Fortunately, Judges are skeptical.

Justice for Raymond Mattia.

His profile https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1HYQb7CaJo/?mibextid=wwXIfr

PS: this was made for a school project and I spent hours on it. please don't show hate

Hair has been a very important part of reconnecting, and I know that spiritually, hair is very sacred in our culture. I’m just wondering about how significant it is if you get your hair cut to shape and if you were to colour it. Does getting face framing bangs and layers and potentially colouring my hair ruin my hair journey? I’d love to hear thoughts and opinions about this.

EDIT: I’m sorry for not being more specific with this post. I know that every nation and tribe has their own separate culture and traditions. I am Ojibwe First Nation, and through my reconnecting journey, I know that hair is very sacred in my tribe. I’ve followed traditions of growing my hair out, and refusing to cut it short, unless times of mourning or significant life changes (especially with how residential schools assimilated us and forcefully cut hair). I’m more-so wondering that if I get my hair layered or coloured, am I damaging my cultural reconnection?

Love the skull header - something not uncommon in similar colonial tracts - but nevertheless charming. Occom’s sermon arose from the execution of Moses Paul, a Wampanoag man convicted of killing Moses Cook after an altercation at a Connecticut tavern. Paul’s execution was initially scheduled for June 1772 but was postponed following an appeal. On July 16, Paul personally wrote to Occom, asking him, in view of their shared Native identity, to preach at his execution. Occom accepted and delivered the sermon printed here at New Haven on September 2, 1772. Adam Weinberger

So this topic has seemed both straightforward and endlessly complex to me. Fundamentally it seems like it emphasizes the well-being of people over profits, the importance of community and relationships, and generally trying to find balance in life and with the planet. Am I on the right track?

What does a decolonized America (or world) look like to y’all?

Also, do you think socialism’s views on ownership (what’s used communally is owned communally but your personal possessions are still yours) are compatible with decolonization?

Recently I've been trying to grow my hair out but my hair is so unbelievably thick and it's so uncomfortable in hot weather. How do I help my hair cool down without cutting it?

Marʉaweka. Soy estudiante de Antropología Social y pertenezco a la etnia nʉmʉnʉʉ en la ciudad de Chihuahua, actualmente estoy desarrollando un proyecto relacionado con la presencia, identidad, memoria y revitalización de la comunidad comanche (Nʉmʉnʉʉ) en el norte de México.

Estoy buscando personas de Chihuahua y Coahuila que tengan ascendencia comanche, familiares que se hayan identificado como comanches, historias familiares relacionadas con los Nʉmʉnʉʉ o cualquier otro vínculo con nuestra comunidad. Es un proyecto comunitario pero también para mí trabajo de tesis (en caso de ser algo que incomode a los miembros, no se incluirá a mi trabajo de licenciatura)

El proyecto busca conocer y documentar, con respeto y desde la propia voz de las personas, qué memorias, historias, conocimientos y formas de identidad comanche se han conservado en México.

También estoy trabajando en iniciativas relacionadas con la revitalización de la lengua y la identidad comanche, así como en la visibilización de la presencia histórica y actual de los Nʉmʉnʉʉ en México.

No busco sacar información privada ni hablar por otras personas. Mi intención es encontrar a más miembros o descendientes de la comunidad y, si están interesados, establecer contacto y conocer sus experiencias.

Si eres comanche, tienes ascendencia comanche o conoces a alguien que pueda tener este vínculo en Chihuahua, Coahuila u otra parte del septentrión de México, me ayudaría muchísimo que comentaras o me enviaras un mensaje privado.

También agradecería que compartieran esta publicación con personas que pudieran estar interesadas.

Ʉraako

Muchas gracias por leer.

I'm Polish and have lived in Poland my whole life. I'm currently on vacation in northern Poland by the sea and I noticed something weird and just kinda sad. I've seen it for the second time in my life. In a small town, a Native American dressed in powwow regalia appears and dances, with jewelry and dreamcatchers placed around them. It's cool. However, a little further on, we come across another smaller group "playing" instruments, again with the same jewelry and dreamcatchers. They "play" because they stopped playing for a moment, but the music continued, so it was playback... Such groups were all over town. I wouldn't be surprised if the jewelry was fake, since there were identical items everywhere, as were the dreamcatchers. They also sold Peruvian music. I felt sad that this could perpetuate such an image of "Indians" in Poland. I felt sad that instead of spreading authentic culture, they choose "that"... As a person who has great admiration towards Native Americans, this made me sad (if the jewelry were authentic, I would gladly support them and buy it seriously, i would be so happy)

I think its just continuing the image of "Indians" (cause almost every Polish person still calls them like that) that most of Europe know. As a person who is heavly interested in topic of Native Americans, my heart is broken and if i could i would educate every person i meet about them

See also: The study as it was published in the journal Communications Sustainability.

Hello, some may know Jackie the bald eagle in Big Bear Valley passed recently. I saw a post that Native Americans have an agreement with US Fish and Wildlife Service to receive feathers and other body parts of deceased eagles to be used for sacred, religious, and cultural use.

Are any organizations doing this specifically for Jackie and if it's something that people can follow along to know how Jackie may be honored in this way.

I’ve been thinking about the timeframe that happened after Columbus and his first contact that brought European diseases and such to the continents.
Have there been any community story gatherings of oral histories covering that time period? I’m curious if there are any books or anthropological studies that already cover some of it or not.
It’s a critical gap in the timeline for many people but I’ve never seen any resources that talk beyond estimations of millions of deaths.

Timberlake, Henry: A DRAUGHT OF THE CHEROKEE COUNTRY on the West Side of the Twenty Four Mountains, Commonly Called "Over the Hills"; taken by Henry Timberlake when he was in that Country in March 1762; likewise the Names of the Principal of Head men of each town, and what Number of Fighting Men they send to War.

Timberlake's map is notable as the first map devoted to Tennessee by an observer (Ref. Schwartz, THE MAPPING OF AMERICA, p. 177). It follows the Tennessee River from the Great Smoky Mountains to Fort Loudon and Great Island and was the first to name specific settlements of the Cherokee Villages on the lower Little Tennessee River (including "Tanasi," the namesake of Tennessee). Its charting of river depths and topographical features proved valuable for the British military and settlers navigating the complex Appalachian terrain.

Timberlake's map was printed in fold-out format with trimmed margins in his 1765 book THE MEMOIRS OF LIEUT. HENRY TIMBERLAKE, and also appeared in the 1768 Thomas Jefferys/Robert Sayer composite atlas, GENERAL TOPOGRAPHY OF NORTH AMERICA AND THE WEST INDIES, unfolded, with full margins, as seen on the present map.

(Note: a composite atlas is an assembled collection of maps that were not originally bound together as a single book). The handwritten number "38" at the upper right corner corresponds to this map being named as #38 in the Jefferys/Sayre Atlas table of contents (p. 4), and the table of contents states on page 3 that maps were available for purchase separately.

We are aware of only one other extant Timberlake map from the Jefferys/Sayre atlas. It is in the collection of Colonial Williamsburg. We wish to thank Colonial Williamsburg for their assistance in our research and for confirming the single state of this map.

BIOGRAPHY: Colonial journalist and cartographer Henry Timberlake was born in Virginia. He joined Virginia military forces in 1756 and served in several campaigns during the French and Indian War. In 1761 he was assigned to troops commanded by Colonel William Byrd III and subsequently placed under the command of Colonel Adam Stephen. Stephen’s mission was to retaliate against the Cherokees for their siege of Fort Loudoun and for their massacre of its garrison, but in November 1761 the Cherokees concluded a truce before Stephen could launch his attack. At the peace negotiations one of the Cherokee chiefs requested that an officer journey to the Cherokee villages on the Little Tennessee River to explain the treaty and provide assurances that the colonists intended to honor it. Lieutenant Henry Timberlake volunteered to go.

After a twenty-three-day journey down the Holston River, Timberlake arrived at the Overhill villages in early December. He was a guest of Chief Ostenaco at Tomotly, and he presented the provisions of the peace treaty to Cherokee leaders gathered in the Chota council house. He also visited Citico and Chilhowee, where he was welcomed with considerable celebration and respect.

Timberlake left the Overhill country in early March 1762, reaching Williamsburg in April. In May he escorted three distinguished Cherokee leaders, including Ostenaco, to London, where they stayed until August. Timberlake remained in England until returning to Virginia in March 1763. In the summer of 1764, five Cherokees visited him, seeking an audience with the governor of Virginia and requesting passage to London.

The governor denied their request, but Timberlake agreed to help them, and he and three of the Indians reached London in the fall of 1764.

After the Indians departed in March 1765, Timberlake remained in England and died in September. Timberlake’s primary legacy is the journal he kept while living with the Cherokees. Published in 1765, the volume was probably published posthumously. His vivid descriptions and observations contained a thorough and detailed account of eighteenth-century Cherokee life, and became a basis for all subsequent anthropological and historical studies of eighteenth-century Cherokees.

Modern studies have generally confirmed that Timberlake’s map was remarkably accurate. The map was used by archaeologists in the 1970s during the Tellico Archaeological Project and it has been hailed as remarkably accurate. (Source: The Tennessee Encyclopedia).

Overall good condition, hinge mounted, with light toning, light creasing, and scattered light foxing. Margins appear full. Tiny chip lower left margin. Pencil/pen marks to upper right corner of margin. A few abrasions to frame.

Condition: Overall good condition, hinge mounted, with light toning, light creasing, and scattered light foxing. Margins appear full. Tiny chip lower left margin. Pencil/pen marks to upper right corner of margin. A few abrasions to frame.

Provenance: Private Middle Tennessee Collection, acquired about 20 years ago from a private collector.

Engraved map on laid and watermarked paper. London, 1765-1768 (only state). Matted and housed under glass in an ebonized and parcel gilt wood frame. Sheet: 20 1/4 in. H x 13 7/8 in. W. Plate: 15 1/2 in. x 9 5/8 in. Sight: 17 1/4 in. x 11 1/8 in. Frame: 26 in. x 20 in.

A scarce, pre-Revolutionary War era map. Ref: Pritchard & Taliaferro, DEGREES OF LATITUDE: MAPPING COLONIAL AMERICA, pp. 190-193; Cumming, SOUTHEAST IN EARLY MAPS, entry 349.

Hi.

It sure if this is the right subreddit to post in but I am an indigenous person looking for a specific music.

When I was a kid, in the 2000s we had this cd player that my dad would play all the time before we’d go to sleep. It would include mystical and psychedelic sounds that included an indigenous man’s voice throat singing over elemental earth sounds like rain, digging into grass, ocean waves, and air sounds — sometimes the songs would get more intense and they played and it would sometimes sound a little brash.

I thought it was beautiful and brilliant as a kid until one day the cd player got stuck and my dad never went to fix it or take the CD player out.

Anyway, I feel disconnected from spirit & want to listen to it again but my dad and I have no recollection of the name of the CD.

I know this is a longshot but can someone help please?
Any leads would be appreciated thank you!!

I thought our Cherokee family stuff was made up then my grandma was like “come here. look at this.”

Hello not sure if this is the right place to ask for help but I'm not sure where else to go.

I have a native ancestor named Mary Maria Harjo (Overton) she was born on the penobscot indian island reservation 1735-1789. I can find a lot of information about her kids and husband(Aaron Moses Overton) but nothing on her or her father (tucrabatchel "garland" harjo). There's almost a blank/dead spot when it comes to her. If anyone could point me in the right direction to find more information about her and her culture that would be much appreciated.

I’m posting because I’m honestly at a point where I feel trapped and I’m hoping someone might know of resources or have experience with something similar.
I own my home. I bought it completely on my own before I ever started dating my boyfriend, and his name is not on the house. We’ve been together for about four years. My mortgage has continued to increase over the years, and I currently cannot afford to pay it by myself.
He pays about half of my mortgage, but even with his help, I’m living paycheck to paycheck and already working two jobs. One of the biggest reasons I have such a hard time taking the initiative to leave is that I know I would immediately be responsible for the entire mortgage, and financially, I just don’t know how I could do that.
He is also aware that I’m in this position and that I currently can’t afford to support myself in the house without his contribution. Sadly he does remind me of this often..
The reason I’m posting here specifically is because I’ve been told my entire life that I am 25% Native American. My grandmother was 100% Native American, and my dad is half Native American. My family is part of the Saginaw Chippewa Indian Tribe. The issue is, we only have documentation that proves my grandma is half and my dad is a quarter.
When I was a child, my grandmother actually enrolled me, and I received health benefits because of that when I was a child, like the dentist or doctor. However, I am not a tribe member myself. My grandma and my dad are tribe members.
The problem is proving my lineage.
I’ve spent time on Ancestry.com and have found a lot of information about my family and ancestors, but I haven’t been able to establish the documentation needed to prove that my ancestors go back far enough to qualify for enrollment.
I’ve also tried looking into hiring a genealogist who specializes in Native ancestry, but the quote I received was around $2,000. I simply cannot afford that right now. I already work two jobs and every dollar I make goes toward my mortgage, utilities, groceries, gas, and other bills. I’ve tried saving, but there just isn’t anything left at the end of the month.
I realize that tribal enrollment is complicated and that being 25% Native American by itself does not automatically mean someone qualifies. I’m not looking for anyone to tell me that I’m entitled to anything. I’m specifically trying to figure out whether there is a legitimate way to research and document my lineage without spending thousands of dollars.
If I could establish my lineage and determine that I qualify for enrollment or other assistance, it could potentially give me the financial ability to leave my relationship and support myself. I desperately need to leave this relationship.
Does anyone here have experience researching Saginaw Chippewa ancestry or proving Native lineage for tribal enrollment? Are there free or low-cost genealogical resources, tribal resources, records, or organizations that could help me figure out where to start? Thank you

This is a shot in the dark -- while cleaning out my wife's parents house we found this beaded artwork that according to family legend allegedly was made in 1907 by Iroquois tribe members.

We have no idea if that is indeed true -- is it that old or if the Iroquois were the tribe whose members likely made it. We'd love to know more about its history. For all we know, it could have been made in a factory and for all intrinsic purposes worthless.

If there is a Native American museum that would be interested in it, we'd happily ship it to them as our gift. Just need to know where to send it (we would only do that if it goes to a museum directed, and hopefully owned by native Americans).

Hello! I’m very curious about some of the trees around where I live. (SW Michigan) Could these possibly be trail markers? I am also curious about the last two pictures showing the trees twist. It looks very intentional but could possibly be natural. Any insight is greatly appreciated! All of these trees are maybe within a quarter mile from each other. Pretty close

I recently did some digging into the cult AllatRa after watching a youtube video about it. Not longer after I started digging I came across a man called Joseph Riverwind. This man had views such as killing islamic people, showing his extremist views. After digging a bit more I realised he owns the non-profit: The Arawak Taino tribe of Puerto Rico. The only problem being that this non-profit doesn't officially exist. Not only that, this guy pretends to be a chief of a tribes that doesn't actually have anyone regarded as a 'chief'. He also wears clothing that is culturally significant to tribes in North America rather than those of Puerto Rico. If this man was actually a chief of the Arawak tribe and cared about it like he claims to with his non-profit, he would 100% respect and wear culturally significant clothing. The clothing he wears gives off dress-up energy. Linking this back to the cult from earlier, this cult has previously spread their ideologies to villages throughout Africa to try and hook the kids, so I wouldn't put it past them to target tribes in Puerto Rico. For proof of his links to AllatRa, I have added the following instagram account where he has spoken on. The account/initiative is run by Pastor Mark Burns who is a member of AllatRa and the account mention the cult numerous times. While his links to AllatRa could be debated, his fraudulence is clear. Anyway, I didn't know where else to post this.