Thanks for visiting with the Confederated Tribes of Warm Springs today. What native or indigenous people live in your area? How do they use natural resources? Do you work with them on your projects?
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We dont have any groups of native people in Denmark - the native people are us!
Some Seminole Indians reside in Florida. There is also a mission called San Luis which is an archeological area of an Indian village/mission. We connect with this historical site to teach children about the customs and traditions of Native Americans.
We have several remnant native tribes still left in Louisiana but none really close to where I live... however, Louisiana does have a rich and varied Native American heritage and I make sure to share that with my students through readings, research, artifacts, and field trips. In fact Louisiana has one of the most important mound sites in North America - Poverty Point.
Almost all of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia were "relocated" to Oaklahoma on the Trail of Tears and so there are very few native Indians left in Georgia. In south Georgia, our local tribe was the Creek (Muscogee) Indians and they were also removed long ago. Sadly, I have never had the opportunity to meet or collaborate with those natives that are still in the state.
In Hebei province of China, there are a few minorities such as Man, Hui, but over decades they almost have culture-mixed with Han People which is the major in China,so there is no big difference now between them and Han.
We have two indigenous groups in our area, the Wurunjeri and the Taunurong. Engaging with both groups is a long process. We have agreed to collaborate to tell their story of their land uses in the forest but it is quite a protracted process that takes time and is still going on.
The Nez Perce Native American people have a rich history in our region (Wallowa County, Oregon) that dates back to over a thousand years prior to pioneer settlement in the late 1800's. They call our area the "land of the winding waters" and today are involved in management of the natural resources (particularly salmon restoration).
Our non-profit partners with the Nez Perce on various projects like watershed restoration, a youth watershed monitoring program, and our Watershed Festival (a one-day celebration of our natural and cultural resources). We also educate locals and visitors about their history in our eco-tourism programs.
Central Wyoming has Northern Arapaho and Shoshoni. They do indeed use some traditional foods from the area. In fact, we have a sister school on the reservation - Crowheart School. Our students correspond with each other. We visited them in May, and they will visit us in September. I hope to do a PLT training on the reservation, but they have not known me long enough to be able to do so this year. Maybe next.
When I worked at Priest Rapids and Wanapum dams in E Washington I worked closely with several members of the tribe. To build these dams on the Columbia their tribal land was flooded. They were in turn offered jobs at the dam and pre fab houses to live in on the banks of their ancestral home. It was a band aid that didn't even come close to covering what they had lost.
There are no native tribes to Texas. However in Oklahoma there are many tribes that still honor their traditions. There are still some boarding schools for Native Americans to attend and lots of cultural activiies.
In our curriculum we cover the Native Americans through SS and Reading, however it is not covered as thorougly as should be.
In Colombia there are many native people, but in the region where I'm from there's not any left. They were either killed by the Spaniards or western pests, or 'reallocated' to unproductive-unaccessible land. Same story as everywhere else. In college I did some research with the Embera people of the Northwest of Colombia. It took us two days of hiking to get to their tribe. There, we studied the plant species they eat for their diet. We found that they eat from more than 50 different species of trees, in addition of cultivated species from their small farms. For them, forest biodiversity is a very important resource that is being lost.
I liked Eva’s comment… :)… probably I would write something similar… just want to add that I was pleasantly surprised because of ability finding optimal solutions and working effectively together as a group of so various people with specific interests and attitudes ( federal government, state, tribe, local community). It seems to me a great example of close communication, collaboration and partnership… what I miss quite often in my country where friction and ever lasting disputes based on simple and even funny social issues are quite common not only between different political parties or public movements but between close neighbors as well.
http://www.zippnet.org/aboutus/wanapumdam.htm Check out the website if you are interested. Even though these people suffered much they still managed to keep their culture alive. There are interpretative sites along the river dedicated to the Wanapum people. every year they hold a lamprey festival. If you haven't had lamprey I wont ruin it for you, lets just say it is interesting fish to eat. not at all like salmon.
The hill where my house is, and the lands around the Marys River below it were the home of the Chepenafa band of the Kalapooya tribe. The Kalapooya lands covered most of the Willamette Valley. Most of them died from diseases brought by early European settlers prior to 1840, and in the mid-1850's those who remained were forced by the U.S. government to give up their ancestral lands and move to a reservation in the Coast Range mountains northwest of Corvallis, along with several other tribes. They were collectively called the Confederated Tribes of the Grande Ronde. Historically, the Kalapooya used the forest as a place to hunt, to gather nuts and berries, and in the open meadows they harvested camas bulbs (a native lily) as a major food source. I have had the opportunity to work with Grande Ronde tribes as they advise Oregon State University on how to recognize and protect their cultural artifacts on our 11,000 acre university forest just outside Corvallis. I have recently contacted their tribal office for advice on how to protect an area rich in artifacts of the Chepenafa on the hill behind my home, where a subdivision is planned to be built.
Driving up to Menucha with Min and Carolina was cool, helping Angie set up the room was fun. The sessions by rick was great and we had good groups discussions and dinner.
Wish the swimming pool was open from 7 and closed only at 9 pm so we could have a nice swim.
Looking forward to tomorrows downhill hike on the larch mountains. Learnt a lot.
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We dont have any groups of native people in Denmark - the native people are us!
Eva
Some Seminole Indians reside in Florida. There is also a mission called San Luis which is an archeological area of an Indian village/mission. We connect with this historical site to teach children about the customs and traditions of Native Americans.
We have several remnant native tribes still left in Louisiana but none really close to where I live... however, Louisiana does have a rich and varied Native American heritage and I make sure to share that with my students through readings, research, artifacts, and field trips. In fact Louisiana has one of the most important mound sites in North America - Poverty Point.
Almost all of the Cherokee Indians from Georgia were "relocated" to Oaklahoma on the Trail of Tears and so there are very few native Indians left in Georgia. In south Georgia, our local tribe was the Creek (Muscogee) Indians and they were also removed long ago. Sadly, I have never had the opportunity to meet or collaborate with those natives that are still in the state.
In Hebei province of China, there are a few minorities such as Man, Hui, but over decades they almost have culture-mixed with Han People which is the major in China,so there is no big difference now between them and Han.
We have two indigenous groups in our area, the Wurunjeri and the Taunurong. Engaging with both groups is a long process. We have agreed to collaborate to tell their story of their land uses in the forest but it is quite a protracted process that takes time and is still going on.
The Nez Perce Native American people have a rich history in our region (Wallowa County, Oregon) that dates back to over a thousand years prior to pioneer settlement in the late 1800's. They call our area the "land of the winding waters" and today are involved in management of the natural resources (particularly salmon restoration).
Our non-profit partners with the Nez Perce on various projects like watershed restoration, a youth watershed monitoring program, and our Watershed Festival (a one-day celebration of our natural and cultural resources). We also educate locals and visitors about their history in our eco-tourism programs.
Central Wyoming has Northern Arapaho and Shoshoni. They do indeed use some traditional foods from the area. In fact, we have a sister school on the reservation - Crowheart School. Our students correspond with each other. We visited them in May, and they will visit us in September. I hope to do a PLT training on the reservation, but they have not known me long enough to be able to do so this year. Maybe next.
When I worked at Priest Rapids and Wanapum dams in E Washington I worked closely with several members of the tribe. To build these dams on the Columbia their tribal land was flooded. They were in turn offered jobs at the dam and pre fab houses to live in on the banks of their ancestral home. It was a band aid that didn't even come close to covering what they had lost.
There are no native tribes to Texas. However in Oklahoma there are many tribes that still honor their traditions. There are still some boarding schools for Native Americans to attend and lots of cultural activiies.
In our curriculum we cover the Native Americans through SS and Reading, however it is not covered as thorougly as should be.
In Colombia there are many native people, but in the region where I'm from there's not any left. They were either killed by the Spaniards or western pests, or 'reallocated' to unproductive-unaccessible land. Same story as everywhere else. In college I did some research with the Embera people of the Northwest of Colombia. It took us two days of hiking to get to their tribe. There, we studied the plant species they eat for their diet. We found that they eat from more than 50 different species of trees, in addition of cultivated species from their small farms. For them, forest biodiversity is a very important resource that is being lost.
I liked Eva’s comment… :)… probably I would write something similar… just want to add that I was pleasantly surprised because of ability finding optimal solutions and working effectively together as a group of so various people with specific interests and attitudes ( federal government, state, tribe, local community). It seems to me a great example of close communication, collaboration and partnership… what I miss quite often in my country where friction and ever lasting disputes based on simple and even funny social issues are quite common not only between different political parties or public movements but between close neighbors as well.
http://www.zippnet.org/aboutus/wanapumdam.htm
Check out the website if you are interested.
Even though these people suffered much they still managed to keep their culture alive. There are interpretative sites along the river dedicated to the Wanapum people. every year they hold a lamprey festival. If you haven't had lamprey I wont ruin it for you, lets just say it is interesting fish to eat. not at all like salmon.
The hill where my house is, and the lands around the Marys River below it were the home of the Chepenafa band of the Kalapooya tribe. The Kalapooya lands covered most of the Willamette Valley. Most of them died from diseases brought by early European settlers prior to 1840, and in the mid-1850's those who remained were forced by the U.S. government to give up their ancestral lands and move to a reservation in the Coast Range mountains northwest of Corvallis, along with several other tribes. They were collectively called the Confederated Tribes of the Grande Ronde. Historically, the Kalapooya used the forest as a place to hunt, to gather nuts and berries, and in the open meadows they harvested camas bulbs (a native lily) as a major food source. I have had the opportunity to work with Grande Ronde tribes as they advise Oregon State University on how to recognize and protect their cultural artifacts on our 11,000 acre university forest just outside Corvallis. I have recently contacted their tribal office for advice on how to protect an area rich in artifacts of the Chepenafa on the hill behind my home, where a subdivision is planned to be built.
Hey All participants,
Driving up to Menucha with Min and Carolina was cool, helping Angie set up the room was fun. The sessions by rick was great and we had good groups discussions and dinner.
Wish the swimming pool was open from 7 and closed only at 9 pm so we could have a nice swim.
Looking forward to tomorrows downhill hike on the larch mountains. Learnt a lot.
Deepak
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