#indigenous history

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Month 2 of learning cherokee,

I have made progress with listening and understanding I believe,

I started listening to music in cherokee and have been doing my cherokee lessons pretty consistently.

I however feel like I'm missing something like a show or youtuber in cherokee, since thats the main method I used for my two other learned languages, if there are any, does anyone have recommendations?

-your ℒarafly ཐི༏ཋྀ

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Residential and Boarding Schools in Canada, Alaska, and Oceania:

“I speak to you my elders my ancestors my gods and goddesses

With a bloody mouth and broken hands

I can’t speak your language

I don’t know my own peoples dances food songs art etc

I don’t know my culture traditions and customs

My mind and my mouth can’t understand

Even if my heart and soul does

They made sure of that

With those haole sanctioned schools,”

No’eau Hoata/Heiani Hoata

Excerpt from my spoken word poetry anthology books about bipoc qtipoc and disabled native issues. It’s about being a disabled native, a displaced disconnected state side diaspora, being an Asian Native, a child of a transracial adoptee, & about being a QTIPOC queer and trans third gender Indigenous person of color.

More of the art context and research of the spoken word poetry anthology books about bipoc qtipoc and disabled native issues is linked into the bio and pinned on my native intros for social media The rest of the cut and uncut versions can be found there

This is the real time up to date version of the post about residential schools and boarding schools in Canada Alaska and Oceania that targeted our Indigenous children and September 30 Orange shirt day as I find more art research context and resources

"If we held a moment of silence For every Native, Arctic Native, and Hawaiian and Indigenous Pasifika child who died in a residential and boarding school. We would be silent for 134 or more years." "No matter what the numbers are." "There arent supposed to be graveyards at schools." Ever."

The last residential school closed in 1997…Klanada always talks about truth and reconciliation for some fucking reason. Truth and reconciliation? How about truth and motherfucking consequences? “KKKanada is not polite. It is a settler state that is still committing genocide.”

“There are at least 973 American Indian, Alaska Arctic Native, and Native Hawaiian and Indigenous other Pasifika children died while attending schools in the system. The Department acknowledges that the actual number of children who died while attending Indian boarding schools is likely greater.” “The investigation also confirms that there are at least 74 marked or unmarked burial sites at 65 of the schools. One initiative proposed in the report is to identify and repatriate the remains of children who never returned home from the schools.”

Nearly a thousand children died at Indian boarding schools funded by the U.S.

The investigation into abuse and mistreatment of Native children at the boarding schools for more than a century proposes $23 billion in fun

Remember that there is what we call haole sanctioned boarding schools in Pasifika Oceania Where they beat you for speaking your Indigenous te reo, praying to your gods goddesses and demigods, or practicing any facet of your Indigenous Pasifika culture It was a facet of cultural genocide in our island homes

There is a reason why many of our ancestors elders and kin cant speak our te reo Indigenous lingua franca Or spoke in in hush quiet behind close doors out of fear of being beaten again Or in shame The fucking settler state engineered it this way

“In 1985, Hawaii had just 32 Kanaka Maoli kids under 18 who could speak Hawaiian. Not because it died out naturally. A law banned it from every classroom in 1896. By 1902, zero schools taught it.

In 1983, a few parents opened ’Aha Punana Leo, literally “the language nest.” They could barely convince four families to enroll.

Today 27,000+ people speak Hawaiian at home. They immersed a generation in it. This time, the language didn’t go under.”

Does Oceania Pasifika Have a separate day for our Haole sanctioned schools they built in Moana? Or is it also included in September 30th?

“That’s the same throughline as everything else here. Why Wôpanâak had to be rebuilt from paper. Why Hawaiian fell to 32 fluent kids by 1985. Why elders have gone quiet. Same policy, local variations, across an ocean. Language and tattoo revival isn’t nostalgia sitting beside that history. It’s the direct answer to it.”

“Aotearoa is a clear case. Sir James Henare a respected Māori leader, recalled being sent to cut his own switch from the bush. Then beaten with it for speaking te reo Māori at school. Told plainly that English was the price of earning a living. By the 1980s, fewer than 1 in 5 Māori were native speakers of their own language.”

The boarding schools in Oceania was a facet of cultural genocide in our island homes and a big reason why language spirituality and tattoo revival is important to us as Indigenous culture language and story keepers Land back Death to all settler states GTFO our land

Since their first arrival in the new world a number of religious entities began the project of converting Indigenous Peoples to Christianity. This undertaking grew in structure and purpose, especially between 1831 and 1969. When the governing officials of Canada joined with monotheistic churches to create and operate the residential school system.

"In the 40s and 50s the Canadian Department of Pensions and National Health performed nutritional experiments on already malnourished Indigenous children in residential schools. The information was later used to create Canada’s food guide." Everything in Klanada begins with settler violence

On September 30th many people across Klanata Turtle Island wear bright orange t-shirts to honour and raise awareness of the thousands of Indigenous children who were sent to residential and boarding schools.

Children were forced from their homes, endured horrific torture, subjected to deliberate suppression of their cultures and languages. Many never returned to their families.

On Orange Shirt Day, we also remember the Survivors of these institutions and the long-standing effects on generations of First Nations, Métis, Native Hawaiian and other Indigenous Pasifika, and Inuit and other Arctic Native Peoples.

Why orange

“When Phyllis Webstad was a little girl, she was forced to attend a residential school in Williams Lake, British Columbia. On the first day of school, she proudly wore an orange shirt her grandmother had given her. The residential school staff stripped her of her belongings, cut her hair, and took away her clothes, including her orange shirt.” Phyllis is one of the thousands of children between the ages of four to 16 who attended residential schools in Canada between the 1830s and 1996.

The schools were operated by the Canadian government and church organizations with an aim to eliminate Indigenous languages, cultures, and practices. A deliberate act of colonialism and assimilation.

Fuck Amerikkka Fuck Kkklanada and Fuck yt Australia also Death to ALL settler states

“We were children.” “Roman Catholic church in downtown Saskatoon, Saskatchewan, Canada. The graffiti was done on the same day Cowesses First Nation, announced the discovery of 751 unmarked graves from schools funded by the federal government and operated by the Roman Catholic Church.”

“The Dept. of the Interior’s Federal Indian Boarding School Initiative report, released 2024, confirmed at least 973 American Indian, Alaska Native, and Native Hawaiian and Indigenous Pasifika children died in schools run or supported by the federal government. From 1819–1969, across 417 schools in 37 states/territories.”

“The report also found at least 74 marked or unmarked burial sites at 65 of those schools, and states plainly the true death toll is almost certainly higher, since record-keeping then was inconsistent or deliberately absent.”

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your post comparing Irish and Jewish people as oppressed people going on to become colonisers is …. baffling.

do you have any sources citing examples of Irish people committing colonial acts other than being members of the British Army or emigrating to colonial countries?

I assume the "baffling" post is this one:

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I don't have time right now, but in future I think I'll write a detailed post about Irish involvement in colonial atrocities. It's something that matters a great deal here in Australia, because the land was seized by colonial violence, and although the British authorities initiated this violence, it was very much the ordinary British and Irish settlers who continued this violence through vigilante attacks, land theft and, at times, massacres.

These people 'cleared' the land, a common euphemism for shooting and running down Indigenous people. Each massacre had its own specificities, but typically little distinction was made between man, woman and child. Rape of Indigenous women and girls was a significant problem, so frequent that even certain colonists acknowledged the issue and attempted (often very badly) to fix it. In fact, the comparatively few massacres of white settlers by Indigenous warriors were often in retaliation for the colonial rape of Indigenous women. These, in turn, typically led to reprisal massacres by the police *and* settler vigilantes (e.g. the Quamby Bluff massacres of 1827, the Hornet Bank massacres in 1857-8, or, even later, the Coniston massacres in 1928).

Anyway, I'll get round to making a post later when I have time.

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Around the 1500s, four healers visited Honolulu from what are now the Society Islands. These healers - named Kapaemahu, Kahalao, Kapuni, and Kinohi, were māhū, a Native Hawai’ian gender with a particular focus on healing and caring roles. When they departed, the four māhū left behind four huge stones as a memento of their visit, which are still revered in Hawai'i today.

In 1625, Ethiopian Orthodox nun Walatta Petros faced execution by the country’s emperor, Susinyos, for her refusal to succumb to Portuguese pressure and convert to Catholicism. Susinyos spared her life only because he feared others would rally around her as a martyr if she was killed. Walatta Petros went on to found seven Orthodox communities alongside her life partner, fellow nun Eheta Kristos.

In the 1870s, white US agents imprisoned Osh-Tisch because they were a batée, a Crow gender combining female and uniquely batée social roles. US agents cut Osh-Tisch’s hair and forced them to don male clothing. Crow chief Pretty Eagle came to their defence and with the support of their community support, Osh-Tisch continued to express their gender identity.

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The Mystery Man of Rocky Narrows - Little John-- Indigenous History

Little John Island may be small enough to miss if you sneeze while boating, but it has spent centuries sitting front-row to the history of the Rideau Lakes. Tucked beside Rideau Ferry where Big Rideau meets Lower Rideau Lake, the island has watched pioneers paddle past, log drives thunder through, and elegant steamers weave among the channels. Nearby waters even guard the resting place of the…

The Mystery Man of Rocky Narrows - Little John-- Indigenous History

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o-tá-wah, an ojibwa warrior, painted by george catlin

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Photograph of Moses Iron Moccasin in a Chilocco Indian School Band uniform playing an Euphonium, June 13, 1905. Photographer Unkown

"Opened in 1884, Chilocco Indian School was one of the largest federally-funded boarding schools for Native American youth in the country. Located twenty miles north of Ponca City, Oklahoma, the school offered a half academic / half vocational curriculum, focused on assimilating Native students into the dominant culture."

Quote from Oklahoma State

Chilocco closed in 1980.