Marie 🇸🇪Native American land losses & genocide in the United States. Around 12 Million of natives lost Everything due to invasion.
John ColagioiaThe federal policies that attempted to wipe out Native identity, language and culture continue to manifest in the pain tribal communities face today, including cycles of violence and abuse, disappearance of Indigenous people, premature deaths, poverty and loss of wealth, mental health disorders and substance abuse.
Deb Haaland
All the dead men will come to life again. Their spirits will come to their bodies again. We must wait here in the homes of our fathers and be ready to meet them in the bosom of our mother.
Smohalla
As we are going to part, we will come and take you by the hand, and hope the Great Spirit will protect you on your journey and return you safe to your friends.
Red Jacket
imagination and inventiveness are common human potentialities. All people invent.
Ella Cara Deloria
There is nothing so beautiful as the free forest. To catch a fish when you are hungry, cut the boughs of a tree, make a fire to roast it, and eat it in the open air, is the greatest of all luxuries.
Edmonia Lewis
Betsy Roberts Miller ⁂American Indian Heritage Symposium 2025 presentations from the Georgia Archives are now available for viewing at their YouTube channel, featuring presentations exploring
* Muscogee re-connection to ancestral homelands,
* Native presence at Ocmulgee in the twentieth century,
* the archaeology of Georgia’s Indigenous communities, and
* the life and legacy of Yamacraw leader Tomochichi.
https://www.georgiaarchives.org/assets/press_releases/AIHS_2025_PR_final.pdf
#Yamacraw #Muscogee #NativeAmericanHeritage
#Georgia #SouthEastUS #Ocmulgee #NativeAmerican
https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLWibkI5XB7eTdIBH5U1cNbTYGFtrxDf9C
The power of a thing or an act is in the meaning and the understanding.
Black Elk
Others believe in two Spirits, one good and one bad, and make feasts for the Bad Spirit, to keep him quiet. They think that if they can make peace with him, the Good Spirit will not hurt them.
Black Hawk
In the beginning the world was covered with darkness. There was no sun, no day. The perpetual night had no moon or stars.
Geronimo