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tvstvnvkke · 3 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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xxnomadsxx · 2 months
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So, besides Broppy. What'd be the most likely(or healthy?) Ship in the nomade AU for branch?
I mean, it's cannon he is attractive and adorable. (Is that still cannon in this AU? Do trolls find the faral mentally ill cat look attractive?)
Anyway, this is a weird question-
Honestly it’d be Creek (they would be ex’s once his traitorism comes to light) The relationship would be lowkey kinda toxic (Creek is basically using Branch, while Branch is completely unaware that he was even in a relationship and thought they were just really good friends) Branch is heartbroken and enraged when he finds out he’s been lied too for the past couple years.
If Broppy wasn’t a thing (or if poppy was cool with polyamory) it’d probably be Synth and Branch too (I mean come on they’re adorable together 🥰)
Also yea he’s still attractive (by troll standards) and still absolutely adorable (once you get to know him he is basically a cat) He is just this pathetic mentally ill wet cat and the trolls who do like him have a “I can fix him” mentality.
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riolu4 · 1 month
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Branch missing Prosthetic
After the Meeting with The leaders and ambassador Troll Tribe
"Ok this is the end of the Trollstopia New For the..." "Ahhhhh" one the Leaders said before they were cut off by a scream "what is the" "Is someone in endangering" "ooh new the meeting is cool" Every The leaders and ambassador Troll Tribe said 'sighs' Poppy Said "I Now want is going on exactly Branch Is mad by Creek Again" Poppy Look Defeated "what The toy boy can do that no Offense Poppy by is Our Boyfriend Can he even do that?" Everyone from the Tribe Nod "'sighs' You see" Poppy said to the other The leaders and ambassador Troll Tribe
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"Ok Now tell me where is it" Branch Said glare at Creek that is Hanging Upside Down By Rope, "like I said I don't know what talk in about" Creek Said tried to lie but failed, "BRANCH!!!!" Poppy Shout "ohh hey Poppy can you help from Branch Please" Creek Said Scared and Cry "oh are you sure Branch is not part Rock Trolls" Barb Said and Val Nod, the other The leaders and ambassador Troll Just surprised By Branch Behaviour, "ok Branch Let Creek go" Poppy Said try to convince Branch, "No until He Tell me where is it" Branch Said still Glare at Creek "amm what is it you think about Branch?" Trollex Said "MY PROSTHETIC" Branch said growling at Creek "You What!?!?" Everyone except Branch and Creek "what Where is the Prosthetic Exactly, I do not see it" Poppy Said "in my vest my Right wing" Branch Said not caring what he said to everyone, Trollzart and Dante Crescendo fainted when they heard about that, when Branch Make sure the two Classical Trolls are ok Delta Dawn and Holly Darlin Try to Untangled Creek But the fail "Ok How this possible? The tie is very difficult" Delta Dawn Said surprise Branch "Hey Nice Try but I made this knot so it will not be so easy" The Two Country Looks at Branch with Super, the two Classical Trolls finally awakes From surprise Branch walk to Creek "I will ask again Creek Where is it?" Branch voice full of angry and rage "Ok ok I I took it and threw it away Please let me down" Creek Cry a lot, the other Trolls except Branch and Poppy are Super and disgusted by him take in some important or Prosthetic, Poppy look at Creek Saying in her eyes i will deals is with you later, "Ok Branch Let him down" Poppy Said Branch Nod and Untangled from the tree not Free Creek from the bind "Why you not unbind me?" Creek said After he saw Branch and Poppy Look at him He Became Silent Before Any Trolls Said anything, Rhythm and Blues They appeared out of the blue "Hey guys, we found this" Rhythm Said "And It Looks fabulous and the Technology is amazing but" Blues Said "we have No idea who belongs to" Rhythm Said finish Her sister word, "The Belongs to me Think you" Branch Happy That he not need to Make any one from scraps "So who did you make it?" Rhythm Ask "Yay How Exactly You Make it?" Blues Ask "That is a long story But Dr. Moonbloom and Milton Moss They Help me Make it so..." Branch Taking with Funk twins sister They Walk away forget everyone, "Ok He is distracted now Creek We have a long to take Creek long to time" Poppy Taking Creek away Everyone Look at each other quietly Broken by Val "No one Angry the pop Trolls couple Agree" Everyone Nodd to Not Angry them ever.
Branch classical Design
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hoyvinmayvin · 2 months
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Me thinking about my retirement.
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arthurdrakoni · 9 months
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Flag of the Cherokee Confederacy
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This is the flag of the Cherokee Confederacy. It comes from a world where the Spanish Armada successfully conquered England in 1588. While England did eventually regain its independence, the Spanish conquest severely stunted England’s growth as a world power, and lead to greater political instability. As a result, England never became a demographic juggernaut during the colonization of North America. The lands that would have become the Thirteen Colonies are a patchwork of nations and colonies founded by numerous European nations. There are also several independent indigenous nations, such as the Cherokee Confederacy. 
The Cherokee Confederacy also includes the Muskogee, Chickasaw, and Choctaw tribes. The Cherokee, as reflected by the name, were the founding tribe of the confederacy. The Cherokee Confederacy was one of the first indigenous nations of North America to implement westernization and industrialization programs. Today, most Cherokee dress in European-style clothing, but do wear traditional clothing on special occasions. Like most southern nations in eastern North America, the Cherokee historically practiced slavery. Slavery was formally abolished in 1885 as part of the modernization efforts. Racial divides and tensions still remain, but the Cherokee government has, in recent years, implement programs to help blacks integrate into Cherokee society. 
The Cherokee legislature, known as the Tribal Council, is organized into a semi-parliamentary democracy, with a prime minister as the Head of Government, and a president as Head of State. The Cherokee Tribal Council is closer in style to the French National Assmbly, rather than to the English Parliament. The Cherokee Confederacy is centered around what would be western North Carolina, Tennessee, and the northern bits of Alabama, Mississippi, and Georgia. The indigenous republics of North America, being sovereign nations, did not suffer an equivalent of the Indian Removal Act. 
Historically, the Cherokee Confederacy has been rivals with the Haudenosaunee Federation. However, in recent times the two nations have been putting their rivalries behind them. In terms of good relations, the Cherokee Confederacy has historically been an ally of New Neatherlands, which in located in Virginia. The various nations of North America have formed a European Union-style economic union, and there are hopes that this will eventually leads to a federation. There is a general spirit of good will and optimism. That said, North America still has a ways to go before its nation states become united. 
The flag contains seven gold stars in the shape of the Big Dipper, or Ursa Major, on an orange field with a green border. Ursa Major is an important constellation to several tribes within the Cherokee Confederacy. It also symbolizes how the same night sky shine over the entire Cherokee Confederacy. Blue would seem a natural color choice, but the Cherokee picked orange instead. There is some debate about why this is. Popular belief says that it symbolizes the Cherokee Confederacy’s ties to New Netherlands. However, the Cherokee actually picked orange to contrast with the blue flags several other North American nations use. The green border is to offset the orange.
Link to the original flag on my blog: https://drakoniandgriffalco.blogspot.com/2022/05/flag-of-cherokee-confederacy.html?m=1
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paisleywraith · 1 year
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He’s gonna kiss him. 
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aclkplm208-blog · 10 months
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Walking in the Hell Creek Formation, South Dakota Drawing
Work In Progress: Walking in the Hell Creek Formation, South Dakota.
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dustedmagazine · 1 year
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Black Belt Eagle Scout—The Land, the Sea, the Sky (Saddle Creek)
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The Land, The Water, The Sky by Black Belt Eagle Scout
Katherine Paul taps a deep connection to native American traditions in this third full-length, weaving landscapes and lore into songs the artist wrote while retreating homeward to Swinomish tribal lands during the pandemic. Yet while Paul is grounded in, as the title says, The Land, the Sea, the Sky, they mostly eschew obvious sonic references to an indigenous heritage. These songs blister and spiral and swirl in early 21st century guitar-centric, indie-fashion.
Consider, for instance, “My Blood Runs Through This Land,” whose white-noise clouds of distorted guitar part for radiant dream-pop descants and reverb-thundering drums. The touchstones are obliterating shoegaze of the MBV variety layered over with Cocteau Twins-ish incantations. It rocks pretty hard, though in an inchoate, vision-haunted way, as does “Sedna,” a song about a mythical ancestor who sacrifices her fingers to bring the ocean’s bounty to her people.
“Sčičudᶻ (a narrow place)” is gentler, more translucent, its title taken from an island connected to the mainland by a thin strip of land near Paul’s tribal home. The lyrics run more confessional, however; a lover observes the loved one dancing. Paul sings in a whispery soprano, flickering, but all the sounds around them are bold and clean—a thunderous bassline, an arching long-noted guitar solo, the pummeling of definitely-not-tribal drums.
“Fancy Dance” is maybe the live highlight, a song that imagines a Swinomish girl dancing furiously at a tribal gathering. It finds the throughline between that girl and the rebels of punk and Riot Grrrl, celebrating the pounding, bouncing, obliterating exhilaration of loud music in any culture.
Paul invites fellow Phil Elverum to sing a few lines in “Salmon Stinta,” a lovely, temperate outing framed by muttering guitars, wavering, hard-to-pin down synth vibrations and breathy vocals. (Paul was close to Elverum’s now deceased wife Geneviève Castrée .) The two of them join in gentle, wordless “ba-bahs” and then Elverum shyly picks up the narrative of fish returning home to breed.
“Spaces,” near the disc’s end is similarly soft and serene, filled out with interweaving string parts, though flaring, at intervals with wild slides of guitar. It is here, though, that we finally get an inkling of the music that must have surrounded Paul as a tribal child, just as the woods and animals and water did. Both their father and mother sing on the track, their dad in a striking wordless vibrato that sounds nothing like indie rock. In an album where Black Belt Eagle Scout celebrates their home, that’s the song where they finally let the listeners into the house.
Jennifer Kelly
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TBH I'm happy to see younger Native actors get a chance at success without being exploited like other actors have been in the past. But Reservation Dogs is kind of a pan-indian show. There are dozens of tribes there but they pull out actors and characters situations from anywhere outside of Oklahoma. In the midst of cancel culture, if I ever said WHY a certain established actor who's guest-starred on Reservation Dogs is a creep who tried to kidnap and statutory r@pe my dad's cousin when she was 15, people would be like Don'T HATe On NaTIvE ActORs, you're a hater, blah blah blah (and the irony is that he starred in a film based on a book by Sherman Alexie, and the latter had his reputation ruined but the former guy was just as bad if not worse than Sherman is in his personal life).
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reasonsforhope · 29 days
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"The Yurok will be the first Tribal nation to co-manage land with the National Park Service under a historic memorandum of understanding signed on Tuesday [March 19, 2024] by the tribe, Redwood national and state parks, and the non-profit Save the Redwoods League, according to news reports.
The Yurok tribe has seen a wave of successes in recent years, successfully campaigning for the removal of a series of dams on the Klamath River, where salmon once ran up to their territory, and with the signing of a new memorandum of understanding, the Yurok are set to reclaim more of what was theirs.
Save the Redwoods League bought a property containing these remarkable trees in 2013, and began working with the tribe to restore it, planting 50,000 native plants in the process. The location was within lands the Yurok once owned but were taken during the Gold Rush period.
Centuries passed, and by the time it was purchased it had been used as a lumber operation for 50 years, and the nearby Prairie Creek where the Yurok once harvested salmon had been buried.
Currently located on the fringe of Redwoods National and State Parks which receive over 1 million visitors every year and is a UNESCO Natural Heritage Site, the property has been renamed ‘O Rew, a Yurok word for the area.
“Today we acknowledge and celebrate the opportunity to return Indigenous guardianship to ‘O Rew and reimagine how millions of visitors from around the world experience the redwoods,” said Sam Hodder, president and CEO of Save the Redwoods League.
Having restored Prarie Creek and filled it with chinook and coho salmon, red-legged frogs, northwestern salamanders, waterfowl, and other species, the tribe has said they will build a traditional village site to showcase their culture, including redwood-plank huts, a sweat house, and a museum to contain many of the tribal artifacts they’ve recovered from museum collections.
Believing the giant trees sacred, they only use fallen trees to build their lodges.
“As the original stewards of this land, we look forward to working together with the Redwood national and state parks to manage it,” said Rosie Clayburn, the tribe’s cultural resources director.
It will add an additional mile of trails to the park system, and connect them with popular redwood groves as well as new interactive exhibits.
“This is a first-of-its-kind arrangement, where Tribal land is co-stewarded with a national park as its gateway to millions of visitors. This action will deepen the relationship between Tribes and the National Park Service,” said Redwoods National Park Superintendent Steve Mietz, adding that it would “heal the land while healing the relationships among all the people who inhabit this magnificent forest.”"
-via Good News Network, March 25, 2024
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xxnomadsxx · 3 months
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Nomads AU! Meeting Creek and a certain troll killer-
This is a long one
After the events of the first movie the chef and Creek are defeated they are kicked out of Bergen town to which they were eaten……..until the creature got a goood taste of the Bergen and quickly spit it out. They made very good distance a few 100 miles and once they crashed the chef immediately chased creek screaming that it was his fault and he was going to make her happy before she dies. They run and make a pretty good distance as well, but just as the chef was about to catch Creek she immediately springs a trap to which Creek makes fun of her … then he gets caught in a trap. (ironic right?) Anyway a few minutes later many flashes of small cloocked and shadowy figures circle them getting a look at the hideous monster and……..troll? Soon the leader of the small hunt team arrives and immediately gets the leader. Branch was not too happy to be rushed to find another dinner in a trap, but let me tell you once he got a good look at his captive. Well Some would say that day by just looking in the leaders direction you could immediately tell all hell broke in his head! As he immediately called for them to cut her down and tie her up. Branch at this point was violently shaking both anger, pain and sadness painted his face, he was sobbing barking orders to get more hunting teams here as they were going to have a feast as soon as more teams got there. After getting there many trolls were confused, some recognized the hideous thing as a bergan but felt not a lot towards it but anger for their leader. But soon as the few pop trolls there got a good look at her they immediately started panicking, which caused a panic in almost all the troll.. oh this was baaaaddd. Once the feral (Trolls?) got everyone calmed down. Branch gave an order, an order that made everyone feel true unbridled fear…… they were told to eat the bergan
Sure the feral(trolls?) have eaten things alive before they would swarm the creatures as they would tear it apart, but the trolls never would have thought to do that why it was sick, it was horrible as to eat something defenseless, and alive (kinda funny the roles basically reversed for the trolls) but then Branch gave his reason “The killer of millions of trolls deserves a fate similar to what she has caused to the innocent.” After that they….no one talks about that day the feral (trolls?) saw it as a normal Tuesday for them. While most grey trolls were horrified by what they have done some pop trolls felt justice has been served for their kind while some of the greyer trolls were too numb to even care anymore. After that the others were able to feed the village for a couple weeks. The residents who didn’t join the hunt never knew why every time they had this new meat it brought a wave of sadness and misery but hey they’re grey what’s new.
Branch took it the hardest I mean he had done it! He had killed his grandmas killer the one who killed millions of trolls was finally dead he..he did it! (His right hand man congratulated him for weeks after that)
But what about that purple troll? After the trolls … did there thing they cut down Creek and asked him what happened. He told the story that the awful chef came to a loud party he and ALL of the villagers were captured! She took them all to bergan town to be eaten on trollstice by chef. Until he was let out of the pot to be an early treat for the king. But he got away and even after fighting some of the bergans it was too late✨ all the trolls were eaten him being the sOlE SurVivOr the chef greedily tried to eat him too and has chased him for days(this lying little-😃) After his sob story Branch felt sadness? That the pop village was dead (bro you hate pop why you crying 🤨) after he contained himself he allowed Creek to stay in the village for refuge after this traumatic event.
Yea Branch allowed Creek to stay in the village and isn’t the most well liked guy.But hey he’s friends with Branch he’s untouchable. Anyway this traitor forgot to tell Branch he was a sellout traitor, that all of pop village is alive and that he didn’t fight a bergan what is wrong with him
(ps Creek did eat some of the bergan it was…weird to say the least)
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yallambie · 1 year
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Time changes everything
It’s sometime said that timing is everything, though what this actually means in practice has never really been made clear. “Everything” is very much an open ended generalization and “time”, well that’s an abstract concept best left down the end of the rabbit hole. History is full of instances where the course of a particular story has been decided one way or the other by the timing of…
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cgclarkphoto · 2 years
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kuramirocket · 2 years
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Victor Lopez-Carmen (known as Waokiya Mani in the Dakota language) is both a medical student at Harvard and an elected co-chair of the United Nations Global Indigenous Youth Caucus, where he advocates for Indigenous issues in international forums. Lopez-Carmen is a member of both the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe and the Pascua Yaqui Nation and of Mexican ancestry. During the pandemic, he founded Translations for our Nations, a grant-funded program that translates accurate Covid-19 information in over 40 Indigenous languages. He's also developed an Indigenous pipeline program at Brigham and Women's Hospital to increase representation in the healthcare workforce. When he graduates from medical school, Lopez-Carmen will be the first male doctor enrolled in the Crow Creek Sioux Tribe.
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prismatic-bell · 10 months
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It’s 4am and I’m having emotions about calling Mesopotamia “the cradle of civilization” so y’all are just going to have to bear with me.
Like okay, there are technically six so-called cradles of civilization: Mesopotamia, ancient Egypt, ancient China, ancient India, and two civilizations in south and Central America called the Olmec (Mexico) and Caral-Supe (Peru). But the one we all learn about in school is Mesopotamia, bleeding into Egypt.
But.
The oldest of those is the Fertile Crescent (Egypt, the Levant, Mesopotamia), clocking in around 12,000 BCE. That’s the 121st century BCE, if you’re wondering. “Behavioral modernity,” I.e. the thing that separates Homo sapiens from Homo erectus and Homo heidelbergensis, began 160,000 to 60,000 years ago. Homo sapiens was found in most of Africa before ever beginning the migration to other continents—by over 80,000 years, in some cases.
And we all know how Africa got treated in the post-Roman era.
How do we know there was no cradle of civilization in Africa? Like. It’s generally taken that “cradle of civilization” means cities, agriculture, and usually-but-not-always a writing system. We also know that if all humans on earth disappeared right now, in 15,000 years the only sign we were ever here would be a millimeters-thin line of plastic in the geologic record. And that’s in a world where we have stainless steel, concrete, the ability to carve in stone…
What I’m saying is, the oldest piece of string in the world is 50,000 years old and it was found in a cave. Huge swathes of Africa used to be green and lush. If some group ten thousand years ago decided to build a settlement out of mud bricks and tied-up pieces of wood in the African jungle, we’d never know today. The entire thing would have washed out and rotted away centuries ago. “Okay but agriculture—” one, not all agriculture is white people agriculture, and some of it is so different we wouldn’t recognize it at all (consider the terraforming east coast Native tribes did in North America that was so different from European farming methods it was taken as divine intervention in primeval forest). And two, I forget how many years it’s estimated to take before our fancy modern crops return to their wild roots once we’re gone, but I’m pretty sure it’s less than a hundred. We literally would have no way to tell anything was ever there.
And let’s say something did, by some miracle of preservation, survive to the “modern cradles of civilization.” Would it have survived subsequent wars and colonization? How about the changing climate as continents broke apart and ice ages came and went? Would we even have found it, given how gigantic it is and how little regard it’s received through the years?
Like. I could be totally wrong. But I also don’t see why it’s impossible for a civilization to have popped up in Africa like thirty thousand years ago for a century or two and then everyone went “ah, fuck this” and went back to being nomads. It happened at Cahokia. The city was abandoned and we don’t know why, but we do know there’s no evidence the mound-builders ever tried to rebuild somewhere else. And right here in my proverbial backyard, in Arizona, we had the Sinagua tribe, and in like the 1500s or so they just…dipped. There was a whole city built into the side of a cliff (two of them, actually, a few miles apart) and for unknown reasons they were abandoned. Archaeological evidence suggests the Sinagua moved northeast to join the Yavapai and Hopi tribes, but we have no idea why they left the Verde Valley. Water was still plentiful and even if Beaver Creek had started to dry up in summer—which is what it does today—only five miles away was a second city built around a sinkhole that’s still full of water today year-round (although it’s not potable by modern standards due to arsenic content in the water). Both were abandoned sometime in the 1400s for unknown reasons, and before you say “white people,” I will remind you white people didn’t come to America until 1492 and the site wasn’t discovered until over 100 years after it was abandoned.
So yeah. Maybe ancient civilizations in Africa so long ago, or so thoroughly erased by racist Europeans, that we’ll never know.
Thank you for coming to my TED talk.
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paisleywraith · 2 years
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Neither of them are very big on society. 
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