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palominojacoby · 9 months
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Jeffrey Gibson
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tvstvnvkke · 2 months
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Tribal Names
I don’t think many people, even some native people, are aware that the legal names of many tribes are actually not from the tribe.
Often the names came about because colonizers would ask one tribe "hey, what do you call those people over there?". then they would assign the name given to that tribe. so often the names were descriptions from unrelated tribes, or in more extreme cases, insults.
The Muscogee tribe got pretty lucky since the legal name was "creek" and it came from a different tribe going "oh, those are the people near the creek". which, is accurate enough, most creek settlements were placed along creeks. a famous one that is related to the Muscogee is the name "Cherokee". "Cherokee" is a Muscogee word meaning something along the lines of "people who don’t speak our language". Even this is pretty light compared to some names. some official tribal names translate to phrases like "dog eaters" or "lazy people".
This is why it’s not uncommon for tribes to start using older names. Muscogee comes from the term for our people "Mvskoke", and the tribe has made efforts to distance itself from the name "Creek". Although it is likely still the name you’ll hear most often.
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xylographica · 6 months
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the frog swallows the sun
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antinativefaves · 1 month
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Nex Benedict — a nonbinary, Native American, 16-year-old sophomore — was reportedly beaten to denath on February 7 by three older female students in the bathroom of Owasso High School in Oklahoma. The school refused to call an ambulance for the injured teen and didn’t inform police of the attack until Benedict was later admitted into the hospital — they died from their injuries the next day.
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akayv · 3 months
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Reposting because Tumblr is Not having the other photoset of this thang
Cherokee Double Wall Basket Purse
ᎯᎠ ᏔᎷᏣ ᎠᏬᏢᏅ - I made this basket!
ᎦᎵᏉᎩ ᎢᏳᏟᎶᏓ - 7 hours
Gauge 3 round reed, 1/2" flat reed belt, some half oval reed at the base. Gauge 2 round reed bow.
An experimental commission! Basket itself is about 10 inches deep. Thrifted the shoulder chain from a belt. 🤔 Going to look into this more since I need the income and I like the direction of making these more accessible/ easy to use.
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sahonithereadwolf · 1 year
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My nation put together this Tsalagi language children's show ...
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as an language learning tool and it's just the cutest thing on the planet. I don't think I can explain the feeling of not only seeing your culture on screen and the language used in the way it is, but also... like to see these characters and what their wearing and it feels immediately familiar. Like I know who these people are immediately.
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It's definitely made me not feel as alone in some of the stuff I make given how I see the same sorta notes and characters resonate here. If anything it’s made me want to create more. I'm bristling with energy. Just seeing my people out there. Being cool and in motion.
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It’s just pure cozy elation. This would have meant everything to me as a kid.
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kingofstag · 10 months
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this summer's for 2spirit punks
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whereifindsanity · 4 months
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rollerman1 · 6 months
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cherokeewytch · 24 days
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pazzesco · 5 months
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❣️♀️Beloved Woman
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Cherokee Beloved Woman Nancy Ward
Nancy Ward, or Nan'yehi (nan yay hee), is the most famous Cherokee Beloved Woman. The role of Beloved Woman, Ghigau (Ghee gah oo), was the highest a Cherokee woman could aspire to. A Ghigau had a voice and vote in General Council, leadership of the Woman's Council, the honor of preparing and serving the ceremonial Black Drink, the duty of ambassador of peace-negotiator, and the right to save the life of a prisoner already condemned to execution.
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The Native American Cherokee The word Cherokee is believed to have evolved from a Choctaw word meaning "Cave People." It was picked up and used by Europeans and eventually accepted and adopted by Cherokees. Traditionally, the people now known as Cherokee refer to themselves as aniyun-wiya, a name usually translated as "the Real People," sometimes "the Original People."
The Role of the Cherokee Woman The Cherokee were matrilineal with a complex society structure. Clan kinship followed the mother's side of the family. The children grew up in the mother's house, and it was the duty of an uncle on the mother's side to teach the boys how to hunt, fish, and perform certain tribal duties. The women owned the houses and their furnishings. Marriages were carefully negotiated, but if a woman decided to divorce her spouse, she simply placed his belongings outside the house. Cherokee women also worked hard. They cared for the children, cooked, tended the house, tanned skins, wove baskets, and cultivated the fields. Men helped with some household chores like sewing, but they spent most of their time hunting.
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Women in the Cherokee society were equal to men. This privilege led an Irishman named Adair who traded with the Cherokee from 1736-1743 to accuse the Cherokee of having a "petticoat government."
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Princess Tsianina Red Feather
Tsianina Red Feather was not a "Princess." The Cherokee never had princesses. This is a concept based on European folktales and has no reality in Cherokee history and culture. Beloved women and high ranking women in a clan were treated with such reverence, that Europeans assumed they were some type of royalty.
Red Feather was born Florence Tsianina Evans on December 13,1882 in Eufallia (Oklahoma Territory) to Creek and Cherokee parents. All her 9 siblings were musical, but she was the one who stood out.
At age 14, she went to Denver to be trained to sing. There, she met the composer Charles Cadman and began touring with him at 16. She became a mezzo soprano virtuoso. While touring the United States, Canada, Paris and London, she wore native dress, braided her hair and wore a headband she beaded herself.
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In 1918, she and Cadman debuted "Shanewis" (The Robin Woman) at the Metropolitan Opera; the cast received 22 curtain calls. Cadman based the opera on Native American stories told by Redfeather. Although this opera had many firsts, it became the first contemporary opera to be performed for a 2nd season at the Met.
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The Robin Woman: Shanewis, 1918 - an opera in one act and two scenes by American composer Charles Cadman and Tsianina Redfeather Blackstone. Cadman called the work an "American opera."
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Photo is Miss Anna Trainor, who later became Mrs. Anna Bennett. She was only Cherokee on her mother's side, but because it was the woman's bloodlines that determined kinship, she was considered Cherokee.
The title Ghigau also translates to "War Woman," and Nan'yehi (Nancy Ward) earned the title by taking up her husband's gun when he was slain in a battle against the Creeks and leading her people to victory. Another War Woman, Cuhtahlatah, won honor during the American Revolutionary period by leading Cherokee warriors to victory after her husband fell. She later joined in a vigorous war dance carrying her tomahawk and gun.
It was important to the Cherokee that their losses be compensated with the same number of prisoners, scalps, or lives. Woman led in the execution of prisoners. It was their right and responsibility as mothers. Women had the right to claim prisoners as slaves, adopt them as kin, or condemn them to death "with the wave of a swan's wing."
In the Cherokee society your Clan was your family. Children belonged to the entire Clan, and when orphaned were simply taken into a different household. Marriage within the clan was strictly forbidden, or pain of death. Marriages were often short term, and there was no punishment for divorce or adultery. Cherokee women were free to marry traders, surveyors, and soldiers, as well as their own tribesmen.
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7 Cherokee Clans - L to R: 1.Wolf Clan 2.Long Hair Clan 3.Red Tail Hawk Clan 4.Blue Holly Clan 5.Deer Clan 6.Paint Clan 7.Wild Potato Clan
Cherokee girls learned by example how to be warriors and healers. They learned to weave baskets, tell stories, trade, and dance. They became mothers and wives, and learned their heritage. The Cherokee learned to adapt, and the women were the core of the Cherokee.
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Other indigenous nations were were matrilineal. Women of the six nations Iroquois confederacy (Haudenosaunee) had a political voice on this land for at least 1,000 years.
The male chiefs who are the representatives of their clan in the confederacy of the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga, Seneca, and Tuscarora Nations are selected, held in office, and removed by women – the clan mothers. Founded on the shores of Onondaga Lake, this oldest continuing democracy in the world is based on a system of gender balance. The position of the chief is vested in the clan mother, who is the eyes and ears of the people, while the chief is her voice. Women were “the great power among the clan, as everywhere else,” Elizabeth Cady Stanton marveled. Lucretia Mott wrote about listening to “speeches of their chiefs, women as well as men” (clan mothers and chiefs) when she visited the Cattaraugus Seneca community during the summer of 1848 before Mott, with Stanton and Quaker friends, organized the Seneca Falls convention.
In other words, the Beloved and Haudenosaunee women influenced the Women's Suffrage Movement.
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palominojacoby · 4 months
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Jeffrey Gibson
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nooks-cranny-mogai · 9 months
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Since it's disability pride month and yesterday was burn the American flag day, I just wanna give a shout out to all the native Americans like me who, despite wanting to, cannot keep their hair long because of bad sensory issues.
You are not less native than those who can grow their hair long.
Your ancestors love and understand why you cut your hair.
You are not required to follow traditions you cannot participate in due to your sensory issues.
Having short hair is not a "white thing" or " disrespectful towards the great spirit and our ancestors".
Your hair can look, feel and be as long or as short as you want and you are still just as beloved by your ancestors.
White people can rb but don't clown with info about tribes you had to google.
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olowan-waphiya · 8 days
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https://ictnews.org/news/enrollment-in-oklahoma-tribal-language-courses-grows
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akayv · 6 months
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ᏜᎢᏓ - Dla'ida
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Pokeberry dyed reeds.
Poke is a plant my grandmother and I would forage growing up, the plant is toxic so it has to be prepared right, you cannot eat the berries at all.
The ratio for pokeberry is 25:1 😊 had some trial and error with this. Foraged the berries myself and the second go around was more of a berry mash than a dye mix.
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coolthingsguyslike · 1 year
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