{"id":19844,"date":"2022-10-10T10:01:00","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T15:01:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/?p=19844"},"modified":"2022-10-24T10:04:03","modified_gmt":"2022-10-24T15:04:03","slug":"indigenous-peoples-day-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/2022\/10\/10\/indigenous-peoples-day-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Indigenous People\u2019s Day 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

On Indigenous People\u2019s Day from contemporary fine art photographer and tribal member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, Jeremy Dennis:

\u2018The inhabitants of Long Island shared a desire for peace. They became expert whalers and deep sea fishermen. They worshiped the same gods and placated the same evil spirits. They talked the same language and followed the same customs\u2026 Their thirteen so-called tribes were united in an island-wide confederation. Each tribe had its own territory whose unmarked bounds were recognized and respected by the others. Each had its own chief but all acknowledged the authority of one inter-tribal grand sachem.

\u2026Despite the endless oppression visited upon Long Island Natives, they have endured in force at Shinnecock, at Poosepatuck, in small communities at Eastville (Sag Harbor), Freetown (East Hampton), and Lakeville (Lake Success), and scattered throughout Long Island\u2019s population.

Historians and local journalists in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries left their readers with the false perception that because the Natives had intermarried with other ethnic groups, they had lost their tribal identity and have \u201cdeteriorated\u201d into \u201cmixed racial remnant\u201d communities. These racist attitudes prevalent among early local historians continue to capture the public imagination and place an unpleasant burden on the indigenous people of Long Island to defend the integrity of their identity and tribal heritage.\u2019

Right now the Montaukett Indian Nation needs your support in getting New York State Governor Kathy Hochul to sign the Montaukett Recognition Bill S6889\/A4069 into Law. Pls sign here<\/a>.

[Photograph by Jeremy Dennis from his series Shinnecock Portrait Project]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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On Indigenous People\u2019s Day from contemporary fine art photographer and tribal member of the Shinnecock Indian Nation, Jeremy Dennis: \u2018The inhabitants of Long Island shared a desire for peace. They became expert whalers and deep sea fishermen. They worshiped the same gods and placated the same evil spirits. They talked the same language and followed … Continue reading Indigenous People\u2019s Day 2022<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[12,14],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19844"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19844"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19844\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19846,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19844\/revisions\/19846"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19844"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19844"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maraahmed.com\/wp\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19844"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}