Category: First Nations – USA
Lakota – Living on a reservation
Gourd Rattles – Sacred Peyote Rattle
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8n6cKAYuDEk https://www.crazycrow.com/site/craft-focus-preparing-gourds-for-peyote-gourd-rattles/
Dennis J. Banks – Russell Means
American Indian Holocaust
The Mi’kmaw
Brain tanning Hides – Leather
Forced Assimilation – “Kill the Indian, Save the Man”
"'Kill the Indian: Save the man': Inside the school where Native American children were forced to forget their traditions, dress and even their names to make them 'good Americans'" There are many parallels between the European treatment of the North American natives and the English treatment of the Scots (who they also felt were savages… Continue reading Forced Assimilation – “Kill the Indian, Save the Man”
Marie Battiste – What is learning spirit?
Eurocentrism – What is it?
I am placing several items here which look at Eurocentrism - which by definition means:" Eurocentrism (also Eurocentricity or Western-centrism) is a worldview centered on or biased towards Western civilization. The exact scope of centrism varies from the entire Western world to only Europe or even just Western Europe (especially during the Cold War). When… Continue reading Eurocentrism – What is it?
Reality is Dharma 