NationStates Jolt Archive

Here is an interactive website, based on indigenous teachings found in Canada. It focuses on using traditional knowledge in contemporary settings, and for those of you who don't understand how our beliefs can be relevant to 'modern' times, I urge you to take a gander. My own people, the Nehiyawak or Cree, are represented as well on this site. The various narrations are provided by respected elders in our communities.

http://www.fourdirectionsteachings.com/index.html

Take a look, tell me what you think...this site is being used quite often for teachers who have aboriginal students but very little cultural aboriginal cultural background.

Come on now...this is free knowledge people...you don't even have to give tobacco for it... :D

Come on now...this is free knowledge people...you don't even have to give tobacco for it... :D

Looks well put together and thought out. I haven't time just now to study it in detail, but I'd say yes, this is probably a great help to teachers dealing with First Nations students, assuming they haven't had any prior training. Teacher down here in the US would probably benefit from this, too, if it weren't so ... so ... multicultural (kidding).

I'll be bookmarking this on my home computer :)

I just finished watching the entire section on the Blackfoot.
Very, very informative and interesting things.
Opened my eye just a little bit wider.

I'll prolly see the other parts when I have time.
Thanks for sharing the link though!

:)

bored me too quick. need stuff writen down then gorias judge thee.

Hmm... no offence to what you believe in or anything but it smells of indoctrination to me.

It seems to relate ethnicity to spirituality, which is something that doesn't sit right with me at all.

bored me too quick. need stuff writen down then gorias judge thee.

That's what happens when you come from a culture that has lost its oral roots...:p

That's what happens when you come from a culture that has lost its oral roots...:p

Pffftft heheh you said Oral! ehehhe

Hmm... no offence to what you believe in or anything but it smells of indoctrination to me. Indoctrination? It is explaining some of our beliefs, and how they can be used to relate to us especially in terms of education. There is no need to 'believe' something in order to know that it exists.

It seems to relate ethnicity to spirituality, which is something that doesn't sit right with me at all.

Can you explain what brings you to this conclusion?

Pffftft heheh you said Oral! ehehhe

Yes, we indigenous people are very oral:D Okay, okay I won't generalise like that...THIS indigenous person is!

Yes, we indigenous people are very oral:D Okay, okay I won't generalise like that...THIS indigenous person is!

I'd like to be educated more on that subject.

I'd like to be educated more on that subject.

Hehehehee...it is taught that certain herbal concotions held in the mouth have exciting results during oral exercises...

no, not really, but I could make something up and pretend it's traditional ;D

not directly related, but has there been any news on the language revival and revitalization fronts?

why do native Americans always ignore the French settlers who made the journey across the Atlantic during the last ice age?

Just curios.

why do native Americans always ignore the French settlers who made the journey across the Atlantic during the last ice age?

Just curios.the solutreen folks

the solutreen folks

according to wiki they may have been the first humans to set foot on North America certainly is intriguing

why do native Americans always ignore the French settlers who made the journey across the Atlantic during the last ice age?

Just curios.

because the only evidence for it is some alleged similarities between clovis and solutrean artifacts and tool kits. but the kits and techniques aren't identical and there is a 5,000+ year gap between them as far as we can tell.

because the only evidence for it is some alleged similarities between clovis and solutrean artifacts and tool kits. but the kits and techniques aren't identical and there is a 5,000+ year gap between them as far as we can tell.

Supporting evidence from a different source

Archaeological evidence isn't the only weapon in Stanford and Bradley's armoury. They point out discoveries in genetics by researchers at Emory University and the Universities of Rome and Hamburg. Mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA), which is inherited exclusively from the mother, normally contains four markers called haplogroups, labeled A, B, C, and D. These four are shared by 95 percent of Native Americans. Recently, however, the genetics team identified a fifth haplogroup, called X, which is present in about 20,000 Native Americans and has also been found in several pre-Columbian populations. A most interesting fact is that haplogroup X is also present in European populations but absent from Asians. The geneticists' research suggests the marker may have existed in the Americas 12,000 to 34,000 years ago, which means it must have been introduced before Clovis. By whom? Stanford and Bradley's prime candidates are Solutreans.

the thing is many native Americans where quite hostile to this idea to begin with and still the idea tends to be ignored

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This site sucks! (No insult about anything it might contain, but I am simply unable to see it because there is no flash for my architecture)

the thing is many native Americans where quite hostile to this idea to begin with and still the idea tends to be ignored

well yeah, X came from somewhere. but not the solutreans - the genetic split is deeper than that.

not directly related, but has there been any news on the language revival and revitalization fronts?

Sure, the Conservatives have cut funding.