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- From: Peshewegunzh <beaver.cs.washington.edu!gnosys!mthvax.cs.miami.edu!mamia!peshe>
- Subject: Re: Native Alaskans "Poachers"?
- Message-ID: <9211112234.AA09580@mamia.tecumseh.edu>
- Date: Thu, 12 Nov 1992 03:34:39 GMT
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- Original-Sender: Peshewegunzh <mthvax.cs.miami.edu!mamia!peshe>
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- floyd@hayes.ims.alaska.edu (Floyd Davidson) asked:
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- > (Uh, have you ever even met an Eskimo Peshe?)
-
- Going back many years, and further north, I believe my first encounter
- was with someone incarcerated in one of the white man's prisons in
- which so many of us find ourselves in at one time or another.
-
- I want to take a moment to address the idea that Indians and Eskimos (both
- terms invented by the Europeans, incidentally) have nothing relevant to
- convey to each other, and should become separately submissive to the
- European Pax Americana:
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- It should be pointed out, for instance, that Athabaskan language and culture
- extend all the way from the arctic to northern Mexico, as a result of
- migrations of the same family of people. Therefore, it is inaccurate and
- self-serving for some white folk to tell one group of related native
- North Americans not to disturb "their" natives or stir them up.
-
- I recall similar arguments being put forth by some white U.S. southerners
- against "uppity" northern abolitionists and civil rights activists. They
- were not supposed to "understand" "their" "n-----s," even though the
- northerners were often descendants of the southern group, whose offspring
- had travelled from that area to the north. The southerners claimed that the
- northerners couldn't possibly understand as they did, since they, unlike the
- northerners, had lived with them all their lives.
-
- To extend the similarity further, the civil rights movement for Africans in
- the U.S. drew its strength and organization from both northern and southern
- church members. An indigenous organization (CHIEF) of Indians and
- Eskimos has been meeting and communicating for many years. These native
- North Americans find they have far more similarities and identification
- with each other than they do with the European culture.
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