Dick Charlie and John Taylor of the Southern Ute, Colorado,1900.
Taylor was born into slavery and served as a Buffalo Solider before working as an interpreter and marrying into the tribe.
NOAA and partners today announced the discovery of the wreck of a 207-year-old whaling ship, called Industry, found on the bottom of the Gulf of Mexico. The remains of the 64-foot long, two-masted wooden brig opens a window into a little known chapter of American history when descendants of African enslaved people and Native Americans served as essential crew in one of the nation’s oldest industries.
“Black and Native American history is American history, and this critical discovery serves as an important reminder of the vast contributions Black and Native Americans have made to our country,” said U.S. Deputy Secretary of Commerce Don Graves. “This 19th century whaling ship will help us learn about the lives of the Black and Native American mariners and their communities, as well as the immense challenges they faced on land and at sea.” Read more.
Two-SpiritorBerdacheare people of the so called “third sex” in the culture of various tribes of the Indians of North America, that is, representatives of one biological sex, adopting the gender identity of the other. This art is my tribute to the part of amazing culture of Native American cultures ♡
A 6.3cm-long Clovis point found in Pike County (Illinois). It is 13,000 years old.
Each side of the base has a longitudinal groove, or “flute”, chipped out of it. This actually allows the base to act as a “shock absorber”, increasing the point’s ability to withstand stress. Upon impact, the more brittle base crumples and absorbs some of the energy, preventing breaks elsewhere on the point that would make it unable to be reused.
This Clovis point has been to space!
Every time Native Americans were mentioned in my education they were mentioned alongside this one native staple food made from acorns ground into a sort of flour/meal/cereal. I have wanted to try that shit for decades now I bet it rules. There has to be a native restaurant somewhere that serves an authentic version of it and I want to try it so bad.
CT I am so happy to tell you that Wiiwish fucks severely and is way easier to make than you’d think.
Please I desire the acorn meal
Assuming you have the right variety of acorns (I am assuming correctly bc I know where you live), follow the steps:
-Get the acorns
-Crack open said acorns, pull out the cotlydons and set them aside.
-Grind those bitches into flour. You can use a normal food processor for this nowadays.
-You’re now gonna wash the flour several times until it loses its bitterness completely. This is how it becomes safe for consumption, bc Yokuts/Chumash/various other Central Californian Natives are the fucking royalty of parboiling shit until you can eat it and it tastes good.
You now have authentic acorn mash. Let it dry a bit and then cook it in a hot skillet. You can add shit like cinnamon and sugar for a sweeter treat, or add rosemary and sage for some authentically herby savory nonsense.Tadaaaa. Wiiwish.
Any note on what the most authentic seasoning would be?
The salt and rosemary and sage would be my personal thought process on it, since those would be straight up what we had/have available, but for “authenticity” it’d be unseasoned. I liked the savory version better when I gave it my shot. It was sorta like focaccia?
Also I want to be very clear to your followers: This recipe is frankly only really possible for Central Valley CA folk. There’s a very specific species of oak we harvest from native to the area, you can’t just substitute any old acorn, it can be dangerous to do that + it probably won’t work as well. Trying to use a different kind of acorn would probably be more similar to a non-Californian native version of it, but I 1. Don’t know anythin bout those and 2. Know enough about acorns to know you don’t just randomly experiment.
hey reminder to stopppp fuckingggg making jokes about the “there are two wolves inside you” it was literally invented by a racist white man as a caricature of native legends for his christian ideals
white people stop TALKING on this POST don’t say “oh teehee i didn’t know i’m so so sorry” just be QUIET for ONCE
You may have seen the top image in conjunction with a news article about tipis being burned at Standing Rock. It is a fake.
For those of you sharing it around, please know that it’s actually a photoshopped version of a still from the movie Bury My Heart At Wounded Knee. As you can see, the individuals are in Union uniform, carrying muskets, and snow and haybales have been added as well as cropping the mounted figure out. I, of course, have no idea what actually went down at Standing Rock but please pay attention to what you’re sharing and do your research. Not everything you read is true and regardless of what really happened, using a false image deliberately changed in order to stir up anger is bad journalism and does not make good credibility.
On Sept. 18, the U.S. Senate passed H.R. 3043, the Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act, by unanimous consent. On Sept. 16, the measure passed the House of Representatives by voice vote.
The Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act will fully recognize that Indian Tribes – as sovereign nations – are responsible for making certain their government programs and services best fit the needs of their citizens, just as other local governments across the country do.
For years, Indian Tribes have been taxed for providing health care, education, housing or legal aid to those in need.
Local and state governments throughout the United States frequently offer such services to those who need assistance, but the people receiving help are not taxed by the IRS.
Yes, you read that right. For years, Indian Tribes have been taxed for providing health care, education, housing or legal aid to those in need.
Indian tribes had to pay taxes for services they provided to help people.
I googled “The Tribal General Welfare Exclusion Act” and only a handful of articles came up, none of them from any major news outlet.
While this is a shocking revelation to me, apparently it isn’t deemed worthy enough to be published by CNN, Fox, or NBC. I heard about it from my history professor who subscribes to a local Native tribe’s newspaper.
I was lucky to find it online, you can read the PDF here.
FARMINGTON, N.M. — Navajo Code Talkers became legendary for using their native tongue during World War II to transmit messages the enemy could not decipher. To this day, they are celebrated at parades and honored at military events nationwide.
They’ve shaken hands with presidents, and their heroics have been portrayed in a major motion picture.
But when they return home to Navajo country, it’s often to something less than Hollywood splendor. Some Code Talkers live without electricity or running water. Others lack central heating. One Code Talker even lives in a house that has been struck by lightning, which is taboo in Navajo tradition. The lightning strike left a mark that is visible above the door.
Recently, a group of Navajo Code Talkers and their families gathered at a community center and expressed their disappointment in the difficult housing conditions many of them face.
They detailed their concerns and frustrations to a Los Angeles Times reporter.
Two code Talkers, their wives, a widow and daughter laid out their grievances. Alfred Newman Sr. and his wife, Betsy, said they feel a bit used when paraded around at events.
“People talk about Code Talkers. They say how famous they are,” Betsy Newman said.
Every person in the room told similar stories.
Anne Tso, widow of Code Talker Samuel Nakai Tso, spoke about how her husband died recently without seeing the dream of his tribe-sponsored home completed.
Across the room, Samuel F. Sandoval, a 90-year-old Code Talker, said his wife must work several jobs to make improvements to their home.
“They don’t feel like they are famous,” Newman said.
Navajo Nation officials think about Code Talkers and invoke them around tribal elections, she said, but otherwise “they forget about us.”
The hard lives — and high suicide rate — of Native American children on reservations
SACATON, ARIZ. The tamarisk tree down the dirt road from Tyler Owens’s house is the one where the teenage girl who lived across the road hanged herself. Don’t climb it, don’t touch it, admonished Owens’s grandmother when Tyler, now 18, was younger.
There are other taboo markers around the Gila River Indian reservation—eight young people committed suicide here over the course of a single year.
“We’re not really open to conversation about suicide,” Owens said. “It’s kind of like a private matter, a sensitive topic. If a suicide happens, you’re there for the family. Then after that, it’s kind of just, like, left alone.”
But the silence that has shrouded suicide in Indian country is being pierced by growing alarm at the sheer number of young Native Americans taking their own lives — more than three times the national average, and up to 10 times on some reservations.
A toxic collection of pathologies — poverty, unemployment, domestic violence, sexual assault, alcoholism and drug addiction — has seeped into the lives of young people among the nation’s 566 tribes. Reversing their crushing hopelessness, Indian experts say, is one of the biggest challenges for these communities.
“The circumstances are absolutely dire for Indian children,” said Theresa M. Pouley, the chief judge of the Tulalip Tribal Court in Washington state and a member of the Indian Law and Order Commission.
Pouley fluently recites statistics in a weary refrain: “One-quarter of Indian children live in poverty, versus 13 percent in the United States. They graduate high school at a rate 17 percent lower than the national average. Their substance-abuse rates are higher. They’re twice as likely as any other race to die before the age of 24.They have a 2.3 percent higher rate of exposure to trauma. They have two times the rate of abuse and neglect. Their experience with post-traumatic stress disorder rivals the rates of returning veterans from Afghanistan.”
In one of the broadest studies of its kind, the Justice Department recently created a national task force to examine the violence and its impact on American Indian and Alaska Native children, part of an effort to reduce the number of Native American youth in the criminal justice system. The level of suicide has startled some task force officials, who consider the epidemic another outcome of what they see as pervasive despair.
Last month, the task force held a hearing on the reservation of the Salt River Pima-Maricopa Indian Community in Scottsdale. During their visit, Associate Attorney General Tony West, the third-highest-ranking Justice Department official, and task force members drove to Sacaton, about 30 miles south of Phoenix, and met with Owens and 14 other teenagers.
“How many of you know a young person who has taken their life?” the task force’s co-chairman asked. All 15 raised their hands.
“That floored me,” West said.
Many Horses (the daughter of Sitting Bull and Snow On Her), with her son - Hunkpapa - before 1897
