so driving back from the city yesterday, i get a random text from what appears to be a middle school boy that texted the wrong number.
^lil playa~~
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LOL at double slash, hey wait…
Double Slash? That means one for BA and one for BFP!
If you never believed in ghosts before, you will now, when you see this one caught on video!!!! I’ll be too scared to sleep tonight, or ever again! AAAAAAAaaaaaaAaaa!!!!
IndiVisible - African-Native American Lives in the Americas
(Description of photo from website as follows) Here is a family from the Comanche Nation located in southwestern Oklahoma. The elder man in Comanche traditional clothing is Ta-Ten-e-quer. His wife, Ta-Tat-ty, also wears Comanche clothing. Their niece (center) is Wife-per, also known as Frances E. Wright. Her father was a Buffalo Soldier (an African American cavalryman) who deserted and married into the Comanches. Henry (center left) and Lorenzano (center right) are the sons of Frances, who married an African American man.
The exhibition IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas is a collaboration between the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian, National Museum of African American History and Culture, and the Smithsonian Institution Travelling Exhibition Service (SITES).
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Unfortunately this was a traveling exhibit in 2009, I bet they hit Boston and I would have been able to see it. But now it is currently it is on display only at the National Museum of the American Indian in Washington DC. Here is the information for that:
IndiVisible: African-Native American Lives in the Americas
July 4, 2011–February 2, 2012
NMAI on the National Mall, Washington, DC
As you can see it only runs until February, so if you have the chance to go, don’t wait!
For those like me who can’t afford a trip to DC, you can still see many of the pictures here: IndiVisible Online Exhibit.
It’s easiest to click through by the arrows just below the title and nav bar, but you can navigate around through drop menus of the nav bar where it says “Introduction”, “Policy”, “Community”, etc too.
I wouldn’t have found this if it wasn’t for deluxviven’s post about the Indians of Bermuda, where this exhibit is mentioned, and I went looking for it hoping it was still traveling around the country. (If you missed it, you really need to read that post too! And if you aren’t following her, well, you should be!)
Una Guerra Sin Fondo: yo
where the fuck is the acerola juice around here
my grammy had a big cherry tree of those in her backyard. when dominicans mention cerezas thats usually what we’re referring too. we stuffed our faces full of em daily.
le sigh. the best. but i have…
Have you ever heard of “Bossa Nova Superfruits”? They make two different acerola juices, plain, and the other is mixed with mango (I think). Anyway it looks like it would be sold at Stop and Shop in Brooklyn. Problem is it seems they are pushing the acai juice and you might not be able to find the acerola juice anymore, so you might want to call ahead to make sure they are stocking it before you waste your time going down there. Check with the store locator.
American Indians suffer from the most serious health problems in the U.S. On reservations, American Indians have a life expectancy of 47 years. The tuberculosis rate for Natives is 533 percent higher than the national average; the accident mortality rate 425 higher; the infant mortality rate 81 percent higher; the sudden infant death syndrome rate 310 percent higher; the alcoholism rate 579 percent higher; the diabetes rate 249 percent higher; and the suicide rate 190 percent higher than the national average.
Andrea Smith, Conquest: Sexual Violence and American Indian Genocide
To add to this: 1 in 3 Native American Women will face sexual violence in their lifetime. This is much higher than national estimates of 1 in 4 or 1 in 6 for other groups of women. And, unlike other racial groups (which have assailants of the same race), the majority of assailants are white men.
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Reblogging because I was looking back through some old posts and was surprised to find that only a few people had noticed this.
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seeing all of these fucking stats just make me want to hide in bed all day.
SUICIDE RATE IS 190% HIGHER THAN THE NATIONAL AVERAGE
190% HIGHER
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My cousin is a Catholic priest, he was visiting me and had to cut his vacation short because there was another death on the reserve. He said, I didn’t become a priest to preside over funerals all the time, but sometimes it seems like it’s all I do.
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This week in Chicano history: 1947 - The Mendez vs. Westminster School District case was the first successful challenge to an 1896 U.S Supreme Court doctrine that allowed “separate but equal” public facilities. thus ending the segregation of Latinos attending public schools & entering all white businesses in California, & being the reference case that eventually, 7 years later, allowed Roe vs. Wade to end segregation of all minority’s from any institutions & public areas, in America.
African-Americans weren’t the only ones..
exactly^
You mean Brown v Board of Education? I don’t think Roe v Wade was about school segregation…
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“With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more.”
Dude. You are a day late and way more than a dollar short.
This is a tragedy…that I got fired.
It is one of the great sorrows of my life…that it sullied my reputation.
With the benefit of hindsight, I wish I had done more…if I had known this would be a blot on my career.
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I have PET these guys. They feel like very firm jello, or possibly wet mushrooms. They’re very soft and kind of silky. Also, they love petting. They will rush over to your hand to be petted and nose up to it like kittens.
My son fed them, and they will suck your hand right into their mouth. We were warned about this, but it still freaked him out a bit.
I dont know why I laughed so hard at this…probably because people never seem to have any concept of what a dreamcatcher is, how its made, what its used for, or where you are supposed to put it
My favorite is the ones who hang dreamcatchers on their rearview mirror. If someone is gonna fall asleep at the wheel I want some warning!
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They (Native Americans) didn’t have any rights to the land, and there was no reason for anyone to grant them rights which they had not conceived and were not using. What was it that they were fighting for, when they opposed white men on this continent? For their wish to continue a primitive existence, their ‘right’ to keep part of the earth untouched, unused and not even as property, but just keep everybody out so that you will live practically like an animal, or a few caves above it. Any white person who brings the element of civilization has the right to take over this continent.
Ayn Rand, statement at a Q and A session following her address to the graduating class of The United States Military Academy at West Point, New York, March 6, 1974
“Any white person who brings the element of civilization has the right to take over this continent.”
I don’t even need to analyze this or add commentary to the extent I normally do. Ayn Rand is just a jerk.
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She seriously is fucking terrible.
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What in the entire hell? 0_o
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That’s why anyone liking this piece of shit is a scum bag. And how can ask what rights they have and then assume you have rights when your view of civilization is vastly different from anothers? This mentality makes me so sick because it doesn’t even consider the numerous forms of living that are considered acceptable to various forms of people and how people shouldn’t presume superiority over some form of living they are not familiar with. Colonizing mindset ass biznatch.
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WHAT THE FUCK EVEN. HOW CAN THIS BITCH POSSIBLY BE FOR REAL.
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I never knew she had these views. WOW.
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ayn rand: extremely terrible, or most terrible?
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Whichever it is, it’s definitely TERRIBLE FOREVER.
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The thing is, there are a lot of white people who really believe that we were all “No one can own the land!” but you can bet we knew where our territory ended and another tribes began. We wouldn’t cross without permission, or hunt, or fish in someone else’s territory because that could be construed as an act of war. I know that with my people we would send a messenger telling a nearby tribe that we drove the deer or caribou into their land and wanted to hunt there, and generally they would give permission and join our hunting party! So we may not have property rights in that a man owns title to so many acres, but we certainly had our version of communal land rights.
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Liquor&Spice: "This is the way it has been for the five civilized tribes, they have always taken in Indians from other tribes, whites,...
O RLY??????????????????????????????????
The Chickasaw ALWAYS take in Black Chickasaw? REALLY? THAT HAPPENED? BLACK CHICKASAW WEREN’T KICKED OFF THEIR LAND AND CHASED OUT OF OKLAHOMA????? CHICKASAW DID NOT CALL THE US MILITARY AND…
I’d like to think you know that I meant what did the Chickasaw do traditionally, of their own culture, not when they were forced to sign treaties with white people. Now if you want to tell me that the Chickasaws were inbred and never took in any new blood, I guess I gotta let you have it, but somehow I don’t think so. Somehow I think they come across new people and intermarry, or if at war, take captives who eventually become members of their tribe.
You know…
There has been times when an American white person goes to a blog belonging to someone from another country, says something cruel or stupid, that person deletes it…and then that white guy is all about “freedom of speech! Don’t you know about the Bill of Rights?” and the same people who I normally would have a good laugh over that asshat using American laws and culture to judge what people do in other countries, are insisting on using white peoples laws and culture to judge mine. White people write the history, they are the ones saying we’re savages, that we are the ones who massacred them, we’re the rapists. You go ahead and believe it and I guess it will be okay for me to believe what the whites say about you instead of what you are telling me about yourself. We’re okay with this?
Liquor&Spice: My Rape Culture: "Freedmen aren't Cherokees/Choctaws/Chickasaws/Creeks/Seminoles!"
This is what anti-Black, racist, misogyny looks like. Also rape.
From “Tribal Kulturkampf: The Role of Race Ideology in Constructing Native American Identity” by CD Pratt:
[60] Sexual encounters between Native American slave masters and African slave women were documented by the…
Where were the black men in all of this? Celibate? Impotent? If everyone has Indian blood then the majority of black women couldn’t be married to black men and giving birth to children from those relationships, right?
[60] Sexual encounters between Native American slave masters and African slave women were documented by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1866 wherein he reported, “There is a large number of young freedwomen who have from one to eight children, born while they were slaves, and who never had husbands. Many of these children are mixed bloods … .” J. H. Johnston, Documentary Evidence of the Relations of Negroes and Indians, 14 J. OF NEGRO HISTORY 21, 42 (Jan. 1929).
It would be nice if they said what they mean by “large number”, is that 10? 100? 1000? I also don’t see where it says “evidence of rape”, could it also be “evidence of common law marriages”?
Rick Kittles is one of the last speakers at the Descendants conference. When he steps up to address the crowd, he speaks briefly about the underlying science. He describes how African genealogy is relatively easy to trace because of the population’s high number of polymorphisms - genetic variations unique to a particular group. Then he gets down to business. He shows charts indicating that African ancestry in the 95 Freedmen he tested ranged from 4 to 76 percent, while European ancestry varied from 0 to 62 percent. “Native American was surprising,” Kittles says as he presses the slide clicker to bring up the figures that everyone’s waiting for. The range of Indian blood was from 0 to 30 percent, for an average of just 6 percent - almost identical to an East Coast African-American population.
The chatter in the crowd stops. Kittles is telling attendees that, genetically, they are no more Indian than blacks in New York City or Baltimore.
The same as any east coast black person? The ones who were never slaves of Indians? The ones who freely intermarried with Indians and didn’t have generation after generation of Indian rapists coming after them? That’s odd.
What I don’t get is why you would be so determined to claim this vile disgusting heritage? You keep insisting it’s not money, so not about compensation. It’s just about being recognized as Indian, yes? You want to “proudly” tell your children about the rapist side of the family?
While I am frustrated, I am mostly asking seriously and not sarcastic. What I am seeing about black women being unrapeable, is white laws and white culture. I want to know is there something specific to the Cherokee/five civilized tribes culture that if a black woman said no, an Indian man wouldn’t be rebuffed, even if he was her owner. Is it at all possible when a Cherokee man bought a black woman, he thought he was buying a wife? Back in those days there were things like that, and arranged marriages, even amongst the whites. So there were few women who would go into sexual relationships with full consent, even white women.
This is a great example of what I mean when I say that Black people asserting our existence and demanding our history and stories be told is seen as a threat to Indian identity.
ie. N*gger Panic
No, you aren’t listening. I and other natives are telling you that blood isn’t as important as you think, that shared politics, culture, and history counts for much more. The way you’re telling it, the Cherokees can throw out those who tested for 0-3% (margin of error) DNA, right? If blood is the only thing that matters then those people are just black and need to go away, according to you, right? But if shared politics, culture, and history counts then every freedman whether he is 0% or one of the 100% Cherokees the whites put on the freedmen rolls belongs to the tribe. This is the way it has been for the five civilized tribes, they have always taken in Indians from other tribes, whites, AND BLACKS…and those people are members of their tribe. I’m telling you to be careful of which direction you want to take this, because if you are the ones saying that only blood matters then a lot of people will be removed from membership by your own standards.
Also, the history shows that Cherokee women who married black men were put on the freedmen rolls. How the hell did those marriages even happen? I mean the only way any of you got Cherokee blood is by rape, right? Isn’t it at all possible that rape is taboo, so that wasn’t happening much, I won’t say at all, but instead that Cherokees and black people did view each other as marriage material, and the majority of Cherokee blood is from marriages/common law marriages? Why is that such a horrible thing to say?
Liquor&Spice: My Rape Culture: "Freedmen aren't Cherokees/Choctaws/Chickasaws/Creeks/Seminoles!"
This is what anti-Black, racist, misogyny looks like. Also rape.
From “Tribal Kulturkampf: The Role of Race Ideology in Constructing Native American Identity” by CD Pratt:
[60] Sexual encounters between Native American slave masters and African slave women were documented by the…
Where were the black men in all of this? Celibate? Impotent? If everyone has Indian blood then the majority of black women couldn’t be married to black men and giving birth to children from those relationships, right?
[60] Sexual encounters between Native American slave masters and African slave women were documented by the Commissioner of Indian Affairs in 1866 wherein he reported, “There is a large number of young freedwomen who have from one to eight children, born while they were slaves, and who never had husbands. Many of these children are mixed bloods … .” J. H. Johnston, Documentary Evidence of the Relations of Negroes and Indians, 14 J. OF NEGRO HISTORY 21, 42 (Jan. 1929).
It would be nice if they said what they mean by “large number”, is that 10? 100? 1000? I also don’t see where it says “evidence of rape”, could it also be “evidence of common law marriages”?
Rick Kittles is one of the last speakers at the Descendants conference. When he steps up to address the crowd, he speaks briefly about the underlying science. He describes how African genealogy is relatively easy to trace because of the population’s high number of polymorphisms - genetic variations unique to a particular group. Then he gets down to business. He shows charts indicating that African ancestry in the 95 Freedmen he tested ranged from 4 to 76 percent, while European ancestry varied from 0 to 62 percent. “Native American was surprising,” Kittles says as he presses the slide clicker to bring up the figures that everyone’s waiting for. The range of Indian blood was from 0 to 30 percent, for an average of just 6 percent - almost identical to an East Coast African-American population.
The chatter in the crowd stops. Kittles is telling attendees that, genetically, they are no more Indian than blacks in New York City or Baltimore.
The same as any east coast black person? The ones who were never slaves of Indians? The ones who freely intermarried with Indians and didn’t have generation after generation of Indian rapists coming after them? That’s odd.
What I don’t get is why you would be so determined to claim this vile disgusting heritage? You keep insisting it’s not money, so not about compensation. It’s just about being recognized as Indian, yes? You want to “proudly” tell your children about the rapist side of the family?
While I am frustrated, I am mostly asking seriously and not sarcastic. What I am seeing about black women being unrapeable, is white laws and white culture. I want to know is there something specific to the Cherokee/five civilized tribes culture that if a black woman said no, an Indian man wouldn’t be rebuffed, even if he was her owner. Is it at all possible when a Cherokee man bought a black woman, he thought he was buying a wife? Back in those days there were things like that, and arranged marriages, even amongst the whites. So there were few women who would go into sexual relationships with full consent, even white women.
