Posted on 10/13/2020 11:26:17 AM PDT by nickcarraway
Monday marks another year celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day
Monday marks another year celebrating Indigenous Peoples Day. There is a rich history of many Native American tribes living on the Central Coast. Felicia Van Stolk, the executive director at the Santa Cruz Museum of Natural History explained some tribes have been living in the Santa Cruz County area for at least 12,000 years.
"The oldest known village site in California was found near Scotts Valley, said Van Stolk. We have some of the oldest records of native people."
That tribe, along with many others Van Stolk said were living in the Awaswas territory, a language spoken by several tribes from Davenport all the way down to Aptos.
"Right where Santa Cruz is there was a tribe called the Uypi tribe, explained Van Stolk. "Some of them have names that you might recognize like Aptos or Sayanta and Chitactac. So those are all different tribes speaking the same language in the Santa Cruz area."
Van Stolk went on to say tending to the land was an art for these tribes, but it was more than just harvesting crops.
"These cultures stewarded the land by setting intentional fires to open up space by tending to certain plants, removing other plants, and using the cycles of nature and understanding the cycles of nature to have plenty of abundance, she said.
And life changed when the Santa Cruz mission was built in 1791.
"(They were) taken from their land, taken from that part of their culture and their religion and forced to work in the missions, said Van Stolk. "This is why we have fewer tribal bands and even fewer languages spoken in California now, is because it didn't matter what tribe you were from, if you were an indigenous person, you were brought to the missions against (your) will."
Many decedents of these tribes, known as Tribal Bands, are still here today.
"People have been here since time (immemorial) is how it's referred to, taking care of the land. I think Indigenous Peoples Day is here to honor that and not erase any part of history but celebrate the fact that indigenous people are here and surviving and reviving their cultures and relearning and connecting with their land, said Van Stolk.
Van Stolk said one of the ways people can celebrate this day is by supporting your local Tribal Bands.
And where did they come from.
Here is a hint: Not this continent.
well considering the earth isnt that old this isn’t possible
Thanks for the ping!
For decades, it seemed the Ohlone were the only native people in the area. Now we are learning about a lot more tribes and bands. There was another article recently about a band over in the Waddell Creek / Davenport area.
No Bronze Age in the New World. Thanks to the Europeans, the Injuns went directly from the Stone Age to the Iron Age...
The ones with the guns impose the rules.
At no point in history has any government ever wanted its people to be defenseless for any good reason ~ nully's son
The government wants to disarm us after 244 yrs 'cuz they plan to do things we would shoot them for!
Ive never understood how one mission with a handful of Spaniards could control all people over a hundred or more square mile area.
The ones with the guns impose the rules.
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Yes, but given the numbers that was impossible to use pure force based on some priests with primitive guns.
Neat, but they aren’t indigenous if they came there 12,000 years ago.
They came from somewhere else. Have they been traced back further?
“(They were) taken from their land, taken from that part of their culture and their religion and forced to work in the missions,
Why yes. And weepy Ms. Van Stolk won’t mention those were Spaniards that did that so they could baptize the neophytes which made them subjects of the Spanish King.
God Forbid she should criticize the Sacred Hispanics. That might mean Watsonville and Salinas are populated by the Bad People instead of Victims of the Evil Anglos.
But that’s the fact, Jack. The people pretending to be the oppressed now are in fact the original oppressors and are in no way “indigenous”. No way are they Ohlone or Uypi, unless you think those people walked here from Nayarit. They don’t.
If it actually happened, it's not impossible.
“some tribes have been living in the Santa Cruz County area for at least 12,000 years.”
That is interesting, the last ICE age ended about 12800 years ago. I wonder what the dates for tribes in Central America are.
Did the migration start during the ice age?
Did the tribes in Santa Cruz arrive from the South as the ice retreated or came down from the North?
Yes, but given the numbers that was impossible to use pure force based on some priests with primitive guns.
If it actually happened, it’s not impossible.
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You’re missing the “pure force” aspect.
Point conceded.
Yeah. This is a very convoluted subject.
True, and word do count. All of them!
Did the records discovered include ballots for the 2020 election??
They must be pretty old then, eh?
Thanks a fool in paradise.
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