{"id":3915,"date":"2021-04-05T13:26:57","date_gmt":"2021-04-05T17:26:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/?page_id=3915"},"modified":"2021-04-27T03:08:28","modified_gmt":"2021-04-27T07:08:28","slug":"indigenous-voices","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/olli\/indigenous-voices\/","title":{"rendered":"OLLI: Indigenous Voices"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>My <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/berkshireolli.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Berkshire OLLI<\/a><\/strong> offering in the Spring 2021 semester. <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Berkshire-OLLI-W103_-Indigenous-Voices_-Presentations-by-Native-Americans.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Here is the course description.<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I share parts (or sometimes all) of this <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/2021-Berkshire-Land-Acknowledgment.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Land Acknowledgement<\/a><\/strong> at the start of each class.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul><li>Session One (March 24)<ul><li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Session-One-Spring-2021-Presentation.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Slides<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li>Mohican History Walking Tour of Stockbridge &#8212; <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/2021\/04\/01\/mohican-history-walking-tour-of-stockbridge\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">links to videos<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li>A <em>Berkshire Eagle<\/em> article on <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Office-cleanup-unearths-tribal-documents.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Tribal Documents<\/a><\/strong> contains several inaccuracies, which were discussed in class.<\/li><li>My brother Rick provided <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkshireeagle.com\/opinion\/columnists\/rick-wilcox-letters-from-history-putting-stockbridge-tribal-documents-in-context\/article_919db158-90b2-11eb-84cc-f3d440435933.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">a more detailed account of the documents<\/a><\/strong>, also in the <em>Eagle<\/em>.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Session Two (March 31)<ul><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Indigenous-Voices-Session-Two-Spring-2021-Slides.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Slides<\/strong><\/a><\/li><li><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Bidwell-Lore-Dr.-Oliver-Partridge-and-the-Indian-Burying-Grounds.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bidwell House Lore email on <strong>Oliver Partridge<\/strong><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Session Three (April 7)<ul><li>No slides; if you missed this enchanting session with <strong>Jesse Bruchac<\/strong> (Abenaki),   let me know and I will send you a link to the recording. <\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.josephbruchac.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Joseph Bruchac books<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ndakinnacenter.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Ndakinna Center<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li>Joseph Laurent (Sozap Lol\u00f4) 1881 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Laurent.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Abenaki Grammar full text<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li>Henry Masta 1932 <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Masta.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Abenaki Grammar and Place Names full text<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/0320Dictionary.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Abenaki Dictionary<\/a><\/strong> March 2021<\/li><li>New Yorker article on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/magazine\/2021\/04\/19\/how-did-a-self-taught-linguist-come-to-own-an-indigenous-language\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Penobscot language<\/a><\/strong><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Session Four (April 14) Indigenous placenames (toponyms) in the Northeast, especially in the Berkshires and Vermont<ul><li><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Indigenous-Voices-Session-Four-Spring-2021-Slides.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Slides<\/a><\/strong><\/li><li>Brian Cina, Vermont State Representative, speaking on reviving aboriginal names in Vermont<\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.berkshireeagle.com\/news\/local\/long-overdue-changes-on-monument-mountain-to-honor-mohicans\/article_ef75ac04-98a0-11eb-a726-ffa82df0b97d.html#tncms-source=infinity-scroll-summary-latest\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Berkshire Eagle article<\/a><\/strong> on renaming at Monument Mountain (you heard it here first! in Session One, when Bonney Hartley talked about Peeskwaso).<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Session Five (April 21) <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.poetryfoundation.org\/poets\/cheryl-savageau\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Cheryl Savageau<\/a><\/strong> (Abenaki) Poetry and Land Use<ul><li>Cheryl&#8217;s most recent book, <em><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nebraskapress.unl.edu\/university-of-nebraska-press\/9781496219039\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Out of the Crazywoods<\/a><\/strong><\/em>, available from the University of Nebraska. The cover features the quilt she talked about in class.<\/li><li>Also see <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/cherylsavageaublog.wordpress.com\/about\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">About<\/a><\/strong> her, and other information on her website.<\/li><\/ul><\/li><li>Session Six (April 28) Professor Jerry Reid on Mohawk (Haudenosaunee) current issues, with historical background.<ul><li> <strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/Gerald-Reid-info.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Information on Professor Reid and his presentation<\/a><\/strong> (Dr. Reid does not identify as indigenous, although he has worked closely with Native communities, and will present his findings on their perspective.<\/li><li>Background information on <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca\/en\/article\/mohawk\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">the Mohawks<\/a><\/strong> (Kanien&#8217;keh\u00e1:ka)<\/li><li><a href=\"https:\/\/americanindian.si.edu\/environment\/pdf\/01_02_Thanksgiving_Address.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Haudenosaunee Thanksgiving Address<\/strong><\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/li><li><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=bfq1aZEtCiA\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">Bonus: Yo Yo Ma<\/a><\/strong> performing music to honor the indigenous people of Stockbridge and their values, as he explains, starting at 27:30 in the video, to 33:17.<\/li><li>Another <strong>Bonus<\/strong>: an amazing broadcast I heard <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/w3ct1wyc\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">on the BBC<\/a><\/strong>, which describes a society in China that sounds as if it might be the wellspring of Algonkian and Haudenosaunee culture, or perhaps they simply share a common origin. <\/li><\/ul>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/p09ds5xb.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"http:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/p09ds5xb.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4006\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/p09ds5xb.jpg 640w, https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/04\/p09ds5xb-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My Berkshire OLLI offering in the Spring 2021 semester. Here is the course description. I share parts (or sometimes all) of this Land Acknowledgement at the start of each class. Session One (March 24) Slides Mohican History Walking Tour of Stockbridge &#8212; links to videos A Berkshire Eagle article on Tribal Documents contains several inaccuracies, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link btn\" href=\"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/olli\/indigenous-voices\/\">Continue reading<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3900,"parent":3456,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3915"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3915"}],"version-history":[{"count":41,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3915\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4024,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3915\/revisions\/4024"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/3456"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3900"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mfw.us\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}