{"id":927,"date":"2020-11-26T19:10:05","date_gmt":"2020-11-27T03:10:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/?p=927"},"modified":"2020-11-26T19:10:05","modified_gmt":"2020-11-27T03:10:05","slug":"culture-51st-national-day-of-mourning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/11\/26\/culture-51st-national-day-of-mourning\/","title":{"rendered":"Culture: 51st National Day of Mourning"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Native Americans would appreciate it if the U.S. acknowledged that its national Thanksgiving myth is a myth; that Wampanoag generosity was rewarded with oppression; and that the Wampanoags are STILL fighting for their own land.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I&#8217;m sharing an article from <em>Time<\/em> of the current challenges the Wampanoags face &#8211; yes, they still aren&#8217;t properly recognized and need their land rights to be respected, which needs to be addressed  (hello, Biden Administration) &#8211; plus a link to the livestream from the demonstration today.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote class=\"embedly-card\" data-card-theme=\"dark\"><h4><a href=\"https:\/\/time.com\/5911943\/thanksgiving-wampanoag\/\">Tribe Who Fed the Pilgrims Strives for Survival Amid New Epidemic<\/a><\/h4><p>Many Wampanoag hoped that the 400th anniversary of the Mayflower landing would be a galvanizing event to remind people that they still exist<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<script async src=\"\/\/cdn.embedly.com\/widgets\/platform.js\" charset=\"UTF-8\"><\/script>\n\n\n\n<p>Information about the National Day of Mourning and details around this event can be found on the page for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.uaine.org\/\">United American Indians of New England (UAINE.org)<\/a>.  The livestream below has many intersectional values &#8211; hello, Palestine and Black Lives Matter! &#8211; but also ensures that Native Americans speak for themselves.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Even with the current list of obstacles, the speeches have encouraging solidarity for other groups around the world who have survived colonialism, and emphasis on a need to save the planet and ensure climate justice.  The video is 5 hours long, but it includes real time video scenes from the march and other demonstrations &#8211; it isn&#8217;t all speeches.  The pre-recorded portion of the program starts around 2:17, and it is a collection of remote testimonials and videos from many native cultures. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/qB7Vbz0WJXc\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n\n\n\n<p><span class=\"has-inline-color has-cyan-bluish-gray-color\"><em>(Aside:  one of the speakers from Puerto Rico sent greetings at the end of his speech in the Ta\u00edno language, which Wikipedia says is extinct &#8230; I recall reading that before, but Wikipedia&#8217;s page has a video of a speaker they say is speaking <em>Ta\u00edno, and I&#8217;m more likely to believe someone speaking it than I am a Wikipedia article based on books from outsiders.  While many Google search results insist that both the language and people are extinct, this article, <\/em><\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.smithsonianmag.com\/travel\/what-became-of-the-taino-73824867\/\"><em><em>&#8220;What became of the <em>Ta\u00edno<\/em><\/em><\/em>?&#8221; in the Smithsonian magazine<\/a> takes a broader view, and allows people who self-identify as native speak.   This touches on the topic of &#8216;who gets to decide what you are,&#8217; which I think of often as a mixed-race person.<em><em>)<\/em><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Native Americans would appreciate it if the U.S. acknowledged that its national Thanksgiving myth is a myth; that Wampanoag generosity was rewarded with oppression; and that the Wampanoags are STILL fighting for their own land. I&#8217;m sharing an article from Time of the current challenges the Wampanoags face &#8211; yes, they still aren&#8217;t properly recognized &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/2020\/11\/26\/culture-51st-national-day-of-mourning\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Culture: 51st National Day of Mourning&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[114,75],"class_list":["post-927","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-culture","tag-american","tag-solidarity"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":932,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927\/revisions\/932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/teahousehome.com\/booksandcoffee\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}