Mostly northeast woodland Native shows bc that’s my area of historical expertise. You like political drama? Well shocker Indians had some great politics too, it’s not copyrighted to the European monarchies.
-Prophetstown: The story of Tecumseh and Tenskwatawa, early 1800s: the traditionalist movement and the divisions it caused, the preponderance of Christian Native women, Metis people, the contact with southern tribes and divisions of Creek and Cherokee folks…
-The Anishinaabe-Dakota borderlands, mid-1700s: access to shiny new European goods and the best ricing grounds, issues of conflict in times of great ethnic mixture (lotsa wars between Ojibwe and Dakota folks, but a huge portion of the population was of mixed descent—fighting against their own relatives), clan politics (Crane and Loon clan oh boy),
Bizhiki, Eshkibagikoonzhe, Bagonegiizhik, Battle of the Brule, the Fox Warswhoo I got my timelines all mixed up, we’re looking at Bayaaswaa, Omigaandib, Mamaangizide, Wapasha…this stuff is actually fairly well-documented and there’s a lot of good oral tradition on it but no one outside of northern Wisconsin/Minnesota seems to have heard of it (haha as I write this description I am increasingly like SRSLY WANT)-No Man’s Land: the southern Great Plains late 1700s early 1800s: the Comanche domination of power, the Osage monopoly on plains trade, the conflict between the two, the Chouteau family and the Metis community of St. Louis, the transfer of land to the Americans and the very first Anglos coming through a world completely dominated by these two huge Native powers
-Metis northern plains, mid-1800s: increasing Metis autonomy and political awareness, conflicts over trade with Hudson Bay and the solidification of the American border, the first resistance that created Manitoba, social conflict over religion
-Southeastern provinces, mid-1500s: Cofitachequi, Coosa, Natchez, the folks de Soto encountered basically. Lots of political drama going on.
-Southern Mexico, late 300s: the rise of Teotihuacan and the conquering of the Maya city-state Mutul (Tikal) by Teotihuacanos (there is so much material for some great Mesoamerican political dramas, someone should really get on that)
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Michele S.J. (Ojibwe)
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Bobby Wilson performs “Sisseton” on a rooftop in Pawhuska, Oklahoma. (x)
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Powwow Glam Block Rock Earrings
These glamorous earrings were made by Ista Ska, a collective of Lakota quillwork and beadwork artists based out of Saskatchewan and North Dakota. They create authentic Lakota-made quillwork accessories, parfleche and beaded outfits for Native American powwow regalia.
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I wish I could go one day without encountering something or hearing someone say something racist/bigoted about my people.
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Esther and Melinda get married in California, 2008. Photo by Gemma Givens
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Natalie at CMU’s 23rd Pow Wow by CharlotteBodak on Flickr.
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"Well, the idea I was raised with was that, as aboriginal people, everything that we do is political. When we wake up in the morning—that’s political. The fact that we’re here driving and surviving is political because everything has been done in the past 500 years to stop that from happening. So the politics part of it is automatic. It’s not even a choice. It’s a responsibility that we have to carry as aboriginal artists because it’s just part of our life. It goes back to that holistic way of seeing life. We don’t divide the political and the spiritual. The day to day. Those are all a part of the same thing."
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» Native History
Analyzing Native history from a Native perspective.I’m currently working on my first post for the Native History blog I created.
I should have the post up soon!
I’m excited.
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