ResearchBuzz: FirehoseKJRH: An app for that: Cherokee Nation debuts official language-learning and dictionary app. “With help from another prominent indigenous entity, the Cherokee Nation debuted its own language learning app on Dec. 9. With a ceremony inside Durbin Feeling Language Center, tribal leaders lauded the release of the app as a means to fully resurrect a mother tongue that almost went extinct over […]
DoomsdaysCWNative People Rush to Feed the People
by @bsnorrell.blogspot.com, #CensoredNews, November 5, 2025
"The #BlackfeetNation brought in a load of produce from the #YakamaNation, and #FortPeck announced buffalo distribution. #GilaRiver is giving tribal members $1,000 in hardship funds, as the government shut-down continues.
"Blackfeet Tribal Council Member Mike Comes At Night brought in a load of produce from the Yakama Nation in Washington State for the Blackfeet Nation in Montana. 'We made it home safely from the Yakama Nation with a generous load of produce for the Blackfeet People. I am honored, as a Councilman, to serve our people. I’ve traveled hundreds of miles to help
bring food home, and at the end of the day, I know I am doing my job. I also want to thank all the farmers who helped us with this food — may the Creator bless them and their families," Comes at
Night said.
"#FortPeck's #Assiniboine and #Sioux Tribes are distributing buffalo meat, and gathering groceries, after declaring a state of emergency in Montana.
"In California, the #Yurok Tribal Council approved $300 food assistance cards for Yurok because of the disruptions in the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program #SNAP, and #CalFresh benefits, due to the federal government shutdown.
'Our goal is to help our most vulnerable citizens get through this challenging time,' said Yurok Chairman Joseph L. James, who said the tribe is working to mitigate the hardships on families from
the federal shutdown.
"In #Tahlequah, Oklahoma, the #CherokeeNation announced a $6.5 million response package. This includes cash payments of up to $185 per individual Cherokee Nation citizens on SNAP. It also includes over $1.25 million to support food banks and other non-profit food programs.
"The Cherokee Nation's expanded emergency declaration includes tribal members who are currently on SNAP living anywhere in the United States. The Cherokee Nation has over 470,000 citizens living in all fifty states. Cherokee Chief Chuck Hoskin, Jr. said the Cherokee's network of 27 “at-large” organizations located in urban areas could access grants of $5,000 to address local food shortages.
"The #GilaRiverIndianCommunity, south of #Phoenix in #Arizona, is distributing $1,000 hardship payments to all adult tribal members, regardless of whether or not they are SNAP recipients.
"Gov. Stephen Roe Lewis said, 'We want to make sure that, as a sovereign nation, we take care of our members during this unprecedented shutdown.'
" 'I hope that this payment brings some peace of mind during this time of uncertainty at the federal
level.' "
Source:
https://bsnorrell.blogspot.com/2025/11/native-people-rush-to-feed-people.html
#ReaderSupportedNews
#CensoredNews #FoodInsecurity #FoodSovereignty #NativeAmericanNews #FirstNations #SNAPCuts
#NativeAmericaCalling: Native Playlist with #KenPomeroy and #SamanthaCrain
Friday, October 3, 2025
"Two #NativeAmerican women from Oklahoma are carving distinct and inviting musical paths through the music world.
"Samantha Crain is out with her seventh album. 'Gumshoe' offers the latest installment in the veteran #Choctaw singer-songwriter’s musical evolution. The cover artwork — a photo of her own beadwork — is a clue to the roots she draws on for strength and inspiration.
"And Ken Pomeroy is out with her debut album. 'Cruel Joke' invokes a simmering depth of feeling that transcends her young age. She is a natural storyteller from the #CherokeeNation with a lot to say.
"Both of these creative artists are added to the Native Playlist at Native America Calling."
#IndigenousPeoples #IndigenousPeoplesDay #NativeAmericanMusicians
DigitalNC: Newest Partner Kiln It with Batch of NC Pottery and Cherokee Related Materials. “Thanks to our newest partner, the North Carolina Pottery Center, a batch containing photographs, slides, postcards, scrapbooks, and more that highlight the beauty of the Cherokee Indian Reservation and surrounding area along with North Carolina’s rich pottery tradition is now available online.”
John AutryMay 23, 1838 - U.S. General Winfield Scott began the forced removal of the Cherokee from North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, and Tennessee, and their detention in forts built for that purpose. He was implementing the Treaty of New Echota, signed by a few members of the tribe relinquishing their lands for a payment of $5 million, under orders from President Martin Van Buren.
16,000 Cherokee were then driven on foot to “Indian Territory” (what is now Oklahoma). Of those who set out on the forced march known as the “The Trail of Tears,” nearly one-quarter died along the way or as a result of the relocation.
#CherokeeNation #TreatyOfNewEchota #WinfieldScott #MartinVanBuren
Taco DaveAny folks here able to help me with a wording/phrasing question? I’m writing a Route 66 themed puzzle book and need a short, concise clue for “Cherokee”. The clue I drafted is “Nation of indigenous people
in Northeastern Oklahoma” but I’m not sure if that’s the most accurate/preferred phrasing. Anyone from the #CherokeeNation able to suggest some phrasing for me?
I’m also open to suggested resources for learning how Route 66 affected the Cherokee Nation.
Pussy Galore's EmporiumHistoric Manuscripts & Texana Treasures Fetch $1.5 Million for Heritage – Antiques & The Arts Weekly
...#ThomasJefferson #CherokeeNation #HeritageAuctions #HistoricalManuscripts #TexasHistory #AbrahamLincoln #MatthewBrady #AlbertEinstein #SamHouston #AmericanaAuction #PoliticalHistory #RareManuscripts #Collectibles #AuctionHighlights #HistoricTexana Heritage Auctions in Dallas held a two-session sale on March 28, 2024, featuring 364 lots of historical manuscripts, many…
From #Wikipedia: Internment of Japanese Americans
"During World War II, the United States forcibly relocated and incarcerated about 120,000 people of Japanese descent in ten concentration camps operated by the War Relocation Authority (#WRA), mostly in the western interior of the country. About two-thirds were U.S. citizens.
"These actions were initiated by Executive Order 9066, issued by President Franklin D. Roosevelt on February 19, 1942, following the outbreak of war with the Empire of Japan in December 1941. About 127,000 Japanese Americans then lived in the continental U.S., of which about 112,000 lived on the West Coast. About 80,000 were Nisei ('second generation'; American-born Japanese with #USCitizenship) and Sansei ('third generation', the children of Nisei). The rest were Issei ('first generation') immigrants born in Japan, who were ineligible for citizenship. In Hawaii, where more than 150,000 Japanese Americans comprised more than one-third of the territory's population, only 1,200 to 1,800 were incarcerated.
"#Internment was intended to mitigate a security risk which Japanese Americans were believed to pose. The scale of the incarceration in proportion to the size of the Japanese American population far surpassed similar measures undertaken against German and Italian Americans who numbered in the millions and of whom some thousands were interned, most of these non-citizens. Following the executive order, the entire West Coast was designated a military exclusion area, and all Japanese Americans living there were taken to assembly centers before being sent to concentration camps in California, Arizona, Wyoming, Colorado, Utah, Idaho, and Arkansas. Similar actions were taken against individuals of Japanese descent in Canada. Internees were prohibited from taking more than they could carry into the camps, and many were forced to sell some or all of their property, including their homes and businesses. At the camps, which were surrounded by barbed wire fences and patrolled by armed guards, internees often lived in overcrowded barracks with minimal furnishing."
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Prior use of internment camps in the United States
"The United States Government had previously employed civilian internment policies in a variety of circumstances. During the 1830s, civilians of the indigenous #CherokeeNation were evicted from their homes and detained in 'emigration depots' in Alabama and Tennessee prior to the deportation to Oklahoma following the passage of the #IndianRemovalAct in 1830. Similar internment policies were carried out by U.S. territorial authorities against the #Dakota and #Navajo peoples during the American Indian Wars in the 1860s.
"In 1901, during the Philippine–American War, General J. Franklin Bell ordered the detainment of #Filipino civilians in the provinces of Batangas and Laguna into U.S. Army-run #ConcentrationCamps in order to prevent them from collaborating with #Filipino General Miguel Malvar's guerrillas; over 11,000 people died in the camps from malnutrition and disease."
Read more:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internment_of_Japanese_Americans
#ICEDetention #IllegalDeportations #SecretPolice #HumanRightsViolations #ConstitutionalRights #HumanRights #SCOTUSIsCompromised #SCOTUSIsCorrupt #USPol #ForcedDisappearances #MemoryHoled #1798AlienEnemiesAct #PrivatePrisons
March 26, 1839 - The Cherokee Nation came to the end of the “Trail of Tears,” a forced march from their ancestral home in the Smoky Mountains to the Oklahoma Territory. General Winfield Scott, under orders from President Andrew Jackson, arrested then drove the tribe’s members through the winter, leaving 4000 dead along the route. According to John Burnett, an interpreter with the U.S. Army, “. . . covetousness on the part of the white race was the cause of all that the Cherokees had to suffer . . . .” The train of 645 wagons stretched for five km (three miles), leaving behind as many as twenty graves in one day, principally victims of exposure.
Northeastern Global News: Preserving Cherokee heritage: Northeastern revives ‘The Willie Jumper Stories’ and other lost tales. “This legend and many more tales of notable Cherokee people and events are all captured in ‘The Willie Jumper Stories,’ a collection of tales written by Cherokee Baptist priest Willie Jumper in 1964. The stories offer valuable insight not only into Cherokee […]