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Just a little FYI, since I've seen a lot of stuff about Pretendians coming up.

Some Pretendian red flags:

● "I took a DNA test and it said--" DNA tests are often wrong. Beyond that it has to do with relationship to the tribe, not just blood quantum.

●"I'm part Native American and that doesn't bother me!" Normally people identify by their tribe specifically, not a very vague 'Native American'.

●"My (family) was a (tribe) princess." Many Americans have a family myth about being Indigenous. It often roots back to land disputes in early American colonization. Almost always, this isn't true. Most tribes didn't even have royalty in the European sense.

● Misuse of regalia. This one is most annoying to me personally. War bonnets at music festivals, dream catchers as decorations, breast plate bikinis, chin 'tribal' face paint, and so on. It's so rude and so often excused with "well I'm part native." Even if you are Native it's still rude.

● Offense at being asked questions. I don't know a single indigenous person who gets cagey when asked about themselves. People LOVE to talk. You let someone just keep talking, and you'll know all their distant cousins and those cousins cousins in no time. At the very least, your indigenous ancestors name and the tribe should be known if you're going to try to make a claim.

To be clear: I'm pretty darn white myself, and I'm a big advocate for when white Indigenous people are confronted with questions about their tribal status, they shouldn't be offended. There are people who fake it ALL the time for a lot of reasons. A community wanting to be safe isn't bad. If someone questions your status, just answer honestly. In the Muscogee tribe the normal introduction is "I'm (name) a member of (clan). my tribal town is (region). I come from (home region). My parents are (family).". It's very normal to know this stuff, or at least some of it.

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I refuse to actually spell the name out. In my opinion, mentioning it outside the context of traditional storytelling is begging for your life to go down hill.

It's not some fun silly monster found in the woods. It's an evil spirit of self-destruction and community destruction.

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The Ocmulgee mounds are an important historical site to the Muscogee people. Built in 900 CE (AD) in Macon, GA. Three types of mounds exsist here: platform mounds, earthen lodges, and burial mounds.

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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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Hopuetake Omvlkvt Vcacvket Omes

Happy orange shirt day!

The Mvskoke break down:

Hopuetake (children)

Omvlkvt (all of a group)

Vcacvket (value)

Omes (to be)

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This was a project I did for my Mvskoke class. I was really happy with it. It's about the Muscogee story of the eclipse.

The hungry frog looked up and saw the sun. He jumped and ate it. However, his eyes were bigger than his stomach, so he had to spit it back up. Then he chased it into the water.

Frogs are my favorite animal, but also my favorite mvskoke word is 'akhvsē'. It's the word for pond, but the literal meaning is "sun in the water.". "Ak-" is a location for "below or in water" and "hvse" means "sun".

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Something that annoys me to no end is when talking about the Aztec, someone always brings up human sacrifices like it's this crazy idea. Nearly every culture did some sort of human sacrifice. If it's European, we just called it "heresy trials" or "witch hunts."

When Romans saw Druid capital punishment, they gasped and went "what violent human sacrifices" while literally being Roman.

None were good, obviously. But there's such a knee-jerk reaction to scream "human sacrifice" when the dominant religion of the world did the same.