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A few days ago: Renowned researcher Michael Tellinger guides us through a compelling investigation into how lies and misinformation have shaped historical narratives and distorted our knowledge. By examining ancient artifacts and modern-day secrets, the film uncovers the ways in which critical truths have been manipulated and concealed.
In other words, vibration and sound is the healer...
The left side of the Carlisle Main Post Cemetery after last summer’s
disinterments concluded. While 32 children have gone home in the last
seven years, more than 160 are still waiting. (Photo/Jenna Kunze)
By Native News Online Staff |
This week, the U.S. Office of Army
Cemeteries began its annual process of disinterring, identifying, and
returning the remains of eleven Native American children— who died more
than a century ago at a government-run Indian boarding school in
Pennsylvania— home to their closest living relatives.
The students are among nearly 200 who died and were buried in the government’s care between 1880 and 1910 while attending the nation’s flagship Indian boarding school, Carlisle Indian Industrial School, in Carlisle, Penn.
Over the last seven years, the Army has returned 32 children’s
remains back to their relatives. Each project was conducted over about a
month-long period during the summer by a team of professionals from the
Army Corps of Engineers’
Center of Expertise for Curation. The team worked with tribal nations
to carry out the process of exhuming and identifying each child’s
remains. The Army confirmed to NNO that it will be disinterring and
returning an additional 18 children in 2025.
This disinterment project
began on September 3, 2024, and will end on October 14, according to the
Office of Army Cemeteries.
In 1879, the Army’s Carlisle Barracks became the site of the nation’s first government-run Indian boarding school. Operating under the motto of “kill the Indian, save the man,” school
administrators tried to forcibly assimilate 7,800 Native American
children from more than 140 tribal nations through a mix of
Western-style education and hard labor.
Before it closed and the property
was transferred to the Army in 1918, the school buried the bodies of at
least 194 Indigenous children in the school cemetery, including 14 who
are marked with “unknown” grave markers.
Many students’ deaths were announced in the local newspaper at the time, noting causes of death as “that dread disease, consumption” or tuberculosis or detailing circumstances of unknown sickness.
“As long as the Army can avoid scrutiny and accountability and maintain
absolute control over the remains, it doesn’t care if tribes’ rights as
sovereigns are abused in the process,” said Greg Werkeiser, an attorney
with Cultural Heritage Partners, which has joined with the Native
American Rights Fund in representing the Winnebago Tribe of Nebraska in a
lawsuit over the issue, along with the tribe’s general counsel, Danelle
Smith, at Big Fire Law & Policy Group. “Asking tribes to
subserviate themselves once again just continues the Army’s tradition of
abuses,” Werkeiser said. “Some traditions need to end.”
23&Me is collapsing: turns out, all that precious DNA data is worthless.
Quick Note By Trace L Hentz (p.s. I'm an elder, too)
Native Elders warned long ago about the collection of your sacred and sovereign DNA (blood and spit) - and the elders also warned about colonial QUACKS (bad medicine) and science's inaccuracy! Bad data? That, too.
Ever wondered if genetic research is being done on Indigenous people? Absolutely and often without their knowledge. The film “The Leech and the Earthworm” chronicles the new Columbus – a genetic scientist who wants to map your genetic identity, and will even steal to get it.”
One interview that stands out is with Larry Baird, leader of the
Nuu-chah-nulth Tribe of Vancouver Island, Canada, who was outraged to
find out that DNA samples taken from over 800 tribal members almost 20
years ago for arthritis research were taken to Oxford (in England) and used for other purposes without their consent. (Cloning and worse...)
Mainstream History was written so wrong, so fake, for so long, you cannot trust it, any of it... Think back to school... what did you learn? No history worth your time remembering, I'd bet. (We're educated to be ignorant?)
Years ago, my birthfather's family (cousins) insisted they do DNA to prove what tribe - well, dah... that failed... YOU CANNOT PROVE YOUR TRIBE with a DNA swab. The "science" is total bullcrap. (But all those expensive TV Commercials told you and sold you, right?)
They are making MONEY on our stupidity!
You and I and DNA cannot begin to correct the bad history, a million years of migrations, conquest, intermarriages, invasions and murders -and bad theories abound about our FIRST NATIONS (aka anthropology)...
To today...
In what feels like a desperate attempt to stay afloat, 23andMe plans to… start prescribing weight loss drugs. How did we get here, with the once-mighty DNA testing company becoming just the latest to join the GLP-1 trend, like so many others
have already done? But 23andMe has few cards left to play. Once
valued at $6 billion, it’s now a penny stock on the verge of being
delisted from the Nasdaq. It’s struggled to stoke demand for its DNA
spit tests, and its attempts to use its trove of genetic data for drug
discovery and development have been predictably expensive, with
potential profits a long way off.
On
Friday, August 9, the company said it’s shutting down its internal drug
discovery efforts but will continue to fund development of two cancer
drugs.
23andMe's
attempt in recent years to connect consumer DNA tests to health —
showing the diseases people are at risk for, and visits with doctors who
can help determine next steps — seems like an offering that should catch on, especially given how popular the longevity and wellness fads have become.
But that was all a fraud and didn't work!
The
experts are baffled - why, given the mountain of precious DNA
information, the “code of life” and “software for everything” the
company can’t make it work? Some brave souls have suggested there’s not much doctors can do with the information gleaned from consumer DNA tests.
Oh, great!
By
the way, it’s not much anyone can do with DNA data, other than make
Ponzi schemes investing into stupid things like 23andMe, then pumping
and dumping the stock. Admittedly, a Ponzi scheme can last a while and
be profitable for some, who dump the stock ahead of others.
BAD SCIENCE? Isolation of DNA from nucleus of cells is just as hocus-pocus as
isolation of viruses from samples. Despite several decades after the
hyped-up “human genome sequencing” project completion, which promised to
cure cancer (yeah… again…) and all diseases, none of that happened.
Nothing really useful came out of those billions invested into the pipe
dream of cracking the genetic “code of life”. At the completion of the
human genome project, Svante Paabo could not coherently explain the
difference between a chimpanzee and a human, while any 5 year old will
have no difficulty explaining it. (A huge waste of MONEY, too.)
👉 Did you know the new weight loss shots have killed people...America is buying these (weight loss) drugs and having them prescribed to Americans more than any other country on earth.” This is where he shocked me the most.
“…the company
Novo Nordisk ... was just handed 10,000
lawsuits by people who have used Ozempic and Wegovy and have now either died, had brain cancers, had thyroid cancers, breast cancers, paralyzed stomachs.
...and there is a rise in strange cancers, sudden deaths and autoimmune diseases NEVER seen before…
Both companies 23AndMe and Ancestry.com will collect your DNA sample,
charge you money to tell you who you are related to —
BUT they are under no obligation to keep this private. As far as I can
tell they use this data to sell your information, and of course profit
from it. (Always follow that money, right?)
Caldwell First Nation marked a turning point for its people with a celebration over the weekend.
A
Land Back and cultural event was held on Saturday, to welcome families
who have moved back to Canada's southernmost First Nation, and leave out
a welcome for those who may soon be moving back.
Chief Mary Duckworth said Saturday's celebration is the start of a new chapter in the life of Caldwell First Nation.
"It
took years of strong leadership and enduring obstacles on our path
home," said Duckworth. "If not for our ancestors and leaders, we would
not be standing here on our land now. In ceremonies, songs, and stories,
and most of all through our nationhood, we are sharing our gratitude to
the Creator and to all who have come before us and contributed to
saving our nation and creating a new homeland."
The celebration
completed the journey of ten people -- eight adults and two children --
who began returning home on July 20. By September, 58 people are
expected to return to the community.
Caldwell First Nation, which
has existed since 1790, finally had a place to call home when it
acquired land near Point Pelee in Leamington in 2020. Funding for
development was granted in November 2021. Since then, new net-zero homes
have been built, along with new street signs.
The First Nation persevered through war, arson, racism, the residential school system, the Sixties Scoop, and other challenges.
"This
small yet strong nation persevered, meeting around kitchen tables,
writing letters, and testifying to the federal government," read a
release from Caldwell First Nation. "We set aside small amounts of money
for our dream and, with the advocacy and leadership of Chief Carl
Johnson and his son Larry Johnson, we eventually, some 230 years later,
won a 198-acre small piece of our original homelands back by ratifying a
land claim settlement for Point Pelee with Canada in 2011 for
$105-million."
Duckworth said that Saturday's ceremony brought the story of the First Nation full circle.
"We
have come through a devastating experience of land loss at the hands of
colonial powers and have restored our land and our homes," said
Duckworth. "Land Back is a deeply meaningful and important history for
everyone who lives in Windsor-Essex, Chatham-Kent, and Elgin County to
understand."
Most
children take their parents' words as gospel while growing up, but
Melissa Guida-Richards had more than a few reasons to question what her
parents told her.
The 31-year-old's life went through a seismic
shift after she discovered at the age of 19 that she had been adopted
from Bogotá, Colombia. Her Italian-Portuguese parents, who are based in
the U.S., had always kept Guida-Richards' adoption story hidden from
her. For nearly two decades, she lived under the assumption that she was
biologically related to her parents, who had chosen to raise her in a
"colorblind" environment, in which she was oblivious to her true ethnic
heritage.
"Love is not enough in adoption. Children need support and resources,"
Guida-Richards said, warning about emotional issues if the latter is not
provided. "When you take a child and place them in a family of another
ethnicity, the parents need to incorporate that child's birth culture
and hygiene needs, like hair care, and provide racial mirrors of people
that look like them."
"Like many adoptees of color, I was raised by a white
American family," Guida-Richards, who went on to publish a book about
her experience, told Newsweek. "I grew up in the middle-class suburbs of New York and was very sheltered.
“No one should remove children from healthy, loving parents who are
struggling in poverty to be placed with strangers who are given money to
care for them.”
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excerpt:
The System Is Failing Children
In early June 2024, Pakistani child welfare activist Sarim Burney was
arrested on charges of child trafficking. According to the report filed
against him, Burney and two associates allegedly forged documents to
facilitate the adoption of three baby girls by falsely making it seem
like they were orphans.
The complaint that led to this case was initially filed by US authorities,
which led to the Pakistani Federal Investigation Agency (FIA) to open
an investigation into the process by which Burney and his organization
put these children up for adoption. In light of the ongoing
investigation against Burney, the Sindh government has taken over his welfare trust.
Syed Muaz Shah,
a lawyer and expert on Islamic jurisprudence who is representing two of
the families involved in this case, points out that clear discrepancies
by Burney and his legal team show a lack of respect for both adoptees
and prospective adoptive parents.
“Even in the best situations, there is trauma, whether perceived or not.”
“These parents are guided by adoption agencies in the US, who have a
legal duty to guide them appropriately, and they misguided them,” he
stated. In the Burney case, Shah blames the agencies involved,
advocating for the families’ pure intentions to build a life for a child
from their home country.
The complex international adoption process, which involves
prospective families, agencies in both countries, and a slew of legal
teams, often lacks sufficient oversight, both during the process and
once the adoption is complete. This can lead to children being wrongly taken from their birth parents
by agencies—some of which ignore potential red flags that the children
entering into the adoption system might, in fact, already have homes.
Moreover, adoptive parents aren’t always well-meaning. JS Lee,
an author, artist, and musician, describes herself as “the sole child
purchased from Korea by a White American couple who had six biological
children of their own.” Lee has been open
about her own experience as a transracial adoptee, sharing the abuse
she faced from a young age and the trauma she had from growing up around
people who claimed to be “color-blind.”
“I acknowledge that there are a variety of adoption experiences. Some
adoptees do feel they’ve been saved—particularly those who were true
war orphans and those who had medical needs. But even in the best
situations, there is trauma, whether perceived or not. Many of us grow
up parroting what we hear from others only to reflect more deeply with
age and safety,” Lee says of the trauma caused by interracial adoptions
and a system that ignores adoptee voices.
While international adoptions have been documented as early as the
1950s, many of the challenges and harms faced by adoptees have only come
to light more recently. Burney’s case of falsified documents is similar
to the cases in Uganda, reported on in 2018, and South Korea,
where it was revealed two years ago that for some 60 years, 200,000
adoptees from the country may have had their documents falsified.
When intercountry—particularly interracial—adoptees are placed in a home
that doesn’t celebrate or share their culture, the disconnect can cause
an identity crisis throughout their lifetime.
The story of a Sixties Scoop survivor's search to find herself and her community
CBC Books ·
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Otipemisiwak is a Plains Cree word describing the Metis, meaning "the people who own themselves."
Andrea
Currie was born into a Metis family with a strong lineage of warriors,
land protectors, writers, artists, and musicians - all of which was lost
to her when she was adopted as an infant into a white family with no
connection to her people. It was 1960, and the Sixties Scoop was in full
swing. Together with her younger adopted brother, also Metis, she
struggled through her childhood, never feeling like she belonged in that
world. When their adoptions fell apart during their teen years, the two
siblings found themselves on different paths, yet they stayed
connected. Currie takes us through her journey, from the harrowing time
of bone-deep disconnection, to the years of searching and
self-discovery, into the joys and sorrows of reuniting with her birth
family.
Finding Otipemisiwak weaves lyrical prose,
poetry, and essays into an incisive commentary on the vulnerability of
Indigenous children in a white supremacist child welfare system, the
devastation of cultural loss, and the rocky road some people must walk
to get to the truth of who they are. Her triumph over the state's
attempts to erase her as an Indigenous person is tempered by the often
painful complexities of re-entering her cultural community while bearing
the mark of the white world in which she was raised. In Finding Otipemisiwak,
one woman's stories about surviving, then thriving as a fully present
member of her Nation and the human family are a portal. Readers who walk
through will better understand the impact of the Sixties Scoop in the
country now called Canada. (From Arsenal Pulp Press)
A
memorial to the Oklahoma Land Run of 1889, when lands promised to the
Muscogee Nation and the Seminole Nation were open to settlement to
non-Indians. Photo: mike krzeszak
Oil boom = theft boom
And the more money a Native had, the more vulnerable they were in court. This was particularly true if oil land was involved.
READ: The plunder, pillage, and robbery of the Five Tribes of Eastern Oklahoma
Author J Hoolihan Clayton (adoptee) is First Nations Plains Cree. Having lived a
diverse and authentic life in the American West, she now writes history
as fiction in order to inspire and elucidate.
excerpt...
Alamosa Citizen: Can you tell us a little bit about
yourself? Who you are, where you come from, where you’re going, all of
that good stuff.
J Hoolihan Clayton: Okay,
well I’m Plains Cree. I was taken as an infant from the reserve in
Canada in the Sixties Scoop and illegally adopted out across the
medicine line into the United States.
I was adopted by a white
family with a ranch in Wyoming. I was raised on a ranch in Wyoming,
basically in the middle of nowhere, no running water, no electricity. I
spent a lot of time, from a young age around Native elders and old
cowboys and basically it was there that I think I became a writer.
I
was so fascinated with the stories. I seem to have sort of an idyllic
memory. I retained stories and then as I grew older, I began to write
stories for myself. Despite all the other things that I’ve done in my
life, I’ve always been a writer. I learned cowboying growing up and
wasn’t able to have a college education early on. I worked as a ranch
hand and wound up fighting wildland fires for years until I sustained
enough injuries that vocational rehabilitation sent me to the University
of Montana and I was able to get a degree in education and history.
History has always been a passion for me.
So,
from there, since I needed an indoor job, I started teaching and mostly
focused on Native American education and history. And mostly taught
Native students or Hispanic students. I also specialize in at-risk
education programs. I ran the education in the juvenile detention center
in Taos for five years.
I set up several alternative education
programs. One in a treatment center on the Taos Pueblo. One on the Zuni
Pueblo. I taught at Dulce on the Jicarilla Apache Reservation and in
rural Hispanic areas mostly. Then I decided that, for a variety of
reasons, administration, fighting cell phones, I decided to retire and
write full time.
There’s a wonderful quote from E.L. Doctorow that the historian will
tell you what happened, the novelist will tell you what it felt like.
That’s my impetus in writing these books. I also, because of my troubled
past, with having been stolen, and also spending many, many years
living in and cowboying on reservations in Pueblos and working on
Pueblos, I wanted to tell the stories that I was learning about Native
groups that are told from a perspective that you don’t find.
A member of Western Writers of America, J. Hoolihan has been published
in western historical magazines, such as "True West" and "Wild West."
During her extensive research, J. Hoolihan continues to accumulate an
abundance of topics for a succession of factual stories pertaining to
the 19th century American West. Her first novel, Commendable Discretion,
was published in January 2021. With Great Discretion is the second book
of this series.* "Throwing the hoolihan" is a technique that old time
cowboys used for roping horses. "Hoolihan" has been Juliana's nickname
for decades
Their Shows
Might Be Over, but They’re Just Getting Started
Historic
Emmy nominees Lily Gladstone, Kali Reis, Sterlin Harjo, and D’Pharaoh
Woon-A-Tai all see their celebrated shows ending as a new beginning for Native
representation on TV.
'Reservation
Dogs,' 'True Detective: Night Country,' 'Under the Bridge'
FX/HBO/Hulu
However
exciting it was for Lily Gladstone to receive her own
first Emmy nomination for her work in the Hulu series “Under the Bridge,” the more
meaningful aspect of her Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited or
Anthology Series or Movie nod was seeing “True Detective: Night Country” breakout Kali Reis be honored as well.
“I love that I’m not alone in this category. Having just had a bunch of first
time historical monikers applied to me, there’s something that’s very lonely
about that,” the recent Oscar nominee told IndieWire over Zoom. “So it’s great
to carry that with another actress who turned in just this stellar performance,
and then just represents a whole other aspect of how diverse and how important
it is to highlight how diverse Indian country is.”
The
conclusion of “True Detective: Night Country,” highlighting some of its Native
actors that had mostly stayed in the background, was a twist the star did not
see coming, but thoroughly appreciated. “Coming from the Native community, the
nosy-ass aunties know everything. They know everything. If you want to
know the tea, go to Auntie’s house,” said Reis. “Also on a serious note, the
invisibility, the very thing that is something that we ‘are’ or people look at
us or don’t look at Native people, especially Native women, as invisible, that
invisibility is the very thing that was a superpower.” It reflected the ways in
which indigenous organizations have to take finding answers for missing and
murdered indigenous women into their own hands in a way Gladstone also found
“invigorating.”
By Merrina O’Malley, Special to ICT
Minnesota state senator fights for the rights of missing and murdered Indigenous people by educating the public ... continue reading
Native American Representation in film from 2007-2022 An analysis of the 1,600 top-grossing movies released from 2007-2022 found: 0.25 percent of all speaking characters were Native American 1 percent of films featured female Native American characters with speaking roles 77 percent of Native characters were male and 23 percent were female Data from the Annenberg Inclusion Initiative.
Blake has a recently released graphic memoir called Connecting Threads: Five Siblings Lost and Found. She is one of five children who were removed from their first family over time and placed in foster care, and most were adopted when young. She didn't know until decades later that she had lived with her first mother for weeks or months.
Because of closed adoptions, it took decades to connect scarce information to find her siblings. She and her siblings have Ojibwe or A-nish-i-naabe and Northern European roots. Some are enrolled tribal members, and all have Indigenous heritage. After many years, they began to find each other, one by one. Because her siblings did not grow up together, it took time to know each other, feel solid in their identity, and develop a deep sense of belonging. This happy ending came after a complicated childhood with many challenges. Her Website: https://www.elizabethblake.us/
A WA parliamentary inquiry into the devastating forced adoption scandal of last century has recommended financial redress for mothers, adopted people and some fathers.
Tanya Talaga has made a career of telling the unvarnished truth about Canada, to Canada. In her bestselling books, Seven Fallen Feathers and All Our Relations, Talaga, a Globe and Mail columnist
of Anishinaabe and Polish descent, turned her incisive eye on systemic
problems like racism in policing and the suicide epidemic among
Indigenous youth. But when it came to the personal, to her own family,
Talaga always found more questions than answers.
In The Knowing,
her third non-fiction book, out August 27, Talaga runs toward, not
from, her history, filling in the gaps in her own ancestral line. It’s a
lineage severed several times, as her First Nations relatives were
forcibly sent to government- and church-sponsored residential schools,
asylums and new families entirely as part of the Sixties Scoop. After
years spent digging into the past, she’s learned a few things: about her
grandmothers, about Canada’s past and that, when it comes to family,
you can never really know the whole story.
The Knowing
revisits the colonial history of Canada, as well as the history of your
own matriarchal line. What made you decide to weave in your own family
details?
All
Indigenous families share the same history; we all have people who are
missing. I didn’t want to write a trauma porn book, talking about
everyone else’s pain. Elder Sam Achneepineskum from Marten
Falls First Nation once gave me some advice: our ancestors need to know
who’s speaking. We need to tell people who each of us are, so everyone
can understand what happened.
...Figuring it all out, the how did we get here—that helps me a
lot. It’s reclamation. One person I met, Paula Rickard, is a
professional genealogist who lives in Moose Factory, Ontario. She’s
built out a family tree of the James Bay coast that now has something
like 12,000 names. When I was just starting out, I messaged her Facebook
page, and she responded with, “You know we’re related, too, right?”
Lyncoya was a living argument for the supremacy of the white way of life. Jackson killed Creek people, took Creek land, and raised their ...
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You are not alone
To Veronica Brown
Veronica, we adult adoptees are thinking of you today and every day. We will be here when you need us. Your journey in the adopted life has begun, nothing can revoke that now, the damage cannot be undone. Be courageous, you have what no adoptee before you has had; a strong group of adult adoptees who know your story, who are behind you and will always be so.
Diane Tells His Name
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60s Scoop Survivors Legal Support
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https://www.gluckstein.com/sixties-scoop-survivors
Lost Birds on Al Jazeera Fault Lines
click to read and listen about Trace, Diane, Julie and Suzie
We conclude this series & continue the conversation by naming that adoption is genocide. This naming refers to the process of genocide that breaks kinship ties through adoption & other forms of family separation & policing 🧵#NAAM2022#AdoptionIsTraumaAND#AdopteeTwitter#FFY 1/6 pic.twitter.com/46v0mWISZ1
As the single largest unregulated industry in the United States, adoption is viewed as a benevolent action that results in the formation of “forever families.” The truth is that it is a very lucrative business with a known sales pitch. With profits last estimated at over $1.44 billion dollars a year, mothers who consider adoption for their babies need to be very aware that all of this promotion clouds the facts and only though independent research can they get an accurate account of what life might be like for both them and their child after signing the adoption paperwork.
