Education
See on www.iamhiphopmagazine.com
indigenous people
Satirical film targets ‘development’ for tribes.
Survival helps tribal peoples defend their lives, protect their lands and determine their own futures.
Community Village‘s insight:
Excellent video.
Ward Churchill: I Am Indigenist – Notes on the Ideology of the Fourth World
“This article from comrade Ward Churchill (Keetowah Cherokee) first appeared online September 2000.”
Interview with Ancestral Pride: Indigenous Land Defenders
Radio-BED sits down with Crow and Sacheen of Ancestral Pride for a necessary conversation on land defence, Idle No More, settler solidarity, nationhood and going home.
In this special report, Ancestral Pride schools listeners of all nations on the reality of the struggle for safety and self-determination and the importance of asserting and re-asserting Indigenous jurisdiction and authority over lands that have never been surrendered.
Genocide and THE THANKSGIVING MYTH
By S. Brian Willson
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“Let us recognize that accounts of the first Thanksgiving are mythological, and that the holiday is actually a grotesque celebration of our arrogant ethnocentrism built on genocide.”
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After serving in the Vietnam War, S. Brian Willson became a radical, nonviolent peace activist and pacifist.
Community Village‘s insight:
This post has a number of drawings I hadn’t seen before and it covers the history of brutal U.S. oppression from the U.S. East coast, to West coast, then all the way to the Philippines.
I never knew about the “kill every one over ten” by General Jacob H. Smith in 1901.
See on www.popularresistance.org
Happy National Genocide (Thanksgiving) Day!
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“People always tell me to forget the past. I should just let it go and move on. Why do people of color always have to forget?! Would you tell a Jewish person to forget about the holocaust and just move on?! Would you tell the family of those who lost their lives on 9/11 to just forget about it?! So why are our tragedies forgettable and others are not?! I WILL NEVER forget! I will ALWAYS honor those who lost their lives unjustifiable.”
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See on www.huffingtonpost.com
a complex and savage tale
IMAGE YOU WERE RELATED to one of the most notorious Indian killers in American history. Now, imagine you were also related to some of those Indians. You can now begin to understand the traumatic ba…
Community Village‘s insight:
Happy Thanks-Taking.
See on justinpetrone.wordpress.com
White American racism against Natives: 1600s
“Whites wiped out tribes, burned crops, sold Natives into slavery, raped and kidnapped.”
See on abagond.wordpress.com
Can We Recognize?
For so many people of European heritage, the process of decolonization begins with the deep recognition of some powerful understandings. You have ancestors. And those ancestors go back for thousand…
Cut Your Hair – or Else
“It was 1902. The government was unhappy that Indians were acting like, well, Indians, with their own customs and ways of life. The government wanted to make the Indians white, or what they called “civilized,” so they would stop causing trouble with all of those “unacceptable ways.”
So on January 11, 1902, the Department of the Interior, Department of Indian Affairs, issued a letter instructing that Native people should cut their hair (males), stop painting themselves, start wearing white people’s clothes, stop wearing Indian clothes and blankets, and stop having dances and feasts.”
Community Village‘s insight:
Eliminate your culture – or else.
My son has long hair and people give me grief about it.
No one gave me grief about my daughter’s long hair.
See on nativeheritageproject.com