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.
There's a Chicatac-Adams County Historical Park in Gilroy.
I'm guessing the Sayanta they are referring to is the Zayante area of the Santa Cruz Mountains.
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>>”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.
There are still people setting fires to this day
And “nice” that they blame the Christians for “change”
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Van Stolk said one of the ways people can celebrate this day is by supporting your local Tribal Bands.
Can’t think of one off the top of my head...
Good thing for them the Europeans took over, otherwise they wouldn’t have been able to roll their slaves from other tribes around in wheeled carts, and would have had to drag them here and there on their travois setups...the whole invention of the wheel that somehow escaped them.
Do you mean Columbus Day? If there is to be a 'indigenous peoples' day make it a different day.
Sayanta becoming Zayante makes sense.
As for:
“”(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.””
I’ve never understood how one mission with a handful of Spaniards could control all people over a hundred or more square mile area.
“...I think Indigenous Peoples Day is here to honor that and not erase any part of history”.
Are these the “natives” that walked from Mongolia across an ancient land bridge up by Alaska?
Pardon me, have you seen my Bronze Age?
Hahahahaha...
No patience with these turds. None.
[[I’ve never understood how one mission with a handful of Spaniards could control all people over a hundred or more square mile area.]]
Radio chips implanted in their brains
The history of the world is the stronger people overrun the weaker ones, kill the men, rape the women and enslave the rest.
A fact.
Find me one of those conquering peoples who bowed down, begging forgiveness, and destroyed its own symbols of its history in a paroxysm of guilt! Oops! there is one!
That’s a theory, and it would have happened 20,000 years ago.
That’s a theory, and it would have happened 20,000 years ago.
Cool! I wonder where they came from?
Not in the last 50 years.
Not in the last 50 years.
And killed off the mammoths, mastodons, giant ground sloths, wood ox, giant bison, giant beaver, American camel, American horses, Doedicurus, short-faced bear, American lion, American cheetah...
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