How many here knew that George Washington ordered slaughter of Indians during Revolutionary War?

[TigressDem]

24. Watched Three Pines about the Canadian treatment of Indigenous.

Lot more research to do there as well..


https://www.facinghistory.org/en-ca/resource-library/stolen-lives-indigenous-peoples-canada-indian-residential-schools



I remember going to the American Indian Smithsonian Museum many years ago in DC during a trip to protest W Bush and Iraq War.

https://americanindian.si.edu/


I was happy that we'd at least gotten to the place of having a Smithsonian dedicated to the first peoples of this land. I fell in love with squash soup at their restaurant.



Some of the other reading about Spanish invasions help me understand why there were so many tribes "together" under the Taos Pueblo Indians who got kind of run out of New Mexico. The high walled protection helped some, but eventually social workers just took the children and put them in non-Indigenous homes and destroyed the lineage/learning path.

It left a complicated mess to untangle. I wanted to track down the Tribe that sheltered my Mom during her young life when she'd run away from home to the Reservation and stay with them for a bit until things cooled down. She lived in Taos and went to the Catholic School there.

My cousin who lives in Sante Fe (I've never been to New Mexico myself) thinks they were the Towah people, but only the Jemez Pueblo still has that language and I am confused on how to approach what I want to do, which is to somehow express my gratitude for those people helping my Mom gain strength to go on during that time, keeping her safe, teaching her good things about animals and nature. I guess if I just go to every Tribe in New Mexico and express thanks, I will not be over doing it as much as telling the tale of good people who helped my Mom.

I don't even know what is considered appropriate show of thanks in such a situation from any tribal perspective. I guess it doesn't happen much that people want to show gratitude to tribes that are more used to abuse from US. Maybe there isn't one.


https://www.newmexico.org/native-culture/native-communities/