Everything Amerindian
See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations “Justin Petrone, like me, is a mixed race person with Native American ancestry, although unlike me, initially, he never thought of himself in those terms. I’ve always known and since I was a child, self-identified myself in that way. Like me, Justin has spent years searching for his elusive ancestors, more often than
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations By Robert Jensen, AlterNet “One indication of moral progress in the United States would be the replacement of Thanksgiving Day and its self-indulgent family feasting with a National Day of Atonement accompanied by a self-reflective collective fasting. In fact, indigenous people have offered such a model; since 1970 they have marked
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations “There is resistance: in Canada it’s coming from First Nations. But it’s worth remembering that that’s a world-wide phenomenon. Throughout the world, the indigenous populations are in the lead. See on unsettlingamerica.wordpress.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Ramona Peters, the Mashpee Wampanoag Tribe’s Tribal Historic Preservation Officer told Indian Country Today Media Network in a conversation on the day before Thanksgiving 2012—391 years since that mythological “first Thanksgiving.” So the Pilgrims didn’t invite the Wampanoags to sit down and eat turkey and drink some beer? [laughs] Ah, no. Well, let’s put
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations 500Nations‘s insight: The 2013 Native American $1 Coin commemorates the Delaware Treaty of 1778. Its reverse design features a turkey, howling wolf and turtle (all symbols of the clans of the Delaware Tribe), and a ring of 13 stars to represent the Colonies. The design includes the required inscriptions UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and $1. The additional
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations Note: Whites and Natives means the forefathers of White and Native Americans, even though they rarely called themselves that back then. In the 1500s Westerners viewed the natives of the Americas as… See on abagond.wordpress.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations “The origins of the First Americans remain contentious. Although Native Americans seem to be genetically most closely related to east Asians1, 2, 3, there is no consensus with regard to which specific Old World populations they are closest to4, 5, 6, 7, 8.” See on nativeheritageproject.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations “The genome of the boy indicates that Europeans reached farther east across Eurasia than previously assumed, and that Native Americans may be descended from a mix of Western Europeans and East Asians.” See on www.nytimes.com
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations “Jeannette Armstrong is an Okanagan Indian writer, educator, and activist. Her main goal in writing is to educate young people about Native culture and history. She is the director of the En’owkin Center, a cultural and educational organization operated by the Okanagan Nation in Penticton, BC, Canada.” See on prn.fm
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See on Scoop.it – 500 Nations In Part 6 of Engineering the Inka Empire: A Symposium on Sustainability and Ancient Technologies, Christine Fiori and Cliff Schexnayder present Road Construction Technology in the High Cordillera. The engineers of the Inka Empire had a unique consciousness of nature, with construction skills founded in lessons learned from careful observation of the power of
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