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"Ever since I grew up I've always been told that I am Paiute and should be proud of who I am. Now research says that the more an Indian child knows about his culture, his history, the better he's going to be academically." ~ Karma Grayman, Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, Utah Museum of Natural History
Preservation of Language and Culture
Preservation of Language and Culture
This online lesson provides perspectives from Native American community members, images, objects, and other sources to help students and teachers think about the significance that homelands, kinship systems, and nationhood hold for Native Peoples of the Northern Plains. Scroll to begin a Native-based exploration of the Northern Plains.
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Utah Museum of Natural History
Utah Museum of Natural History
"My kids and grandkids know what our culture and traditions are. Our language: we speak it. The reason I never moved off the reservation is because I wanted them to know who they are as indigenous people and to hold on to the history... We are blessed in a lot of ways. Even though we don't have material-wise richness, we are rich in our cultures." ~ Margene Bullcreek, Skull Valley Goshute
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Part of an American Rescue Plan Act grant from the National Endowment for the Arts
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Social Media
Social Media
"...When they are born, an uncri (grandmother) will clean their mouths our with sage, say prayers, and offer words of comfort, this passing all her knowledge and wisdom on. Blessing them for their future. Pregnant mothers never drink or do drugs, never get mad, holler or cuss. Being pregnant in Lakota is to igulsake." To make oneself strong! A beautiful and sacred ceremony. Wopila to all our mothers that carry our future."
I am an old woman now. The buffaloes and black-tail deer are gone, and our Indian ways are almost gone. Sometimes I find it hard to believe that I ever lived them.
My little son grew up in the white man's school. He can read books, and he owns cattle and has a farm. He is a leader among our Hidatsa people, helping teach them to follow the white man's road.
He is kind to me. We no longer live in an earth lodge, but in a house with chimneys, and my son's wife cooks by a stove.
But for me, I cannot forget our old ways.
Often in summer I rise at daybreak and steal out to the corn fields, and as I hoe the corn I sing to it, as we did when I was young. No one cares for our corn songs now.
Sometimes in the evening I sit, looking out on the big Missouri. The sun sets, and dusk steals over the water. In the shadows I see again to see our Indian village, with smoke curling upward from the earth lodges, and in the river's roar I hear the yells of the warriors, and the laughter of little children of old.
It is but an old woman's dream. Then I see but shadows and hear only the roar of the river, and tears come into my eyes. Our Indian life, I know, is gone forever.
Recognition
Recognition
Lands and Peoples
Lands and Peoples
Indigenous Tribes of Seattle and Washington, American Library Association
National atlas. Indian tribes, cultures & languages : [United States], Library of Congress
World Map: Native Land Digital
Native Land Information System (NLIS): catalogs and programming for climate change and restoration
Land Acknowledgement and ensuring equity: You want to do a land acknowledgement? Great! Why?
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A sad, cruel legacy of control and neglect in the United States.
Bridgewater State University
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Assimilation
Assimilation
Canada’s Colonial Genocide of Indigenous Peoples: A Review of the Psychosocial and Neurobiological Processes Linking Trauma and Intergenerational Outcomes, National Institute of Health, 2022
Reckoning and Reparation: Canada Navigates Past Mistreatment of Indigenous Populations, Wilson Center, 2021
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Ancestral Lands
Ancestral Lands
Indigenous peoples are particularly vulnerable to the severe consequences of climate change, biodiversity loss and environmental degradation. ~ United Nations
Their human rights are routinely violated by state authorities, and they face high levels of marginalization and discrimination. Indigenous Peoples face eviction from the ancestral lands they have inhabited for generations, as well as restricted access to education, health care and housing. Indigenous human rights defenders are intimidated, attacked, and sometimes even killed, often with the support of the state. Indigenous people are more likely to live in extreme poverty and suffer higher rates of landlessness, malnutrition and internal displacement than other groups. ~ Amnesty International
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Current Events and Reparations
Current Events and Reparations
"Restoring buffalo to the Indian Country, to preserve our historical, cultural, traditional and spiritual relationship for future generations."
Image credit: National Museum of the American Indian
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Paiute Indian Tribe of Utah, Annual Restoration Powwow. Image credit: Utah Museum of Natural History
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