 700 Pequot men, women, children, and elders were killed, freeing up acres of land that colonizers promptly took over. The sheer amount of extra acreage that colonizers had because of their genocide contributed to the excess of food experienced during Thanksgiving. That land had been structured to support more people originally.

Colonizers had never, ever, deserved that much food. They were taking more than they needed, not leaving much behind for the animals that depended on a balance to be held with humans. They took far more than was needed, throwing the balance off in nature.

Maybe I’m reaching. But I think that if you suddenly had 700 less people in the area, after all of the growing and planting for the total population had been done, you’d have excess food? Or even before the growing, you’d have land set up to support 700, that I’d assume you’d still use, when you were a much smaller population?

Sit With Your Own Grief

If this makes you feel bad and that you shouldn’t celebrate Thanksgiving? Sit with that.

I’m not telling you that you have to give up Thanksgiving traditions. I’m telling you that you cannot divorce them from Indigenous people.

You are giving thanks for our massacre. You are giving thanks for stealing so much from us that you had this excess.

Yes, you can need a break; yes, you can need time with family and friends. None of this is inherently bad.

It’s not even bad to eat local food from Turtle Island! Part of having a sustainable diet is eating locally, in time with the seasons.

But remember, it is Indigenous people who first gave this to you—and then you stole far more than you ever needed from us, killing us to get what you felt you deserved.

Do not divorce Thanksgiving from Indigenous people for your own comfort.

We are still here. We must live with the aftermath of colonizers stealing from us every single day.

If you feel this way hearing about our history, imagine what we feel like living it.

Donate to a local org/Indigenous person this Thanksgiving

I (again) don’t have the spoons to compile a list of vetted charities, but look for local tribe language revival programs, COVID relief funds, and activism around the Indian Child Welfare Act currently in front of the Supreme Court.

Pay reparations for what you have taken, and remember. It is also Indigenous Day of Mourning.

Indigenous people, drop your links below.

~Lesya

[bayareabadboy]

⚡️Half of all U.S. states, 25 to be exact, carry Native American names. Today we will be taking a look at the 25 states and the meanings of their names. They will be listed in alphabetical order.

1. 1.Alabama: The name Alabama is derived from the Native American Choctaw language and means "vegetation gatherers" or "thicket-clearers."

2. 2.Alaska: The name Alaska is derived from the Aleut language and means "mainland" or "great land."

3. 3.Arizona: The name Arizona is derived from the Spanish word "arizonac," which is thought to be a Basque phrase meaning "place of the small spring."

4. 4.Arkansas: The name Arkansas is derived from a French pronunciation of the Native American Quapaw tribe's name, which means "land of downriver people" or "people of the south wind."

5. 5.California: The name California is derived from a Spanish novel and was believed to be a mythical island called "California."

6. 6.Colorado: The name Colorado is derived from the Spanish word for "colored red," referring to the reddish sediment in the Colorado River.

7. 7.Connecticut: The name Connecticut is derived from the Native American Mohegan-Pequot word "quinnitukqut," meaning "beside the long tidal river."

8. 8.Delaware: The name Delaware is derived from the English explorer Thomas West, Lord De La Warr.

9. 9.Florida: The name Florida is derived from the Spanish phrase "Pascua Florida," meaning "flowery Easter" or "feast of flowers."

10. 10.Georgia: The name Georgia is named after King George II of England.

11. 11.Hawaii: The name Hawaii is derived from the Polynesian language and means "place of the gods" or "homeland."

12. 12.Idaho: The origin of the name Idaho is unclear, but it is believed to be a coined word with no specific meaning.

13. 13.Illinois: The name Illinois is derived from the Native American Algonquin language and means "tribe of superior men."

14. 14.Indiana: The name Indiana means "land of the Indians" or "land of Indians."

15. 15.Iowa: The name Iowa is derived from the Native American Sioux language and means "beautiful land" or "sleepy ones."

16. 16.Kansas: The name Kansas is derived from the Native American Sioux language and means "people of the south wind" or "people of the south."

17. 17.Kentucky: The name Kentucky is derived from the Native American Iroquoian language and means "land of tomorrow" or "meadowland."

18. 18.Louisiana: The name Louisiana is derived from the French King Louis XIV.

19. 19.Maine: The origin of the name Maine is uncertain, but it is believed to be derived from the French province of Maine.

20. 20.Maryland: The name Maryland was chosen to honor Queen Henrietta Maria, wife of King Charles I of England.

21. 21.Massachusetts: The name Massachusetts is derived from the Native American Algonquin language and means "at or about the great hill."

22. 22.Michigan: The name Michigan is derived from the Native American Ojibwa language and means "large water" or "large lake."

23. 23.Minnesota: The name Minnesota is derived from the Dakota Sioux language and means "cloudy water" or "sky-tinted water."

24. 24.Mississippi: The name Mississippi is derived from the Native American Ojibwa language and means "great river" or "father of waters."

25. 25.Missouri: The name Missouri is derived from the Native American Sioux language and means "town of the large canoes" or "town of the wooden canoes."

[anabolicbombers]

F4 thougts: Minuteman

The Minuteman are the faction than most of the players of fallout 4 encounter firs. Ignoring the infamous memes about Preston Garvey, they are often considered the best fraction of fallout 4, or at least, the most morally clean and overall good for the Commonwealth. Part of it stems from the lackluster game design of their main questline which mostly consist of the repeatable radiant quests, and also them being "Yes man" faction, meaning that in the base game it was impossible to fail their questline. They are also nicely slide into any of the other faction ending, without contributing anything to their questlines (they are involved in one Institute quest, the game "villian option" for faction ending).

But when talking about the Minuteman people rarely discuss the fact that the faction is based on a real existing organization, which played a great role in the creation of the United States. And the function of the Minuteman in the game is quiet similar to their real life historical counterparts. So let me take you to a improvised history lesson:

Real life Minuteman were best known for their contribution to the American war for independence and were main part of the Boston militia. The game call attention to this part of Minuteman history quet often, with their starting location being the museam of freedom, the main location the player retake is fort Independence, it's not wery subtle.

But the history of the Minuteman goes way further back, to the times of the last wars for colonies in America. Created by the colonial government, Minuteman were rapid-deployment units of the Massachusetts Bay militia, a "first response" to any threat that might befall settlements. The "treats" the Minuteman were deployed against were the military units of other colonial powers, gangs or, most often, indigenous tribes. The first offensive deployment of Minuteman was in Pequot war, when in august 1636 fourth companies were deployed under orders of Jong Endecott with the task of killing Pequot Indians. Despite the first failures of the raids conducted by the Minuteman, the war itself ended with complete destruction of the Pequot tribe, with remaining survivors being sold into slavery or given as captives to the other tribes that were then loyal to the British colonies. After that the Minuteman were involved with the subjugation of Narragansett and Wampanoag tribes, with the practice of issueing bounties for scalps of Indians during the Second indian war. tactical advancements of Minuteman during the war for independence were the direct result of their role as force of the colonial expansion. After the war of independence they were absorbed into the future national guardguard, becoming key parts in iconography of American imperialism. Both anti-communism organization during Cold War and modern anti-immigration groups name themselves after organization.

Taken all this in consideration, I find it wery disturbing that the majority of the Minuteman quests in game consist of you helping settlements or even securing a place for new ones by the following process:

Find settlement.

Talk about their request for help.

They mark an area on the map that either troubles them, or could be used as a new settlement.

You go there and kill everyone you meet.

Inform the settlers about accompanying mission.

Rince and repeat.

The game of course justify suck tasks with the fact that locals you exterminating are all universally hostile feral ghouls, super mutants or gangs of generic raiders, the groups you could kill on sight without any moral reprocussions. The aesthetic of the faction as "freedom fighters" clashes greatly with the gameplay that is more remiscent of their role as imperialist tool, but fallout 4 never calls attention to that fact. Which I find especially glaring considering the fact that the faction is portrayed as a force of universal good. For the series that supposedly satirize American emperialism and it's nostalgia cult, fallout 4 sure does a lot to whitewash Minuteman of the role they played in said emperialis.

[ashleybenlove]

“The Devil-dam, the Tit-bit, and the Pequod. Devil-Dam, I do not know the origin of; Tit-bit is obvious; Pequod, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians; now extinct as the ancient Medes.”

No, Ishmael, the Tit-bit is NOT OBVIOUS!!!

Luckily, the annotations link (I’m not having a problem with it) indicated. Tidbit. 

Yeah. Fair.

Also, apparently, the Pequot people are NOT extinct, which is good news to hear. 

[bignaz8]

ARMISTICE DAY

Please take the time today to remember those that have given the ultimate sacrifice to protect and ensure the freedoms you enjoy today. World War I (the 'War to End All Wars') celebrated a cease fire on this day, November 11, 1918 at 11:11am, and yet still today active land mines from that horrific conflict lie in wait, still fighting that conflict.

I have been to the Verdun valley in France, where over 1.2 million died and to Fort Douaumont, which has now become a museum and a memorial to viewable remains of 350,000 unknown soldiers. Think about that for a minute. Once you've seen it, you will never forget it.

I have walked the remains of the trenches in the Argonne Forest where my great uncle Paul fought, and witnessed the eroded craters of artillery explosions and the bleached remains of soldiers that perished there and are still entombed there.

I have visited the American cemeteries in eastern France (which are actually US soil), visited Arizona hero Frank Luke's unassuming grave, and bowed my head in silent prayer.

I reflected on three patriots without whose efforts this nation may not have been forged. Abraham Woodhull (aka Samuel Culper), Anna Smith Strong and Caleb Brewster provided Washington with intelligence (the Culper Spy Ring) on British ship and British/Hessian troop movements that allowed decisive victories at Trenton (Crossing of the Delaware) and others. They did what was necessary and risked their lives to provide support to the concept of a new nation. I drove to Setauket, Long Island not long ago to visit their graves and pay my respects. I was honored in their presence. It made me ask the question: What would you risk to ensure freedom and liberty for yourself and your family?

I have been to the fortifications and ramparts of Fort Griswold in Groton, Connecticut where 88 militia volunteers, among them my children's great-great-great-great-great grandfather and his brothers and cousins, a Pequot Indian, and two free black men fought against British General Benedict Arnold's attack on Connecticut, September 6, 1781. During their surrender after hours of fighting against overwhelming odds, the British commander took American Colonel Ledyard's presentation sword of surrender and ran Ledyard through, then giving orders to execute everyone left alive. Their ancestor was badly wounded during the massacre and was carted off to a British prison ship of horrid condition.

During the decisive Battle of Yorktown and the surrender of the British and Lord Cornwallis on October 19, 1781, the battle cry was 'Remember Fort Griswold!'.

I have traveled to Dachau Concentration Camp, where those whose ideals, race or sexual preferences did not meet a ruling party's guidelines. My father was in the 20th Armored Division, 70th Armored Infantry as a medic, and was one of a handful of medics and soldiers that liberated Dachau. He personally witnessed the dead and dying, the buildings filled with heads, arms and legs. He saved hundreds there through medical attention without so much as a medal. It was the soldiers' duty. I still have the worn 48-star flag that he carried throughout Europe.

I've been to Anne Frank's house in Amsterdam. When your rights and freedoms are taken, it was horrible to witness the lengths taken and necessary to simply remain alive and preserve your humanity.

I have been to the Alamo, and stood at the spot where Davy Crockett fell on March 6, 1836 to help secure independence for Texas; and touched the mock-marked scars of bullets from that day in the limestone blocks of the old mission.

I have felt the sorrow on the battlefields at Gettysburg, grieved in silence at Arlington Cemetery, paid respects at Grant's home and Lee's grave, let the cool breeze wash over me at Little Big Horn, anguished at Wounded Knee, and paid my respects to the end of an era at Skeleton Canyon in Arizona where Geronimo surrendered. I have been to Geronimo's final resting place at Fort Sill, Oklahoma, surrounded by his family; far from their home in Arizona and New Mexico.

My grandfather was drafted for WWII and served in the Army as well on the home front. My uncle fought in Italy with the 10th Mountain and survived Anzio.

I stood at the Berlin Wall and felt the pain and anguish of a nation and people when I placed my hand on its graffiti surface. I wept for joy when I learned the news it was torn down November 9, 1989. There was nothing 'cold' about that war... except that long expanse of grey concrete.

I remember personally seeing the passion Pat Tillman had for the game of football when he was playing for Arizona State University. That passion carried over into a starting position with the Arizona Cardinals, and after September 11, 2001, his country. Even though his death was a tragedy, he decided to leave behind a multi-million dollar contract to defend this country and its ideals. Grit. Honor.

About eight years ago, I was at Costco and struck up a conversation at lunch with 88 and 93-year-old WWII veterans. The younger man served in Luzon, Philippines, and the other in the 20th Armored Division, 14th Artillery. They were both excited to know that I knew the history of the 20th Armored Division intimately from my father. After lunch was over, I made sure to thank them for their service and sacrifice. And in doing so, no less than 10 other strangers suddenly walked up to thank them as well. I ran into the 20th Armored Division gentleman another time the following year and bought him a hot dog and soda and ate with him. And thanked him once again.

Remember the Veterans... not just today, but every day, and say THANK YOU to them for ensuring your freedom to express your voice, your opinions, and your liberty. Freedom is never free, and there will always be those wanting to control and purge your unalienable rights.

[odettecarotte]

After much prolonged sauntering and many random inquiries, I learnt that there were three ships up for three-years' voyages -- the Devil-dam; the Tit-bit; and the Pequod. Devil-Dam, I do not know the origin of; Tit-bit is obvious; Pequod, you will no doubt remember, was the name of the celebrated tribe of Massachusetts Indians, now extinct as the ancient Medes. I peered and pryed about the Devil-Dam; from her, hopped over to the Tit-bit; and, finally, going on board the Pequod, looked around her for a moment, and then decided this was the very ship for us.

Herman Melville, Moby-Dick

The Pequot were not extinct.

From the Mashantucket  (Western) Pequot Tribal Nation website:

“Tribal History

The history of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation is one of dramatically changing fortunes. Native peoples have continuously occupied Mashantucket in Southeastern Connecticut for over 10,000 years. By the early 17th century, just prior to European contact, the Pequots had approximately 8,000 members and inhabited 250 square miles. However, the Pequot War (1636-1638) -- the first major conflict between colonists and an indigenous New England people -- had a devastating impact on the Tribe.

When the Pequot War formally ended, many tribal members had been killed and others placed in slavery or under the control of other tribes. Those placed under the rule of the Mohegans eventually became known as the Mashantucket (Western) Pequots and were given land at Noank in 1651. In 1666, the land at Noank was taken from the Tribe, and it was given back property at Mashantucket. 

In the ensuing decades, the Pequots battled to keep their land, while at the same time losing reservation members to outside forces. By 1774, a Colonial census indicated that there were 151 tribal members in residence at Mashantucket. By the early 1800s, there were between 30 and 40 as members moved away from the reservation seeking work. Others joined the Brotherton Movement, a Christian-Indian movement that attracted Natives from New England to a settlement in upstate New York and later, Wisconsin. As for the remaining land in Connecticut, by 1856 illegal land sales had reduced the 989-acre reservation to 213 acres.

In the early 1970s, tribal members began moving back to the Mashantucket reservation, hoping to restore their land base and community, develop economic self-sufficiency, and revitalize tribal culture. By the mid-1970s, tribal members had embarked on a series of economic ventures, in addition to instituting legal action to recover illegally seized land.

With the assistance of the Native American Rights Fund and the Indian Rights Association, the Tribe filed suit in 1976 against neighboring landowners to recover land that had been sold by the State of Connecticut in 1856. Seven years later the Pequots reached a settlement with the landowners, who agreed that the 1856 sale was illegal, and who joined the Tribe in seeking the state government's support. The state responded, and the Connecticut Legislature unanimously passed legislation to petition the federal government to grant tribal recognition to the Mashantucket Pequots and settle the claim. With help from the Connecticut delegation, the Mashantucket Pequot Indian Land Claims Settlement Act was enacted by the U.S. Congress and signed by President Reagan on Oct. 18, 1983. It granted the Tribe federal recognition, enabling it to repurchase and place in trust the land covered in the Settlement Act. Currently, the reservation is 1,250 acres.

As the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation sought to settle its land claims, it also actively engaged in a number of economic enterprises, including the sale of cord wood, maple syrup, and garden vegetables, a swine project and the opening of a hydroponic greenhouse. Once the land claims were settled, the Tribe purchased and operated a restaurant, and established a sand and gravel business. In 1986, the Tribe opened its bingo operation, followed, in 1992, by the establishment of the first phase of Foxwoods Resort Casino.The ceremonial groundbreaking for the Mashantucket Pequot Museum and Research Center took place on Oct. 20, 1993, in a ceremony marking the 10th anniversary of federal recognition of the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation. The new facility, opened on August 11, 1998, is located on the Mashantucket Pequot Reservation, where many members of the Mashantucket Pequot tribal members continue to live. It is one of the oldest, continuously occupied Indian reservations in North America.”

[delux2222]

Dec 20, 1786 - Hannah Ocuish (born March 1774) was executed at the age of twelve years and nine months, being hanged on 20 December 1786, in New London, Connecticut. She is believed to be the youngest person legally executed in America. A mentally retarded Pequot Indian girl, she was accused of killing the young daughter of a prominent white family after quarreling with her over some strawberries. The primary evidence against her was her confession to the investigators. At her execution, she thanked the sheriff for his kindness as she stepped forward to be hanged.

[mahometchristian]

The Origin of the Mahomet Community Name

Texas origin story: Over the years, the name Mahomet has been associated with three different three in southeastern Burnet County. The first was two miles northeast of Bertram, near the source of Bear Creek. George Ater, who settled in the area in 1853 and managed a stage coach stop on the Austin to Lampasas route. The stage carried the mail and he named the site and its post office for the town he came from - Mahomet, Illinois. 

Later, after the railroad was built, it stopped at a new town called Bertram. The mail transport was changed from the stage coach to the train. George decided to close down his Mahomet post office at the Ater place and just get his mail in Bertram. 

The farmers to the east, not wanting to go all the way to Bertram to get their mail, adopted the Mahomet name and the Mahomet Post Office was relocated to Alex M. Ramsey's place near Sycamore Springs in January of 1883. This post office was located near where County Road 214 meets FM 243 on the Louis Insall place. Guess it was easier to move a post office than create a new one. (-: It was later moved to the Williams Store that was located on FM 243 and Burnet County Road 284 across from Tiny Breedon's place.

Illinois origin story: Mahomet is a village in Champaign County, Illinois. The town's own published account credits their founder Daniel T. Porter, who had Connecticut roots, as the one who denominated both the new village as Middletown (after Middletown, Connecticut) and the post office as Mahomet (after Mahomet Weyonomon, a Mohegan sachem from Connecticut). With the arrival of the railroad, the town embraced the name of its post office in 1871 because there already was a Middletown, Illinois.

Who are the Mohegans: The earliest clans of the Delaware Tribe were part of the Pequot people and included the Wolf clan, or Mohegans. They settled in upstate New York and later migrated to Connecticut. They gradually became independent and served as allies of the English Puritan colonists in the Pequot War of 1636, which broke the power of the formerly dominant Pequot tribe in the region. A "sagamore" or "sachem" among the Mohegans is a chief or eminent leader. Sachem Uncas, a Christian convert and sagamore Wequash Cooke were instrumental in leading their people to prevail in the war of 1636.

Who is Mahomet Weyonomon: Mahomet Weyonomon was a Mohegan Sachem, grandson of Sachem Oweneco and well-educated, writing several languages including English and Latin. The Mohegans became allies of the English, helping the first settlers in New England survive the bitter cold and repel Indian attacks. But the English began to steal tribal lands. Queen Anne’s Commissioners granted the return of Mohegan lands by an order of 1705 but this was ignored by the Connecticut government. Mohomet sailed to London in 1735 with three supporters to petition King George II for the return of the stolen lands. While awaiting an audience, Weyonomon contracted smallpox and died in the City of London but foreigners could not be buried in the City, so he was carried across the river and buried near St Saviour’s Church, now Southwark Cathedral.

In 2006 the Queen of England ...

In 2006 this young Native American brave's life, who died in 1735, was celebrated when a party of Mohicans, dressed in deer skins and eagle feathers went to England and took over the vaulted Southwark Cathedral that was built on his grave site for an authentic 'Red Indian' funeral service presided over by none other than the Queen Elizabeth II of England, or 'nonner', as female chieftains are known. On the site, a memorial sculpture to Mahomet Weyonomon Sachem of the Mohegans of Connecticut created by Peter Randall-Page was then unveiled by Her Majesty the Queen.

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[priestessofthepoeticprophesy]

About your post on thanksgiving, Snopes doesn't seem to agree : https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/thanksgiving-massacre-pequot-tribe/ . Now, obviously, the possibility of biases can't be denied, I definitively believe that the book the screenshots are from is real, and I did hear quite a bit about thanksgiving this past year, so I was wondering if there might be something more going on. Does snopes value certain sources more than others? Does snope have a history of going against indigenous claims? Stuff like that. Totally understand if you aren't the right person to ask, but I would love to figure out what exactly could be the cause of this contradiction.

Hmmm....this is very interesting. My post included an excerpt from the autobiography of Russell Means, Lakota activist and member of AIM. He says his information came from the Wampanoag people themselves based on their history as they knew it at that time.

The snopes article appears to agree that there was indeed a massacre, and a day of thanks celebrating it afterward. But it explains thanksgiving as a common practice for any event worth celebrating and therefore not an isolated incident. It goes on to claim that the modern holiday was the result of Lincoln wanting to celebrate the defeat of the confederacy during the Civil War era so he initiated a Thanksgiving Day which was eventually commingled with the concept of the Indians playing nice with and helping the Pilgrims survive their first winter.

Given all this information I conclude that 2 things can be true at once. The Wampanoag people did experience a massacre and the colonists did celebrate it via a Thanksgiving celebration afterwards so from their perspective, given that the modern holiday is heavily associated with Indians helping pilgrims, I can see where this would all appear connected to them. Although, I will concede with new information that there is apparently a lot more nuance to the idea of a thanksgiving day and how the holiday on a national level came to fruition.

Thank you for your input. I intend to look further into this topic in the future!

[brookston]

Holidays 8.31

Holidays

African Traditional Medicine Day

Anniversary of the Withdrawal of the Last American Soldier (Afghanistan)

Baloch-Pakhtun Unity Day (Balochistan, Pakistan)

Cow Chip Tossing Day

Crop Dusting Day

Day of Solidarity and Freedom (Poland)

831 Day

Festal Day (Order of the Eastern Star)

Flag Day (India)

Franchise Appreciation Day

Hari Kebangsaan (Malaysia)

International Blog Day (a.k.a. International Day of Blogs and Bloggers)

International Day for People of African Descent (UN)

International Day of Obstetrics & Pregnancy

International Lawn Day

International Overdose Awareness Day

Jack the Ripper Day [Killed 1st Victim: Mary Ann Nichols; 1888]

Limba Noastra (Day of Our Language; Moldova)

Long-Haul Truck Driver (Russia)

Love Litigating Lawyers Day

Memorial Day for the Victims of Repression (Uzbekistan)

Merdeka Day (Malaysia)

National Asiatic Cheetah Day (Iran)

National Box Car Day

National Cinema Day (UK)

National Cowgirl Day

National Dan Day

National Day (Vietnam)

National Diatomaceous Earth Day

National HalfCut Day (Australia)

National Language Day (Moldova)

National Leslie Day

National Matchmaker Day

National South Carolina Day

National Zoo Awareness Day (UK)

Nature Day (Finland)

North Borneo Self-Government Day

Opioid Misuse Prevention Day

Overdose Awareness Day

Princess Diana Memorial Day

Rabbit Rabbit Day [Last Day of Every Month]

Romanian Language Day (Romania)

Sărbătoarea (a.k.a. Limba noastră; Language Day; Moldova)

Take a Seat Day

Tank Day (Lešany, Czech Republic)

Teacher’s Day (Singapore)

Walnut Day (French Republic)

We Love Memoirs Day

White Rose Day (Australia)

Withdrawal of the Last American Soldier Anniversary Day (Afghanistan)

World Distance Learning Day

World Sanskrit Day

World Solidarity Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Eat Outside Day

Grape Blessing Day (Armenia)

International Bacon Day [also 12.30]

Invent A New Sandwich Day

National Chourico Day

National Trail Mix Day

Vegetable Day (Japan)

Independence & Related Days

Befshire (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Kyrgyzstan (from USSR, 1991)

Malaysia (from UK, 1957)

North Borneo (Self-Government Day; Sabah, Malaysia)

Surigao City Charter Day (Philippines)

Trinidad and Tobago (from UK, 1962)

5th & Last Saturday in August

International Bacon Day [Saturday before 1st Monday in September]

International Bat Night [Last Saturday]

International Cosplay Day [Last Saturday]

International Play Music on the Porch [Last Saturday]

Iroquois Indian Festival (Albany, NY) [Begins on Last Saturday]

Pony Express Day [Last Saturday]

Sandwich Saturday [Every Saturday]

Schemitzun begins (Green Corn Pow Wow; Mashantucket Pequot, Connecticut) [Last Saturday]

Six For Saturday [Every Saturday]

Spaghetti Saturday [Every Saturday]

Speak Kind Words Saturday [Saturday of Be Kind to Humankind Week]

World Day for the End of Speciesism [Last Saturday]

Weekly Holidays beginning August 31 (4th Full Week of August)

National Buffalo Chicken Wings Days (Buffalo, New York) [thru 9.1]

Festivals Beginning August 31, 2024

Amish Country Cheese Festival (Arthur, Illinois) [thru 9.3]

Apple Harvest Celebration (Willcox, Arizona) [thru 9.8]

BBQ & Craft Beer Festival (Monmouth Park, Oceanport, New Jersey) [thru 9.2]

Bloemencorso Eelde (Eelde, Netherlands) [thru 9.1]

Boothbay Harbor Tuna Challenge (Boothbay Harbor, Maine)

Bremerton Blackberry Festival (Bremerton, Washington) [thru 9.2]

Bumbershoot (Seattle, Washington) [thru 9.1]

Canadian International Air Show (Toronto, Canada) [thru 9.2]

Caribbean Food And Wine Festival (West Friendship, Maryland)

Connecticut Renaissance Faire (Lebanon, Connecticut) [thru 10.14]

Corn Maze (Middlefield, Connecticut) [thru 11.3]

Eastport Salmon and Seafood Festival (Eastport, Maine) [thru 9.1]

Food Truck Festival (Waterloo, Iowa)

Garlic Town U.S.A. (Bennington, Vermont)

Girdwood Fungus Fair (Girdwood, Alaska) [thru 9.1]

Harvest Wine Fest (Albuquerque & Las Cruces, New Mexico) [thru 9.2]

Hatch Chile Festival (Hatch, New Mexico) [thru 9.1]

John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival (High Point, North Carolina) [thru 9.1]

Kansas City Renaissance Festival (Bonner Springs, Kansas) [thru 10.14]

Keystone’s Oktoberfest (Keystone, Colorado)

King Richard’s Faire (Carver, Massachusetts) [thru 10.20]

Milan Melon Festival (Milan, Ohio) [thru 9.2]

National Buffalo Wing Festival (Buffalo, New York) [thru 9.1]

Ohio Renaissance Festival (Harveysburg, Ohio) [thru 10.27]

Okinawan Festival (Waikiki, Hawaii) [thru 9.1]

Renaissance Faire at Sleepy Hollow (Des Moines, Iowa) [thru 9.15]

Richmond County Fair (Staten Island, New York) [thru 9.2]

Romeo Peach Festival (Romeo, Michigan) [thru 9.2]

Seafood Festival & Craft Show (Westport, Washington)

Taste of Hamburg-er Festival (Hamburg, Pennsylvania)

Taste of Madison (Madison, Wisconsin) [thru 9.1]

Taylor Sweet Corn Festival (Taylor, Arizona)

West Cape May Tomato Festival (West Cape May, New Jersey)

West Jefferson Annual Ox Roast (West Jefferson, Ohio) [thru 9.2]

Wild Rice Day (McGregor, Minnesota)

World Championship BBQ Goat Cook-Off (Brady, Texas)

Feast Days

Aidan of Lindisfarne (Christian; Saint)

Alter Ego Day (Pastafarian)

Aristides of Athens (Christian; Saint)

Bryan Organ (Artology)

Cuthburh (Christian; Saint)

Dominguito del Val (Christian; Saint)

DuBose Heyward (Writerism)

Feast of Grapes (Ancient Minoa; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Fourth Onam (Rice Harvest Festival, Day 4; Kerala, India)

Frey’s Blot (Pagan)

Gai Jatra (Cow Festival, in remembrance of people who died the previous year; Kathmandu Valley, Nepal)

G. Willow Wilson (Writerism)

Henry (Muppetism)

Isabel (Christian; Saint)

Joseph of Arimathea (Christian; Saint)

Jouffroy (Positivist; Saint)

Mária Balážová (Artology)

Nicodemus (Christian; Saint)

Paulinus of Trier (Christian; Saint)

Paul Reubens Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Raymond Nonnatus (Christian; Saint)

The Ritual Walk of the Eyos (Lagos; Everyday Wicca)

Roger Dean (Artology)

Wala of Corbie (Christian; Saint)

Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria (Christian; Saint)

William Saroyan (Writerism)

Yumiko Ōshima (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [48 of 71]

Premieres

All Or Nothing At All, recorded by Frank Sinatra (Song; 1939)

American Idiot, by Green Day (Song; 2004)

Andor (TV Series; 2022)

Bad, by Michael Jackson (Album; 1987)

The Big Sleep (Film; 1946)

Bolero (Film; 1984)

Bugsy and Mugsy (WB LT Cartoon; 1957)

The Commuter, by Philip K. Dick (Short Story; 1953)

The Constant Gardener (Film; 2005)

Document, by R.E.M. (Album; 1987)

Fly, by Dixie Chicks (Album; 1999)

Foundation and Earth, by Isaac Asimov (Novel; 1986) [Foundation #5]

Get Rich Quick (Disney Cartoon; 1951)

Goat’s Head Soup, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1973)

The Great Gildersleeve (Radio Series; 1941)

Jack Ryan (TV Series; 2018)

Only Murders in the Building (TV Series; 2021)

Orient Express, by Graham Greene (a.k.a. Stamboul Train; Novel; 1932)

Pluto’s Judgement Day (Disney Cartoon; 1935)

The Psychology of Intelligence, by Jean Piaget (Science Book; 1947)

Radetzky March, by Johann Strauss (March; 1848)

Raising Demons, by Shirley Jackson (Memoir; 1957)

Solid Serenade (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1946)

Soul on Ice, by Eldridge Cleaver (Memoir & Essays; 1968)

The Threepenny Opera, by Bertolt Brecht (Play with Music; 1928)

Wildest Dreams, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2015)

The World According to Garp, by John Irving (Novel; 1978)

You Gotta Be a Football Hero (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1935)

Today’s Name Days

Paulinus, Raimubd (Austria)

Josip, Nikodem, Optat, Paulina (Croatia)

Pavlína (Czech Republic)

Bertha (Denmark)

Arved, Arvi, Arvid (Estonia)

Arvi (Finland)

Aristide (France)

Aidan, Anja, Paulinus, Raimund (Germany)

Bella, Erika (Hungary)

Aristide (Italy)

Aigars, Aira, Labite, Vilma (Latvia)

Raimunda, Raimundas, Vilmantas, Vilmantė (Lithuania)

Berta, Berte (Norway)

Bohdan, Paulina, Rajmund, Rajmunda, Świętosław (Poland)

Nora (Slovakia)

Ramón (Spain)

Arvid, Vidar (Sweden)

Aden, Aidan, Aiden, Ayden, Edan, Edana, Eden, Edina, Egan, Egon (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 244 of 2024; 122 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of Week 35 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 1 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 28 (Ding-Mao)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 27 Av 5784

Islamic: 25 Safar 1446

J Cal: 4 Gold; Foursday [4 of 30]

Julian: 18 August 2024

Moon: 5%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 20 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Thilorier]

Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 73 of 94)

Week: 1st Full Week of September

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 10 of 32)

Calendar Changes

Muin (Vine) [Celtic Tree Calendar; Month 9 of 13]

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Holidays 8.31

Holidays

African Traditional Medicine Day

Anniversary of the Withdrawal of the Last American Soldier (Afghanistan)

Baloch-Pakhtun Unity Day (Balochistan, Pakistan)

Cow Chip Tossing Day

Crop Dusting Day

Day of Solidarity and Freedom (Poland)

831 Day

Festal Day (Order of the Eastern Star)

Flag Day (India)

Franchise Appreciation Day

Hari Kebangsaan (Malaysia)

International Blog Day (a.k.a. International Day of Blogs and Bloggers)

International Day for People of African Descent (UN)

International Day of Obstetrics & Pregnancy

International Lawn Day

International Overdose Awareness Day

Jack the Ripper Day [Killed 1st Victim: Mary Ann Nichols; 1888]

Limba Noastra (Day of Our Language; Moldova)

Long-Haul Truck Driver (Russia)

Love Litigating Lawyers Day

Memorial Day for the Victims of Repression (Uzbekistan)

Merdeka Day (Malaysia)

National Asiatic Cheetah Day (Iran)

National Box Car Day

National Cinema Day (UK)

National Cowgirl Day

National Dan Day

National Day (Vietnam)

National Diatomaceous Earth Day

National HalfCut Day (Australia)

National Language Day (Moldova)

National Leslie Day

National Matchmaker Day

National South Carolina Day

National Zoo Awareness Day (UK)

Nature Day (Finland)

North Borneo Self-Government Day

Opioid Misuse Prevention Day

Overdose Awareness Day

Princess Diana Memorial Day

Rabbit Rabbit Day [Last Day of Every Month]

Romanian Language Day (Romania)

Sărbătoarea (a.k.a. Limba noastră; Language Day; Moldova)

Take a Seat Day

Tank Day (Lešany, Czech Republic)

Teacher’s Day (Singapore)

Walnut Day (French Republic)

We Love Memoirs Day

White Rose Day (Australia)

Withdrawal of the Last American Soldier Anniversary Day (Afghanistan)

World Distance Learning Day

World Sanskrit Day

World Solidarity Day

Food & Drink Celebrations

Eat Outside Day

Grape Blessing Day (Armenia)

International Bacon Day [also 12.30]

Invent A New Sandwich Day

National Chourico Day

National Trail Mix Day

Vegetable Day (Japan)

Independence & Related Days

Befshire (Declared; 2016) [unrecognized]

Kyrgyzstan (from USSR, 1991)

Malaysia (from UK, 1957)

North Borneo (Self-Government Day; Sabah, Malaysia)

Surigao City Charter Day (Philippines)

Trinidad and Tobago (from UK, 1962)

5th & Last Saturday in August

International Bacon Day [Saturday before 1st Monday in September]

International Bat Night [Last Saturday]

International Cosplay Day [Last Saturday]

International Play Music on the Porch [Last Saturday]

Iroquois Indian Festival (Albany, NY) [Begins on Last Saturday]

Pony Express Day [Last Saturday]

Sandwich Saturday [Every Saturday]

Schemitzun begins (Green Corn Pow Wow; Mashantucket Pequot, Connecticut) [Last Saturday]

Six For Saturday [Every Saturday]

Spaghetti Saturday [Every Saturday]

Speak Kind Words Saturday [Saturday of Be Kind to Humankind Week]

World Day for the End of Speciesism [Last Saturday]

Weekly Holidays beginning August 31 (4th Full Week of August)

National Buffalo Chicken Wings Days (Buffalo, New York) [thru 9.1]

Festivals Beginning August 31, 2024

Amish Country Cheese Festival (Arthur, Illinois) [thru 9.3]

Apple Harvest Celebration (Willcox, Arizona) [thru 9.8]

BBQ & Craft Beer Festival (Monmouth Park, Oceanport, New Jersey) [thru 9.2]

Bloemencorso Eelde (Eelde, Netherlands) [thru 9.1]

Boothbay Harbor Tuna Challenge (Boothbay Harbor, Maine)

Bremerton Blackberry Festival (Bremerton, Washington) [thru 9.2]

Bumbershoot (Seattle, Washington) [thru 9.1]

Canadian International Air Show (Toronto, Canada) [thru 9.2]

Caribbean Food And Wine Festival (West Friendship, Maryland)

Connecticut Renaissance Faire (Lebanon, Connecticut) [thru 10.14]

Corn Maze (Middlefield, Connecticut) [thru 11.3]

Eastport Salmon and Seafood Festival (Eastport, Maine) [thru 9.1]

Food Truck Festival (Waterloo, Iowa)

Garlic Town U.S.A. (Bennington, Vermont)

Girdwood Fungus Fair (Girdwood, Alaska) [thru 9.1]

Harvest Wine Fest (Albuquerque & Las Cruces, New Mexico) [thru 9.2]

Hatch Chile Festival (Hatch, New Mexico) [thru 9.1]

John Coltrane International Jazz and Blues Festival (High Point, North Carolina) [thru 9.1]

Kansas City Renaissance Festival (Bonner Springs, Kansas) [thru 10.14]

Keystone’s Oktoberfest (Keystone, Colorado)

King Richard’s Faire (Carver, Massachusetts) [thru 10.20]

Milan Melon Festival (Milan, Ohio) [thru 9.2]

National Buffalo Wing Festival (Buffalo, New York) [thru 9.1]

Ohio Renaissance Festival (Harveysburg, Ohio) [thru 10.27]

Okinawan Festival (Waikiki, Hawaii) [thru 9.1]

Renaissance Faire at Sleepy Hollow (Des Moines, Iowa) [thru 9.15]

Richmond County Fair (Staten Island, New York) [thru 9.2]

Romeo Peach Festival (Romeo, Michigan) [thru 9.2]

Seafood Festival & Craft Show (Westport, Washington)

Taste of Hamburg-er Festival (Hamburg, Pennsylvania)

Taste of Madison (Madison, Wisconsin) [thru 9.1]

Taylor Sweet Corn Festival (Taylor, Arizona)

West Cape May Tomato Festival (West Cape May, New Jersey)

West Jefferson Annual Ox Roast (West Jefferson, Ohio) [thru 9.2]

Wild Rice Day (McGregor, Minnesota)

World Championship BBQ Goat Cook-Off (Brady, Texas)

Feast Days

Aidan of Lindisfarne (Christian; Saint)

Alter Ego Day (Pastafarian)

Aristides of Athens (Christian; Saint)

Bryan Organ (Artology)

Cuthburh (Christian; Saint)

Dominguito del Val (Christian; Saint)

DuBose Heyward (Writerism)

Feast of Grapes (Ancient Minoa; Starza Pagan Book of Days)

Fourth Onam (Rice Harvest Festival, Day 4; Kerala, India)

Frey’s Blot (Pagan)

Gai Jatra (Cow Festival, in remembrance of people who died the previous year; Kathmandu Valley, Nepal)

G. Willow Wilson (Writerism)

Henry (Muppetism)

Isabel (Christian; Saint)

Joseph of Arimathea (Christian; Saint)

Jouffroy (Positivist; Saint)

Mária Balážová (Artology)

Nicodemus (Christian; Saint)

Paulinus of Trier (Christian; Saint)

Paul Reubens Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Raymond Nonnatus (Christian; Saint)

The Ritual Walk of the Eyos (Lagos; Everyday Wicca)

Roger Dean (Artology)

Wala of Corbie (Christian; Saint)

Waltheof, Earl of Northumbria (Christian; Saint)

William Saroyan (Writerism)

Yumiko Ōshima (Artology)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Butsumetsu (仏滅 Japan) [Unlucky all day.]

Lucky Day (Philippines) [48 of 71]

Premieres

All Or Nothing At All, recorded by Frank Sinatra (Song; 1939)

American Idiot, by Green Day (Song; 2004)

Andor (TV Series; 2022)

Bad, by Michael Jackson (Album; 1987)

The Big Sleep (Film; 1946)

Bolero (Film; 1984)

Bugsy and Mugsy (WB LT Cartoon; 1957)

The Commuter, by Philip K. Dick (Short Story; 1953)

The Constant Gardener (Film; 2005)

Document, by R.E.M. (Album; 1987)

Fly, by Dixie Chicks (Album; 1999)

Foundation and Earth, by Isaac Asimov (Novel; 1986) [Foundation #5]

Get Rich Quick (Disney Cartoon; 1951)

Goat’s Head Soup, by The Rolling Stones (Album; 1973)

The Great Gildersleeve (Radio Series; 1941)

Jack Ryan (TV Series; 2018)

Only Murders in the Building (TV Series; 2021)

Orient Express, by Graham Greene (a.k.a. Stamboul Train; Novel; 1932)

Pluto’s Judgement Day (Disney Cartoon; 1935)

The Psychology of Intelligence, by Jean Piaget (Science Book; 1947)

Radetzky March, by Johann Strauss (March; 1848)

Raising Demons, by Shirley Jackson (Memoir; 1957)

Solid Serenade (Tom & Jerry Cartoon; 1946)

Soul on Ice, by Eldridge Cleaver (Memoir & Essays; 1968)

The Threepenny Opera, by Bertolt Brecht (Play with Music; 1928)

Wildest Dreams, by Taylor Swift (Song; 2015)

The World According to Garp, by John Irving (Novel; 1978)

You Gotta Be a Football Hero (Fleischer Popeye Cartoon; 1935)

Today’s Name Days

Paulinus, Raimubd (Austria)

Josip, Nikodem, Optat, Paulina (Croatia)

Pavlína (Czech Republic)

Bertha (Denmark)

Arved, Arvi, Arvid (Estonia)

Arvi (Finland)

Aristide (France)

Aidan, Anja, Paulinus, Raimund (Germany)

Bella, Erika (Hungary)

Aristide (Italy)

Aigars, Aira, Labite, Vilma (Latvia)

Raimunda, Raimundas, Vilmantas, Vilmantė (Lithuania)

Berta, Berte (Norway)

Bohdan, Paulina, Rajmund, Rajmunda, Świętosław (Poland)

Nora (Slovakia)

Ramón (Spain)

Arvid, Vidar (Sweden)

Aden, Aidan, Aiden, Ayden, Edan, Edana, Eden, Edina, Egan, Egon (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 244 of 2024; 122 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 6 of Week 35 of 2024

Celtic Tree Calendar: Muin (Vine) [Day 1 of 28]

Chinese: Month 7 (Ren-Shen), Day 28 (Ding-Mao)

Chinese Year of the: Dragon 4722 (until January 29, 2025) [Wu-Chen]

Hebrew: 27 Av 5784

Islamic: 25 Safar 1446

J Cal: 4 Gold; Foursday [4 of 30]

Julian: 18 August 2024

Moon: 5%: Waning Crescent

Positivist: 20 Gutenberg (9th Month) [Thilorier]

Runic Half Month: Rad (Motion) [Day 9 of 15]

Season: Summer (Day 73 of 94)

Week: 1st Full Week of September

Zodiac: Virgo (Day 10 of 32)

Calendar Changes

Muin (Vine) [Celtic Tree Calendar; Month 9 of 13]

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Foxwoods Resort Casino and Mohegan Sun both reported their second consecutive month of gross gaming revenue (GGR) growth stemming from their slot machines, a positive sign for the tribal venues.

Foxwoods slot machine win totaled $36.6 million in November, a 3.8 percent gain on the same month in 2018. That’s a difference of $1.3 million. November was a lucky month for the house, as handle – the total amount wagered on the gaming devices – was actually down 0.5 percent year-over-year to $452.3 million. The slots simply won at a higher rate for the casino.

Mohegan Sun, the other tribal casino in Connecticut, reported slot GGR of $45.8 million, a 3.6 percent bonus. Handle was also down there at $543.8 million from $555.2 million in November 2018.

November’s positive slot machine GGR reports mark back-to-back monthly increases. It comes after the casinos endured 15 consecutive months of revenue declines.

Both Native American gaming venues share 25 percent of their slot win with the state. They don’t share table game win, nor are they required to report GGR from those operations.

Market Settles November presented a rather attractive comparable for Connecticut’s two tribal casinos. A year ago, there was still plenty of hype from MGM Springfield opening August 24 in Massachusetts.

Gamblers in the Nutmeg State traveled north to the $960 million integrated resort to see the casino live. But the excitement was apparently short-lived.

MGM Springfield projected its first-year GGR would total $418 million. Instead, the casino won $273.8 million – more than $144 million short of expectations.

The reviews for MGM Springfield have been relatively good: 3.9/5 based on 7,500 Google ratings. However, it appears Connecticut’s two tribal casinos have enticed back some of their patrons who have tested out the Springfield integrated resort.

Gaming Expansion Connecticut relies heavily on its slot tax revenue allocation. The state collected $433.6 million in the 2006 fiscal year, but that figured plummeted to $263.6 million in fiscal year 2018.

The state is looking to end what will be a 13-year slide after FY2019 is in the bag. MGM Springfield, of course, doesn’t make that mission any easier, which is why the state is trying to allow its two tribal entities to jointly build a satellite casino in East Windsor – just 13 miles south of MGM Springfield.

A legal juggernaut has stalled the satellite progress. Last month, the Mohegan and Mashantucket Pequot tribes claimed in federal court they have the legal right to intervene in MGM Resorts’s lawsuit against the US Department of the Interior (DOI).

MGM has argued the DOI erred in approving Connecticut’s amended gaming compacts that guarantee the tribes will continue sharing 25 percent of their slot win at Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun, as well as at the East Windsor casino. The satellite plan calls for 2,000 slot machines and 120 table games.

The Native American groups say the MGM vs. DOI litigation impacts them directly, which is why they should be able to interject. Their ultimate goal is to have the lawsuit dismissed. The Interior Department is also seeking dismissal.홀짝게임

MGM contends the DOI approved compacts that “have the stated purpose of facilitating off-reservation, commercial gaming operated by a joint venture wholly owned by Indian tribes” – something MGM calls “unprecedented and unlawful” under the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act.

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Strassenschilder in den USA werden mit indigenen Übersetzungen versehen

Zum Bild: Dieses Foto vom 14. Dezember 2023, zur Verfügung gestellt von Sarah Burks, zeigt ein Papiermodell der Straßenschilder, die nächstes Jahr in einigen Teilen von Cambridge, Massachusetts, aufgestellt werden und die Sprache des Massachusetts-Stammes enthalten.   Vor einigen Jahren besuchte Sage Brook Carbone ein Powwow im Mashantucket Western Pequot Reservat in Connecticut, als sie Zeichen in der Pequot-Sprache bemerkte. Carbone, die dem Stamm der Northern Narragansett Indianer in Rhode Island angehört, dachte zurück an Cambridge, Massachusetts, wo sie einen Großteil ihres Lebens verbracht hat. Sie sah weder Straßenschilder zu Ehren der amerikanischen Ureinwohner noch solche, auf denen indigene Sprachen zu lesen waren. Sie unterbreitete der Stadtverwaltung die Idee, die Straßenschilder mit indianischen Übersetzungen zu versehen. Die Einwohner haben ihrem Plan zugestimmt und werden etwa 70 Schilder in der Sprache des Massachusetts-Stammes aufstellen, auf den die englischen Siedler bei ihrer Ankunft gestoßen sind. "Was für eine großartige, universelle Art, Sprache zu lehren", sagte sie über das Projekt, das in Absprache mit einem Mitglied des Massachusett-Stammes und anderen amerikanischen Ureinwohnern durchgeführt wurde. "Wir sehen fast überall mehrere Sprachen, aber nicht auf städtischen Schildern", sagte sie. "Da ich in einer nummerierten Straße wohne, dachte ich mir, dass dies eine gute Gelegenheit ist, die Sprache der Ureinwohner mit den grundlegenden Begriffen zu verbinden, die wir alle in der Stadt kennen. Carbone schließt sich dem landesweiten Bestreben an, indigene Übersetzungen auf Schildern zu verwenden, um das Bewusstsein für indianische Gemeinschaften zu schärfen. Auf diese Weise werden auch einige indianische Sprachen wiederbelebt, die Souveränität eines Stammes hervorgehoben und die Tür für breitere Debatten über Landrechte, Diskriminierung und die Vertretung indigener Völker im politischen Prozess geöffnet. "Wir befinden uns in einem Moment, in dem wir nach Versöhnung und Gerechtigkeit in Bezug auf indigene Themen suchen", sagt Darren Ranco, Vorsitzender der Native American Programs an der University of Maine und Bürger der Penobscot Nation. "Die Zeichen stehen dafür, aber das ist noch lange nicht der Endpunkt in diesen Fragen. Meine Sorge ist, dass die Leute denken, dass das Aufstellen von Schildern das Problem löst, während es in Wirklichkeit nur der Anfang ist, sich mit der tieferen Geschichte auseinanderzusetzen." Mindestens sechs Staaten sind diesem Beispiel gefolgt, darunter Iowa, New York, Minnesota und Wisconsin. Auf den Schildern entlang des U.S. Highway 30 in Iowa steht in der Nähe der Siedlung der Meskwaki Nation die eigene Schreibweise des Stammes, Meskwakiinaki. Im Bundesstaat New York grenzen zweisprachige Highway-Schilder in den Sprachen der Stämme der Seneca, Onondaga und Tuscarora an Highways und ihre Reservate. In Wisconsin haben sechs der 11 staatlich anerkannten Stämme des Bundesstaates zweisprachige Schilder aufgestellt. Wisconsin leitet sich von dem Menominee-Wort Wēskōhsaeh ab, das "ein guter Ort" bedeutet, und dem Wort Meskousing, das im Algonquian "wo es rot liegt" bedeutet. "Unsere Partnerschaften mit den Native Nations von Wisconsin gehen über das Aufstellen von Autobahnschildern hinaus", sagte WisDOT-Minister Craig Thompson in einer Erklärung. "Wir sind stolz auf unser langjähriges Engagement, sinnvolle Partnerschaften zu fördern, die sich auf unsere Zukunft konzentrieren, indem wir unsere Vergangenheit mit großer Sorgfalt und Rücksicht behandeln. Minnesota hat an Straßen und Autobahnen, die durch Stammesgebiete führen, Schilder in Englisch und in der Dakota- oder Ojibwe-Sprache aufgestellt, während die Gemeinde Haines im Südosten Alaskas diesen Sommer Stopp-, Vorfahrt-, "Kinder im Spiel"- und Straßennamenschilder in Englisch und Tlingit aufgestellt hat. Douglas Olerud, der damalige Bürgermeister, sagte dem Juneau Empire, dass es für ihn heilsam war, nachdem er jahrelang von Tlingit-Ältesten gehört hatte, dass sie ihre Sprache nicht benutzen durften, als sie auf Internate geschickt wurden. "Das ist eine großartige Möglichkeit, einige dieser Menschen zu ehren, die wirklich hart daran gearbeitet haben, ihre Traditionen und die Sprache am Leben zu erhalten, und hoffentlich können sie sich ein wenig von der Zeit erholen, als sie ihrer Kultur beraubt wurden", sagte er. In New Mexico arbeitet die Verkehrsbehörde des Bundesstaates schon seit Jahren mit den Stämmen zusammen, um traditionelle Namen und Kunstwerke an Autobahnüberführungen anzubringen. Reisende, die von Santa Fe in Richtung Norden fahren, passieren mehrere Brücken mit Hinweisen auf das Pojoaque Pueblo in der Sprache der Gemeinde, Tewa. Auch in Orten wie Bemidji, Minnesota, wo Michael Meuers, ein nicht indigener Einwohner, das Bemidji Ojibwe Language Project ins Leben gerufen hat, gibt es lokale Bemühungen. Seit 2009 wurden im Norden Minnesotas mehr als 300 Schilder in Englisch und Ojibwe aufgestellt, vor allem an Gebäuden, darunter auch Schulen. Die Schilder sind auch in Krankenhäusern und Geschäften zu finden und werden allgemein verwendet, um Namen von Orten und Tieren zu buchstabieren, um Dinge wie Aufzüge, Krankenhausabteilungen, Bärenübergänge - "MAKWA XING" - und Lebensmittel in einem Lebensmittelgeschäft zu kennzeichnen, und sie enthalten Übersetzungen für "Willkommen", "Danke" und andere Phrasen. "Vielleicht eröffnet das Gespräche, damit wir verstehen, dass wir alle ein Volk sind", sagt Meuers, der 29 Jahre lang für die Red Lake Nation gearbeitet hat und das Projekt ins Leben rief, nachdem er bei einem Besuch in Hawaii Schilder auf Hawaii gesehen hatte. Die University of Maine hat auf ihrem Hauptcampus Schilder in zwei Sprachen aufgestellt. Die Native American Programs haben in Zusammenarbeit mit der Penobscot Nation auch eine Website eingerichtet, auf der Besucher die Worte hören können, die der Sprachmeister Gabe Paul, ein Penobscot-Ausspracheführer, spricht. "Für mich und für viele unserer Stammesangehörigen und Nachkommen ist es eine tägliche Erinnerung daran, dass wir in unserer Heimat sind und an der Universität "zu Hause" sein sollten, auch wenn sie sich seit Generationen wie ein unwillkommener Ort anfühlt", sagte Ranco. Aber nicht alle Bemühungen um zweisprachige Beschilderung sind erfolgreich verlaufen. In Neuseeland hat die Wahl einer konservativen Regierung im Oktober die Bemühungen der Verkehrsbehörden, Straßenschilder sowohl in Englisch als auch in der indigenen Māori-Sprache zu verwenden, in Frage gestellt. Waka Kotahi, die neuseeländische Verkehrsbehörde, hatte Anfang des Jahres vorgeschlagen, 94 Straßenschilder zweisprachig zu gestalten, um die Wiederbelebung der Sprache zu fördern. Doch viele Konservative sind verärgert über den vermehrten Gebrauch von Māori-Wörtern durch die Behörden. Tausende haben sich in Form von Eingaben gegen den Straßenschilderplan gewandt, weil er die Autofahrer verwirren oder ablenken könnte. Die Bemühungen in Cambridge wurden als Teil des so genannten Bürgerhaushalts begrüßt, der es den Einwohnern ermöglicht, Ideen für die Verwendung eines Teils des Haushaltsplans vorzuschlagen. Carbone schlug das Schildprojekt vor und zusammen mit einem Plan zur Verbesserung des African American Heritage Trail wurde es von den Einwohnern genehmigt. "Ich bin so gespannt auf die Endprodukte und die erste Auflage dieser Schilder", sagte Carbone. "Wenn die Leute, die in Cambridge unterwegs sind, sie sehen, werden sie das gleiche Gefühl haben. Sie werden gerade anders genug sein, um aufzufallen, aber nicht so anders, dass sie Aufsehen erregen würden." Carbone und andere hoffen auch, dass die Schilder eine breitere Diskussion über die Belange der Ureinwohner in der Stadt anstoßen, einschließlich der Vertretung in der Stadtregierung, der Finanzierung von Programmen für Ureinwohner und der Bemühungen, sicherzustellen, dass historische Markierungen ein korrektes Bild der Ureinwohner zeichnen. Als Sarah Burks, Planerin für Denkmalschutz bei der Cambridge Historical Commission, zum ersten Mal von dem Vorschlag hörte, gab sie zu, dass es Fragen gab. Welche Schilder würden übersetzt werden? Wie würde die Übersetzung gehandhabt werden? Würde dies umfangreiche Recherchen erfordern? Die Übersetzung auf den Straßenschildern wird für die Menschen relativ leicht zu verstehen sein, sagte sie, und die Bewohner dazu anregen, "innezuhalten und nachzudenken" über den Massachusetts-Stamm und "die Vielfalt der Menschen in unserer Gemeinde zu erkennen". "Es wird auf eine gute Art und Weise Aufmerksamkeit erregen", sagte sie über die Schilder, die Anfang nächsten Jahres aufgestellt werden sollen. Originalartikel

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The Truth Behind Thanksgiving!! November 23, 2023 Many of us sit down at the table with the ones we love on the third Thursday of November each year to celebrate Thanksgiving. We eat green beans, mashed potatoes, turkey etc. Then to top it off, most of us enjoy a pumpkin pie. However, how many of us know the truth of Thanksgiving? We are raised to believe that it was a grand feast between the Pilgrims and Indians. There was something like this in Plymouth between the Wampanoags which we call that the "First Thanksgiving," but unfortunately, it's a mix between the truth and myth.

The truth of Thanksgiving is that in 1614 a group of English explorers returned to England with a ship full of Patuxet Indians to be sold for slavery. When the English came over to America, they brought smallpox and wiped out most of the Patuxet that had survived except for one. His name was Squanto. He learned the English language and showed them how to grow corn and fish. He also got a peace treaty between the Pilgrims and Wampanoags. Thus, the "First Thanksgiving" was held to honor Squanto and the Wampanoags. Soon the Puritans moved to America, and because there were no fences around the land, the Puritans considered it public domain. Puritans and other British settlers took the land and captured Native Americans as slaves. The Pequot Nation refused to listen to the Peace Treaty that was previously made. They fought back, and it was the bloodiest Indian war.

In 1637, near where Groton, Connecticut is today, over 700 men, women and children of the Pequot tribe gathered for their annual Green Corn Festival, our Thanksgiving celebration. In the early morning hours, English and Dutch mercenaries surrounded them. They told them to come outside and clubbed or shot whoever came out. The women and children, terrified, stayed in their long houses and were burned alive. The next day the governor of Massachusetts Bay Colony planned a "Day of Thanksgiving." Many other incidents like this happened again.

After another successful raid against the Pequot, the church made another day of Thanksgiving. This would continue until George Washington decided to only have one Thanksgiving to celebrate each massacre.

The very theme of giving thanks for all you have is a great idea, but the real truth behind Thanksgiving is not one we should be proud of. So, the next time we are shoving food down our gullets and avoiding those awkward questions from our family, we should keep in mind all of the Indians that we took land from and murdered.

WE DON'T HAVE TO PICK ONE DAY OUT OF THE YEAR TO BE THANKFUL. WE SHOULD BE THANKFUL FOR EVERYDAY OF OUR LIVES AND PRAY FOR THOSE THAT SUFFERED ON THIS DAY!!

Have a blessed day. May Yeshua Hamashiach bless you. Love, Debbie

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Today’s reminder that JUNETEENTH is both a celebration of the last day of the abomination of illegitimately legalized slavery in the US AND a Memorial Day for the 360,000 of the multi-ethnic US military who gave their lives so that slavery would be abolished.

Juneteenth is the ONLY National commemoration of either that Emancipation or that profound Sacrifice.

The deliberate historical belittling of that Emancipation as well as European decesdants’ amnesia of that Sacrifice demonstrates that the rotten cancer of Bigotry still stains our country’s spirit long after the first Juneteenth.

The whitewash of bigotry has acted to suppress the history of bigotry through a pattern of mislabeling and misdirection.

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(OK, more of a rant. But that’s because belief in the lies below form d the bedrock of my ideology as a Conservative. Only because I have an attraction to and memory for odd bits of history did I begin to notice that a lot of lies didn’t make sense at n larger contexts)

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American bigotry was honed in Europe over millennia as succeeding waves of invaders (Franks, Anglos, Saxons, Norse/Normans) from the eastern lands colonized Western Europe ‘clearing the land’ and oppressing & marginalizing the surviving inhabitants.

This pattern was transplanted by European colonizers to other Continents - initially by English, Dutch, French, Spanish, Portuguese, and Danes 1600s to 1800s. Then by the Germans, Belgians, and Italians in the 19th and 20th Centuries.

Consider how you USA history classes largely ignored the history of the 134 years between the First Thanksgiving in 1621 and French and Indian War (No. 3) in 1755.

In that 134 year time period ‘British English-speaking people’ were forged out of Dutch, British, and French colonies through local wars, through spillovers from European wars, by German refugees from the Christian vs Christian (from 2.5 to 8 million estimated dead). The lands of the eastern seaboard ‘cleared’ of Indigenous peoples and legalized forced labor ‘force’ imported from Europe and Africa.

Our history texts and media performances create an false whitewashed of the history we do acknowledge with accurate milestone dates but misdirected explanations. Our cultural History…

‘Celebrates’ the First Thanksgiving when the Puritan invaders are saved from starvation by the Pequot Indians. But ‘forgets’ the slaughter of the Pequot by the Puritans a few years later.

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‘Celebrates’ the Boston Tea Party of 1773 ostensibly by common people rioting because of a beverage tax on a drink favored by the Rich. But ‘have wiped from the records’ the more probable explanation of how the wealthy colonials were terrified because their slave-based economy was threaten when a legal case in 1772 ended slavery in England. The case emancipated all black people INCLUDING those temporarily brought over by visiting colonials (without compensating the colonials for the loss of their property!!!). Also, we ignore the Intolerable Act of preventing colonizing Indigenous lands west of the Appalachians.

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‘Commemorates’ those who died at the Alamo but ‘forgets’ that the TYRANNY threatened by Santa Ana’s Mexican army was the abolition of illegal slavery introduced into the Mexican territory of Texas by white illegal ‘wetbacks’ who crossed the Mississippi.

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‘Commemorates’ all the 620,000 Dead of the Civil War as if they died over some undefined principal or matter of regional honor rather than the issue of slavery that is explicitly spelled out in the documents of secession issued by each of the 11 States of the Confederacy.

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The 11 States of the former Confederacy still maintain that the Civil War was the ‘War of Northern Aggression’. Of course forgetting that most of the Confederate dead died on battlefields in the Border States. States which the Confederacy tried to capture to expand slavery. No battles were fought in the South until Sherman’s March to the Sea a few months before war ended.

(Yea, yea, Fort Sumpter, 1861. However, Major Anderson had already informed the Confederacy of his intention to honorably abandon the fort and March north. The Confederacy attacked because their leadership wanted a surrender.)

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The 11 States of the former Confederacy still maintain that they were impoverished by the Damn Yankees. IGNORING that slave owners were compensated for the loss of their property. Look for other causes for 150 years of poverty - in red counties but not in blue.

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Our Cultural mindset continues to ignore the armed resistance in the 11 States and Border States to the Secession and the Confederacy’s military draft.

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Inspired to ‘Die for the Lie’.

Many of those who volunteered and sacrificed for the Confederate cause were undoubtedly motivated by ideals separate from maintaining slavery.

So many so that, perhaps, the Confederacy might not have survived any length of time without Fort Sumter as it’s “Remember the Main” or “Zimmerman Telegram” or “Gulf of Tonkin Incident”.

Lies and Exaggerations used to incited other generations to unite for mass slaughter.