Slightly older quality, but still lovely to watch.
Monday, January 23, 2012
a short video of a Cherokee storyteller circa 1960(ish?)
Slightly older quality, but still lovely to watch.
Saturday, January 21, 2012
Nez Perce
Just a sort of side note while browsing the internet I came upon this photo here
"Nez
Perce's Chief Joseph (left) & Red
Thunder pose with Edmund S.
Meany, Washington, ca. 1903"
I also found quite a few compelling quotes from Chief Joseph himself, here are a few of my favorites:
"All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases."
"I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me."
"It does not require many words to speak the truth."
"The earth and myself are of one mind."
As moving as these quotes are, their power is often lost to time. I'm surprised that it was hard to even find myself reading Chief Joseph's words, and how much easier it is to look up famous quotes from many well-known "white" leaders. Why is it that I feel so uneducated in the areas of American history when it comes to the people that were here before my family? It makes me sad to think that a huge part of the story is being continuously left out, and at the same time glad that I am able to at least now learn more about the important history of these people who are so seemingly foreign to me, and yet live (lived?) on the same land as I do.
I also found quite a few compelling quotes from Chief Joseph himself, here are a few of my favorites:
"All men were made brothers. The earth is the mother of all people, and all people should have equal rights upon it. You might as well expect the rivers to run backward as that any man who was born free should be contented when penned up and denied liberty to go where he pleases."
"I am not a child, I think for myself. No man can think for me."
"It does not require many words to speak the truth."
"The earth and myself are of one mind."
As moving as these quotes are, their power is often lost to time. I'm surprised that it was hard to even find myself reading Chief Joseph's words, and how much easier it is to look up famous quotes from many well-known "white" leaders. Why is it that I feel so uneducated in the areas of American history when it comes to the people that were here before my family? It makes me sad to think that a huge part of the story is being continuously left out, and at the same time glad that I am able to at least now learn more about the important history of these people who are so seemingly foreign to me, and yet live (lived?) on the same land as I do.
Monday, January 16, 2012
I won't lie to you, after viewing the film in class all I could think about was this video I had seen through an NPR interview with a man named Ryan Red Corn, who was quoted as saying "The prevalence of humor in any country is just right here on the
surface,"... "All the Indians I know are smiling Indians."
One of my favorite things about this video is its tongue-in-cheek dedication to Edward S. Curtis (a known early 1900s photographer who we have to thank for much of our earlier photos of some very serious looking Indians.) And I believe it pretty much speaks for itself. So here it is:
Also something else I didn't notice the first time was the name "the 1491's"...Hohoh.
One of my favorite things about this video is its tongue-in-cheek dedication to Edward S. Curtis (a known early 1900s photographer who we have to thank for much of our earlier photos of some very serious looking Indians.) And I believe it pretty much speaks for itself. So here it is:
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