Nashitheki
Hollawitta
Probably how a real woodland Indian woman looked during those times -
minus the mystical wolf backdrop
minus the mystical wolf backdrop
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Unrealistic Portrayals and Misconceptions
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Nashitheki
Hollawitta
Then there is the falsehood being spread by certain religious groups that American Indians are descendants from ancient lost tribes of Israel. Rough estimates have people in the western hemisphere some 40,000 years ago, but more modern radiocarbon tests have more or less tell us the earliest arrivals were around 30,000 years ago when ice free corridors opened up from what is now northeastern Russia, across Beringia and southwards into warmer lands. Although there were no Israelites at that time, thats not to say tribes of people didnt inhabit that area. Tribes of people who were no doubt primitive animists somewhat like the those migrating into the Americas.
Humans just following the food supply and looking for a warmer clime in which to live.
Perhaps such fanciful concepts were conceived in an attempt to connect American Indians with someone elses religion or else a part of the conversion process missionaries applied to convince us that our ancient beliefs were/are false.
And it continues today.
No, Indians are not descendant of lost Israeli tribes, nor was there a Native American Nativity or Indian Jesus. No beaded buckskin clad, winged angels or, Native American Ten Commandments that existed in Pre-Columbian America.
Sadly enough there are some American Indians that have accepted these falsehoods as being true because they were forced to convert, or else ignorant of their own history and ancient spirituality.
Humans just following the food supply and looking for a warmer clime in which to live.
Perhaps such fanciful concepts were conceived in an attempt to connect American Indians with someone elses religion or else a part of the conversion process missionaries applied to convince us that our ancient beliefs were/are false.
And it continues today.
No, Indians are not descendant of lost Israeli tribes, nor was there a Native American Nativity or Indian Jesus. No beaded buckskin clad, winged angels or, Native American Ten Commandments that existed in Pre-Columbian America.
Sadly enough there are some American Indians that have accepted these falsehoods as being true because they were forced to convert, or else ignorant of their own history and ancient spirituality.
painted wolf
Grey Muzzle
This was a 19th century way to explain away cultures thought to be "too advanced" for "savages" like the Mound-builders. How do you explain these great "lost cities"... invent Jewish immigrants. You get the romance of a different culture, while keeping them "civilized".
Plus, you don't have to feel bad about exterminating the "savages" who clearly were involved in the fall of these noble civilizations, either through violence or miscastigation.
sadly some people still peddle such ideas.
wa:do
Plus, you don't have to feel bad about exterminating the "savages" who clearly were involved in the fall of these noble civilizations, either through violence or miscastigation.
sadly some people still peddle such ideas.
wa:do
Broken Smoke
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Civil War fort at Jamestown is dug up to get at 1607 site - The Washington Post
Matoaka would have approved!
Matoaka would have approved!
Broken Smoke
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Broken Smoke
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She's going to the mystic waterfall at Jamestown.
Nashitheki
Hollawitta
The Paspahegh thought the English were content with that low marshy mosquito infested island.(no mountains and waterfalls like in the Disney cartoon) I was out there not long ago and wondered how anyone could be stupid enough to build homesteads there. Bad soil and no drinking water. I guess after some years of dealing with the marsh, the English went out to drive these Algonquians off from their homes on higher ground. But hey, don't you think people are more interested in the Pocahontas fairy tale than how English repaid the Kecoughtan for their initial kindness only a few short years later ?
Remember the first African slaves in North America were bought at Jamestown because the Algonquian slaves kept dying from disease or running off.
Remember the first African slaves in North America were bought at Jamestown because the Algonquian slaves kept dying from disease or running off.
Nashitheki
Hollawitta
Civil War fort at Jamestown is dug up to get at 1607 site - The Washington Post
Matoaka would have approved!
Then the white man is destroying his own history as there were no Indian vilages on that marshy island. The larger Paspahegh and Kiskiack villages were located on higher ground. I've been along the wooded banks of the James and seen quite a few Confederate redoubts, but that land is protected by the National Park Service. I know where Ajacan was located.