#choctaw horse

[horsesarecreatures]

Q -Choctaw Stallion

#choctaw horse #grey horse #endangered breed #horse #equine

[kemetic-dreams]

SLAVE REVOLT OF 1842.

Of the Five Tribes, the Cherokees were the largest holder of Africans as chattel slaves. By 1860 the Cherokees had 4,600 slaves. Many Cherokees depended on them as a bridge to white society. Full-blood Indian slave owners relied on the Africans as English interpreters and translators. Mainly, however, enslaved persons worked on farms as laborers or in homes as maids or servants. The Cherokees feared the aspect of a slave revolt, and that is just what happened in 1842 at Webbers Falls.

On the morning of November 15 more than twenty-five slaves, mostly from the Joseph Vann plantation, revolted. They locked their masters and overseers in their homes and cabins while they slept. The slaves stole guns, horses, mules, ammunition, food, and supplies. At daybreak the group, which included men, women, and children, headed toward Mexico, where slavery was illegal. In the Creek Nation the Cherokee slaves were joined by Creek slaves, bringing the group total to more than thirty-five. The fugitives fought off and killed a couple of slave hunters in the Choctaw Nation.

The Cherokee Nation sent the Cherokee Militia, under Capt. John Drew, with eighty-seven men to catch the runaways. This expedition was authorized by the Cherokee National Council in Tahlequah on November 17, 1842. The militia caught up with the slaves seven miles north of the Red River on November 28, 1842. The tired, famished fugitives offered no resistance.

The party returned to Tahlequah on December 8, 1842. Five slaves were executed, and Joseph Vann put the majority of his rebellious slaves to work on his steamboats, which worked the Arkansas, Mississippi, and Ohio Rivers. The Cherokees blamed the incident on free, armed black Seminoles who lived in close proximity to the Cherokee slaves at Fort Gibson. On December 2, 1842, the Cherokee Nation passed a law commanding all free African Americans, except former Cherokee slaves, to leave the nation.

#african #afrakan #kemetic dreams #africans #brownskin #afrakans #brown skin #african culture #slave revolt #cherokee #asians #asian #asian americans #native americans #indigenous peoples #indigineous people #indigenous #indigenous history #Ani'-Yun'wiya #Kituwah #Tsalagi

[bywandandsword]

🧭🌞🔥

🧭 - What led you to your practice?

It's a long story, so here's a much abridged version. I used to be Catholic and made it all the way through Confirmation, during which I took the name Brigid, because her stories just resonated with me for some reason. But when I was a junior in high school, I was trying desperately to feel represented as an afab person in my religion while at the same time delving heavily into witchcraft, which led be briefly to a sort of Catholic-Wicca syncretism, then just Wicca for a few months, then when I realized Wicca didn't make any gd sense to me, I switched over to polytheism proper. Some advice I found initially when I started looking was to look into the gods of your ancestors, so I started looking into Irish gods and Celtic Recon and I've been here ever since. For a few years I was syncretic with Norse Polytheism, but it feels like that chapter in my life is closed. Right now I'm focused on the Gaelic gods, but I also worship/work with local land spirits, Hades, Brythonic spirits, and will occasionally throw a petition to a saint on behalf of one of my Catholic family members

🌞 - Which deity(ies) are you closest to/do you worship the most often?

I'm devoted to Brighid 🥰🥰🥰 You'll note that I took her name even before I was pagan, so I like to think I've been her creature since the beginning

The second deity (I'm using that term because 'spirit' doesn't feel right) I devote a ton of mental space to is the Mississippi River. I tend to think of river spirits in terms of goddesses, just cause that's how they're normally depicted in the Celtic mythologies, and I haven't gotten the vibe that she objects with those terms. However, because I'm no where near the Mississippi River or her tributaries atm, I can't really work with her? It doesn't feel right, because my experience of her is so localized to back home. But in the spring when I can be outside for extended periods without turning into a popsicle, I'm going to start trying to develop a relationship with the Penobscot River in earnest. I cross her every day on the way to school. She has a lovely energy

The other deities I regularly devote space to are the Morrigan and Hades. They both got my attention during periods in my life related to death. They're not particularly vocal or active, but the crows make it clear they're still around

🔥 - Do you have a favorite myth or tale from your pantheon or others?

There's a few and I can't chose just one

The Tale of Oisín (Gaelic)

The Curse of Macha (Gaelic)

The Meeting and Marriage of Rhiannon and Pwyll (Welsh)

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight (Arthurian)

Raven Steals Fire (Tlingit)

The Tale of Wind Horse (Choctaw)

#Sword speaks

[oklahomahistory]

No-Win Situation

No-Win Situation  If the Natives’ differences with white American culture and history caused problems for them, however, so did their herculean attempts to remedy that problem by acculturating themselves to the swelling United States. Large segments of several prominent southeastern Indian tribes attempted to master the ways of European and American culture, just as early American leaders such as George Washington encouraged them to do. These five tribes—the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles-gained the sobriquet of the “Five Civilized Tribes" due to their strong acceptance of most of the key tenets. of an American civilization that, by most objective measurements, was succeeding, growing, and thriving far beyond their own. These tenets included its Christian religion, classical Western educational system, social culture, political institutions, and agrarian and other business practices. Famed Oklahoma historian Angie Debo cited the usefulness of the Five Civilized Tribes designation “to distinguish them from their wild neighbors of the plains.” Historian Arrell M. Gibson contrasted the powerful impact of one tribe’s mounting mixed-blood population-birthed of enterprising white fathers (Scots, Scots-Irish, Irish, English, French, etc.) and Indian mothers—with full bloods who retained old ways and associations: The mixed-bloods (among the tribes), more like their fathers than their mothers, came to adopt an advanced way of living. They developed vast estates, ranches, and businesses in the Cherokee Nation, and became slaveholders. The full bloods continued to live in log cabins, cultivated only a subsistence patch of food crops, raised horses, excelled in the old tribal crafts of hunting, fishing, a life close to nature, and now and then joined a war party for a raid on the encroaching American settlements. But many of those American settlers, including Georgians furious over the federal government’s failure to uphold its end of the Compact of 1802, feared that the Cherokees were growing too “civilized.” Why? The Georgians envisioned a large permanent-and sovereign-Indian enclave in the northwest corner of the state. They also worried that Cherokee roads, tolls, and ferries operating beyond the constraints of Georgian laws and regulations would hamper commerce with other states. Also, the tribal chiefs’ reluctance to improve the nation’s roads angered Georgian leaders. Plus, as earlier mentioned, the federal government had assured the state of the soon departure of the Cherokees. Unfortunately, the tribe itself had no part in that agreement, so they had no intention of fulfilling it. The Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles faced similar indifference or hostility to their efforts at “civilizing.” Whether practicing the old ways or the new, the realization grew among the tribes that they could not win if they remained east of the Mississippi River, no matter what course they pursued. Arkansas Territory in its original form and with two sections split off to form Indian Territory. Read the entire Oklahoma story in John J. Dwyer’s The Oklahomans: The Story of Oklahoma and Its People volume 1 of a 2-part series on the 46th state and the people who make this state very special.

#oklahoma #history #john dwyer #the oklahomans #chocktaw #cherokee #seminole #chickasaw #sooners #boomers #89ers #land run #okies

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 4.3 (after 1970)

1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs. 1974 – The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second largest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured. 1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children in the closing stages of the war begins. 1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default. 1980 – US Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the Shivwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute people of Utah. 1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco. 1989 – The US Supreme Court upholds the jurisdictional rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in Mississippi Choctaw Band v. Holyfield. 1993 – The outcome of the Grand National horse race is declared void for the first (and only) time 1996 – Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States. 1996 – A United States Air Force Boeing T-43 crashes near Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia, killing 35, including Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown. 1997 – The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas. 2000 – United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. 2004 – Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves. 2007 – Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record. 2008 – ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations. 2008 – Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody. 2009 – Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide. 2010 – Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer. 2013 – More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2016 – The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies. 2017 – A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people. 2018 – YouTube headquarters shooting: A 38-year-old gunwoman opens fire at YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California, injuring three people before committing suicide.

#Events

[supersmacked]

mythical creatures

adze: vampire, transforms into a firefly, biting people in their sleep, killing them (ghana)

inkanyamba: gigantic, winged eel with a voracious appetite. it is associated with brutal storms (south africe)

aswang: shape-shifting monster that devours unborn babies (philippines)

dybbuk: malevolent possessing spirit that only departs after having accomplished its goal (israel)

kamaitachi: sickle-limbed weasel that can easily cut off your limbs (japan)

teke teke: ghost of a young girl who died being cut in halp by a train. she drags herself forward, her torso leaving a trail as she crawls around, seeking to dismember other people with a scythe (japan)

pontianak: ghost of a woman who died pregnant. she eats organs after digging them out of a body with her long and sharp fingernails (indonesia)

ghoul: shapeshifting demon. it takes on the form of the corpse it has most recently devoured (arabia)

draugr: an undead with superhuman strength and stamina, cannot be harmed with normal weapons (norway)

banshee: female spirit that heralds the death of a loved one with chilling and relentless shrieks (ireland)

nuckelavee: demon-hybrid that appears as a skinned horse with skinned male torso poking out its back. it breathes disease and decay (orkney)

redcap: murderous goblin that lives in ruined castles (scotland)

kelpie: emits a cry, sounding like a human drowning to lure its pray into the water. it will then plunge the prey into an underwater grave (scotland)

gargoyle: brooding winged creature said to scare away evil spirits (england)

black dog: omen of death, associated with electrical storms, place a execution and crossroads (england)

black annis: blue witch with iron talons and a taste for humans, specifically children (england)

cerberus: three-headed dog that guards the gates to the underworld, it prevents the dead from leaving (greece)

lou carcolh: serpentine mollusc that lives in underground caverns, it swallows its victims whole (france)

nalusa falaya: black, long beings that slither around and melt into shadows (choctaw)

wendigo: cannibalistic monster that was once human, driven into madness by starvation and greed (algonquian)

la ciguapa: enchanting woman with backwards feet. she lures men into the woods (dominacan republic)

chupacabra: creature that feeds on the blood of livestock (puerto rico)

bunyip: water cryptid that lurks in swamps and creeks, on the lookout for human flesh (australia)

#mythical creatures #supersmakced #mythical #mythical au #supernatural prompts #supernatural

[theseventhveil1945]

[bandcampsnoop]

3/1/23.

I love projects like this - the reissue of Roxy Gordon "Crazy Horse Never Died". According to Paradise of Bachelors (North Carolina), this 1988 album's reissue has been in the works for a decade. It comes with a 48 page "chapbook". From the Bandcamp page: "Roxy Gordon (First Coyote Boy, or Tu Gah Juk Juk Ka Na Hok Sheena) (1945–2000) was a Choctaw, Assiniboine, and Texan poet, journalist, artist, activist, and musician." He was friends with Townes Van Zandt and Leonard Cohen and Terry Allen wrote glowingly of his work.

Roxy Gordon's (Dallas, Texas) songs stand alongside other Native artists that combine cultural references with a folk/country sound: Willie Dunn, Morley Loon and John Angaiak.

#Roxy Gordon #Dallas #Texas #Paradise of Bachelors #North Carolina #Townes Van Zandt #Leonard Cohen #Terry Allen #Willie Dunn #John Angaiak #Morley Loon #Bandcamp

[katb357]

Falling for Hogan’s Heroes

The Guest

A/N: Xav and I had such fun with the crossover in the last story that we decided to introduce another Gage character in this one. Johnny’s father Sgt. James Roderick Gage…who is not a canon character. And the child his wife is pregnant with is not Johnny… just in case you’re wondering. Stay tuned for more shenanigans in the next story…

Barracks Two Stalag 13 Hammelburg, Germany Winter 1943

Sergeant James R. Gage, who usually went by Roddy, stared nervously at the door. If it opened and a German came in and he was caught, it could be very bad. He just had this one mission to complete before he would be flown to London and on the way home for a few days of leave. But his plane was shot down and his pilot hadn’t made it. Thankfully, Papa Bear’s operation had gotten to him before the Germans did, but before he could be evacuated, the blizzard hit and the tunnel collapsed. Now he was stuck here. He would kill himself before he let the Germans get hold of him. He had been on the verge of it out there in the woods, but Carter had stopped him. “I really don’t like this,” he muttered.

He was sitting on a lower bunk across from Andrew Carter and Peter Newkirk’s bunk. Carter looked down from his upper bunk. “What’s wrong?”

Gage grimaced. “Just can’t afford to get caught here, that’s all.” He fingered the cyanide pill in his pocket.

“You’re safe here, sergeant.”

“You can’t understand,” Gage growled. Even in the freezing cold of the barracks, he felt like he was stifling.

“Hundreds of pilots have gone through our operation safely. The blizzard is just a minor setback. You’ll be in London before too long.”

Gage pulled his hand out of his pocket, not noticing that the pill slipped out onto the blanket next to him. “I hope you’re right, pal.”

Carter’s sharp eyes picked out the pill immediately. He knew exactly what it was, as he carried one himself, hidden in his jacket. He hopped off his bunk and  sat next to Gage, and pointed at the pill. “You won’t need that anytime soon. I can promise you that.”

Gage snatched the pill up and stuck it back in his pocket. “No one’s supposed to see that,” he said hoarsely. “Just forget about it.”

“I won’t say a word. I understand better than you think.” He stood up and sighed. “Just don’t lose hope.”

“What would a white boy like you know about it?” Gage didn’t mean to speak sharply. He was truly curious, and he actually liked Carter. He had an idea that Carter was nothing like the sheriff’s kid who had gotten him into this mess in the first place.

Andrew was used to it. He’d been through it all his life. “I’m half-Norwegian and half-Lakota. I look like my mother’s people, and have the heart of my father’s people.”

“My father is half English, half Choctaw. My mother is full Choctaw.” Roddy sat up on the bunk and leaned against the wall. “I miss home. The crickets chirping and the wind in the trees and the full moon spilling out golden light over the wheat fields.”

“I miss my horses.” Carter shut his eyes, homesickness hitting him hard.

“Those too.” Gage swallowed hard. “My wife is going to have a baby any day now. Maybe already did. Our first. I got leave to be with her. After this mission, I was going to head to London and then home.”

“I am sorry.” There was nothing else to say to that.

Gage shrugged. “It is what it is. I just wish I could get word to her by radio that I’m OK.”

“You’ll be home with her soon. Hopefully the radio will be working soon too.

Gage just nodded and lay back on the bunk, adjusting the pillow under his head. There were other reasons he needed the radio, but he couldn’t tell Carter or anyone else about that.

Carter lay back, thinking. He had already missed one check in. Gage was missing his wife, but he had missed a vital contact. Of course, no one could ever know anything about that.

Gradually, Gage drifted off, dreaming of home. The dream didn’t last long, though. He woke up suddenly in the middle of the night. Something was niggling at him, some problem he needed to solve.

Finally, it struck him what he needed to do. He got up very quietly and moved over to Carter’s upper bunk. Very carefully, he gave the man’s shoulder a shake.

Carter was awake instantly.

Gage held a finger to his mouth. Then, very quietly, he whispered the code word. If Carter didn’t know it, it would mean nothing to him. If he did… well, then the mission wasn’t a bust after all.

Carter’s eyebrow raised and he whispered back the countersign. He had wondered when Gage came in, but thought it was too much of a coincidence. But apparently, he’d been wrong…

Gage grinned. “We’ll find a way to talk tomorrow,” he whispered. “At least something is going my way now.” Then he went back to bed. He hated being stuck in this barracks, but now his sense of purpose had been renewed.

The next day cabin fever seemed to hit all the occupants of Barracks Two at the same time. There were several arguments throughout the day, and although the men were driving Hogan crazy, the chaos proved to be exactly what Carter and Gage needed as cover for their quiet little talk. Newkirk especially was in high dudgeon and it took Carter no time at all to get him riled up to the point of Peter picking a fight with Olsen.

Carter nodded to Gage and they headed for a relatively peaceful corner of the barracks.

“That was entertaining,” Gage said, glancing back at the chaos. Newkirk was rolling up his sleeves and giving Olsen a dangerous look. “You have a real talent, Carter.” And then he lowered his voice and passed on the message he’d been tasked to deliver.

Andrew memorized the message and the two stepped back into the main area just as the fight spread to the rest of the occupants… and Andrew joined in relishing the opportunity to blow off some steam. He tackled his favorite target, Chaplain Taffy Matthews, who howled with delight and promptly threw Andrew over his shoulder. At 5’2” Taffy was deceptively small, and much stronger than he looked.

Gage watched for a moment, then decided if he couldn’t beat ‘em, he might as well join ‘em. He rolled up his sleeves and got in a wrestling stance. He was tall and skinny as a beanpole, but he was strong and quick and no one had ever beaten him. He picked up the closest soldier and turned him on his head, then turned to face the chaplain. “Not sure you have a prayer against me, preacher man.” He grinned, and the sparkle in his eyes showed he didn’t mean it disparagingly.

Taffy smiled, his green eyes shining. His thick Welsh accent lilted as he invited, “Shall we be findin’ out then me lad?”

Gage circled him, waiting for the moment to make his move. The rest of the men had backed off and were watching. A couple were calling out wagers.

Taffy was calm and watchful, in no hurry.

“Waiting for me to make the first move, I suppose,” Gage observed. “I suppose I can oblige.” He darted forward, keeping a careful watch on Taffy’s movements. His brothers had taught him the importance of observing his opponent and anticipating what he would do. But he didn’t know much about Taffy yet.

Gage quickly found out that Taffy was unpredictable when it came to fighting. He used some Cornish style moves then quickly switched to down and dirty street fighting then to karate and judo moves then back to basic wrestling, and the man was strong with lightning reflexes. While that was a good thing for Taffy, it also meant that Gage had the advantage of size and reach. Taffy took some hard hits just by virtue of the extra reach Gage’s height gave him. Once Gage got a read on Taffy’s style, or lack thereof, the fight got really interesting, because things got serious. They were both in it to win, and though they weren’t out to really injure each other, neither one was willing to concede either.

Finally, they began to slow down purely due to exhaustion, and the fight was declared a draw. Taffy looked through his one good eye, as the other was swelling shut. “You are a fine fighter, lad.” He gingerly stroked his tender jaw.

“Brothers taught me,” Gage said, though speaking hurt at this point. “Good thing they taught me boxing on top of wrestling.” He sank into a chair.

Newkirk grinned. “Taffy here’s got three black belts in the martial arts. Likes to practice on Carter.” Taffy rolled his eyes and shook his head.

Gage pulled up his uniform jacket. “This is the only belt I got,” he said, pointing to the standard military issue uniform belt.

“Newkirk, Sgt. Gage is correct. It’s not something to brag about.”

His forehead wrinkling, Gage shrugged. “No, really. This is the only belt I got.” He glanced toward the window and brightened. “Hey! The snow stopped!” He pulled a handkerchief from his pocket and pressed it against his bleeding nose.

Carter grinned. “If we’d have known all it would take was a fight to stop the snow, we could have done it sooner!”

“Think that radio will be fixed soon, Carter?” Gage asked. “I gotta find out if I’m a dad yet, and let Lindy know I’m OK.”

Hogan came out of his office and surveyed the wreckage. “You guys better get this place cleaned up. I figure you’re all cured of your cabin fever by now.”  He turned to Kinch. “Do you think you can get the parts for the radio?”

Kinch nodded. “Yeah. We’ll get them in tomorrow and get the radio fixed”

“When do you think I can get to London?” Gage asked. “I gotta get home to Lindy.”

Hogan thought about it. “We’ve got men working on the tunnel. We should have you out of here by the end of the week. It’s the best we can do.”

“I’ll take it.” He got to his feet, the handkerchief still pressed against his nose. “Just let me know how I can help, Colonel.”

Hogan frowned. “Is your nose broken?”

He shrugged. “Could be. Nothin’ new.”

“There’s something else Taffy’s very good at,” Hogan said.

Taffy came over to the pair at Hogan’s nod. “I can fix your nose for you, Sergeant.”

Gage nodded and steeled himself as he lowered the handkerchief. He had learned long ago how to hide his pain behind a stoic mask. The preacher had broken his nose without Gage so much as wincing. He wasn’t going to appear weak now.

Taffy placed his hands on either side of the break and without preamble simply snapped the bones back into place.

Gage drew in a breath and nodded. “Yeah, that’s better. Thanks, preacher man.” It hurt like crazy, but he wasn’t about to let anyone know.

Taffy nodded and moved back to his bunk.

Later that afternoon, Gage sought Taffy out. “Preacher man… would… would you pray with me?”

“Of course, I will. What in particular would you like to pray about?” Taffy thought he knew, but he never made assumptions.

Gage sat across from him. “I haven’t prayed for a long time… not sure I remember how. But my wife Lindy… she’s about to have a baby. Maybe she already did. And she’s never been all that strong. I want to pray for her and the little one. I want to see them, preacher.”

“Did you mean what you just said, from your heart?”

“Yessir.” He tilted his head and his brow wrinkled a bit. “Course I did.”

“God heard you.”

He ducked his head. “I dunno. Mama always said, God don’t listen to sinners.”

“God sent his Son to die for sinners. Why wouldn’t He listen to them?”

“I quit goin’ to church. Quit believin’ when I was in jail for somethin’ I didn’t do. Not sure God has any use for me now.”  

“But God didn’t stop believing in you. He never will. Now, I meant it when I said He heard you. You can talk to Him. If you didn’t believe, you wouldn’t want to pray, see?”

He nodded and shrugged. “Not sure what I believe just now. I figured it couldn’t hurt, though. I’d be mighty pleased if you would say a prayer for Lindy, sir.”

“And I’d be pleased to pray for her and the child.” And so Taffy knelt there beside Gage and prayed for the young wife and mother to be. And silently he prayed for the hurting husband and father to be as well.

By the time Taffy was done praying, Gage had tears in his eyes. He blinked rapidly, trying to keep them from escaping. He never cried in front of anyone. “Thanks,” he said huskily, then got up quickly and went to his bunk.

Taffy stood and looked at the activity at the door. The men were digging away the snow with a couple of buckets which immediately led to a snowball fight. Andrew, of course, wanted to build a snowman. Their captivity inside the barracks was over. Life was good again… relatively speaking.

The End

A/N: My version of Carter is that he is one of the Code Talkers sent by the Lakota Nation, (See “Honorable Lies” on FFN). Xav’s creation, Gage, is one of the few WW2 Code Talkers sent by the Choctaw Nation, who were the first Code talkers during WW1. Taffy Matthews is my OC character from my HH stories.

#falling for hogan's heroes #hogan's heroes #andrew carter #robert hogan #oc

[strawberrybabydog]

Heyo :D

I saw your post on transraciality and idk if you are one of those people that like feel better because you don't feel alone but same! My dad just knows hes native. But he is very whitewashed and the research I've done is...confusing. My 10th great grandfather is Choctaw and I might be Takelma (a dead tribe so oof) so its very confusing.

I personally am gonna be doing things like Ancestory tests for ancestor work stuff and hopefully when I am 18 and get my name change I will be able to ask to join whatever-tribe-I-can-connect-to, but I hope you get some peace with your indigenous side. It can be v confusing with all the erasing. Just always remember that no matter your decision you'll always have a valid one. Its a harsh topic and no one will be mad at you for reconnecting or not /gen ^^

this is so kind, thank you anon :0) i might try to talk to my aunt about it; she's the one who's tried to reconnect most & i dont think she knows we're Anishinaabe. maybe i'll message her on facebook? actually idk if i can cuz she hasnt seen me in like 8/9 years & i changed my name LOL

she also has horses which are like a paratype of mine so uh, maybe it'll give me an excuse to go see her horses. i mean her, of course.. her.. not.. the horses.... O_O

#asks #not dog #personal #lovemail

[theprissythumbelina]

Talk my ear off about horses! 👀

More specifically, I've been looking for what breeds of horse would be best for travelling in rocky mountainous regions with very little even ground for a WIP, but I would absolutely love to know what horse symbolism is!

Have you heard about the Rocky Mountain Horse? The RMH is a breed that is gaited, which means that the horse has a special way of moving its legs that is much smoother and easier to ride than a normal horse. Normal horses have a walk, trot, canter, and gallop, but Rocky mountain horses have a gait called 'single-foot '. Despite the name, Rocky Mountain horses developed in Appalachia and were a relatively rare breed further west, which means that they would have been used mainly by breeders and folk with an interest in the breed.

A far more common horse in the old west would have been Indian Ponies*, which were small horse breeds developed by local Native American tribes and traded to settlers for guns, beads, foods, etc. These horses would be classified as mustangs today, but tribes such as the Choctaw, Cherokee, Apache, and Nez Perce all bred their own strands of horses. These horses were small, but strong, swift, and surefooted. These horses started to breed with the Colonial Quarter horse and created the modern Quarter Horse breed, which is the most ubiquitous horse in the Western world today.

*(there are dozens of indigenous-developed breeds, this is a general term that would have been used during the time. Examples are the Cherokee Horse, Lac La Croix Indian Pony/Ojibwe Pony, Chocktaw Pony, Nez Perce Horse, Cayuse Indian Pony, and more.)

Depending on the resources of your characters, they will likely ride different kinds of horses. Pinto horses and Appaloosa horses were less desirable since they generally did not come from established bloodlines, while solid-colored horses with known bloodlines were highly prized. Serious breeders kept very good records of their horses, especially racehorse breeders.

Now, you asked about horses, but I will mention that mules, donkey/horse hybrids, were actually very common and known for being stronger and more even-tempered than horses, especially in the Rocky Mountains. Some mules have been known to even attack cougars to defend their riders or herd.

I'm gonna end it here cause otherwise, I will just keep going for eternity, but if you need any questions answered about horses or horse culture, I got you.

#writer advice #how to write about horses #horse information in the old west #writeblr community #asks #seriously thank you #I love talking about horses #I'll do it all day

[whitepolaris]

Make Way for the Wog

What has long, jet-black hair, red eyes, a forked tongue, and is the size of a small horse? Why, the Wog, of course. According to local Native American tales dating from the 1800s, this horrible beast once inhabited Nodoroc, a boiling pit of volcanic mud in northeastern Georgia near Winder.

in The Early History of Jackson County, Georgia, published in 1914, local historian G. J. N. Wilson described the Wog in more detail: ". . . his legs were much shorter [than a horse's], the front ones being some twelve inches longer than the hind ones," making it look something like a huge dog sitting on its tail and giving it an awkward, lurching gait.

But perhaps the most striking thing about the Wog was its tail, which was extremely long and had a thick tuft of bristly white hair on the end. Whether the beast was sitting or standing, its tail was constantly twitching from side to side, making a whizzing sound that could be heard from far away. As it scurried along, the eight-inch prongs of its long, forked tongue lolled out of its mouth, giving it the appearance of a vicious snake. It had a huge set of tooth which it could not close its ugly lips.

In the myths of the Creek Indians, Nodoroc was hell and the Wog was Satan. The Creeks believed that evil souls would spend eternity in the volcanic bog of Nodoroc, so they commonly threw prisoners of war and condemned criminals into the boiling mud for the Wog to feast on. At times, the pit seemed to burn hotter, and the Creeks believed this meant the Wog was angry and craved more victims. Additional sacrifices would be burled into the pit, for fear of that the Wog would leave the bog at night and seize local villagers.

According to one old tale, a Creek woman named Fenceruga killed and devoured one of her children. Chief Urocasca sentenced her to death and she was thrown headfirst into Nodoroc. The Wog emerged and swept its repulsive tail through the mud, covering up the hole she made where she was thrown in. Though her body may have been dead, her spirit lived on in torment, and on dark nights her ghost was seen running through the hills, screaming.

According to another tale, Chief Umausauga had a beautiful daughter named Nere Nara (Sunrise) who was being courted by a Choctaw brave. When the princess spurned the brave's love, he murdered her. Chief Umausauga and his son pursued the Choctaw and found him near Thomocoggin (Jefferson). His heart had been cut out of his body and devoured by wolves. They took the body back to Nodoroc and threw it into the boiling mud. Chief Umausauga then swore a vengeance on the whole Choctaw tribe and organized a war party of more than two hundred followers. But before they could begin this mission of vengeance, the Wog began to appear regularly, scaring some of the war party to death. It reportedly snatched dead bodies out of their graves and ate them.

By the time settlers appeared in the area, however, the devilish Wog of Native America had been replaced by a less frightful creature. In the settlers' tales, the Wog would occasionally approach cabins, announcing its arrival with the sound of its whirring tail, and poke its long forked tongue through the chinks between the logs. According to historian Wilson, "Dogs and cats ran away, horses snorted, cattle moaned." But humans were never again molested by the Wog, and the beast has gone down in infamy along with so many other strange Georgia critters.

#type read #weird georgia

[random-racehorses]

Random Real Thoroughbred: PRICE-SALE

PRICE-SALE is a horse born in Brazil in 1994. By CHOCTAW RIDGE out of PLENITUD. Link to their pedigreequery page: https://www.pedigreequery.com/price-sale

#/price-sale

[brookston]

Holidays 11.27

Holidays

Axum Massacre Anniversary Day

Bargle Day

Beat a Furry Day

Bonifacio Day (Philippines)

Cauliflower Day (French Republic)

Cerro de Pasco Day (Peru)

Commemoration of the Great March of 1949 and the Restoration of the Legislative Council (British Virgin Islands)

Festival of Solitude

Flag Day (Paraguay)

Fort Day

Freckle Pride Day

Get the Giggles and Give One Away Day

International Day of the Professor (Spain)

Lancashire Day (UK)

Maaveerar Day (Tamil Eelam, Sri Lanka)

National Electric Guitar Day

National Lawrence Day

National Physician Assistant Day (Canada)

Naval Infantry Day (Russia)

Pie in the Face Day

Pins and Needles Day

Pittsburgh Day

Publications Day (Scientology)

Solemn Day

Teacher’s Day (Spain)

Turtle Adoption Day

Vertical Farming Day

Worldwide Disinformation Awareness Day

Zibelemarkt (The Onion Market Day; Switzerland)

Food & Drink Celebrations

National Bavarian Cream Pie Day

National Craft Jerky Day

4th & Last Monday in November

Cider Monday [Monday after Thanksgiving]

Cyber Monday [Monday after Thanksgiving]

Day of National Sovereignty (Argentina) [4th Monday]

Memorial Day (Antarctica) [Last Monday]

National Brand Day [4th Monday]

Zibelemarit (Onion Market Day; Berne, Switzerland) [4th Monday]

Independence Days

Chatham Islands Province Day (New Zealand)

Kingdom of Hope (Declared; 2012) [unrecognized]

Wazakhstan (Declared; 2017) [unrecognized]

Feast Days

Acarius of Tournai (Christian; Saint)

Air Guitar Day (Pastafarian)

Barlaam and Josaphat (Christian; Saint)

Bilihildis (Christian; Saint)

Clovis I (Christian; Saint)

Congar of Congresbury (Christian; Saint)

Eugene V. Debs Day (Church of the SubGenius; Saint)

Facundus and Primitivus (Christian; Saints)

Feast of Ullr and Skadi (Asatru/Norse Pagan)

Forseti’s Day (Pagan)

Francis Anthony Fasani (Christian; Saint)

Franklin (Positivist; Saint)

Full Moon [12th of the Year] (a.k.a. ... 

Bitter Moon (China)

Christmas Moon (Colonial)

Cold Moon (Amer. Indian, Celtic, North America, Traditional)

Fruit Moon (South Africa)

Hoar Frost Moon (Traditional)

Long Night’s Moon (Alternate, Amer. Indian, Neo-Pagan)

Moon of the Popping Trees (Traditional)

Oak Moon (England, Wicca)

Peach Moon (Choctaw)

Snow Moon (Cherokee)

Southern Hemisphere: Honey, Rose, Strawberry

Unduwap Full Moon Poya Day (Sri Lanka)

Winter Maker Moon (Traditional)

Grog Guzzling Day (Pastafarian)

Humilis of Bisignano (Christian; Saint)

Inspector Raccoonseau (Muppetism)

James Intercisus (Christian; Saint)

Leonard of Port Maurice (Christian; Saint)

Maharsapor (Christian; Saint)

Maximus, Bishop of Riez (Christian; Saint)

Meath (Christian; Saint)

Our Lady of the Miraculous Medal (Roman Catholic)

Secundinus (a.k.a. Seachnal; Christian; Saint)

Siffredus of Carpentras (Christian; Saint)

Tsuguharu Foujita (Artology)

Vergilius of Salzburg (a.k.a. Virgil; Christian; Saint)

Lucky & Unlucky Days

Prime Number Day: 331 [67 of 72]

Shakku (赤口 Japan) [Bad luck all day, except at noon.]

Premieres

All Things Must Pass, by George Harrison (Album; 1970)

Also Sprach Zarathustra, by Richard Strauss (Tone Poem; 1896)

Bosom Buddies (TV Series; 1980)

Boris Takes a Town or The Night Mayor (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 181; 1962)

Bullwinkle at the Borrom or Fish-Mash Moose! (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 75; 1960)

The Crucible (Film; 1996)

The Crying Game (Film; 1992)

Double Trouble or The Moose Hangs High (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S2, Ep. 76; 1960)

Eeeny Meeny Miney Mo, recorded by Ginger Rogers and Johnny Mercer (Song; 1935)

Eight Crazy Nights (Animated Film; 2002)

Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test, by Ken Kesey and His Merry Pranksters (Event; 1965)

Frozen (Animated Disney Film; 2013)

Fun in Acapulco (Film; 1963) [Elvis Presley #13]

Get a Horse (Disney Cartoon; 2013)

The Grand Wazoo, by Frank Zappa (Album; 1972)

Heartless, by The Weekend (Song; 2019)

Hondo (Film; 1953)

I Knew You Were Trouble, by Taylor Swift (Album; 2012)

Just Boris and Me or The Yegg and I (Rocky & Bullwinkle Cartoon, S4, Ep. 182; 1962)

Knives Out (Film; 2019)

Magical Mystery Tour, by The Beatles (Album; 1967)

Mike’s New Car (Pixar Cartoon; 2002)

My Girl (Film; 1991)

My Little Duckaroo (WB MM Cartoon; 1954)

Network (Film; 1976)

Rabbit-Proof Fence (Film; 2002)

Rocky IV (Film; 1985)

Skull and Double Crossbones (Animated TV Show;Jonny Quest #11; 1964)

Treasure Planet (Animated Disney Film; 2002)

The Two Popes (Film; 2019)

You Made Me Love You, recorded by Louis Armstrong (Song; 1926)

Today’s Name Days

Albrecht, Brunhilde, Uta (Austria)

Maksim, Valerije, Virgilije (Croatia)

Xenie (Czech Republic)

Facindus (Denmark)

Asta, Astra, Astrid (Estonia)

Hilkka (Finland)

Séverin (France)

Albrecht, Brunhilde, Ida, Uta (Germany)

Virgil (Hungary)

Cosimo, Massimo, Virgilio (Italy)

Laimdots, Lauris, Norberts (Latvia)

Girvydė, Skomantas, Virgilijus (Lithuania)

Torlaug, Torleif (Norway)

Damazy, Dominik, Leonard, Maksymilian, Oda, Stojgniew, Walery, Wirgiliusz (Poland)

Iacob (Romania)

Milan (Slovakia)

Delfina, Facundo, Virgilio (Spain)

Asta, Astrid, Estrid (Sweden)

Palladiy (Ukraine)

Fergus, Farrel, Farrell, Ferrell, Ginger, Virgil, Virgilia, Virginia (USA)

Today is Also…

Day of Year: Day 331 of 2024; 34 days remaining in the year

ISO: Day 8 of week 48 of 2023

Celtic Tree Calendar: Ngetal (Reed) [Day 28 of 28]

Chinese: Month 10 (Gui-Hai), Day 15 (Ji-Chou)

Chinese Year of the: Rabbit 4721 (until February 10, 2024)

Hebrew: 14 Kislev 5784

Islamic: 14 Jumada I 1445

J Cal: 1 Zima; Oneday [1 of 30]

Julian: 14 November 2023

Moon: 100%: Full Moon

Positivist: 23 Frederic (12th Month) [Franklin]

Runic Half Month: Is (Stasis) [Day 2 of 15]

Season: Autumn (Day 65 of 89)

Zodiac: Sagittarius (Day 6 of 30)

Calendar Changes

Zima (Month 12 of 12; J Calendar) [Winter]

#calendar #Holidays

[brookstonalmanac]

Events 4.3

686 – Maya king Yuknoom Yich'aak K'ahk' assumes the crown of Calakmul. 1043 – Edward the Confessor is crowned King of England. 1077 – The Patriarchate of Friûl, the first Friulian state, is created. 1559 – The second of two the treaties making up the Peace of Cateau-Cambrésis is signed, ending the Italian Wars. 1721 – Robert Walpole becomes, in effect, the first Prime Minister of Great Britain, though he himself denied that title. 1851 – Rama IV is crowned King of Thailand after the death of his half-brother, Rama III. 1860 – The first successful United States Pony Express run from St. Joseph, Missouri, to Sacramento, California, begins. 1865 – American Civil War: Union forces capture Richmond, Virginia, the capital of the Confederate States of America. 1882 – American Old West: Robert Ford kills Jesse James. 1885 – Gottlieb Daimler is granted a German patent for a light, high-speed, four-stroke engine, which he uses seven months later to create the world's first motorcycle, the Daimler Reitwagen. 1888 – Jack the Ripper: The first of 11 unsolved brutal murders of women committed in or near the impoverished Whitechapel district in the East End of London, occurs. 1895 – The trial in the libel case brought by Oscar Wilde begins, eventually resulting in his imprisonment on charges of homosexuality. 1920 – Attempts are made to carry out the failed assassination attempt on General Mannerheim, led by Aleksander Weckman by order of Eino Rahja, during the White Guard parade in Tampere, Finland. 1922 – Joseph Stalin becomes the first General Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. 1933 – First flight over Mount Everest, the British Houston-Mount Everest Flight Expedition, led by the Marquis of Clydesdale and funded by Lucy, Lady Houston. 1936 – Bruno Richard Hauptmann is executed for the kidnapping and death of Charles Augustus Lindbergh, Jr., the infant son of pilot Charles Lindbergh. 1942 – World War II: Japanese forces begin an assault on the United States and Filipino troops on the Bataan Peninsula. 1946 – Japanese Lt. General Masaharu Homma is executed in the Philippines for leading the Bataan Death March. 1948 – Cold War: U.S. President Harry S. Truman signs the Marshall Plan, authorizing $5 billion in aid for 16 countries. 1948 – In Jeju Province, South Korea, a civil-war-like period of violence and human rights abuses begins known as the Jeju uprising. 1955 – The American Civil Liberties Union announces it will defend Allen Ginsberg's book Howl against obscenity charges. 1956 – Hudsonville–Standale tornado: The western half of the Lower Peninsula of Michigan is struck by a deadly F5 tornado. 1968 – Martin Luther King Jr. delivers his "I've Been to the Mountaintop" speech; he was assassinated the next day. 1969 – Vietnam War: United States Secretary of Defense Melvin Laird announces that the United States will start to "Vietnamize" the war effort. 1973 – Martin Cooper of Motorola makes the first handheld mobile phone call to Joel S. Engel of Bell Labs. 1974 – The 1974 Super Outbreak occurs, the second largest tornado outbreak in recorded history (after the 2011 Super Outbreak). The death toll is 315, with nearly 5,500 injured. 1975 – Vietnam War: Operation Babylift, a mass evacuation of children in the closing stages of the war begins. 1975 – Bobby Fischer refuses to play in a chess match against Anatoly Karpov, giving Karpov the title of World Champion by default. 1980 – US Congress restores a federal trust relationship with the 501 members of the Shivwits, Kanosh, Koosharem, and the Indian Peaks and Cedar City bands of the Paiute people of Utah.[16] 1981 – The Osborne 1, the first successful portable computer, is unveiled at the West Coast Computer Faire in San Francisco. 1989 – The US Supreme Court upholds the jurisdictional rights of tribal courts under the Indian Child Welfare Act of 1978 in Mississippi Choctaw Band v. Holyfield. 1993 – The outcome of the Grand National horse race is declared void for the first (and only) time 1996 – Suspected "Unabomber" Theodore Kaczynski is captured at his Montana cabin in the United States. 1996 – A United States Air Force Boeing T-43 crashes near Dubrovnik Airport in Croatia, killing 35, including Secretary of Commerce Ron Brown. 1997 – The Thalit massacre begins in Algeria; all but one of the 53 inhabitants of Thalit are killed by guerrillas. 2000 – United States v. Microsoft Corp.: Microsoft is ruled to have violated United States antitrust law by keeping "an oppressive thumb" on its competitors. 2004 – Islamic terrorists involved in the 2004 Madrid train bombings are trapped by the police in their apartment and kill themselves. 2007 – Conventional-Train World Speed Record: A French TGV train on the LGV Est high speed line sets an official new world speed record. 2008 – ATA Airlines, once one of the ten largest U.S. passenger airlines and largest charter airline, files for bankruptcy for the second time in five years and ceases all operations. 2008 – Texas law enforcement cordons off the FLDS's YFZ Ranch. Eventually 533 women and children will be taken into state custody. 2009 – Jiverly Antares Wong opens fire at the American Civic Association immigration center in Binghamton, New York, killing thirteen and wounding four before committing suicide. 2010 – Apple Inc. released the first generation iPad, a tablet computer. 2013 – More than 50 people die in floods resulting from record-breaking rainfall in La Plata and Buenos Aires, Argentina. 2016 – The Panama Papers, a leak of legal documents, reveals information on 214,488 offshore companies. 2017 – A bomb explodes in the St Petersburg metro system, killing 14 and injuring several more people. 2018 – YouTube headquarters shooting: A 38-year-old gunwoman opens fire at YouTube Headquarters in San Bruno, California, injuring 3 people before committing suicide.

#Events

[oklahomahistory]

No-Win Situation

No-Win Situation  If the Natives’ differences with white American culture and history caused problems for them, however, so did their herculean attempts to remedy that problem by acculturating themselves to the swelling United States. Large segments of several prominent southeastern Indian tribes attempted to master the ways of European and American culture, just as early American leaders such as George Washington encouraged them to do. These five tribes—the Cherokees, Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles-gained the sobriquet of the “Five Civilized Tribes" due to their strong acceptance of most of the key tenets. of an American civilization that, by most objective measurements, was succeeding, growing, and thriving far beyond their own. These tenets included its Christian religion, classical Western educational system, social culture, political institutions, and agrarian and other business practices. Famed Oklahoma historian Angie Debo cited the usefulness of the Five Civilized Tribes designation “to distinguish them from their wild neighbors of the plains.” Historian Arrell M. Gibson contrasted the powerful impact of one tribe’s mounting mixed-blood population-birthed of enterprising white fathers (Scots, Scots-Irish, Irish, English, French, etc.) and Indian mothers—with full bloods who retained old ways and associations: The mixed-bloods (among the tribes), more like their fathers than their mothers, came to adopt an advanced way of living. They developed vast estates, ranches, and businesses in the Cherokee Nation, and became slaveholders. The full bloods continued to live in log cabins, cultivated only a subsistence patch of food crops, raised horses, excelled in the old tribal crafts of hunting, fishing, a life close to nature, and now and then joined a war party for a raid on the encroaching American settlements. But many of those American settlers, including Georgians furious over the federal government’s failure to uphold its end of the Compact of 1802, feared that the Cherokees were growing too “civilized.” Why? The Georgians envisioned a large permanent-and sovereign-Indian enclave in the northwest corner of the state. They also worried that Cherokee roads, tolls, and ferries operating beyond the constraints of Georgian laws and regulations would hamper commerce with other states. Also, the tribal chiefs’ reluctance to improve the nation’s roads angered Georgian leaders. Plus, as earlier mentioned, the federal government had assured the state of the soon departure of the Cherokees. Unfortunately, the tribe itself had no part in that agreement, so they had no intention of fulfilling it. The Chickasaws, Choctaws, Creeks, and Seminoles faced similar indifference or hostility to their efforts at “civilizing.” Whether practicing the old ways or the new, the realization grew among the tribes that they could not win if they remained east of the Mississippi River, no matter what course they pursued. Arkansas Territory in its original form and with two sections split off to form Indian Territory. Read the entire Oklahoma story in John J. Dwyer’s The Oklahomans: The Story of Oklahoma and Its People volume 1 of a 2-part series on the 46th state and the people who make this state very special.

#oklahoma #history #john dwyer #the oklahomans #chocktaw #cherokee #seminole #chickasaw #sooners #boomers #89ers #land run #okies