Everything Amerindian
A guest post by Jefe: For at least 11,000 years, people have inhabited the Chesapeake Bay Regionalong the Atlantic coast of North America, now the part of the US known as Washington, DC and the states of Virginia, Maryland and Delaware. Continue reading Sourced through Scoop.it from: abagond.wordpress.com
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Welcome to Native American Heritage Month 2015! November is Native American Heritage Month in the US. On this blog that means there will be two to three posts a week having to do with Native Americans. Last year was a bust, I know. I hope to do better this year. If you have a suggestion for a post… Sourced through Scoop.it from: abagond.wordpress.com
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17 young adults at Kahnawake enrolled in two-year Mohawk immersion class Sourced through Scoop.it from: montrealgazette.com When people say “speak American”, this is one of the languages to speak. Hat tip for the article to Steven Riley @mixed_race
Read moreMonday, October 12th is Columbus Day, which we have celebrated in this country since the eighteenth century… and that’s probably long enough. When you find out the actual facts of what Columbus did when he got to America, you’ll find one of the darkest chapters in American history. Cenk Uygur and John Iadarola (Think Tank), hosts of the The Young
Read moreHow can we include settler colonialism in our work – especially as it relates to racism against non-Native people of color? It’s complicated, but this article’s got some crucial answers. Understand Racism and Settler Colonialism as Connected Forms of Oppression Examine How Settler Colonialism Creates Tensions Between Anti-Racism Work and Decolonization Learn That If You’re on US Land, You’re
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The NGS website announced this week an opening at the Department of Interior, Indian Affairs, for a genealogist in the Washington DC vicinity. Let’s hope that whoever they hire also understands, and I mean really understands, DNA testing – as they assuredly will be bombarded with questions about how DNA testing pertains to Native people and their descendants. Continue reading Sourced through
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Vancouver city council decided that the land still belongs to the Musqueam, Squamish and Tsleil-Waututh people Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.smithsonianmag.com The first western settlement built in what is now the city of Vancouver, British Columbia, went up in 1893. Little more than a trading post set up by the Hudson’s Bay Company, a fur-trading company that at one point owned most of
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This week has seen a flurry of new scientific and news articles. What has been causing such a stir? It appears that Australian or more accurately, Australo-Melanese DNA has been found in South America’s Native American population. In addition, it has also been found in Aleutian Islanders off the coast of Alaska. In case you aren’t aware, that’s about 8,500
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Native Americans are the closest living relatives of the Kennewick Man, an 8,500-year-old skeleton discovered in Washington State. Sourced through Scoop.it from: www.livescience.com Continue reading
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Modern day Puebloans are often infuriated to be told that their ancestors ‘vanished’ or ‘disappeared’. Source: news.nationalgeographic.com
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