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To my nostr friends, tonight I share with you a couple treasures of Native American historical significance. First is the knowledge I’m finding very interesting in the recently published book, They Had Names. I always knew that my history classes left many hundreds of years out my American history classes but never understood why, or what was the history of the Native Americans long before the Europeans came. This has long been a mystery, until now. I am eating this book up.

Also near to my heart is this beautiful tobacco bag that my mom made for me back years ago.

The story is that when you hunted you were to give back something for when you harvested an animal. As the culture practiced, men would place tobacco or something in the area where the harvest took place. In any case it made for a great reason for me to wear this bag when I hunted. She took many hours to bran tan the buckskin leather, plan the design, and sew all the intricate beadwork on it.

We have Choctaw on her side and some on the Dawes rolls Native American census (1908?). Anyway, it’s just beautiful thing I will always cherish from her. #art of all kinds is such a wonderful and powerful emotive thing. Thankful for nostr that I can leave this here and some of my friends will appreciate it as I do.

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Pinguimdarelva⚡ 4mo ago

# 👀☕🇧🇷GM

Boadee 4mo ago

☕️ 🇺🇸

Chip 4mo ago

I’m going to check this one out!

If you’re looking for more indigenous books, the first chapter of “To You We Shall Return: Lessons about Our Planet from the Lakota” still replays in my mind regularly.

Boadee 4mo ago

Thank you! One main theme I especially appreciate throughout this one is that the author doesn’t beat Christianity into the reader. He is respectful of native tribal authority and custom and he shares his insights with them in a way that supports most if not all their oral history. I think it helps unify not to talk down from on high. It’s fascinating to see him bring in archaeological, linguistical and DNA into the conversation to logically help us understand why there were such massive gaps in our understanding of Native America and our history.