Posted on 11/17/2006 12:18:08 PM PST by Behind Liberal Lines
The celebration of a mythical Thanksgiving did not happen in this country for several hundred years after the event, by which time American Indians had been colonized, assimilated and removed from many of their ancestral lands, usually through dubious treaties and other means that are still being questioned today. Thanksgiving has been further colonized by capitalism in recent times, further removing us from the true meanings of “thanksgivings” that Native people honor on many occasions throughout the year.
Much like American-Indian mascots, people say that American Indians are being honored by the remembrance of that “first” Thanksgiving, which children purportedly embody with their construction paper and dyed chicken feather headdresses. If we want to honor American Indians, we need to take a deep look at the genocide that was perpetrated against them, the dishonest taking of Indian lands, the horrific conditions that churches and the U.S. government put them through in the Native boarding schools, and the current struggles for land, sovereignty and cultural survival.
Brooke Hansen is an associate professor of anthropology. E- mail her at kbhansen@ithaca.edu.
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Thanks for the info. I admit I need to brush-up on my Canadian history...and the term 'aboriginals' is a better moniker. (:>)
I hope we have a FR recipe this year. It's very enjoyable and eatable! So far, my menu for this Thanksgiving dinner is: Roast Turkey with stuffing, creamed onions, creamed corn, cranberry sauce, salad and pumpkin pie. We also give great thanks to being Americans. God Bless America and God Bless our military!
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What do you call a beer can on the side of the road in Oklahoma?
An Indian artifict...
What do you call a half-full can of beer on the side of the road in Oklahoma?
A rare Indian artifict....
Just goes to show that educated folks can be stupid, as well.
I went to a website which has Thanksgiving cards and sent one. Wonder if I will hear back.
The guy is a woman. Her name is Brooke.
I hope we have a FR recipe this year. It's very enjoyable and eatable! So far, my menu for this Thanksgiving dinner is: Roast Turkey with stuffing, creamed onions, creamed corn, cranberry sauce, salad and pumpkin pie. We also give great thanks to being Americans. God Bless America and God Bless our military!
One of Gary Larson's Far Side cartoons shows the Lone Ranger looking in an Indian dictionary and discovering that kemosabe is "an Apache expression for a horse's rear end".
Other conjecture...
Another suggestion has been that Tonto, (whose name means "stupid" according to some interpretations) responded by calling the Lone Ranger "qui no sabe" which roughly translates from Spanish as "he who knows nothing" or "clueless."
According to Rob Malouf, a grad student in linguistics at Stanford, there's another possibility: "According to John Nichols' Concise Dictionary of Minnesota Ojibwe, the Ojibwe word `giimoozaabi' means `to peek' (it could also mean `he peeks' or `he who peeks'). Rob continued: "There are several words with the same prefix ["giimooj," secretly] meaning things like `to sneak up on someone'.... It is quite plausible that `giimoozaabi' means something like `scout'.... `Giimoozaabi' is pronounced pretty much the same as `kemosabe' and would have been spelled `Kee Moh Sah Bee' at the turn of the century."
==>Dr. Goddard, of the Smithsonian Institution, was reported as believing that Kemo Sabe was from the Tewa dialect. He supported his contention by calling on the "Ethnogeography of the Tewa Indians" which appeared in the 29th Annual Report of the Bureau of American Ethnology (1916). It seems that in Tewa, "Apache" equates to Sabe and "friend" to Kema.
==>Jim Jewell, who directed "The Lone Ranger" until 1938 said he'd lifted the term from the name of a boys' camp at Mullet Lake just south of Mackinac, Michigan called Kamp Kee-Mo Sah-Bee. The camp had been established in 1911 by Jewell's father-in-law, Charles Yeager, and operated until about 1940. Translation of kee-mo sah-bee, according to Jewell was "trusty scout."
==>A scholar from the University of California at Berkeley thought that Kemo Sabe came from the Yavapai, a dialect spoken in Arizona and meant "one who is white," since the Ranger always wore a white shirt and trousers in the earliest publicity photos. The Yavapai term is "kinmasaba" or "kinmasabeh"...
See my post #85 - two current Thanksgiving food and recipe FR threads - and funny pix on the 2nd one, for the *gravy*.
Maybe you have it mixed up with the "Airing of Grievances" related to Festivus.
Whites screwed the indians? OK, I'm fine with that,
So, Professor Hansen will be at the office working on Thursday and Friday next week, right?
The first Thanksgiving in what is now the United States was in 1598 here in New Mexico.
http://www.nmgs.org/art1stThanks.htm
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