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Western Pennsylvania Land Acknowledgement Information
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2022-07-20T19:59:23.858Z
Miguel Sague Jr
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<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10660424871?profile=original" rel="noopener" target="_blank"><img class="align-full" src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10660424871?profile=RESIZE_710x"></img></a> It is important to rely on accurate and reliable information when crafting a land acknowledgement. As member of the COUNCIL OF THREE RIVERS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER it is my responsibility to assist individuals and organizations in our region in the task of crafting accurate and relevant land acknowledgements that correspond to…</p>
<p style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10660424871?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/10660424871?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a>It is important to rely on accurate and reliable information when crafting a land acknowledgement. As member of the COUNCIL OF THREE RIVERS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER it is my responsibility to assist individuals and organizations in our region in the task of crafting accurate and relevant land acknowledgements that correspond to western Pennsylvania. This post is intended to present the appropriate information needed to create a good land acknowledgement for our area of the state.</p>
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<p style="text-align: center;"><br/> The region of western Pennsylvania has been the home of a wide variety of Indigenous people since at least as early as 19,000 years ago, a fact evidenced by the archeological material discovered at the site in Washington County known as Medowcroft Rock Shelter. Over the centuries other Native peoples hunted and later settled in this region. These included the Monongahela and the Moundbuilders. In the more recent historical past the most relevant Indigenous peoples occupying the states of Pennsylvania and New York was a group of over 15 nations belonging to the Iroquoian language family. These nations included a formal league of five of those tribes. This confederation of five Iroquoian-speaking nations was called the Haudenosaunee (Longhouse People). The league included the Seneca of western Pennsylvania, as well as the Cayuga, Onondaga and Oneida of the Finger Lakes in north central New York state and the Mohawks of the Adirondaks in eastern New York state. This was a very powerful Indigenous alliance whose articles of confederation are reputed to have provided an important model for the framers of the original United States constitution. The Seneca of western Pennsylvania were one of the principal member nations of the Haudenosaunee confederacy. They were the caretakers of a geographical territory that Included Allegheny County as well as lands stretching as far north as Erie County and the Niagara River on the Canada border, and as far south as Washington County, as far west as the center of the state of Ohio and as far east as the Susquehanna River in central Pennsylvania and the Genesee River in New York state.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">One of the most prominent historical Seneca leaders of the 1700's was a chief by the name of Guyasuta. His main settlement was located at the site now occupied by yhe town of Sharpsburg, PA on the north bank of the Allegheny River where he is now honored by a medium-sized statue erected at a prominent intersection. A near-by Boyscout camp also bears his name. A much larger statue of Guyasuta, accompanied by an equally monumental one of George Washington stands at a prominent spot on Grandview Avenue in the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Mount Washington. Another important Seneca leader who lived in this area of western Pennsylvania in the 1700's was a clan mother known as Alliquippa. Her village stood at the site now occupied by the town of Mckeesport. She was important enough to demand that Washington stop at her settlement and pay his respects when he arrived here as a very young man on an errand in behalf of the governor of the Virginia colony. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Another important Seneca leader in this area was a man called Tanacharison, known to the English as "Half King". He lived for a time at a village on the Ohio river, called Logstown.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The Haudenosaunee confederacy had a policy that allowed other tribes to request asylum in their vast territory if they approached in peace and respectfully. A number of tribal groups took advantage of that policy as they were deprived of their own lands by European colonies. One of the earliest of these was an Iroquoian people called the Tuscaroras who were forced out of their homes in the Carolinas and travelled north to New York state. They were welcomed in as a sixth member of the Haudenosaunee confederacy and were settled in the Finger Lakes region. Later several non-Iroquoian tribes also reached out to the Haudenosaunee confederacy for protection. The Algonquian-language people called the Lenapi (Delawares) were driven from their homes in New Jersey. The state of Delaware and the Philadelphia region by English settlers. They travelled west into central Pennsylvania, but were also chased out of there by colonist-perpetrated massacres and violence along the Susquehanna River. The exiles crossed the Allegheny mountains and entered Seneca territory. Since the Lenapi exiles were not Iroquoians they were not allowed to become full members of the confederation like the Tuscaroras, but the Senecas still allowed them to settle at sites along the Allegheny River. One of the most important Lenapi villages of the 1700's was Shanopin's Town on the southern bank of the river at the site now occupied by the Pittsburgh neighborhood of Lawrenceville in Arsenal Park. Another Algonquian-language tribe also was allowed by the Senecas to maintain a presence in western Pennsylvania. These people were the Shawnee. There was a strong Shawnee presence at the village of Kittaning on the Allegheny River several miles north of Pittsburgh. Another extremely important Indigenous community inhabited by Shawnees was the aforementioned community of Logstown located on the Ohio River a few miles beyond the Allegheny and Monongahela confluence. This other village, existed at a site close to the present-day communities of Ambridge and Alliquippa just north of Pittsburgh. It was predominantly composed of Shawnee residents. Another important Shawnee/Lenapi village was situated near the present-day community of Slippery Rock, Pennsylvania and was called Kushkushking.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Many Senecas, Shawnees and Lenapi played an important role in support of the French and against the English during the French And Indian War. Although a number of other members of the Haudenosaunee confederacy, such as the Mohawk remained English allies, a large number of the Native people of this region considered the English settlers to be their greatest threat since their only interest appeared to be simply the acquisition of Indigenous land at any cost. The English king assured the Natives that English soldiers would protect them from English colonial intrusion in principle, but that seldom worked in practice. The settlers just kept on coming west like a tidal wave across the Allegheny mountains. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">The English won the French And Indian War and the Native people of western PA lost more land. The English soldiers made a half-hearted effort at keeping the English settlers out of the remaining Native lands but it really did not work. Finally the English colonists declared themselves independent fron England and launched a revolutionary war. Again the Native people attempted to save what little they had left by siding with the crown but, of course, that turned out to be the losing side once more. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">At the end of the Revolutionary War the new nation called the United States took away most of the lands that remained in Haudenosaunee control and destroyed the political power of the confederacy. All the Shawnees and Lenapis were driven out of our region and west into Ohio and Indiana. The Senecas were left with a number of tiny reservations in New York state and only one in Pennsylvania. The Pennsylvania reservation was called Corn planter's Grant. It was located high up north on the Allegheny River in Warren County not far from the New York state border. That Seneca community survived well into the Twentieth Century. Then in 1965 the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers completed a flood control project along most of the length of the stream that included a dam built right next to the Warren County reservation. The dam created a large reservoir that almost completely oblitrated the Conrnplanter's Grant reservation. The residents of the community were forcibly moved out of the area under protest and against their will. They were relocated north across the state border in the New York state Allegany Seneca Indian Reservation miles from their native Pennsylvania home. There is no longer a Native reservation in the state of Pennsylvania.</p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Over the years since the last of the original Native people of our region were dispossessed of their lands some of them settled in the non-Native rural and urban communities of the area, especially the city of Pittsburgh. Local industrial jobs also attracted Native people from other places. Enventually western Pennsylvania became the home of a variety of families and individuals belonging to or descended from Native tribes from all over the continent. By the late 1960's a number of urban Native families in the city of Pittsburgh had organized themselves into an urban Indigenous center called the COUNCIL OF THREE RIVERS AMERICAN INDIAN CENTER. This organization developed into a social service agency that now serves Indigenous and non-Indigenous residents in the region. </p>
<p style="text-align: center;">Since very ancient times the Senecas perceived their relationship as a people with the natural environment that was their home as a sacred understanding. Now the residents of the three main surviving Seneca reservations in the neighboring regions of western New York state have established a coallition with non-Indigenous people living in these areas. The coalition is called DEFEND O:HIYO' which uses the Seneca language name of the Allegheny River. This coallition is dedicated to protecting the area of western New York and western Pennsylvania from the destructive consequences of fossil fuel acquisition and transportation. Most of the environmental activism of this organization targets fossil fuel pipelines and fracking.</p>
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Creation Narration of the Seneca People
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2021-10-26T22:23:51.241Z
Miguel Sague Jr
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<dd><div class="xg_user_generated"><p><span><strong>THE LEGEND OF SKY WOMAN</strong></span><br/> The Onondowaga people who are known to the world as the Seneca Tribe are an Indigenous people whose homeland is the the NorthEastern region of what is now the United States. At the height of their history they controlled a territory that included areas of western Pennsylvania, eastern Ohio, and western New York state all along the southern shore of Lake Ontario.<br/> The Onondowaga tell a story that remembers a time when there was no solid or dry land available on the earth. Everything was water as far as the eye could see from horizon to horizon. In the water, aquatic animals such as fish, beavers, river otters, water snakes and water birds dwelled. In the air the flying creatures such as geese and hawks circled endlessly on extended wings<br/> Surmounting it all the dome of the sky arched overhead. On the uper surface of that sky dome there existed an universe of celestial life. There was a village there where the sky people lived in their elm-bark longhouses just like the Seneca People of later times would. At the center of the sky world there grew a mighty tree from whose branches hung bright flowers and fruit which sparkled at night, and these were the stars.<br/> The chief of the sky people had a wife and she was expecting a child. One day the woman approached her husband and placing her hand gently on her great belly she informed him that she had grown curious about what was under the great tree at the center of the sky and wished him to use his prodigious power and magic to uproot it so she could take a look beneath it.<br/> The chief reluctantly agreed to his wife's request and placing his arms around the trunk of the tree, pulled it out by the roots. There soon was a huge hole in the sky where the tree had been. The woman leanned over its edge and was amazed by what she saw down there, all that water and no land. She was careless and slipped, falling through the hole.<br/> <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739637499?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739637499?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739638663?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739638663?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a></p>
<p>The woman fell helplessly and would have perished but was unexpectedly saved by a great flock of geese who spread their enormous wings together and held her gently aloft lowering her slowly.</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739639080?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739639080?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><br/> The living creatures beneath realized that the woman still was in great peril, having no place to land and so they all decided to help. First they called upon the great primordial turtle to rise from the depths of the water and allow its enormous shell to emerge above the surface. Now there was a solid surface upon which the geese could gently place the woman.<br/> <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739649477?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739649477?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739650698?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739650698?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><br/> <br/> Fortunately for Sky Woman, she happened to be wearing a leather thong around her neck from which hung a pouch full of plant seeds of all kinds. With these Sky Woman would have the chance to populate her new home with all the plants needed for a proper earth surface. Unfortunately seeds can only sprout in soil and a turtle's hard shell is hardly an appropriate place to plant anything.<br/> The creatures of the water decided that one of them should swim down to the bottom and bring up a bit of mud from down there. Sky Woman could use her magic to spread that mud accross the whole surface of the giant turtle shell and create a place where plants could grow. First the big beaver with his strong flat paddle tail attemped the task but he ran out of breath half way down and had to return quickly to the surface, gasping for breath. The duck, the river otter and the loon also all tried but failed just like the beaver for the same reason, almost drowning in the process.</p>
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<p>After several other water animals tried and failed, the tiny muskrat declared that he would try. The others laughed and ridiculed him, exclaiming that how did he think he could accomplish a task so difficult that it had stymied others much stronger than him. But he persisted and dove down. To everybody's surprise, the muskrat re-emerged sometime later with a bit of mud held against his chest by his two tiny front paws.</p>
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<p>Once the wet soil was placed at the center of the turtle shell, Sky Woman began to walk around it and with each circle the patch of mud grew and grew until it covered the whole surface establishing a firm base for the creation of a motherland. The Seneca people call this motherland Turtle Island and it is known by others by the name of North America.</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739682691?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739682691?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><br/> <a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739699277?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener"><img src="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/9739699277?profile=RESIZE_710x" class="align-full"/></a><br/> <br/> Sky Woman gave birth to a daughter. This daughter grew up to then, eventually, marry the West Wind and bear the divine twins; Sapling (The Creator Spirit) and Flint (The spirit of misfortune). After her death the daughter of Sky woman was buried, and from three separate places of her grave sprouted the three sacred plants that sustain the Seneca people; Maize, Beans and Squash. The Seneca identify these three givers of life as the Three Sisters.</p>
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Indigenous Futures
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2020-09-26T21:10:04.688Z
Oonya Kempadoo
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<p>Hello, I am from Guyana but am working on a regional story project and would love to be in touch with any Caribbean people who are looking at Caribbean Indigenous Futures/Futurism. Is there any group, books, persons known for this? Hahom.</p>
<p>Hello, I am from Guyana but am working on a regional story project and would love to be in touch with any Caribbean people who are looking at Caribbean Indigenous Futures/Futurism. Is there any group, books, persons known for this? Hahom.</p>
Song of the FULL MOON CEREMONY
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2020-03-26T17:57:36.154Z
Miguel Sague Jr
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<p>click on the link below that says " FULL MOON CEREMONY" to hear the song</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/4237234627?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FULL MOON CEREMONY</a></p>
<p>click on the link below that says " FULL MOON CEREMONY" to hear the song</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/4237234627?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">FULL MOON CEREMONY</a></p>
SONG TO ATABEY
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2020-03-26T17:34:14.015Z
Miguel Sague Jr
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/4237059080?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SONG TO ATABEY</a></p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/4237059080?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SONG TO ATABEY</a></p>
Song To Atabey
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2020-03-26T17:32:40.811Z
Miguel Sague Jr
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<p>click on the link below to listen to the song</p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/4237059080?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SONG TO ATABEY</a></p>
<p>click on the link below to listen to the song</p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/4237059080?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">SONG TO ATABEY</a></p>
Caney Circle FOUR DIRECTIONS SONG
tag:indigenouscaribbean.ning.com,2020-03-26:2030313:Topic:135771
2020-03-26T17:01:32.602Z
Miguel Sague Jr
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<p>Click the link below to hear the song</p>
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<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/4236831516?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Caney Circle FOUR DIRECTIONS SONG</a></p>
<p>Click the link below to hear the song</p>
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Baptisms/Blessings/Naming Ceremonies
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2019-10-13T22:46:20.795Z
Leia
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Is there any known version or variant in the Taino traditions similar to baptisms, blessings or naming ceremonies performed on our people at birth, or at any later date in life?
Is there any known version or variant in the Taino traditions similar to baptisms, blessings or naming ceremonies performed on our people at birth, or at any later date in life?
Looking for clarification on Taíno Nations
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2019-09-22T03:03:10.897Z
Leia
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Greetings! I am new to the network, and in the past two years have discovered the Taino revivalist movement. I’ve been learning about the movement little by little. It is my intention to become part of the community respectfully, through the correct process and welcome any guidance in doing so :) However I’ve come across several individuals and groups online claiming to be legitimate Taíno nations, that also claim that the revivalist movement is fraudulent and appropriative. I’ve tried to reach…
Greetings! I am new to the network, and in the past two years have discovered the Taino revivalist movement. I’ve been learning about the movement little by little. It is my intention to become part of the community respectfully, through the correct process and welcome any guidance in doing so :) However I’ve come across several individuals and groups online claiming to be legitimate Taíno nations, that also claim that the revivalist movement is fraudulent and appropriative. I’ve tried to reach out to such people and blogs for clarification and education but never received any answers. Most lead to error blogs, links that don’t work, defunct websites, emails no longer in use, etc. For those who did manage to contact said people and websites, they seemed rather combative, accusatory and frankly racially exclusive when answering others who reached out to them for clarification and guidance, or in the search for reconnection. I’m unsure of how to understand or approach this situation, has anyone else come across this? Is there any truth to their claims? Is there simply two separate different Taíno cultural movements? I don’t mean to be disrespectful or invalidate any beliefs or communities, I’m just confused as to what is what, I don’t want to overstep over indigenous cultures and cause more harm :(. Please if anyone has any answers I would love to hear them and understand.
ASTROMYTHOLOGY Sebastian Robiou Lamarche in English
tag:indigenouscaribbean.ning.com,2019-01-04:2030313:Topic:131561
2019-01-04T00:55:59.024Z
Miguel Sague Jr
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<p>Taino astromythology</p>
<p>Sebastian Robiou Lamarche in English</p>
<p><a href="https://storage.ning.com/topology/rest/1.0/file/get/644981833?profile=original" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Astronomy_in_Taino_Mythology%20Sebastian%20Robiou%20Lamarche.pdf</a></p>
<p>Taino astromythology</p>
<p>Sebastian Robiou Lamarche in English</p>
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