Yes, I know, we are just trying to sell a book?
However, this time there are a good number of eye
opening statements for the rest of Indian country and the rest of Mother Earth!
Yes, I did do a lot of cutting and pasting on this
posting, why not?
If we can remember to set aside the fact that not one
person on the cover of her book is an Eastern Woodland American Native from the
New England area and that nothing was mentioned as to if she has any of the
blood, I do like some of the things that she was able to dig up about our past?
Connecticut scholar's book on Native Americans paints
fuller portrait
By
Kathryn Boughton
Archaeology Dr. Lavin recently published Connecticut’s
Indigenous Peoples
That said I am so pleased to see that it was written
by a teacher of both archaeology and
anthropology, so many times it is just one or the other? For most modern
Connecticut residents, the history of the state began in 1614 with the Dutch or
1630's with the English, this ignores the more than 10 millennia of Native
American occupation before Block’s cruise up the Quinnetukut (Connecticut) river.
“When people think of Indians, they tend to think of Western Indians,” she, Dr.
Lavin, said “They have been so much less
acculturated in the West—a lot of those Indians never even saw a white man
before 1900 and didn’t speak English.”In the East,400 years of genocide,
prejudice, cultural indoctrination, intermarriage and dispersal of homelands, most
Easterners do not recognize the Indians in their midst. “Misconceptions about
‘historical’ Native Americans abound. Specifically, they include the erroneous
notions that all indigenous people moved west to get away from the Europeans or
died out from the effects of warfare and disease.” She finds the strictures
imposed by the U.S. government on Indian tribes trying to receive federal
recognition of their historic status to be ludicrous. Proving genealogical
descent can be difficult when dealing with societies that did not keep written
records. In addition, there was much movement among the tribes, especially
after they began to be dispersed by warfare with the whites.
New England
Tribal Veterans Honor Song, except for that one headdress, an elder veteran,
let it pass?
You
will notice the respect for the flag, bowed heads respect for Creator, skins as
in Woodland natives and the warrior protecting our MIA's, elders and veterans
from the rear?
One of
many veteran songs
