#OTD in 1890, the deadliest mass shooting in US history occurred as US soldiers killed up to 300 Lakota men, women and children.
Known as the 'Wounded Knee Massacre', click below to find where this took place on a #Map
https://www.whereintheworldgame.com/?id=158&type=q
"#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
#Indigenous #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #ColonialViolence #NationalDayOfMourning #PlymouthColony #books @bookstodon
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.
#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."
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
Ranger Sarah continues down the Deep Ravine Trail. Northern Cheyenne oral histories describe soldiers riding down from the present National Cemetery into this basin: "Custer went into the center of a big basin below the monument, and the soldiers of the gray horse company (Company E) got off their horses and moved up afoot."
— at Little Bighorn National Battlefield
Ranger Sarah looks at a red granite marker along the trail. The locations where Cheyenne and Lakota warriors' fell are marked with red granite markers. This marker is for Wasicu Sapa - Black White Man. At Little Bighorn National Battlefield National Monument.
Ranger Sarah visits Custer National Cemetery at Little Bighorn Battlefield. In 1879, a national cemetery was established at this site to protect the graves of the 7th Cavalry who fell at the Battle of Little Bighorn. Later, in 1886, President Grover Cleveland issued an executive order to set aside a larger area for “military purposes,”
Ranger Sarah has arrived at Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument.
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."
#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
This is your 2nd last Saturday to see St. Clair's Defeat Revisited #travelingexhibit at the @fwhistorycenter. I am here recruiting visitors. #nativeamericanhistory #NEHFunded #archaeology #LearnWorkDiscover https://bit.ly/StClairsDefeatRevisited
"#MartinRizzoMartinez [..] is the author of the recently released book #WeAreNotAnimals, a detailed look at the lives and survival strategies of the native peoples of the #MontereyBay area who survived the #SpanishMissionSystem, and the Mexican and American colonizing forces that followed it."
https://ksqd.org/martin-rizzo-martinez-unfolds-the-history-of-the-native-people-who-sustained-and-survived-mission-santa-cruz/
#CaliforniaMissions #CaliforniaGenocide #NativeAmericans #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanGenocide #Indigenous #ColonialViolence #slavery #EnslavedIndigenous #books
It is with a heavy heart that we remember N. Scott Momaday, the first Native American to receive the Pulitzer Prize, who passed away recently.
In 1993, Momaday sat down for a documentary about his life, delving into his Native American heritage and childhood, and reading segments from his novels.
To watch the full program, visit https://americanarchive.org/catalog/cpb-aacip-022f33d5c32
American Museum of Natural History Closes Certain Displays Amid New Federal Regulations
https://time.com/6589334/natural-history-museum-native-american-displays-federal-regulations/
Hyvä #dokkari #sarja #YleAreena ssa
Dokkarit kertoo miten #Eurooppa valtasi pohjois- #Amerikka
#Historia #NativeAmericanHistory
The #Lakota #GhostDance and the Massacre at #WoundedKnee
How the American drive to force Indian assimilation turned violent on the plains of South Dakota.
April 16, 2021 | Louis S. Warren
"For Americans, then, the challenge of #assimilation was the great social question whirling at the center of the Ghost Dance of 1890. A millennial enthusiasm for assimilating others, as well as a deep anxiety that they might refuse to be assimilated, explains much of what made the Ghost Dance so troubling. To most #WhiteAmericans, the dance itself was proof that assimilation had failed to dampen the savage impulse and that America’s irresistible conquest might prove resistible after all. In this light, the dances in South Dakota were more than just dances, and more than another Indian uprising. For Americans, something more, much more, was on the line."
#Resistance #Genocide #CivilDisobedience #NativeAmericanHistory #WoundedKneeMassacre #NeverForgetWoundedKnee
#Genocide #IndianWars
Stories from #WoundedKnee 133 years later
Chief #SpottedElk/#BigFoot descendants gather to discuss Wounded Knee
Amelia Schafer
Dec 21, 2023
"On December 29, 1890, around 300 #Lakota men, women and children including infants were gunned down by the #USArmy. Today, the massacre’s #Indigenous survivors live on through their descendants, who work to preserve the memory of what happened that day.
"Troops from Nebraska were sent to #PineRidge to curb a potential “Indian uprising” on the reservation. Instead, the troops found a band of #Mnicoujou Lakota led by Chief Spotted Elk (Si’ Tanka).
"The band was told they would be relocated elsewhere. Many had contracted pneumonia along their journey south, including the chief. The band was weak and exhausted. Some began to sing #GhostDance songs, which the military interpreted as war songs. Soldiers began firing at the Lakota. They chased some up to five miles from Wounded Knee Creek."
Read more:
https://ictnews.org/news/stories-from-wounded-knee-133-years-later
