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Water Crisis On Native Communities

If you haven't been living under a rock lately then you are familiar with the recent water crisis in Flint rock Michigan. But unfortunately there are other water crisis don’t get the proper attention they deserve.

What most people may not realize is many Native American communities have compromised water supplies. Tainted water supplies are not limited to Flint Michigan this is not a new issue. One such incident the federal government was aware of but did not intervene properly was Sebring, OH water crisis. Officials are calling it the next Flint with its water crisis. Elevated levels of lead and copper were found within the towns water supply and the water treatment operator was slow to intervene.  

To put the water problem in perspective the acceptable level of lead in water is 15 parts per billion. In Sebring, OH the lead in the water supply was 21 parts per billion. For those unfamiliar with the hazardous side effects of lead it has a host of ill effects. Lead poisoning can cause developmental delay, learning problems, and a severe decline in mental functioning.

For the western U.S tribes water contamination has unfortunately become a way of life. The Navajo Native American communities have been dealing with contaminated drinking water since the early 1950's. This was largely due to uranium mining and coal mining. To add to the issue there are currently over 15,000 toxic abandoned uranium mines throughout the US. A large portion of these mines are on federal and tribal lands as well. A Navajo community has been twice exposed to the legally allowable limit of uranium in their tap water.  

Conveniently enough there is no law requiring any sort of comprehensive cleanup of abandoned uranium sites. To make matters worse politicians routinely make deals with large mining corporations that will compromise Native American water supplies. Senator John McCain signed a defense bill that gave sacred Apache land to a mining company. There copper mining procedures would go on to poison the surrounding water supplies.

While Government officials have been forced to act in the Flint, Michigan situation there has been a grotesque disregard for Native American water supplies. As a result, the contamination of water in Native American water supplies continues on with little opposition.

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Top 3 Native American Myths

Blackfoot Myth of Creation

There are numerous creationalism myths surrounding Native American lore. One of which is the myth involving Napioa. Napioa is mentioned in almost all Blackfoot myths and is considered a prominent figure. Napioa is known by many names such as the sun, old man and lastly Napi. Napioa is said to have created the earth using mud from a turtle’s mouth from a river Napioa was floating on. Not only did he create the earth but he is also believed to have created man and woman as well. He is also believed to have created all the animals and vegetation as well.

The Origin of Light – An Alaskan Myth Back in early times, there was only darkness and no light what so ever. At the end of the ocean was a woman and one day she set out to get some water. As she was scraping in the snow she noticed a feather floating near her. She opened her mouth while the feather floated in. From that time onward she became pregnant. She had a baby and its mouth was that of a raven’s bill. The woman tried as hard as she could to find toys for her baby. She noticed in her father’s house there was an inflated bladder hanging up. Now the baby known as tulugaak (Raven), pointed at it and cried for it. The woman did not want to give the child the bladder but he kept crying. Finally, she gave in and took the bladder from the wall and let the child play with it. But the child broke it immediately, it began to get light. Now there was light in the world, and now there was darkness too. When the woman’s father came home he scolded his daughter for being too careless and giving the child the bladder. But when the light came tulugaak had disappeared.

The First Fire- Cherokee In the beginning of time, there was no fire or heat source. The animals along with the people were often cold. Only the Thunders, who lived in the world beyond the earth had fire to keep warm. At last, they sent lighting down the world. Lighting put fire into the bottom of a sycamore tree.

The animal people knew that the fire was there, they saw smoke rising from the tree but didn’t know how to get it from the top of the tree. They could not get to it on account of the water. The animal people held a council to decide how to get the fire.

At the time Raven was white and he flew high and far over the water to reach the top of the tree. He sat there wondering what to do, the heat burned his feathers black. This scared Raven and he flew home without bringing the fire back. Ever since then Raven’s feathers have been black.

Then the council sent the screech owl. He flew to the island where the fire was. When he was looking down into the hollow tree, a blast of hot air came up and almost blinded him. He flew home from then on his eyes have been red.

Then Hooting Owl and Horned Owl flew off island together. But the smoke almost blinded them. The ashes carried up by the wind made white rings about their eyes. They flew home and were never able to get rid of the white rings.

Then little snake swam through the water to the island. He crawled through the grass to get to the tree and entered through a hole in the base. But the smoke and heat were too intense for him. He barely escaped alive and his body was scored black.

Big snake the climber started to go for the fire but fell into the stump that was burning and became just as black as little snake. He has been known to this day as the great blacksnake.

At last Water Spider said she would get the fire. Water Spider has black hair and red stripes on her body. She ran on top of the water and dove to the bottom of the water. She had no trouble in getting to the island.

However the council thought she was too tiny to carry the fire but she assured them she would manage. She spun a web from her body and wove it into a bowl and fastened the bowl on her back. She crossed over the island and went through the grass. She put one tiny coal of fire into the bowl and brought it to the people.

Ever since then we have had fire and the Water Spider still has her tiny bowl on her back.

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The State of Native American Reservations

According to a study, roughly 22% of Native Americans currently live on tribal lands or reservations. What most people do not know living conditions on Native American reservations resemble that of third world conditions or more recently referred to as a fourth world.

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Restock of our favorite Navajo cashmink blankets from Germany. Founded in 1880 by Valentin Fraas in the small village of Wüstenselbitz. 1985 Fraas launched its exclusive Cashmink fabric a high quality acrylic cashmere like fabric. Shop in outerwear link-> #native #habitat #ranchlife

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Happy holidays

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Native american photography, year 1908.Sioux Indian, half-length portrait, smoking a cigarette.Vintage native american art print.

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Christmas decorations seem to show up earlier and earlier every year.