Native American history

Native American Historical Events of March

March 603: birth of Pakal the Great

March 1st, 695 AD: Wak Chanil Ajaw celebrates the end of the Maya long count calendar

March 1519: Hernan Cortez lands in Mexico and meets the Indigenous population.

March 27th, 1814: Battle of Horseshoe bend

March 4th, 1870: Louis Riel orders the execution of Thomas Scott for Treason

March 25th, 1816: death of Ishi, the last member of the Yahi tribe

March 27th, 1973: Sacheen Littlefeather rejects Marlon Brando’s oscar due to the treatment of Native Americans

[image description: gifs stacked vertically of Native American warriors of various tribes, in traditional attire and in the fashion of their tribe. Text overlays on top of each gif, labeled, in order: “Brave’s society of Young Warriors, Blackfoot.”, “Women Warrior’s Society, Cheyenne.”, “Black Knife Society, Comanche.”,  “Okichitaw, Cree.”, “Crazy Dogs, Crow.”, “Koitsenko, Kiowa.”, “Kit Fox Society, Lakota.”, “Iruska, Pawnee.”. end image description.]

Plains Native American Warrior Societies

January 5, 1889 Ainahau, Waikiki, Oahu It is a new year, and yet I am terribly sad. What I have been dreading for so long will soon happen. In just a few months hence, I must leave my beloved Hawaii and go to England to complete my schooling. I knew that this day would come, but I am only thirteen. I thought surely I would have more time here, in the land of my birth. It is for the good of my people that I leave, but I am still very afraid

9.15.18.2.11 9 Chuen 14 Mol [July 7] Lakamha, Bacal Highland I thought, now that I leave Lakamha, I may never return. I may never see my family again. Well, perhaps I will see some of them. But I Will be like the water that comes down from a spring deep in the heart of a mountain cavern. It can flow and seep and pool and cascade all the way down to the water lily fields, all the way down to the big river, all the way to the marshes and the great salt sea.... But it can never flow back uphill to its home. I will never forget Lakamha, even if Lakamha forgets me."

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Actually i can answer this question of the prevtags!!

While I wouldnt rule it out that these dancers were potentially afraid & think that's a probably accurate observation (the video this gif comes from was an American pow wow with a largely White audience, & Native practices were still illegal), the reason why they dont have any arm movement is because this was originally how fancy shawl looked when it was invented in the 1960s. It moreso resembled the traditional dance, with fancy shawlers wearing a folded shawl on their arm & buckskin dresses and held fans, and focusing a bit more on footwork. They were also dancing to most likely a slower intertribal song.

"I am Youssef, an 18-year-old young man, and my dreams and hopes vanished in an instant. My family’s house in Khan Yunis was destroyed, and I found myself and my family living in a displacement camp in Deir al-Balah, under the scorching sun, inside a tent swaying in the wind. I wake up every morning to the sounds of waves crashing on the shore, but they no longer mean anything to me—they only remind me of the freedom we lost and the life we once had..."

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Historical Indigenous Women & Figures [7]:

Indiana Juliana: a Guarani woman who, along with many other Indigenous women, was captured and sold into slavery during early colonial Paraguay. She is known for killing her slaver with poison and encouraged other Indigenous women to do the same. Elsie Allen: a prominent Chief, activist, and weaver of the Pomo who worked to preserve her cultural traditions and improve education and Native rights for her community. She is considered to have been one of the three most well known basketweavers in California. Agrippina Vaganova: a famed Armenian Ballerina who developed the Vaganova method, which remains a standard textbook for ballet instruction to this day. Che-Na-Wah: Hailing from the Yurok tribe and commonly known by her English name Lucy Thompson, she was an author who was first trained to become a spiritual leader, and served her community this way. In 1916, she became the first Native American published author in California, debuting her memoir which preserved cultural teachings of the Yurok in addition to criticizing Whites for over-fishing on Native Land, and directly expressing that violence towards Indigenous peoples of California as genocide. Reina Eva: known as the Last Queen of Rapa Nui, she was also one of the last women to have received traditional tattooing. She and her husband King Atamu Tekena experienced the Annexation of Rapa Nui to Chile. Teresa Magbuana: Indigenous revolutionary who took up arms against the Spanish, winning multiple battles, and took part in all three major resistance movements against all 3 colonizers within the Phillipines. She was often called the "Visayan Joan of Arc" Tjintji-wara: a Chief, alleged sorceress, and skilled tracker of the Mantuntara people in what is now called "Australia", she also resisted colonialism with her people by killing settlers' cattle that were drinking from and polluting the water on her people's lands while they were experiencing a severe drought. Her life experiences were recorded in a book and, at one point after she had returned home from a Christian mission that had treated her for an illness, she left saying, 'too much soup! Too much Jesus!' Tonita Peña: Also known by her traditional name Quah Ah, Tonita was was a prominent Pueblo artist who was raised by her aunt, a famed Pueblo artist in her own right, she heavily influenced social change within her community, and Euro-American views of Native American art. She refused to abide by gender restrictions at the time, while at the same time highlighted women's cultural significance within her art. Her son became a famous artist himself, and her art is featured in multiple prestigious art collections, including the American Natural History Museum.

For Native American Heritage Month, I thought I'd upload the only decent part of the abomination that is The New World film, which features a brief scene in which Cree actor Billy Merasty speaks Cree (here used as a substitution for the Powhatan/Pamunkey language, which has similarities to Cree), but this scene was never given any subtitles for what the actor was saying. Below is a transcription of what the actors are saying in Cree and English.

Billy Merasty: kîkwây ôma (what's this?) John Smith: The source of all evil. It excuses vulgarity, makes wrong right, debased noble. Merasty: ci metoni tipahikêwin ôma ("true payment for this?") "kitâpacihtân tâpiskôc (you use it just like they (the colonizers) see the day), kîsikâw isinâkwak (others see the day as thus). kiyomâ napew (continually a man.)" "tâpiskôc mîcitâw kîsikâw (just like you excrete on the day.), mâci-atâwâkêw ôta miyo-askiy (he starts to sell all this good land here)," ê-nakatamân namôy askiy (I'll never leave this land ), mamisîtotam! (he depends on it), ê-macihtwât (he is mean?), pisiskiwa paskiyawew. (he overpowers the animals over there)" "nisâkihtân ôma askiy (I love this land), tâpiskôc ê-sâkihakik nôhtâwiypân ekwa nikâwiypân (just as equally as I love my father and mother.). namôy ê-nakatamân ôma askiy (I'll never leave this land). (this last part I can't hear)

Here's a gift article on her that shouldn't be behind a paywall!

More photos:

Two of Mohawk in costume as a Native man

My actual favorite image of them (sorry, look at this Wilde-esque energy. I refuse to believe they were cisgender)

Another example was Abenaki Chief & Actor Elijah Tahamont, who's career started in 1910. Below are photos of Red Wing on the Right & then Tahamont on the left.

There's also films like Daughter of the Dawn from 1920 which consisted of an entirely Native American cast, one of the actors of which featured the children of Comanche Chief Quannah Parker. Yakama actor Chief Yowlachie appeared in films all throughout the 20s, 30s, 40s, and onward until 1966, the year he died.

Here's a gift article on her that shouldn't be behind a paywall!

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Big Bear is, by comparison, held on a pedestal as being a peaceful Chief. He employed Wandering Spirit as his war chief. If Big Bear was so perfect & angelic & Wandering Spirit was so evil & violent & murderous, then why would Big Big continue to have him act as his War Chief??

He had multiple wives & slept with a number of other women. I have a hard time believing this guy could have an alleged bad reputation for evil but also have a number of women willing to sleep with him, as well as marry and then stay married to him

There's this Oral history of my reserve of when WS came through one time on his horse, and a large crowd walked alongside him shaking his hand, giving him gifts, and singing to him, and once again that doesn't happen to a man who supposedly has a reputation for being evil

For someone who supposedly was bloodthirsty, he only killed 8 White men during the Frog Lake massacre, 2 of which were priests, and the third was the Indian Agent who was using his power to starve Crees. & considering the other motivator being that Settlers were sexually assaulting Cree women, and this was corroborated by the Archbishop, I wouldn't be surprised if the other men he killed had something to do with that. Wandering Spirit & his men also took the hostages to Big Bear's community so that they would be safe there & they were given shelter. You'd think if he was so murderous, he would've just killed everyone

His last act before being executed was, according to legend, singing a love song to his wife (probably his favorite or principal/first wife)

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If you donate a minimum of $5 USD to Safaa and show proof of your donation to her gofundme, then you will be entered in to win a fully colored, full background, fully rendered art piece (such as the examples you see above) from me featuring whatever you want (within the set rules). Safaa is also vetted by Ahmed here on her previous blog that was deleted by staff.

The Raffle will go from now until October 31, 2024.

info:

one winner will be selected at random using a generator.

you must donate a minimum of $5 USD to Safaa's gofundme, and show proof of your donation (such as a screenshot of your gfm receipt) in order to be entered into the raffle. If you donate more than $5 then you will have more chances of winning (ex: $10 gets you 2 entries, $25 gets you 5 entries, etc). Send your proof to this blog or the blog neechees.

The winner may request an art piece on anything within the boundary of the rules (see that under the readmore).

the winner will be messaged upon winning, and they may relay what they wish me to draw in detail. The winner may post their art prize if they wish, or can remain anonymous.

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Rules of what I will and will not draw down below.

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Please support H.R. 9076 when it reaches the house floor. Native families deserve support from the federal government, especially when it comes to keeping Native children with Native families.

This bill includes critical provisions for tribes that receive funding under the Title IV-B child welfare programs, such as:

- Increasing funding for tribal agencies and courts.

- Reducing administrative burdens.

- Enhancing data collection on Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) cases in states.