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APRIL 4th #AdventuresInSpaceTime 9PM to MIDNIGHT (CST) TUNE IN VIA PERISCOPE/TWITTER! https://www.instagram.com/p/B-SbIMnHHUB/?igshid=17mze1fvhm6dy

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Celebrating #IndigenousPeopleDay I looked back at how much I've learned about Native Americans this year in my #AdventuresInSpaceTime In DC, I learned about the Cherokee that lived in a vast region throughout the southeast woodlands, listened to talks on traditional Cherokee medicine and folklore, tried bison soup, and saw traditional dances. I also learned about the trail of tears and how the Cherokee were forced to relocate to Oklahoma. In New York, I learned about the Lenape who gave the land the name Manhattan which either came from a word in a Lenape dialect meaning "Island of many hills" or from the word in the Munsee dialect meaning "place of general inebriation." I learned about how in 1626 Peter Minuit “bought the island Manhattis from the wild men for the value of 60 gilders,” $24 for all 14,000 acres. Followed by the “Year of the Blood” when the Dutch attacked the natives unprovoked. Despite the Algonquin tribes unifying, the Dutch kicked out or slaughtered the natives who had lived on the island since the end of ice age. In Iowa, I learned about the Sauk and Meskwaki who inhibited the Great Lakes region but were driven out by colonists. I learned about how the Sauk allied with the British during the war of 1812 ultimately leading to forced resettlement into western Iowa. Cheif Black Hawk resisted and the Black Hawk War followed bringing the Sauk population down to 200 and forcing the Sauk and Meskwaki to relinquish most of their land. I also learned that in the 1850s, the Meskwaki collected $735 to repurchase their own land from the governor. Iowa’s last native residents. In San Francisco, I learned about the countless tribes along the coast who were assimilated and many times abused by Spanish Missionaries. In Nevada, I learned about the Southern Paiute tribes and visited their most sacred land in Mt Charleston, where the waters receded and gave life to all seven tribes. I learned so many heartbreaking stories but also learned about the importance of community, traditions, and preserving your stories. This poor kid was blessed with the opportunity to visit the places he's always dreamed of this year, cant wait to see what stories I learn next (at Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian)

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Taking it back to the roaring 20s #AdventuresInSpaceTime (at Workman and Temple Family Homestead Museum)

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For dinner, Filipino comfort food at Tselogs a tiny alley sized restaurant in the tenderloin district. The setup is like a sushi bar, a long bar table with the chefs on the other side preparing food as you eat. It was amazing! Got their famous sisigsilog - chicken chopped up and stir fried with scallions and served with rice and a fried egg. Of course i also got my mango juice and the guy next to me said he “ordered way too much lumpia” which lucky for me, is a problem i can fix :D :D ⠀ The bay area has a huge filipino population. Daley City, the location of this restaurants first store, has the largest concentration of filipinos outside of the Philippines with nearly 1/3 of the population of filipino descent. Filipinos have a long history of traveling to the bay area. The first recorded landing of filipinos in the bay area occurred in 1595 in Marin County. Portuguese sailer Sebastian Rodriguez Cermeno landed on Limantour beach with a number of Filipinos on the crew. Since then a number of filipino crews on Manila Galleons came to the US. The first major wave of Filipinos came during the Spanish American and the Filipino-American war, something i didn’t even know existed until today. In 1989 the Spanish american war raged over pacific and at the signing of the peace treaty, sovereignty over the Philippines was handed over to the US. At that point native Filipinos began fighting against American troops and the Filipino-American war began. Most of these troops were trained at Fort Mason (which i visited yesterday) and left from the fort to fight the war. Filipinos came over both on Spanish Gallions and on US ships following the war. The second wave came in 1917 when Filipinos were unrestricted from immigrating to the US, unlike other asians, in the Immigration Act of 1917. This generation came to be known as the manong generation, an ilokano name given to the first-born male in a filipino nuclear family. Many of this generation came as laborers and unlike other Asian immigrants came accustomed to american influences and worked freely until the Great Depression brought race based violence. Ok out of space. #AdventuresInSpaceTime #DownAndOutInSFandBerkeley (at Tselogs)

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Craig Horton jamming on the guitar!!! This is amazing. Stumbled across a Jazz concert and ended the night with some Jazz by the legendary Craig Horton and got some drinks at the Biscuits and Blues bar! ⠀ Jazz has deep roots in San Francisco and is closely linked with the dockworker rights movement that came into San Fran in the 30s, 40s, and 50s. While it has been in America for almost a century, it first reached the shores of San Fran after 1934, specifically bloody Thursday, one of the biggest organized dock workers strike in the US. 1934 was a year of turmoil where the American Workers Party led an automobile workers strike, the communist party led the Teamsters strike, and general strike wrecked San Francisco. Longshoremen asking for the right to unionize halted all work for 84 days. After conditions were improved and workers are allowed to unionize there was an influx of dock workers bringing new cultures and music styles. From 1940-1945 there was a 600% increase in African Americans into San Francisco and many of them went into dock work bringing Jazz with them. Craig Horton has been performing since the 50s, can't believe I ran into this! #AdventuresInSpaceTime #DownAndOutInSFandBerkeley (at Biscuits & Blues)