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Showing posts with label indigenous Native American. Show all posts
Showing posts with label indigenous Native American. Show all posts
Sunday, November 18, 2012
The Largest Mass Execution in U.S. History
"The President's honored on Mt. Rushmore were very aggressive in their treatment of Native Americans. In this episode of The Massachusetts School of Law's Educational Forum Assistant Professor of law Kurt Olson interviews host and producer of First Voices Indigenous Radio's Tiokasin Ghosthorse.
The Massachusetts School of Law also presents information on important current affairs to the general public in television and radio broadcasts, an intellectual journal, conferences, author appearances, blogs and books."
Thursday, October 4, 2012
Christopher Columbus and other Migrants
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| disclaimer: People are not illegal - actions are illegal |
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506)
Born in Italy.
Worked for Spain.
While looking for a shorter route to Asia, Columbus sailed west from Europe, instead of east and landed on the island of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti). This landing started the invasions, murders, rapes, disease outbreaks, theft and colonization of the Americas.
Columbus was not the first to discover the Americas. Indigenous Amerindians discovered it first when they migrated from Asia.
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| From http://drarchaeology.com/culthist/origins.htm |
Next, Bjarni Herjólfsson, a Norse (Norwegian) explorer was the first known European to discover the mainland of the Americas, which he sighted in 985 or 986.
Leif Ericson, another Norwegian, with the knowledge from Herjólfsson, lead an expedition that landing in North America, about 500 years before Columbus.
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| From http://www.lost-civilizations.net/vikings-isle-man-leif-eriksson-page-3.html |
Monday, November 21, 2011
When Worlds Collide
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| Photo credit: The New Yorker |
I'm European American and I've been trying to unpack what it means to be living on the land of First Nation Peoples / Indigenous Native American land.
Every sane individual would agree that people are not supposed to steal, and yet, Non-Native Americans live on stolen land every day.
If Europeans didn't steal the land, then another group would have sailed over and stolen the land, some might argue. That does not justify the first theft and there is no guarantee that Native Americans would have allowed the other group to steal their land. And actually, Native American's did not allow Europeans to steal their land. Amerindians did not believe in owning land. They believed in sharing the land. They believed they were sharing the land with Europeans. And actually, the French did share the land and traded goods peacefully with Amerindians for 100 years before the British arrived.
For those who believe in liberty and freedom, we would have to admit that the liberty and freedom of Amerindians was ignored in favor of the greed of Europeans.
History repeats itself. The modern corollary is that European Americans want to disposes Hispanic Latino Mexicas of their freedom and liberty to work an honest job harvesting crops that feed the nation. Ironically the nation that is being fed is mostly European American 79.96% in 2010. The other corollary is that the U.S. military is inviting itself into Oil Rich countries to help themselves to their resources.
But I digress. What I wanted to ask is: When worlds collide, who's interests should win? The group with the bigger guns?
Glenn is a European-American married to a Mexican-American. They have two children. Glenn is interested in progressive immigration reform, and desegregation within schools and communities. He is a life long learner with interests in sociology, anthropology, psychology, history and politics.
Connect to Glenn at CommunityVillage.us
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Thursday, August 12, 2010
American Brainwash
If you grew up in the U.S. - do you feel the history you were taught was incomplete?
In kindergarten I learned the song "This land is your land..."
The song made me feel like the whole U.S. was for everyone. The song doesn't mention the land was occupied for 40,000 years before the English arrived.
In fourth grade I learned the history of the U.S. trafficking humans from Africa. I didn't learn in grammar school that in America there were many white slaves called indentured servants. I also didn't learn in grammar school that indigenous native American's were sold as slaves.
Another area I was mis-lead is that the U.S. government uses the term "Indian" for people who are not Indians, but indigenous Native Americans. The reason our government and our society has decided to call indigenous Native American's "Indians" is because if the correct term term was used, the non-indigenous would constantly be reminded that this land was stolen from the original owners.
We are bombarded with the term 'race' as if there are just 3 races (or 4, or 6 or 30) in the world and everyone can check a box to fit into one of those categories.
Here's the poetic truth: There is one race - the human race.
Here's the scientific truth: There is one human species - the human species.
Here's the anthropological truth: There are no races - only clines.
What is a cline? It means subtle variations. In this case it means subtle variations based on geographic differences within a species.
What important information do you feel was missing in your childhood education?
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