Innu...you forgot them. They were the Esquimaux of yore. Innu cover two continents.
Injuns on Film
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There can be several bands in a nation. Also some overlap. Gets complicated.
Ahhhh….ok. Band, Clan, Tribe, Nation, Confederation’s?, Now Nations inside of Nations (& not talking about Quebec). Slowly making more sense, but maybe as Canadian political division as opposed to American political divisions?
Then weirdly, interestingly weirdly, this:
And, of course, all these divisions and classifications were made by Europeans according to their own worldviews and biases.
Yes. Not just Europeans, but Canadians and Americans, according to their own systems, it seems. Much of Canada’s comes from the Indian Act…& I’m just not up on the American system for this.
That’s why I was having an issue, wrapping my head around the whole division of Natives from Alaska being “Alaskan Natives” & “Natives from Hawaii” thing, as a Canadian I didn’t have the mental framework for the American divisions. I just didn’t see Natives from Alaska as a separate thing, and it didn’t even even picture Hawaiian Natives as Natives but as being Polynesians.
I just didn’t realize that “we” call Alaskan natives, and native Hawaiians, something separate from Native Americans. Maybe the “we” is nationalistic in Origin???
"We" in this case is the U.S.
Brief primer. . . Natives are mentioned exactly once in the Constitution, where Congress is given the authority to "regulate Commerce among the several States, with foreign States, and with the Indian Tribes." U.S. Const., Art. I, sec. 8.
The courts have consistently held that this means all "relations" with the nations are a matter for the Federal government. This breaks down though, because states do things like set up State reservations, and the whole set-up of jurisdiction and Indian "sovereignty" has been ruled by the Supremes as a matter of "balancing the Federal, state, and tribal interests." The rule is that a state action with regard to Natives cannot directly contradict a Federal action, but is OK if it supplements or otherwise does not directly contradict a Federal action.
At the Federal level, continental Natives are sometimes treated differently from Alaska natives (some of whom are Innu and some of whom are continental) and Native Hawaiians, who are basically Polynesian, and sometimes all lumped together in various legislation about "Natives."
This may give you some idea why I stay the hell away from Indian law.
As much as you are Scottish, or German, or whatever. Beltran was born in Bakersfield.sorry, i thought he was mexican. my bad.
The dark Mexicans in the northern area are Natives. California used to be Mexico. Mexico lost a big chunk of land to the US.sorry, i thought he was mexican. my bad.
California, Texas, New Mexico, Utah, and Nevada, Arizona, and parts of Colorado, Oklahomo, Kansas, Nebraska and Wyoming
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peSostdnortt67mM6P8 cYh3030 6ea0:9a761s5y6rat1gh49et cal9dl5 ·Mary "Te Ata" Thompson Fisher
1895 - 1995
Te Ata Thompson Fisher, whose name means “Bearer of the Morning,” was born Dec. 3, 1895, near Emet, Oklahoma. A citizen of the Chickasaw Nation, Te Ata was an accomplished actor and teller of Native American stories.
She received her early education in Tishomingo, and eventually went to the Oklahoma College for Women. While there, it was evident Te Ata had a natural talent for drama.
Her career as an actor and storyteller spanned more than 60 years. She worked as a storyteller to finance her acting career. She would tell Chickasaw legends, myths and chants, including performing rituals in native regalia.
Te Ata attended the Carnegie Institute of Technology in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, for one year. From there, she moved to New York City, where she met and married Clyde Fisher. During the 1930s she performed at summer camps in New York and New England.
In the prime of her career, she performed in England and Scandinavia, at the White House for President Franklin Roosevelt, for the King and Queen of Great Britain, and on stages across the United States.
Although Te Ata worked as an actor and drama instructor, she is best known for her artistic interpretations of Indian folklore, and for her children's book she co-authored on the subject.
Her world-renown talent has won her several honors including induction into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in 1957, being named The Ladies’ Home Journal Woman of the Year in 1976, being named Oklahoma's Official State Treasure in 1987, and having a lake near Bear Mountain in New York named in her honor.
She is also the subject of a video, God's Drum, the proceeds of which have supported the Te Ata Scholarship Fund for Indian students at her alma mater, the University of Science and Arts of Oklahoma in Chickasha, Oklahoma.
Te Ata died Oct. 26, 1995, in Oklahoma City, though her legacy and influence on the Native American storytelling traditions continues to this day