#Indigenous "#ReMattering": A conversation with #DavidShaneLowry, PhD

"Sheeva Azma talks to Dr. David Shane Lowry about his work magnifying #IndigenousPerspectives from an anthropological perspective, including in science and technology, and science communication.

"Dr. Lowry serves on the faculty at the University of Southern Maine. He earned his BS from MIT and both Master’s and PhD from UNC Chapel Hill, all in anthropology. He is an anthropologist and member (citizen) of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He grew up in the #Lumbee community in Robeson County, North Carolina. In 2021-22, he was Distinguished Fellow in #NativeAmerican Studies at MIT, where he led a new conversation at MIT about the responsibilities of MIT (and science/technology education, more generally) in the theft of American Indian land and the dismantling of American Indian health and community. From 2022 to 2023, he was Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University. At USM, Dr. Lowry runs the #IndigenousRelationshipsLab as a place for and commitment to #justice and re-mattering of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples from #Maine, to #Massachusetts, to #NorthCarolina. David writes and hosts conversations on InTrust [link below]."

Watch video [includes transcript]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-mqEXlJmoE

#IndigenousPeoplesTrust link:
https://indigenouspeoplestrust.org.
#LandBack #LandGrabs #Colonialism #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanScholars

Portland Press Herald: Brick Store Museum launches Just History Project. “The Just History Project website, an initiative aimed at uncovering and documenting the often-overlooked histories of Black, Indigenous, and people of color in Kennebunk and the surrounding towns of Wells, Kennebunkport and Arundel, has been launched by the Brick Store Museum.”

https://rbfirehose.com/2025/03/06/portland-press-herald-brick-store-museum-launches-just-history-project/

"#JeanPfaelzer (Prof. Emerita, University of Delaware) describes the untold history of #slavery, #SlaveRevolts, and resistance in #California, based on her award-winning book #CaliforniaASlaveState"

https://soundcloud.com/c19podcast/s08e04_pfaelzer_california-a

#Indigenous #EnslavedIndigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #BlackHistory #USHistory #AmericanHistory #CaliforniaHistory #SettlerColonialism #ColonialViolence #RacialCapitalism #HumanTrafficking #CaliforniaGenocide #FirstNations #books @bookstodon

#Wampanoag Voices: Demystifying the Legacy of the Thanksgiving Day Holiday Propaganda

#AmericanIndianAirwaves welcomes #LindaCoombs of the Wampanoag Tribe of Aquinnah, author of #ColonizationAndTheWampanoagStory

https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/wampanoag-voices-demystifying-the-legacy-of-the-thanksgiving-day-holiday-propaganda

#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #ColonialViolence #NationalDayOfMourning #PlymouthColony #books @bookstodon

It's not a 'warm, fuzzy' #Thanksgiving for all: Why some honor a '#NationalDayOfMourning'

Story by Kinsey Crowley, USA TODAY
November 28, 2024

"For more than 50 years, #NativeAmerican communities have gathered in #PlymouthMassachusetts on the fourth Thursday of November. But it isn't to carve turkey and celebrate the Pilgrim's first harvest.

"Instead, they will march together and hear from Indigenous people from around the world for the National Day of Mourning, which commemorates a speech Frank 'Wamsutta' James was supposed to deliver in 1970 at the 350-year anniversary celebration of the Mayflower's arrival.

"'That speech was not striking some of the warm, fuzzy, come-together spirit that the folks wanted at that time, so the speech remained undelivered,' Jean-Luc Pierite, a member of the Tunica-Biloxi Tribe of Louisiana and the president of the board of directors of the North American Indian Center of Boston. He is helping to chair the march and the rally at this year's National Day of Mourning gathering in Plymouth.

"The 'Suppressed Speech' by James describes how different it is to look back on what happened to his people since the arrival of the Mayflower compared to the shorter history of the white man in America.

"While many of us gather to celebrate Thanksgiving Thursday, the story that many of us are taught about the origins of the holiday leaves out large swaths of Native American history and perspectives today.

"'Coming together as a community for a feast and to express gratitude - that's not something that was imported to this continent because of colonization.' Pierite said. 'Indigenous peoples have had these practices going back beyond, beyond colonial contact.'

'While we are mourning some tragic history but also contemporary issues, we are also expressing gratitude for each outer and building this community space,' Pierite said."

Read more: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/its-not-a-warm-fuzzy-thanksgiving-for-all-why-some-honor-a-national-day-of-mourning/ar-AA1uUDLe

It's almost exactly 75 years since prima ballerina Maria Tallchief took to the stage in the New York City Ballet's premiere of "Firebird." Tallchief recalls in her memoir, "America's First Prima Ballerina," that at the end of the performance, the New York City Center sounded like a football stadium after somebody had made a touchdown. Tallchief, who was a member of the Osage nation, went on to become the highest paid ballerina in the world.

For @TheConversationUS, Shannon Toll writes about her achievements, both in ballet, and in defying expectations of what Indigenous people could achieve in spite of the era's hostile legislation.

https://flip.it/ahv8ZB

"#Cherokee journalist #RebeccaNagle joins the show to talk about her recently released book, #ByTheFireWeCarry [..] The book is a centuries-long history and legal thriller, documenting the lead-up to the landmark #McGirt Supreme Court decision."

https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/therednation/id/33873057

#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #ForcedRemovals #ColonialViolence #IndianRemovalAct #UShistory #McGirtVsOklahoma #Choctaw #Seminole #Chickasaw #Muscogee #FiveTribes #TrailOfTears #books

#Navy apologizes 142 years after shelling and burning an #Alaska #Native village to oblivion

"'The Navy recognizes the pain and suffering inflicted upon the #Tlingit people,' said the commander of the Navy’s northwest region."

AP, October 28, 2024

"Shells fell on the Alaska Native village as winter approached, and then sailors landed and burned what was left of homes, food caches and canoes. Conditions grew so dire in the following months that elders sacrificed their own lives to spare food for surviving children.

"It was Oct. 26, 1882, in Angoon, a Tlingit village of about 420 people in the southeastern Alaska panhandle. Now, 142 years later, the perpetrator of the bombardment — the #USNavy —has apologized.

"Rear Adm. Mark Sucato, the commander of the Navy’s northwest region, issued the apology during an at-times emotional ceremony Saturday, the anniversary of the atrocity.

"'The Navy recognizes the pain and suffering inflicted upon the#TlingitPeople, and we acknowledge these wrongful actions resulted in the loss of life, the loss of resources, the loss of culture, and created and inflicted #IntergenerationalTrauma on these clans,' he said during the ceremony, which was livestreamed from Angoon. 'The Navy takes the significance of this action very, very seriously and knows an apology is long overdue.'

"While the rebuilt Angoon received $90,000 in a settlement with the Department of Interior in 1973, village leaders have for decades sought an apology as well, beginning each yearly remembrance by asking three times, 'Is there anyone here from the Navy to apologize?'

"'You can imagine the generations of people that have died since 1882 that have wondered what had happened, why it happened, and wanted an apology of some sort, because in our minds, we didn’t do anything wrong,' said Daniel Johnson Jr., a tribal head in #Angoon.

"The attack was one of a series of conflicts between the American military and Alaska Natives in the years after the U.S. bought the territory from Russia in 1867. The U.S. Navy issued an apology last month for destroying the nearby village of Kake in 1869, and the Army has indicated that it plans to apologize for shelling Wrangell, also in southeast Alaska, that year, though no date has been set.

"The Navy acknowledges the actions it undertook or ordered in Angoon and #Kake caused deaths, a loss of resources and multigenerational trauma, Navy civilian spokesperson Julianne Leinenveber said in an email prior to the event.

"'An apology is not only warranted, but long overdue,' she said."

https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-navy-apologized-142-years-shelling-burning-alaska-native-village-ob-rcna177560?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

#AmericanIndianAirwaves:

A roundtable discussion: What is #IndigenousPeoplesDay ?

w/ Marcus Lopez, (Barbareño Band of the Chumash Nation), executive producer of American Indian Airwaves, Fidel Rodriguez (Chumash Nation) and former host of KPFK’s Divine Forces Radio, and Larry Smith (Lumbee Nation)

https://www.listennotes.com/podcasts/american-indian/the-contradictions-of-eNWYcEbIMRG/
#Indigenous #FirstPeoples #FirstNations #NativeAmericans #IndigenousResistance #NativeAmericanResistance #NativeAmericanHistory

How #NativeNations Reclaimed #Oklahoma

guest: #RebeccaNagle, author of #ByTheFireWeCarry: The Generations-Long Fight for Justice on #NativeLand

https://kpfa.org/player/?audio=435646

#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #FirstNations #Landback #ColonialViolence #ForcedRemovals #IndianRemovalAct #UShistory #McGirtVsOklahoma #Cherokee #Choctaw #Seminole #Chickasaw #Muscogee #FiveTribes #TrailOfTears #books

Heute vor 20 Jahren eröffnete das National #Museum of the American Indian (#NMAI) an der #NationalMall in #Washington, DC. Für unsere #Expokritik hat damals Gabriele Kämper die #Ausstellung besucht:
Ein trauriger Traum. Das Museum of the American Indian in Washington D.C., #WerkstattGeschichte 39/2005, https://werkstattgeschichte.de/alle_ausgaben/die-farbe-weiss

@histodons @historikerinnen @museum @nmai

5 #TwoSpirit Heroes Who Paved the Way for Today's #NativeAmerican #LGBTQ+ Community

by Samuel White Swan-Perkins
Nov 20, 2018

"In the 1990s, Indian Country (as we called it) was a very different place for #NativeAmericans. Our rural communities were isolated, with communication limited to landlines and the mail.

"Cigarette and beer companies frequently sponsored our powwows, recycling was unheard of, and the entire Native scene portrayed itself as very straight. Not straight-laced, per se, but really #hetero.

"The term 'Two Spirit' for LGBTQ+ Native Americans didn’t exist yet, at least not outside #Ojibwe Territory. As for the concept—let’s just say that there were plenty of MCs making #winkte (gay) jokes at the powwows I attended in the early ’90s. Still, in spite of prejudice, it was common knowledge that in 'the old days,' most of our Nations accepted and honored #GenderFluidity.

"I recall one of my elders sharing about a man from home who was that way. 'I don’t like it,' I remember her telling me as she braided me up for one of our dances, 'but we love N. and so—not my way, mind you.' I don’t recall the rest of the conversation, but I understood her comments to mean that winkte was not OK.

"Fast forward a couple of decades, and wow.

"Not only did the Native-American population skyrocket in North America, but we’ve gone through a major shift in how Two Spirits are recognized and treated. Today, dozens of Two Spirit organizations exist across the United States and Canada (North Valley Two Spirits, represent!). We have several of our own powwows, 501c3s and models that help sustain and preserve the Two Spirit way of life.

"To get a sense of where we are today, let’s take a look back at some of the original Two-Spirit heroes who helped light the way."

Read more:
https://www.kqed.org/arts/13845330/5-two-spirit-heroes-who-paved-the-way-for-todays-native-lgbtq-community

Ancient North American #Cities and Why People Abandoned Them

"#KathleenDuVal is a professor of history at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she teaches early American and American Indian history. [..] Her latest book is #NativeNationsAMillenniumInNorthAmerica."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSWKSbSh1uw&pp=wgIGCgQQAhgB
#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #CityStates #AncientCities #Cahokia #Hohokam #FirstNations #FirstPeoples #MedievalWarmPeriod #books

#WabanakiREACH Celebates #OralHistory Exhibit Opening with Gathering at #SipayikMuseum

wikhikonol: stories + photos at the Sipayik Museum, 59 Passamaquoddy Rd., #PleasantPoint, Maine. Exhibit runs June 20 through October at the Sipayik Museum, Point Pleasant Peninsula.

6 June 2024

SIPAYIK | PLEASANT POINT, ME (June 4, 2023)– "Wabanaki REACH has partnered with the Sipayik Museum to present wikhikonol, an oral history exhibit featuring #stories alongside #photography by #Wabanaki artists #NolanAltvater and #MayaAttean. The exhibit, which opens June 20 with a celebratory gathering, is part of Wabanaki REACH’s #truthtelling initiative Beyond the Claims– Stories from the Land & the Heart.

"Wabanaki REACH has recorded and preserved over forty personal oral history interviews from #Wabanaki and #Maine communities in hopes to illuminate the humanity behind the Maine Indian land claims era and demystify the #MaineIndianClaimsSettlementAct of 1980. The organization has been focusing its efforts on building an accessible archive of interviews, creating educational resources for the greater community, and making space for healing and truth-telling to happen.

"wikhikonol marks Wabanaki REACH’s second public offering related to the project following where the river widens, an original community-devised play performed on Indian Island last fall.

"wikhikonol features text and audio of stories that emerged in the interviews, complemented by photographs of Wabanakik and its people. Beyond the Claims is led by Wabanaki ways of being and knowing to further Wabanaki REACH’s crucial work of bringing truth, healing, and change to the #Dawnland.

"'Our intentions were to create a deeper understanding of the Maine Indian #LandClaims, a tumultuous period in tribal-state history that still impacts the Tribes today. We wanted to capture stories from people with lived experiences during this time, uplift stories that exemplify the Wabanaki people's unique relationship to their homelands, and create tools for learning and understanding so we can ultimately move toward a more just and understanding future together', said #MariaGirouard, Executive Director of Wabanaki REACH.

"Wikhikon is the #Passamaquoddy word originally used for #birchbark maps but now refers to book, image, map, or any written material. For this exhibit, it can be understood as a visual tool for storytelling that offers spaces for relations and understandings to emerge from the Land and from the people who are connected to it. It is a term that challenges and resists dominant, western understandings of stories and the Land and the relationships in which they attempt to force Wabanaki people into.

"Nolan Altvater said, 'This exhibit is a celebration of the myriad relations that Wabanaki people have with our homelands. The stories blur the lines between image and word while inviting the audience to critically think and learn with the literacies of our land beyond the claims of the settlement act'.

https://www.wabanakireach.org/press_release

#AmericanIndianGenocideMuseum is Honoree of Center for Healing of Racism

Congratulations to the American Indian Genocide Museum, Attorney #BennyAgostoJr., Journalist #ChrisTomlinson, and #NikkeiProgressives, Rights Activists

By Don Vasicek, American Indian Genocide Museum
June 10, 2024
via #CensoredNews

#SteveMelendez, #Paiute, President of the American Indian Genocide Museum: "'#SanitizingHistory was at the heart of #ResidentialBoardingSchools. 'The brainwashing that was encompassed in the motto, 'kill the Indian, save the man,' ripped the children from the arms of their mothers, killed the pride self-esteem, and the very spirit of an entire generation of our people.'"

Read more:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/06/american-indian-genocide-museum-is.html

#Diné #JohnRedhouse 'Fifty Years Ago: #Uprising and #Resistance'

By John Redhouse, #CensoredNews, May 24, 2024

"On this #MemorialDay weekend, we must also remember and honor the many native #HumanRights warriors such as #LarryCasuse and other brave indigenous men and women who made the ultimate sacrifice in fighting for the lives and future of red people and nations on #TurtleIsland and throughout the Western Hemisphere—the red quarter of #MotherEarth.

"In the course of our long, hard, and bloody struggle for survival, since 1492, we are here only because our ancestors fought for our right to live and exist as first people and nations in the Americas.

"As an aging but still surviving veteran of the intense bordertown wars in Gallup and Farmington in the 1970s, I will remember always great warriors such as #HerbBlatchford, #RobertNakaidinae, #FredJohnson, #LucyKeeswood, and many, many more courageous fighters of that era including the late great Lorenzo LeValdo and Taft Scott who were also very much a part of the 1974 #Totah #Navajo #CivilRights campaign."

Read more (includes images of newspaper articles):
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2024/05/dine-john-redhouse-fifty-years-ago.html

Red Power Progressivism: A Biography of American Indian Rights Activist Zitkala Ša

https://digpodcast.org/2024/05/19/red-power-progressivism-a-biography-of-american-indian-rights-activist-zitkala-sa/

#ElizabethBookSentimentalState #19thCentury #20thCenturyHistory #AmericanHistory #NativeAmericanHistory #PoliticalHistory #race #USHistory #WomensHistory #podcast #histodons #history @histodons