Theory: When We Met Other Human Species

By Trace L Hentz

We are ANCIENT ANCIENT. Yes, indeed.  Older than we know, or were told... which is why so many confusing theories are out there, and some people make money on degrees and titles with their theories.

@juliatreciak926

I’m about to have a stroke thinking about how old this planet is.

 

Native scholar Vine Deloria wants us to QUESTION what we think we know. He had this to say about SCIENCE:

 

👇 THIS:  (YOUTUBE) Some commenters have pointed out that calling Neanderthals and Denisovans “other hominin species” in this episode breaks the rules of the biological species concept (BSC), which says if two things can interbreed, then they’re the same species.  Some paleoanthropologists would agree.  They consider both Neanderthals and Denisovans to be subspecies of Homo sapiens, rather than separate species.  Other experts would say that Neanderthals have a set of features that make them clearly distinguishable from Homo sapiens, putting them outside the range of variation we include in our species.  And we hardly know the Denisovans - like we said in the video, they don’t even have a scientific name yet.  The incredible thing about this is that we can even think about applying the BSC to fossils at all.  The BSC is a species concept based on living organisms, and it’s only been within the last two decades or so that we’ve had the ancient DNA and the technology to test hypotheses about interbreeding in extinct groups.  And it’s not the only way to define a species, either, so it will likely be a while (if ever) before anthropologists decide whether we’re a different species, subspecies, or population from the Neanderthals and Denisovans. (Darcy Shapiro, PhD, script editor)

More Theory? GHOST DNA? 

YES...Ghost DNA...

About 50,000 years ago, ancient humans in what is now West Africa apparently procreated with another group of ancient humans that scientists didn't know existed.  There aren't any bones or ancient DNA to prove it, but researchers say the evidence is in the genes of modern West Africans.  They analyzed genetic material from hundreds of people from Nigeria and Sierra Leone and found signals of what they call "ghost" DNA from an unknown ancestor. 

The findings on ghost DNA, published in the journal Science Advances, further complicate the picture of how Homo sapiens—or modern humans—evolved away from other human relatives. The scientists analyzed the genomes of 405 West Africans.  Sriram Sankararaman, a computational biologist at UCLA, says they used a statistical model to flag parts of the DNA.  The technique "goes along a person's genome and pulls out chunks of DNA which we think are likely to have come from a population that is not modern human." 

50,000 Years Ago—Who Slept With Whom? 

The unusual DNA found in West Africa isn't associated with either Neanderthals or Denisovans.  Sankararaman and his study co-author, Arun Durvasula, think it comes from a yet-to-be-discovered group. 

"We don't have a clear identity for this archaic group," Sankararaman says. "That's why we use the term 'ghost.' It doesn't seem to be particularly closely related to the groups from which we have genome sequences from."  The scientists think the interbreeding happened about 50,000 years ago, roughly the same time that Neanderthals were breeding with modern humans elsewhere in the world.  It's not clear whether there was a single interbreeding "event," though, or whether it happened over an extended period of time. 

The unknown group "appears to have split off from the ancestors of modern humans a little before when Neanderthals split off from our ancestors," he says. 

So what happened to this mysterious group of ancient humans? Scientists aren't totally sure. They might have died off, or they might have eventually been completely subsumed into modern humans. 

(https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2013/12/18/252046939/mixing-it-up-50-000-years-ago-who-slept-with-whom)

From my book: WHAT JUST HAPPENED (2021) (978-057886725-0)

Indian Boarding Homes Program in Canada | The Nisga’a Nation B.C.

 

Article by Jackson Pind | Published September 10, 2024

The Indian Boarding Homes Program was established by the Canadian federal government and operated from the early 1950s to the early 1990s.  Its purpose was to relocate Indigenous children into non-Indigenous homes while they attended elementary and high schools, often far from their home communities. Relocation was compulsory; refusal was not permitted.  The host families with whom they were placed were paid to provide care.   Many children in this situation faced physical, sexual, verbal and psychological abuse (see also Child Abuse).  The program was designed to assimilate Indigenous children into the mainstream Canadian society.  As a result, children were often forbidden from speaking their native language or engaging in practices of their culture.  This led, inevitably, to significant consequences that included loss of cultural identity and connection to their communities for the approximately 40,000 First Nations and Inuit children who were forced to relocate.

Reginald Percival’s Experience

One of the survivors and plaintiffs of a recent class action lawsuit, Reginald Percival, recalls being taken from his home in the Nisga’a Nation** in northern British Columbia at the age of 13.  He was placed 1,300 kilometers away with a non-Indigenous family in southern BC, where he endured significant abuse.  He remembers being taken away, with other students, by the Royal Canadian Mounted Police.  His mother was crying, and he recalled it feeling “like a funeral.” Percival remembers that “I was slapped around, locked in rooms… I once spent 10 days in a closet. It is not a good memory for me.”  His story highlights the broader experiences of many Indigenous children who were part of this program.

Many children in boarding homes were subjected to starvation, forced to work as free labour and prohibited from practicing their culture.  Percival said, “We were told that to be good Indian, you have to forget about your culture.” They often had minimal or no contact with their families.  Other forms of abuse including sexual or physical occurred within these households.  When Percival returned home, he felt ostracized from his family.

Legal Actions and Settlement

In 2018, a class action lawsuit was initiated by survivors of the Boarding Homes Program, including Reginald Percival. They sought justice and compensation for the abuses they suffered.  This lawsuit culminated in a $1.9 billion settlement agreement approved by the Federal Court in 2023 for Indigenous people who were part of the program between 1951 and 1992.  The settlement covers approximately 33,000 eligible survivors, providing compensation ranging from $10,000 to $200,000 based on the level of abuse experienced.  The settlement offers a two-tier compensation system:

Category 1: A base payment of $10,000 to all class members.

Category 2: Additional compensation based on the severity of abuse, up to $200,000.

The claims process was designed to be non-adversarial, conducted entirely on paper to avoid re-traumatizing survivors.  There was no cap on the total compensation amount, ensuring that all eligible survivors could receive their compensation.  The designated timeframe for survivors to submit claims was set for 21 August 2024 to 22 February 2027.  The class counsel, Douglas Lennox, noted the importance of this process compared to other settlements.  He said, “We found with some other settlements, like day schools, people felt pressure to get a claim in quickly — financial pressure, emotional pressure — and they put in a lower-level claim. And later on, many claimants seem to have regretted that decision.”

The settlement included the voices of 12 different survivors from across the country. The judge agreed they had similar stories of abuse and mistreatment while being part of the program.  Justice Peter Pamel stated, “I must say that the trembling of their voices as they recounted their stories was palpable, and the trauma reflected in their eyes as they relived their experiences was truly overwhelming; these are stories that all Canadians should hear.” In particular, the settlement also found:

A vast number of boarding home survivors did not complete high school because of the extensive abuse they suffered, leaving them with permanent emotional scars. When many finally did try to return to their communities, they found that they simply could not fit in; they spoke of having become outsiders in their own homes, of turning inward and feeling that their rights had been taken away from them, and of losing trust in others, especially individuals in authority. Most turned to alcohol and drugs to cope with the pain and suffering, constantly feeling forgotten, abused and abandoned; they felt shame and viewed themselves as a burden on society rather than a contributor. When the time came to raise their own families, their marriages were consumed by alcoholism, drug use and domestic abuse, all coping mechanisms to forget their suffering and the pain they have had to endure.

The program had a devastating impact on the lives of thousands of survivors and their families through intergenerational trauma (see also Intergenerational Trauma and Residential Schools).

Calls for Official Apology

Despite the financial compensation, survivors continue to advocate for an official apology from the federal government. They argue that previous apologies for residential schools did not adequately address the specific harms inflicted by the Boarding Homes Program. Justice Pamel, in his decision, acknowledged the severe abuse and cultural disconnection suffered by the children in the program. However, as Reginal Percival noted: “The prime minister of Canada has an obligation, I think, to say … I'm sorry for what happened. Because some of us never made it home.”

Legacy

The settlement emphasizes the need for ongoing mental health and emotional support services throughout the claims process.  A $50 million foundation was created by the settlement, which aims to provide continuous support for the survivors and their families, ensuring that they receive the necessary resources for healing, language and cultural revitalization, and commemoration. The Indian Boarding Homes Program remains an understudied part of Canadian history compared to other instances of historical government programs of education and care for Indigenous children, such as residential schools, day schools and the Sixties Scoop, which are well-documented in the impacts they have had on Indigenous children, families and communities. 

**

Every Nisga’a person belongs to a wilp (family group or house). Wilps own territory and are governed by one or more chiefs, depending on their size.

Nisga’a also belong to one of four clans, known as pdeek: Gisk’aast (Killer Whale/ Owl), Ganada (Raven/Frog), Laxgibuu (Wolf/ Bear) and Laxsgiik (Eagle/Beaver). Membership in a pdeek is determined by a matrilineal system, meaning that it is passed down through the mother’s line.  This maternal clan inheritance also includes the rights to traditional names, songs, crests and dances. 

READ: https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/nisgaa

Pind, Jackson. "Indian Boarding Homes Program in Canada". The Canadian Encyclopedia, 10 September 2024, Historica Canada. www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/indian-boarding-homes-program-in-canada. Accessed 13 September 2024.

Hidden Epidemics (webinar)

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This webinar will explore hidden epidemics within the U.S. Indian boarding school system. This event will feature guest speaker Dr. Preston McBride (Comanche by descent), and will be moderated by NABS Research Assistant Joe Tahdooahnippah (Comanche).

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Minnesota Joins Growing Number of States Allowing Adoptees New Access to Birth Records

 By Michael Fitzgerald

SOURCE: https://imprintnews.org/top-stories/minnesota-joins-growing-number-of-states-allowing-adoptees-new-access-to-birth-records/251720 

Sheri Sheeks quickly obtained her original birth certificate under Minnesota’s new law. (Note: some personal information on the document has been digitally redacted.) Provided photo.

For decades, U.S. adoptions were steeped in secrecy — private arrangements struck between parents and caseworkers. Pre-adoption birth certificates sealed in government archives often left the origin stories of adoptees undisclosed and inaccessible. 

Finding long-lost relatives through DNA testing and social media have upended that legacy. But confidentiality laws across the country have not kept pace. 

This summer, following decades of advocacy, Minnesota joined a growing number of states lifting all restrictions. Since enactment of a new law July 1, thousands of adoptees born in the state have received vital records that contain the once-concealed details of their birth. As of August 30, Minnesota’s Office of Vital Records had processed all 2,349 requests it had received, according to a spokesperson.

Sheri Sheeks, a 63-year-old retiree in the Minneapolis area, was one of the first Minnesotans to seek her original birth certificate after the law took effect just over two months ago. 

She said she had always puzzled over the “very bizarre” gaps in the birth certificate she’s had since childhood. No name of the hospital where she was born, no time of birth. 

Five years ago she learned why: a genetic test turned up a half-sister from the second marriage of a birth father she had never known.  Sheeks had been adopted, and her birth certificate was an “amended” version of the original.  The parents who raised her never shared that vital information before they died.

Sheeks said she had great adoptive parents, but often wondered whether they were told to keep the adoption secret, perhaps to protect her from being teased by other kids. Yet she remained acutely aware of a “key missing piece” in her life: the name of her biological mother. 

“I’d look in the mirror and say ‘Who the heck are you’?” she said.

So she faxed a request to the Minnesota Department of Health on the morning of July 1, the same day the new law went into effect. She was thrilled to see her birth certificate in the mail two days later. 

Her birth mother would be 95 today, and Sheeks is hoping to confirm whether or not she is alive. In the meantime, she said she has a new sense of closure — simply seeing her mother’s name and address on a formal document. 

“Now,” Sheeks added, “when I look in the mirror, I feel more grounded in who I am. I don’t have these loose threads hanging out.”

New Law Helps CA Tribes Keep Kids Out of Foster Care | SoCal Matters

Native American children in California's foster care system are frequently placed in non-relative, non-native homes. Although the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the 1978 Indian Child Welfare Act, ensuring child welfare agencies investigate ancestry, contested cases still emerge. This story explores the long-standing issues and the ongoing fight to protect Native foster care rights in California. 

 Learn more at https://bit.ly/3NNzJ4T

Inuit Voices: What is lacking is political will #MMIWG

News  Sep 12, 2024  MMIWG

Pauktuutit leader calls for Inuit voices to be heard in fight against violence

Nancy Etok shares experience from meeting with Indigenous women from U.S., Mexico earlier this month in Mexico City

Pauktuutit president Nancy Etok, left, speaks at the Sixth Convening of the Trilateral Working Group on Violence Against Women and Girls in Mexico City, which ran Sept. 3 and 4. (Photo courtesy of Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada)

By  Kierstin Williams

Inuit voices must be included in conversations about ending violence against Indigenous women, girls and gender-diverse people, says Pauktuutit president Nancy Etok.

Etok attended a trilateral working group that included representatives from Canada, the United States and Mexico on Sept. 3 and 4 in Mexico City on behalf of Pauktuutit Inuit Women of Canada, the national non-profit Inuit women’s organization.

The meeting aimed to address the alarming rates of violence against Indigenous women and girls.

“We were able to share what kind of work we do at Pauktuutit,” Etok said, adding she also had the chance to listen to what Indigenous women had to say about finding solutions.

“If I were to close my eyes and just listen, all women were facing all of the same struggles with violence,” she said.

The trilateral working group was established as a result of the North American Leaders Summit in June 2016, which brought national leaders from Canada, the U.S. and Mexico together to discuss the “alarming” rates of violence against this demographic, a joint statement from the group released Sept. 5 said.

This month’s meeting marked the sixth time the working group has convened.

Etok said the discussions in Mexico City highlighted the ongoing failure by governments to implement promises made to Indigenous communities.

For Canada specifically, she said the federal government must be held accountable on following through on recommendations stemming from the National Inquiry into Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Girls.

The MMIWG inquiry was hosted across Canada between 2016 and 2019. It gave Indigenous women and girls the chance to provide testimony about their experiences with violence, police, the justice system and other colonial systems.

In its final report, released in 2019, the inquiry said high rates of violence against Indigenous women and girls amounts to a genocide. It released 231 calls to action aimed at governments, institutions and the public.

“The Government of Canada has been given a clear path forward to end this genocide. What is lacking is political will,” said Etok.

In a joint statement from the meeting, the trilateral working group called on the three countries’ governments to respond to the group’s demands from previous years by Nov. 25, the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women.

The group wants to see a “matrix” of each of the trilateral group’s demands by year. It should provide corresponding information as to how the governments have responded to these demands, and include resources developed and future plans for continuing efforts on the group’s requests.

“Pauktuutit is going to keep asking on what the government committed to. They need to start delivering,” said Etok.

“Inuit women’s voices must be heard and it’s absolutely essential that Pauktuutit is included in those conversations because we have the ideas, we have the solutions, and we are ready.”

Members of the working group are scheduled to have quarterly meetings to allow Indigenous leaders to independently shape the group’s agenda and focus on priorities outside the influence of the three national governments.  Indigenous leaders in the U.S. are set to host the first meeting on Jan. 15.

“With unwavering resolve and collective commitment to justice, we stand united in our mission to create a future where Indigenous rights are honoured, respected, upheld, and protected,” reads a portion of the group’s statement.

Adoption: 2% to 25% of adoptions FAIL

I didn't want to post this: It always hurt to think about the innocent child who suffered this... Remember, HUMAN TRAFFICKING is what we are looking at here... Trace Hentz

Woman wins six-figure payout after adoption broke down

9-8-2024 | Suzanne Allan | BBC Scotland News

BBC:

 Karen Maguire was paid an out-of-court settlement last year

A woman has been paid an out-of-court settlement from a council after her adoption of a two-year-old boy broke down.

Karen Maguire won the six-figure payout from South Lanarkshire Council last year after her lawyer argued it failed to provide her with enough background information on the child and did not support her during the placement.

Ms Maguire told BBC Scotland the child barely slept, hated being cuddled and self-harmed by banging his head. It later transpired he had a serious underlying medical condition which she was not told about.

South Lanarkshire Council said it aimed to provide full support to any prospective adoptive parents.

Ms Maguire said she was speaking out for the first time to raise awareness of the lack of support for adoptive families.

The adoption took place in 2013, and broke down after just four months, but Ms Maguire has been fighting for years to get the council to recognise its role in the failure.

'Eyes wide open'

Ms Maguire told the BBC she had applied to adopt a child as a lone parent and the approval process - which makes sure a prospective parent can provide a stable and loving home - took six months.

She said she went into the process with her "eyes wide open".

Ms Maguire knew that many children in local authority care had social and emotional difficulties and she told social workers she was fine with a child with mild additional support needs.

However, she said she would find it hard to cope on her own with a child with severe difficulties.

A two-year-old boy was identified as being suitable. The social worker who came to tell Ms Maguire the news stressed how lucky she was.

"At the time she said she didn't know a lot about him, but said that he was relatively uncomplicated,” she said.

"In fact she used the words ‘you've won a watch’."

Albert Bender: ‘100 Years of Lynchings’: 1962 book remains a ‘should-read’ for all

1962 book remains a ‘should-read’ for all 

September 9, 2024 By Albert Bender (Cherokee)

The genocide, the horrendous deaths in the Israeli invasion of Gaza, have prompted many, this reviewer included, to reflect on the racial horror of times gone by. The book 100 Years of Lynchings, came to mind.  I had read sections of the work some years ago, but never through and through. This volume, produced by Ralph Ginzburg in 1962, presented newspaper articles spanning a century documenting the most savage murders of African-American men and, in some cases, even women in the history of the United States.

Indeed, from a historical viewpoint, these killings represented some of the most horrific in the annals of humanity on this earth, displaying a level of unspeakable horror.

The mass murder of innocents in Gaza directed my attention to a century of the killings of innocents in this country. Thousands were lynched over a century-long span.

I also felt that this needed to be brought to public attention in light of current racist politicians’ efforts to whitewash history with attacks on so-called “critical race theory” and other education efforts around racism and slavery. Another reason is Biden’s refusal to do anything meaningful to stop the Gaza massacres, something which is well within his power. When Biden takes so little account of the lost lives of thousands of Palestinians, it must be remembered the bloody background from which the United States arose.

Ginzurg hoped the tome he assembled would, “in this Centennial of the Civil War, give pause to segregationists everywhere to reflect upon their persecution of the Black man.” Of course, this did not happen, but nonetheless, it was a worthy thought.

The newspapers from which the accounts were taken run the gamut from white to Black, small to large, and liberal to radical and conservative.  Many of the accounts are so graphic, with such horrifying and vivid detail, that it would be a rare reader who would not be greatly affected.

A sampling of some of the headlines will give the reader a portent of what to expect. “Negro and wife burned.” “Lynched Negro and wife were first mutilated.” “Colored woman is hanged.” “Shoe thief suspect lynched.” “4 Negroes lynched at once.” “ Louisian Negro is burned alive screaming ‘I didn’t do it.’” “Bumps into [white] girl; is lynched.” “2 hung for jostling horse” (two Black men hung for brushing against a farmer’s horse). “Boy unsexes Negro before mob lynches him” (a 10-year-old white boy is forced to castrate the victim before he is lynched).  “Indescribable tortures inflicted on Williams” (this lynching was described as a “gala event”). “Blood-thirsty mob lynches 3 members of one family.” “Georgia mob massacres two Negroes and wives.”

These foregoing bylines are a smattering of the newspaper accounts compiled for the book.

It is a record of the most extreme racial atrocities, so constant over such a long period of time that one can get the impression of not just racial terror, but in fact, a race war being waged against the African-American population.

In many articles, descriptions are given of the most horrifying tortures that assume the aura of a festival, attended by entire white families, not just men, but their wives and children—veritable family affairs. Body appendages were often cut off the victims, sometimes while they were still alive, to be taken home as souvenirs. Postcards were fashioned of the victims and distributed far and wide. Lynchings were frequently advertised in advance to maximize turnout.

This writer shall not deem it proper to describe in detail the gory newspaper accounts in this review. The articles make the reader wince, to say the least.

The takeaway from the volume, now over 60 years old, is that large sections of the white population were in a state of savagery, racial savagery. They were living in a culture of such hate-filled racism that spawned savagery toward their fellow human beings.  

This was a legacy of the worst slavery in the chronicles of world history. 

This racism turned human beings into monsters against their fellow humans.  

Enslaved people were treated worse than animals, the result of a capitalism that, as Marx said, entered upon the world stage “covered from head to foot with blood and gore.”

It was actually the courage of the African-American people, aided by progressive white allies, that uplifted the white people of the South from a culture of racist horror.  Indeed, it is not an exaggeration to say that the Civil Rights Movement civilized the “savage South.” Led by stalwarts such as Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr., and others, it raised the cultural level of not just the Southern United States, but the country as a whole.

These are some of the reflections produced by a re-reading of this extremely poignant, emotive volume. Again, this book is a “should-read” for all adults in this country.

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Albert Bender

Albert Bender is a Cherokee activist, historian, political columnist, and freelance reporter. He is currently writing a legal treatise on Native American sovereignty and working on a book on the war crimes committed by the U.S. against the Maya people in the Guatemalan civil war. He is a consulting attorney on Indigenous sovereignty, land restoration, and Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA) issues.

 

 

China’s One-Child Policy Sent Thousands of Adoptees Overseas. That Era Is Over.

READ: (paywall)  https://www.wsj.com/world/china/china-ends-international-adoptions-ff7fc87e 

Spanish couples take their newly adopted Chinese children for a walk in Beijing's Tiananmen Square on March 7, 2007.

Greg Baker/AP/File SOURCE

Hong Kong (CNN) — China is ending most foreign adoptions of its children, leaving hundreds of American and other foreign families with pending applications in limbo.

Since the early 1990s, China has sent tens of thousands of adoptees overseas – with about half arriving in the United States – as its draconian one-child policy forced many families to abandon children, especially girls and babies with disabilities.

But in recent decades, as China’s economy boomed and births slowed, international adoptions of Chinese children have declined in number. Since the Covid-19 pandemic began, they have largely been on hold.

Now the Chinese government is officially ending the program – which it said is in line with global trends, but also comes as officials try to reverse the country’s sharply declining birthrates and avert a looming demographic crisis.

China’s Foreign Ministry announced Thursday that no more Chinese children would be sent abroad for adoption. The only exceptions will be for foreigners adopting the children or stepchildren of blood relatives in China.

“This is in line with the spirit of relevant international conventions,” the ministry’s spokesperson Mao Ning told a regular news conference. “We are grateful for the desire and love of the governments and adoptive families of relevant countries to adopt Chinese children.”

The ban raises uncertainty for hundreds of American families currently in the process of adopting children from China.

The US embassy in Beijing is seeking clarification in writing from China’s Ministry of Civil Affairs on the new directive, the State Department said Thursday, according to the Associated Press.

In a phone call with US diplomats in China, Beijing said it “will not continue to process cases at any stage” other than those covered by an exception clause, AP reported.

“We understand there are hundreds of families still pending completion of their adoption, and we sympathize with their situation,” the State Department said.

More than 160,000 Chinese children have been adopted into families all over the world since China officially opened its doors to international adoption in 1992, according to China’s Children International, an international organization created by and for Chinese adoptees. About half of these children have been adopted to the US.

Between 1999 and 2023, American parents adopted 82,674 children from China, accounting for 29% of all US adoptions, according to data from the US State Department.

China suspended international adoptions in 2020 during the pandemic to “ensure the health and safety” of the children, according to a notice from the US State Department on intercountry adoptions from China at the time.

No Chinese children were sent to the US for adoption in 2021 or 2022. Last year, 16 children were adopted from China, according to the US State Department.

Beijing scrapped its decades-long and highly controversial “one child” policy after realizing the restriction had contributed to a rapidly aging population and shrinking workforce that could severely distress the country’s economic and social stability.

To arrest the falling birth rate, the Chinese government announced in 2015 that it would allow married couples to have two children. But after a brief uptick in 2016, the national birth rate has continued to fall.

Policymakers further relaxed limits on births in 2021, allowing three children, and ramped up efforts to encourage larger families, including strengthening maternity leave and offering tax deductions and other perks to families.

But those efforts have yet to see results amid changing gender norms, the high cost of living and education, and looming economic uncertainty.

SOURCE: https://www.wral.com/story/china-is-ending-foreign-adoptions-of-its-children-that-leaves-hundreds-of-american-families-in-limbo/21611385/

 

Well, this is terrifying | Finding the Invisibles

In 2022, I posted my free book to read online: https://www.findingtheinvisibles.com/ (it's also a free ebook)

Chapter 3 involves healing with sound: https://www.findingtheinvisibles.com/2023/08/chapter-three-way.html

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...

 

Army Begins Disinterment and Return of Remains for 11 Native Children Who Died at Carlisle Indian Boarding School

 

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 |  September 05, 2024| 

 

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.

Those former students include William Norkok from the Eastern Shoshone Tribe; Almeda Heavy Hair, Bishop L. Shield, and John Bull from the Gros Ventre Tribe of the Fort Belknap Indian Community; Fanny Chargingshield, James Cornman, and Samuel Flying Horse from the Oglala Sioux Tribe; Albert Mekko from the Seminole Nation of Oklahoma; and Alfred Charko and Kati Rosskidwits from the Wichita and Affiliated Tribes.  One additional tribal nation receiving their relative's remains wishes to remain anonymous, according to a spokesperson from the Office of Army Cemeteries.

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. 

LINK: https://nativenewsonline.net/sovereignty/army-begins-disinterment-and-return-of-remains-for-11-native-children-who-died-at-carlisle-indian-boarding-school

READ: Esquire: The U.S. Is Standing in the Way of Repatriating the Bodies of Native Kids Who Died at the Carlisle School

“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.”

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a62044883/native-repatriation-army/

23 & ME DNA Quacks Bad Science

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.  

Blood for Money? READ MY REVIEW OF LEECH AND EARTHWORM:  www.ipcb.org/publications/video/files/revp2.html

I wrote:

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...)

👉THIS BLOG: https://blog.americanindianadoptees.com/2019/02/twins-get-mystifying-dna-ancestry-test.html

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…

READ MORE:  https://sashalatypova.substack.com/p/23-and-me-is-collapsing-turns-out?publication_id=870364&post_id=147670281&action=share&triggerShare=true&isFreemail=true&token=eyJ1c2VyX2lkIjoyMDcwNTY0OSwicG9zdF9pZCI6MTQ3NjcwMjgxLCJpYXQiOjE3MjQ5NDI1OTQsImV4cCI6MTcyNzUzNDU5NCwiaXNzIjoicHViLTg3MDM2NCIsInN1YiI6InBvc3QtcmVhY3Rpb24ifQ.M8jRQP8Q8S7Hp_bWG3XOPQHad-7w32uwk0eyf2WlFH0&r=cbskx&triedRedirect=true 

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?)

The Leech and The Earthworm preview:

 

LandBack Celebration

Caldwell First Nation welcomes a new chapter

By Mark Brown August 19, 2024

 

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."

SOURCE: https://cknxnewstoday.ca/chatham/news/2024/08/19/caldwell-first-nation-welcomes-a-new-chapter

 

Living with Lies : Late Discovery Adoptee (LDA)

Woman Forgives Adoptive Parents Who Hid Her Race for 19 Years: 'Supporter'

By Melissa Fleur Afshar

Life and Trends Reporter 

 

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."

 

READ:  https://www.newsweek.com/adopted-child-learns-truth-colombian-heritage-trusts-parents-1941091

"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.