2019 Fall SUNY First Peoples

2019 Cherokee National Holiday & Powwow| Tahlequah Oklahoma      I reviewed the “Challenges Facing 21st Century Indigenous People” by Arizona State University Library. It was recorded 2 October 2008 at the Heard Museum in Phoenix, Arizona. The film featured Simon Ortiz and Wilma Mankiller. Wilma Mankiller is a former and first female principal chief of the Cherokee Nation. Wilma Mankiller speaks about the diversity and distinctiveness of the Indigenous People in the world. She also talks about the duties and responsibilities to preserve and protect the world. She talks about the beliefs and importance to take care of nature because it will take of you.  Wilma discusses how some cultures don’t have memories of their origins and in turn they have little understanding of where they belong in the world. Wilma Mankiller is a speaker on Native issues and speaks to bridge the gap between Native and non-native communities. I like the analogy she used about rain for...

Final Blog - Wilma Mankiller Wilma Mankiller, former Principal Chief of the Cherokee in the video Wilma Mankiller, Challenges Facing 21st Century Indigenous People , by Samuel Ortiz presents and reinforces the theme of Native American’s, and Indigenous peoples around the world, responsibility to the land, Mother Earth, and all living things that dwell upon her.   She starts by mentioning the Hila River water settlement in Arizona being an example of cooperation between native and non-native people to observe land and treaty rights for the betterment of all.   She tells us that there are over 300 million indigenous people around the world and that a common value shared by all is the inseparable relationship of all life with the land and the need to conserve the earth for all.   She mentions the traditional stories that describe the peoples’ obligation to protect the land and all life and the predictions in many of these traditional stories that the world will e...

Final Blog: Wilma Mankiller The video Wilma Mankiller: Challenges of 21 st Century Indigenous Peoples” held by the American Indian Studies Library in 2008 was extremely interesting.   She points out the history of the plight of Indigenous Peoples here in American and branches it to all Indigenous Peoples throughout the world.   She pointed out that not only have Native Americans suffered, but other indigenous peoples also have suffered and continue to suffer.   Land grabs by the government, loss of traditional ways, loss of culture and native language.   In the talk she mentions the indigenous peoples of the Brazilian Rainforest and in her communication with them she relays a story of the people   discussing how they used to see famous musicians that would wear t shirts that say “Save the Rainforest” but never did they see a t shirt that conveyed the same message about the people.          ...

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M3 Academic Blog I reviewed the following web resources. Tribal Consultation with the Federal Government and Tribal Courts of New York and supplemented this with The Legal Framework of Sovereignty by Peter d’Errico. These web resources document the dealings of Indian Tribes with both the federal governments concerning the rights of sovereignty and jurisdiction of authority.   From Peter d’Errico’s paper we find that “sovereignty is classically defined as supreme legal authority,” but this is not the way it has been applied to the sovereign Indian nations of North America.   Sovereignty is a fluid term that is open to interpretation in the case of tracing “supreme authority to the people or to a “divine right” of rulers.”   The early European colonizers chose to define sovereignty using divine right based on “theological-legal theory.”   The Pope decreed land titles “for purposes of Christian civilization.”   This left the Native tribes with no autho...

For this blog post, I decided to review the Tribal Courts of New York website  http://www.nyfedstatetribalcourtsforum.org/about.shtml . I think that this is a credible source because there are constant conflicts between Indian Nations and governments on the federal and state levels. The idea sprung from the need to understand the rule of law amongst various Indian Tribes.  In 2003, people from all of New York State's recognized Indian Tribes and Nations came together to voice their interest in developing a federal-state-tribal court system. After several meetings in the coming months, the tribal court system became a reality. The mission statement of the New York Federal-State Tribal Court system reads: 1. To develop Educational programs for Judges and Tribal Chiefs and Indian communities; 2.  To exchange information amongst Tribes and Nations and agencies; 3. To coordinate the integration of ICWA training for childcare professionals, attorneys, judges, and law guardi...