Sunday, January 31, 2016

23:Learning about my Native Heritage



Jimi--Hindrex, Famous Cherokee

I learned and my children have learned as well as my grandchildren has learned that the established History System teaches some big lie about Native American History. They are teaching what the Federal Government want you, Black and Native Americans want you to believe about Native people around the country. They want Whites to learn that Natives no longer live in America and that they no longer want you to fear them. 

Click on this link below

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IjFJwBzecdI

or click on the picture below;


TO ALL YOU NATIVES



Published on Apr 19, 2015

TO ALL YOU NATIVE WHO TURN YOUR EARS FROM HEARING THIS TRUTH. ESPECIALLY TO YOU! WHO DON'T LIKE TO HEAR THE TRUTH FFROM YOUR OWN PEOPLE.

Eze 2:3 And he said unto me, Son of man, I send thee to the children of Israel, to a rebellious nation that hath rebelled against me: they and their fathers have transgressed against me, even unto this very day. 

Eze 2:4 For they are impudent children and stiffhearted. I do send thee unto them; and thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the Lord GOD. 

Eze 2:5 And they, whether they will hear, or whether they will forbear, (for they are a rebellious house,) yet shall know that there hath been a prophet among them.

In the beginning of Native Civilization

http://amerandanger.blogspot.com/2016/01/part-20-iroquois-confederacy-tribes.html

In the beginning, over 30,000 years ago, we natives created a great government system that was past along to the Europeans when they came to America. The idea of a Federal Government came to pass from the Iroquois People. 

http://amerandanger.blogspot.com/2016/01/22-my-x-wife-and-children-manahoac.html

The Manahoac Native American were captured and put into slavery. If you are from Central or Eastern Virginia, you may be part of the Manahoac or Saponi people.


http://amerandanger.blogspot.com/2016/01/part-21-you-are-more-cherokee-than-you.html


What it is like to be a Native American? What do you have to go through to keep your heritage? Many people are going to try to talk you out of your heritage. Tiger Woods is just one of the Cherokees that people want to change his heritage to fit whatever they want him to be. 


So what are you or are you to scared to speak up!

Part 21: You are more Cherokee than you think!









Descended from the Cherokee Nation

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hIAfd_IulO4

or




They are called Black Indians: An American Story

Published on Mar 21, 2013

Black Indians: An American Story brings to light a forgotten part of America's past—the cultural and racial fusion of Native and African Americans. Narrated by James Earl Jones, produced and directed by the award-winning Native American production company Rich-Heape Films, this presentation explores what brought the two groups together, what drove them apart and the challenges they face today.

And here are two others.





No he is one of the Cherokee peoples, 
"James Marshall “Jimi” Hendrix"




The Great Rosa Parks


Before we had Black and White politics, before we had the rumor that all Blacks came from Africa, before we had the idea that Blacks had no past, we knew that many blacks came from the Cherokee Nation.


Click on the link below or the on the picture;


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zvyO9IicgmY

or




Cherokee People

Uploaded on Mar 15, 2008

READ CAREFULLY::

THESE PEOPLE ARE CLEARLY NOT 100% CHEROKEE, AND I NEVER SAID THAT THEY WERE, SO PLEASE STOP WASTING YOUR TIME ARGUING OVER WHO IS AND WHO ISN'T!
It's just a video, not a list of the Cherokee Nation!

Calm down.

Also, please stop naming and listing all of the people that I "left out" or "forgot". My intention was not to include every celebrity who ever walked this Earth, and this was all that I could find, anyway.

I know I did go a little overboard with Cher, so sorry. I was only 13 or 14 when I made this damn video. It's really stupid and I don't give a shit about it.

Signed


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Let's go to the beginning of Cherokee Society. Let's go to before the "Trail of Tears." 

Uploaded on Mar 23, 2009

The story of the Keetoowah Cherokee people.

  
Or 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k3xYAI4kYN4

However, all Cherokees did not go along with this treaty since Cherokee land could not be given away.

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7AbnNy4I5TQ

or




Part 2 - Cherokee History As You've Never Heard It

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Some of you make a lot out of slavery. Well the Cherokee Nation has a lot to say about that as well.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JDFDwZocvZk

or

click on Picture

Click above to see if you are Cherokee.

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I am also Appalachian

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hGQYBi1OjG0

or




The Early History of Appalachia

Published on Jan 14, 2013

Settled for centuries by Native American tribes before the arrival of the Europeans, the Cherokee were the dominant people of Appalachia when the colonial settlers began to enter their Appalachian homelands. It would be the subsequent rush of Scots-Irish, English, and German immigrants that would ultimately settle into this region as colonists within the North American British empire.


So next time you think that you are not raciest, think again!

22: My x-wife and Children, the Manahoac Indians; Black Peoples

Tom and Clara Porter


Amanda Ann Porter and little Amanda Ann Williams III

Amanda Ann Porter was a little girl living in an Indian Village in Spottsylvania, Va. Under Virginia law, White settlers came and killed her mother and father. They took Amanda and sold her to Noal Smith, a local slave trader and the Porter story began.   

Little Amanda was in school 10 years later and gave a presentation about her Native Heratage. The teacher told her that she was not a Native American. She was Black. 

A man in this blog in the sub blog of this video: 

(American Red and Black: Stories of Afro-Native Identity (FULL, 2006) talks about his experience, telling people about his heritage then this is not a free country.



Click on the link

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vkfNy-YJz_A

or

the click on the picture;


Our People: Occaneechi Band of Saponi Nation

Published on Aug 20, 2015

Throwback to 2008: "Our People: Occaneechi Band of Saponi Nation" with Vivette Jeffries-Logan, Wanda Whitmore-Penner, John Blackfeather Jeffries, Sharn Jeffries, Forest Hazel, Tony Hayes and other friends and relations.


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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IPLgbgl4q8E

or 

click on the picture


American Red and Black: Stories of Afro-Native Identity (FULL, 2006)



Published on Apr 15, 2014

American Red and Black: Stories of Afro-Native Identity by Alicia Woods, 2006. This intimate film follows six Afro-Native Americans from around the U.S., as they reflect upon the personal and complex issues of Native and African heritage, ethnic identity, and racism within communities of color.

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About Alicia Woods

Born and raised in Buffalo, NY, Alicia experienced a culturally and ethnically diverse upbringing. A descendant of immigrants from Poland and Germany from her mother and of African American and American Indian heritage from her father, her multicultural experiences fueled her interest in understanding the dynamics of race in America. She studied the history of people of color in colonial America at the University of New Mexico and continued her formal education at the University of Washington where she earned a Master of Communication from the Native Voices film program.

Her award winning thesis film, "American Red and Black: Stories of Afro Native Identity," investigates mixed heritage issues and has been shown at a variety of film festivals and universities in the US and Canada. Alicia works for the Muckleshoot Tribal College as a writing specialist and instructor. She strives to integrate her passions for art production and empowering educational communities of color. Alicia is also on the board of MAVIN, a nonprofit dedicated to building healthier communities by providing educational resources about mixed heritage experiences.

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Warning: If you want to find out how much Native American you have in your DNA, it will be very hard to do. Because Whites take Native people as other people and cannot distinguish Native DNA from anyone else. 

Part 20: Iroquois Confederacy Tribes

Map of Iroquois territory

Iroquois Confederacy Map

What you see in the pink are the nations of the Iroquois Confederacy. It extends up into Canada. It was this system of government that the 13 American Colonies copied to create the United State of America. 

I met some of these people 30 years ago and continue to interact with them today. It does not matter that my Cherokee people and the Iroquois were at war with each other over 300 years ago.


Iroquois Confederacy Map - Territory of each of the Tribes

The Iroquoian Confederacy initially consisted of five tribes who were in close proximity of the Iroquois territory.
  • The Mohawk tribe lived along the Mohawk River of the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to South Quebec and East Ontario - Possessors of the Flint.
  • The Seneca tribe lived in New York State south of Lake Ontario and were the were the largest nation of the Iroquois Confederacy - Great Hill People
  • The Onondaga tribe lived between Lake Champlain and the Saint Lawrence River - People on the Hills
  • The Oneida tribe lived east of Lake Ontario, around Oneida Lake - Granite People
  • The Cayuga tribe lived around around Cayuga Lake in New York State - People of the Great Swamp
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The Iroquois Confederacy map shows the locations and territory of the tribes in the league, before the Europeans arrived.

We are talking about a time when most of the people in America did not think in terms of Color or Foreign superior ideas. 


Reasons for Founding of the Iroquois Confederacy

Deganawida and Hiawatha had several major objectives in their quest to bring about an alliance of the Iroquois tribes and initiate the Iroquoian Confederacy:
  • To eliminate incessant intertribal warfare
  • To create peace and give united strength
  • To create a powerful force of tribes
  • To safeguard existing Iroquois territory and defend against invasion
  • To expand their territories
  • To establish a democratic government with representatives from each of the tribes to ensure fairness and equity.
History of the Iroquois Confederacy - The Beaver Wars 

The Beaver Wars (1640 - 1701), also called the French and Iroquois Wars, were terrifying and brutal wars fought by tribes of the Iroquois Confederacy and the French and the Indian tribes who were their allies including the Huron, Algonquins and the Mohicans. 

The Iroquois Confederacy, and in particular the Mohawk tribe, had established trading links with Dutch exchanging beaver skins for firearms (the harquebus). The Iroquois Confederacy wanted to extend their trading activity and gain new territories. 

Bloody battles ensued and the Iroquois Confederacy destroyed several large tribal confederacies including the Hurons, Eries, Neutrals and Susquehannocks.

History of the Iroquois Confederacy - The French and Indian War 

The French and Indian War (1688-1763) was between France and Britain for possession of North America. During the French and Indian War, the Iroquois Confederacy sided with the British against the French and their Algonquin allies who included the Huron Tribe who were traditional enemies of the Iroquois. 

During both Queen Anne's War and King George's War, the Iroquois Confederacy maintained the policy of neutrality. The Iroquois believed that aiding the British would also bring favors in trade and land agreements after the war.

1754 Map showing claims of Great Britain, France and Spain
     British Colonies
●    New France
      New Spain
●     Disputed Areas
- - -    Boundary of Iroquois League
1754 Map showing claims of Great Britain, France and Spain

Click on the link or on the picture to view the video of Iroquois History.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qyVfr7sqGH4

or


War of the American Indians : Documentary on the History of the Iroquois

War of the American Indians : Documentary on the History of the Iroquois


Published on Feb 6, 2015

War of the American Indians : Documentary on the History of the Iroquois . 2013 This documentary as well as the rest of these documentaries shown here relate.

After the Civil War, thousands of Americans poured into the Great Plains on a collision course with western Indian tribes. Homesteaders, ranchers, and miners.

an interesting documentary about the Indians in U.S.A. and the wars about them and the government of the new State and future superpower.

Native American Indian war dance by Cherokee tribe from North Carolina during First Peoples Festival. Motivational speaker Clint Cora .




Iroquois Confederacy Tribes

The Iroquois were also known as the Haudenosaunee or the "People of the Longhouse". The Longhouse was a long, narrow house that was traditionally built by the Iroquois. The tribes of the Iroquois confederacy belonged to Eastern Woodlands culture group. The union created a powerful alliance of related Iroquoian tribes and peoples. The Iroquois Confederacy was also known as the "League of Peace and Power".

Iroquois Confederacy Tribes

The Iroquoian Confederacy was first founded c1550, prior to major European contact,  and initially consisted of five tribes: the Mohawk, Oneida, Onondaga, Cayuga and Seneca tribes, which were known as the Five Nations. The Tuscarora tribe joined the Confederacy in 1722, as non-voting members of the league, and the collective tribes became known as the Six Nations. The powerful, and brutal, Iroquois coalition grew quickly by invading neighboring tribes and absorbing their land into Iroquois territory. The Iroquois Confederacy aimed to create an empire by incorporating subservient, conquered peoples.

Iroquois Confederacy Map - Territory of each of the Tribes

The Iroquoian Confederacy initially consisted of five tribes who were in close proximity of the Iroquois territory.
  • The Mohawk tribe lived along the Mohawk River of the Mohawk Valley in upstate New York to South Quebec and East Ontario - Possessors of the Flint.
  • The Seneca tribe lived in New York State south of Lake Ontario and were the were the largest nation of the Iroquois Confederacy - Great Hill People
  • The Onondaga tribe lived between Lake Champlain and the Saint Lawrence River - People on the Hills
  • The Oneida tribe lived east of Lake Ontario, around Oneida Lake - Granite People
  • The Cayuga tribe lived around around Cayuga Lake in New York State - People of the Great Swamp
The Iroquois Confederacy map shows the locations and territory of the tribes in the league, before the Europeans arrived.

Iroquois Confederacy - The Constitution

The Constitution of Iroquois Confederacy contained details of the organization, and function of the Iroquois Confederacy. The Constitution of the Confederacy covered subjects including:
  • The Role of the Great Council, Council membership, Eligibility and Resignation, Candidates, Election of Pine Tree Chiefs
  • The Election of the Chiefs, Names, Duties and Rights of War Chiefs, Women, Clans and Consanguinity
  • Official Symbolism, Wampum, Laws of Adoption
  • Laws of Emigration, Rights of Foreign Nations, Rights and Powers of War, Treason or Secession of a Nation
  • Religious Ceremonies Protected, Protection of the House and Funeral Addresses
There are 117 Articles in the Iroquois Confederacy constitution - read the Articles to gain a great insight into their Constitution and the Confederacy.

History of the Iroquois Confederacy Constitution - Significance of the Longhouse

The Longhouse was used by Deganawida and Hiawatha as a symbol to represent the union, the culture and the traditions of the Iroquois Confederation and how their territory should be shared. The three largest tribes held important positions within the confederation which relate to the structure of the longhouse.
  • The Mohawk were the easternmost group of the Iroquois Confederacy and considered to be the “keepers of the eastern door.”
  • The Seneca, the largest nation of the Iroquois Confederacy were known as the “Keepers of the Western Door.”
  • The Onondaga were known as the "Keepers of the Central Council Fire and Wampum" and the main Onondaga village served as the capital, or meeting place, of the federated council
Iroquois Confederacy Constitution - The Great Law of Peace

The Iroquois Confederacy constitution was known as the Gayanashagowa or the "Great Law of Peace".  The Confederacy was guided by some basic principles. The need for justice and balancing of rights and obligations. The need for peace among individuals and between groups. The need for authority and power.  Deciding upon individual matters of Law and order remained the internal concern of each tribe, but the Confederacy legally prohibited cannibalism. The Great Law of Peace is divided into 117 articles.

Iroquois Confederacy Constitution - The Great Council

The Great Peacemaker established a council of clan and village chiefs to govern the confederacy. Adherence to the constitution of the Iroquois Confederacy is embodied in the Grand Council, an assembly of fifty hereditary sachems. Each nation had several male leaders, or Sachems, called Hoyaneh. The Hoyaneh were the chiefs who represented the tribes at the meetings of the Grand Council. The Grand Council had 50 members who used a consensus to decisions. The fifty members of the Grand Council consisted of:
  • 14 Hoyaneh from the Onondaga tribe
  • 10 Hoyaneh from the Cayuga tribe
  •   9 Hoyaneh from the Mohawk tribe
  •   8 Hoyaneh from the Seneca tribe
  •   9 Hoyaneh from the Oneida tribe