#lumbee — Public Fediverse posts
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I'm listening to a very interesting broadcast with anthropologist Dr. #DavidShaneLowry (#Lumbee) where he talks about the origins of "#FryBread". Not traditional food (which I suspected), but based on rations given to Native Americans after displacement!
Intercultural Insights
October 14, 2025
On Tue from 11:30 am EST to 12:00 pm ESTWikipedia entry on frybread:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrybreadShow info:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-podcasts/returning-the-land/https://www.wmpg.org/show/tue1130/#
#colonization #Colonialism #CulturalErasure #Starvation #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericans #TraditionalFoods #BoardingSchools #CommodityBoxes #Commods #Rations #Frybread #FoodInsecurity #WMPGFM #CommunityRadio #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousFoodSovereignty
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I'm listening to a very interesting broadcast with anthropologist Dr. #DavidShaneLowry (#Lumbee) where he talks about the origins of "#FryBread". Not traditional food (which I suspected), but based on rations given to Native Americans after displacement!
Intercultural Insights
October 14, 2025
On Tue from 11:30 am EST to 12:00 pm ESTWikipedia entry on frybread:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrybreadShow info:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-podcasts/returning-the-land/https://www.wmpg.org/show/tue1130/#
#colonization #Colonialism #CulturalErasure #Starvation #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericans #TraditionalFoods #BoardingSchools #CommodityBoxes #Commods #Rations #Frybread #FoodInsecurity #WMPGFM #CommunityRadio #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousFoodSovereignty
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I'm listening to a very interesting broadcast with anthropologist Dr. #DavidShaneLowry (#Lumbee) where he talks about the origins of "#FryBread". Not traditional food (which I suspected), but based on rations given to Native Americans after displacement!
Intercultural Insights
October 14, 2025
On Tue from 11:30 am EST to 12:00 pm ESTWikipedia entry on frybread:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrybreadShow info:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-podcasts/returning-the-land/https://www.wmpg.org/show/tue1130/#
#colonization #Colonialism #CulturalErasure #Starvation #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericans #TraditionalFoods #BoardingSchools #CommodityBoxes #Commods #Rations #Frybread #FoodInsecurity #WMPGFM #CommunityRadio #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousFoodSovereignty
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I'm listening to a very interesting broadcast with anthropologist Dr. #DavidShaneLowry (#Lumbee) where he talks about the origins of "#FryBread". Not traditional food (which I suspected), but based on rations given to Native Americans after displacement!
Intercultural Insights
October 14, 2025
On Tue from 11:30 am EST to 12:00 pm ESTWikipedia entry on frybread:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrybreadShow info:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-podcasts/returning-the-land/https://www.wmpg.org/show/tue1130/#
#colonization #Colonialism #CulturalErasure #Starvation #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericans #TraditionalFoods #BoardingSchools #CommodityBoxes #Commods #Rations #Frybread #FoodInsecurity #WMPGFM #CommunityRadio #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousFoodSovereignty
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I'm listening to a very interesting broadcast with anthropologist Dr. #DavidShaneLowry (#Lumbee) where he talks about the origins of "#FryBread". Not traditional food (which I suspected), but based on rations given to Native Americans after displacement!
Intercultural Insights
October 14, 2025
On Tue from 11:30 am EST to 12:00 pm ESTWikipedia entry on frybread:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrybreadShow info:
https://www.wmpg.org/wmpg-podcasts/returning-the-land/https://www.wmpg.org/show/tue1130/#
#colonization #Colonialism #CulturalErasure #Starvation #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericans #TraditionalFoods #BoardingSchools #CommodityBoxes #Commods #Rations #Frybread #FoodInsecurity #WMPGFM #CommunityRadio #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousFoodSovereignty
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Lumbee Pride Drives UH Coach Kelvin Sampson’s Success – Houston Public Media https://www.rawchili.com/nba/189178/ #Basketball #CollegeBasketball #FinalFour #HoustonCougars #HoustonCougarsMen'sBasketballTeam #HoustonMatters #indigenous #KelvinSampson #Lumbee #NativeAmerican #ncaa #NCAABasketball #ncaab #News
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“The Master of Life has appointed this place for us to light our fires, and here we shall remain.” -Tecumseh
This will be my answer when people ask why I am not running away.
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“The Master of Life has appointed this place for us to light our fires, and here we shall remain.” -Tecumseh
This will be my answer when people ask why I am not running away.
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#Indigenous "#ReMattering": A conversation with #DavidShaneLowry, PhD
"Sheeva Azma talks to Dr. David Shane Lowry about his work magnifying #IndigenousPerspectives from an anthropological perspective, including in science and technology, and science communication.
"Dr. Lowry serves on the faculty at the University of Southern Maine. He earned his BS from MIT and both Master’s and PhD from UNC Chapel Hill, all in anthropology. He is an anthropologist and member (citizen) of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He grew up in the #Lumbee community in Robeson County, North Carolina. In 2021-22, he was Distinguished Fellow in #NativeAmerican Studies at MIT, where he led a new conversation at MIT about the responsibilities of MIT (and science/technology education, more generally) in the theft of American Indian land and the dismantling of American Indian health and community. From 2022 to 2023, he was Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University. At USM, Dr. Lowry runs the #IndigenousRelationshipsLab as a place for and commitment to #justice and re-mattering of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples from #Maine, to #Massachusetts, to #NorthCarolina. David writes and hosts conversations on InTrust [link below]."
Watch video [includes transcript]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-mqEXlJmoE#IndigenousPeoplesTrust link:
https://indigenouspeoplestrust.org.
#LandBack #LandGrabs #Colonialism #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanScholars -
#Indigenous "#ReMattering": A conversation with #DavidShaneLowry, PhD
"Sheeva Azma talks to Dr. David Shane Lowry about his work magnifying #IndigenousPerspectives from an anthropological perspective, including in science and technology, and science communication.
"Dr. Lowry serves on the faculty at the University of Southern Maine. He earned his BS from MIT and both Master’s and PhD from UNC Chapel Hill, all in anthropology. He is an anthropologist and member (citizen) of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He grew up in the #Lumbee community in Robeson County, North Carolina. In 2021-22, he was Distinguished Fellow in #NativeAmerican Studies at MIT, where he led a new conversation at MIT about the responsibilities of MIT (and science/technology education, more generally) in the theft of American Indian land and the dismantling of American Indian health and community. From 2022 to 2023, he was Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University. At USM, Dr. Lowry runs the #IndigenousRelationshipsLab as a place for and commitment to #justice and re-mattering of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples from #Maine, to #Massachusetts, to #NorthCarolina. David writes and hosts conversations on InTrust [link below]."
Watch video [includes transcript]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-mqEXlJmoE#IndigenousPeoplesTrust link:
https://indigenouspeoplestrust.org.
#LandBack #LandGrabs #Colonialism #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanScholars -
#Indigenous "#ReMattering": A conversation with #DavidShaneLowry, PhD
"Sheeva Azma talks to Dr. David Shane Lowry about his work magnifying #IndigenousPerspectives from an anthropological perspective, including in science and technology, and science communication.
"Dr. Lowry serves on the faculty at the University of Southern Maine. He earned his BS from MIT and both Master’s and PhD from UNC Chapel Hill, all in anthropology. He is an anthropologist and member (citizen) of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He grew up in the #Lumbee community in Robeson County, North Carolina. In 2021-22, he was Distinguished Fellow in #NativeAmerican Studies at MIT, where he led a new conversation at MIT about the responsibilities of MIT (and science/technology education, more generally) in the theft of American Indian land and the dismantling of American Indian health and community. From 2022 to 2023, he was Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University. At USM, Dr. Lowry runs the #IndigenousRelationshipsLab as a place for and commitment to #justice and re-mattering of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples from #Maine, to #Massachusetts, to #NorthCarolina. David writes and hosts conversations on InTrust [link below]."
Watch video [includes transcript]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-mqEXlJmoE#IndigenousPeoplesTrust link:
https://indigenouspeoplestrust.org.
#LandBack #LandGrabs #Colonialism #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanScholars -
#Indigenous "#ReMattering": A conversation with #DavidShaneLowry, PhD
"Sheeva Azma talks to Dr. David Shane Lowry about his work magnifying #IndigenousPerspectives from an anthropological perspective, including in science and technology, and science communication.
"Dr. Lowry serves on the faculty at the University of Southern Maine. He earned his BS from MIT and both Master’s and PhD from UNC Chapel Hill, all in anthropology. He is an anthropologist and member (citizen) of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He grew up in the #Lumbee community in Robeson County, North Carolina. In 2021-22, he was Distinguished Fellow in #NativeAmerican Studies at MIT, where he led a new conversation at MIT about the responsibilities of MIT (and science/technology education, more generally) in the theft of American Indian land and the dismantling of American Indian health and community. From 2022 to 2023, he was Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University. At USM, Dr. Lowry runs the #IndigenousRelationshipsLab as a place for and commitment to #justice and re-mattering of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples from #Maine, to #Massachusetts, to #NorthCarolina. David writes and hosts conversations on InTrust [link below]."
Watch video [includes transcript]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-mqEXlJmoE#IndigenousPeoplesTrust link:
https://indigenouspeoplestrust.org.
#LandBack #LandGrabs #Colonialism #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanScholars -
#Indigenous "#ReMattering": A conversation with #DavidShaneLowry, PhD
"Sheeva Azma talks to Dr. David Shane Lowry about his work magnifying #IndigenousPerspectives from an anthropological perspective, including in science and technology, and science communication.
"Dr. Lowry serves on the faculty at the University of Southern Maine. He earned his BS from MIT and both Master’s and PhD from UNC Chapel Hill, all in anthropology. He is an anthropologist and member (citizen) of the Lumbee Tribe of North Carolina. He grew up in the #Lumbee community in Robeson County, North Carolina. In 2021-22, he was Distinguished Fellow in #NativeAmerican Studies at MIT, where he led a new conversation at MIT about the responsibilities of MIT (and science/technology education, more generally) in the theft of American Indian land and the dismantling of American Indian health and community. From 2022 to 2023, he was Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University. At USM, Dr. Lowry runs the #IndigenousRelationshipsLab as a place for and commitment to #justice and re-mattering of American Indian and other Indigenous peoples from #Maine, to #Massachusetts, to #NorthCarolina. David writes and hosts conversations on InTrust [link below]."
Watch video [includes transcript]:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-mqEXlJmoE#IndigenousPeoplesTrust link:
https://indigenouspeoplestrust.org.
#LandBack #LandGrabs #Colonialism #NativeAmericanHistory #NativeAmericanScholars -
#DavidShaneLowry Calls for More Than a #LandAcknowledgement in Talk Hosted by Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology
by Christian Estrada and Tayla Stempson
Oct 18, 2024"On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology hosted a talk by David Shane Lowry, a member of the #Lumbee Tribe and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Maine. His discussion centered on settler #colonialism, the #LandBack movement, and the importance of returning #IndigenousLands to their original owners.
"In an interview with The Phillipian, Lowry urged students to grapple with #IndigenousHistory in the current era, not just the past. He expressed his hopes for Andover students not to shy away from uncomfortable situations.
"'You have to make Native and Indigenous peoples part of today. They can’t merely be part of events/politics/wars in the past. Every experience that you all at PA have with your local and national community ought to be to work to reverse the realities that allow you to live comfortably outside of relationships with Native and Indigenous peoples,' wrote Lowry in an email to The Phillipian."
Read more:
https://phillipian.net/2024/10/18/david-shane-lowry-calls-for-more-than-a-land-acknowledgement-in-talk-hosted-by-robert-s-peabody-institute-of-archeology/
#IndigenousEducators #LandBack #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices -
#DavidShaneLowry Calls for More Than a #LandAcknowledgement in Talk Hosted by Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology
by Christian Estrada and Tayla Stempson
Oct 18, 2024"On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology hosted a talk by David Shane Lowry, a member of the #Lumbee Tribe and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Maine. His discussion centered on settler #colonialism, the #LandBack movement, and the importance of returning #IndigenousLands to their original owners.
"In an interview with The Phillipian, Lowry urged students to grapple with #IndigenousHistory in the current era, not just the past. He expressed his hopes for Andover students not to shy away from uncomfortable situations.
"'You have to make Native and Indigenous peoples part of today. They can’t merely be part of events/politics/wars in the past. Every experience that you all at PA have with your local and national community ought to be to work to reverse the realities that allow you to live comfortably outside of relationships with Native and Indigenous peoples,' wrote Lowry in an email to The Phillipian."
Read more:
https://phillipian.net/2024/10/18/david-shane-lowry-calls-for-more-than-a-land-acknowledgement-in-talk-hosted-by-robert-s-peabody-institute-of-archeology/
#IndigenousEducators #LandBack #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices -
#DavidShaneLowry Calls for More Than a #LandAcknowledgement in Talk Hosted by Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology
by Christian Estrada and Tayla Stempson
Oct 18, 2024"On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology hosted a talk by David Shane Lowry, a member of the #Lumbee Tribe and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Maine. His discussion centered on settler #colonialism, the #LandBack movement, and the importance of returning #IndigenousLands to their original owners.
"In an interview with The Phillipian, Lowry urged students to grapple with #IndigenousHistory in the current era, not just the past. He expressed his hopes for Andover students not to shy away from uncomfortable situations.
"'You have to make Native and Indigenous peoples part of today. They can’t merely be part of events/politics/wars in the past. Every experience that you all at PA have with your local and national community ought to be to work to reverse the realities that allow you to live comfortably outside of relationships with Native and Indigenous peoples,' wrote Lowry in an email to The Phillipian."
Read more:
https://phillipian.net/2024/10/18/david-shane-lowry-calls-for-more-than-a-land-acknowledgement-in-talk-hosted-by-robert-s-peabody-institute-of-archeology/
#IndigenousEducators #LandBack #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices -
#DavidShaneLowry Calls for More Than a #LandAcknowledgement in Talk Hosted by Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology
by Christian Estrada and Tayla Stempson
Oct 18, 2024"On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology hosted a talk by David Shane Lowry, a member of the #Lumbee Tribe and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Maine. His discussion centered on settler #colonialism, the #LandBack movement, and the importance of returning #IndigenousLands to their original owners.
"In an interview with The Phillipian, Lowry urged students to grapple with #IndigenousHistory in the current era, not just the past. He expressed his hopes for Andover students not to shy away from uncomfortable situations.
"'You have to make Native and Indigenous peoples part of today. They can’t merely be part of events/politics/wars in the past. Every experience that you all at PA have with your local and national community ought to be to work to reverse the realities that allow you to live comfortably outside of relationships with Native and Indigenous peoples,' wrote Lowry in an email to The Phillipian."
Read more:
https://phillipian.net/2024/10/18/david-shane-lowry-calls-for-more-than-a-land-acknowledgement-in-talk-hosted-by-robert-s-peabody-institute-of-archeology/
#IndigenousEducators #LandBack #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices -
#DavidShaneLowry Calls for More Than a #LandAcknowledgement in Talk Hosted by Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology
by Christian Estrada and Tayla Stempson
Oct 18, 2024"On Indigenous Peoples’ Day, the Robert S. Peabody Institute of Archeology hosted a talk by David Shane Lowry, a member of the #Lumbee Tribe and an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of Southern Maine. His discussion centered on settler #colonialism, the #LandBack movement, and the importance of returning #IndigenousLands to their original owners.
"In an interview with The Phillipian, Lowry urged students to grapple with #IndigenousHistory in the current era, not just the past. He expressed his hopes for Andover students not to shy away from uncomfortable situations.
"'You have to make Native and Indigenous peoples part of today. They can’t merely be part of events/politics/wars in the past. Every experience that you all at PA have with your local and national community ought to be to work to reverse the realities that allow you to live comfortably outside of relationships with Native and Indigenous peoples,' wrote Lowry in an email to The Phillipian."
Read more:
https://phillipian.net/2024/10/18/david-shane-lowry-calls-for-more-than-a-land-acknowledgement-in-talk-hosted-by-robert-s-peabody-institute-of-archeology/
#IndigenousEducators #LandBack #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices -
Faculty Focus - USM’s Dr. #DavidShaneLowry
April 25, 2024
"Meet Dr. David Shane Lowry, the new anthropology professor at the University of Southern Maine, who teaches classes at the Gorham and Portland campuses. Lowry is a member of the #Lumbee tribe of #NorthCarolina, and is the first Native (Indigenous) tenure-track professor at USM.
"Starting at MIT and finishing his doctorate at UNC Chapel Hill, Lowry went on to be the Distinguished Fellow in Native American Studies at MIT, and Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University, before accepting a tenure-track position at the University of Southern Maine.
"During his undergraduate at MIT, he envisioned himself becoming an engineer, be it civil, mechanical, or chemical, but he couldn’t shake an idea that he 'should begin to tell stories.' Like so many students, Lowry took one class that changed everything. In his case it was an anthropology course. He kept up with his science courses as well, studying and eventually working in healthcare before embarking on a doctorate.
"Lowry recalls working in pharmacy in North Carolina in 2003 during the Iraq war, and seeing the maimed soldiers returning, 'they were living side by side with Lumbee people who were also maimed from other conditions, different types of violence, different types of disease states etcetera.'
"In the United States, Native American communities tend to be made into industrial dumping grounds and sites of environmental degradation. The effects of this on the health of Lumbee people that Lowry witnessed led to his doctoral research, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, studying health, healing, and dying in the Lumbee community. Lowry completed this doctorate degree in five years – a notable accomplishment by any measure, and indicative of his sense of purpose.
"Lowry describes coming to Maine as an opportunity. Maine has a deep history as well as numerous contemporary issues that it is working through in regards to Native American communities who live here. Lowry is working to build bridges, raise awareness, create discussions, and be the best educator and resource that he can be for his students.
"Lowry leads the #IndigenousRelationshipLab (IRL) at USM, which focuses on issues of #justice and #remattering. That second word, ‘remattering,’ warrants a little explanation. Native people once mattered in this country, in that the United State’s founding fathers feared them and saw a need to clear them away so that their land could be taken and put to different uses by non-Native peoples. In the years since, Native American issues have too often fallen by the wayside; this has been so much the case that a 2018 study found that 40% of Americans didn’t know that Native people still existed or that they were oppressed. Remattering is in one sense the work of making this topic, and these people, matter again. Today, an estimated 2.5% of Maine’s population are Native people whose existence here goes back more than 12,000 – perhaps 125,000 years.
"One current issue in Maine focuses on LD 2004, a bill which was vetoed in 2023, but would have restored access to federal protections for the Indigenous tribal nations that make up the #WabanakiConfederacy, and worked to reinstate their #sovereignty. Tribes in Maine are currently treated as municipalities under the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980, which makes Maine’s relationships with the tribes an outlier in the United States.
"Essentially, of the small portions of land the United States government reserved or held in trust for #NativeAmericans, what we call reservations, the Indigenous peoples of Maine, #Wabanaki Peoples, have severely limited control over the land that is set aside for their nations."
Source:
https://www.gorhamtimes.com/usms-david-shane-lowry/#LandBack #IndigenousNews #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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Faculty Focus - USM’s Dr. #DavidShaneLowry
April 25, 2024
"Meet Dr. David Shane Lowry, the new anthropology professor at the University of Southern Maine, who teaches classes at the Gorham and Portland campuses. Lowry is a member of the #Lumbee tribe of #NorthCarolina, and is the first Native (Indigenous) tenure-track professor at USM.
"Starting at MIT and finishing his doctorate at UNC Chapel Hill, Lowry went on to be the Distinguished Fellow in Native American Studies at MIT, and Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University, before accepting a tenure-track position at the University of Southern Maine.
"During his undergraduate at MIT, he envisioned himself becoming an engineer, be it civil, mechanical, or chemical, but he couldn’t shake an idea that he 'should begin to tell stories.' Like so many students, Lowry took one class that changed everything. In his case it was an anthropology course. He kept up with his science courses as well, studying and eventually working in healthcare before embarking on a doctorate.
"Lowry recalls working in pharmacy in North Carolina in 2003 during the Iraq war, and seeing the maimed soldiers returning, 'they were living side by side with Lumbee people who were also maimed from other conditions, different types of violence, different types of disease states etcetera.'
"In the United States, Native American communities tend to be made into industrial dumping grounds and sites of environmental degradation. The effects of this on the health of Lumbee people that Lowry witnessed led to his doctoral research, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, studying health, healing, and dying in the Lumbee community. Lowry completed this doctorate degree in five years – a notable accomplishment by any measure, and indicative of his sense of purpose.
"Lowry describes coming to Maine as an opportunity. Maine has a deep history as well as numerous contemporary issues that it is working through in regards to Native American communities who live here. Lowry is working to build bridges, raise awareness, create discussions, and be the best educator and resource that he can be for his students.
"Lowry leads the #IndigenousRelationshipLab (IRL) at USM, which focuses on issues of #justice and #remattering. That second word, ‘remattering,’ warrants a little explanation. Native people once mattered in this country, in that the United State’s founding fathers feared them and saw a need to clear them away so that their land could be taken and put to different uses by non-Native peoples. In the years since, Native American issues have too often fallen by the wayside; this has been so much the case that a 2018 study found that 40% of Americans didn’t know that Native people still existed or that they were oppressed. Remattering is in one sense the work of making this topic, and these people, matter again. Today, an estimated 2.5% of Maine’s population are Native people whose existence here goes back more than 12,000 – perhaps 125,000 years.
"One current issue in Maine focuses on LD 2004, a bill which was vetoed in 2023, but would have restored access to federal protections for the Indigenous tribal nations that make up the #WabanakiConfederacy, and worked to reinstate their #sovereignty. Tribes in Maine are currently treated as municipalities under the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980, which makes Maine’s relationships with the tribes an outlier in the United States.
"Essentially, of the small portions of land the United States government reserved or held in trust for #NativeAmericans, what we call reservations, the Indigenous peoples of Maine, #Wabanaki Peoples, have severely limited control over the land that is set aside for their nations."
Source:
https://www.gorhamtimes.com/usms-david-shane-lowry/#LandBack #IndigenousNews #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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Faculty Focus - USM’s Dr. #DavidShaneLowry
April 25, 2024
"Meet Dr. David Shane Lowry, the new anthropology professor at the University of Southern Maine, who teaches classes at the Gorham and Portland campuses. Lowry is a member of the #Lumbee tribe of #NorthCarolina, and is the first Native (Indigenous) tenure-track professor at USM.
"Starting at MIT and finishing his doctorate at UNC Chapel Hill, Lowry went on to be the Distinguished Fellow in Native American Studies at MIT, and Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University, before accepting a tenure-track position at the University of Southern Maine.
"During his undergraduate at MIT, he envisioned himself becoming an engineer, be it civil, mechanical, or chemical, but he couldn’t shake an idea that he 'should begin to tell stories.' Like so many students, Lowry took one class that changed everything. In his case it was an anthropology course. He kept up with his science courses as well, studying and eventually working in healthcare before embarking on a doctorate.
"Lowry recalls working in pharmacy in North Carolina in 2003 during the Iraq war, and seeing the maimed soldiers returning, 'they were living side by side with Lumbee people who were also maimed from other conditions, different types of violence, different types of disease states etcetera.'
"In the United States, Native American communities tend to be made into industrial dumping grounds and sites of environmental degradation. The effects of this on the health of Lumbee people that Lowry witnessed led to his doctoral research, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, studying health, healing, and dying in the Lumbee community. Lowry completed this doctorate degree in five years – a notable accomplishment by any measure, and indicative of his sense of purpose.
"Lowry describes coming to Maine as an opportunity. Maine has a deep history as well as numerous contemporary issues that it is working through in regards to Native American communities who live here. Lowry is working to build bridges, raise awareness, create discussions, and be the best educator and resource that he can be for his students.
"Lowry leads the #IndigenousRelationshipLab (IRL) at USM, which focuses on issues of #justice and #remattering. That second word, ‘remattering,’ warrants a little explanation. Native people once mattered in this country, in that the United State’s founding fathers feared them and saw a need to clear them away so that their land could be taken and put to different uses by non-Native peoples. In the years since, Native American issues have too often fallen by the wayside; this has been so much the case that a 2018 study found that 40% of Americans didn’t know that Native people still existed or that they were oppressed. Remattering is in one sense the work of making this topic, and these people, matter again. Today, an estimated 2.5% of Maine’s population are Native people whose existence here goes back more than 12,000 – perhaps 125,000 years.
"One current issue in Maine focuses on LD 2004, a bill which was vetoed in 2023, but would have restored access to federal protections for the Indigenous tribal nations that make up the #WabanakiConfederacy, and worked to reinstate their #sovereignty. Tribes in Maine are currently treated as municipalities under the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980, which makes Maine’s relationships with the tribes an outlier in the United States.
"Essentially, of the small portions of land the United States government reserved or held in trust for #NativeAmericans, what we call reservations, the Indigenous peoples of Maine, #Wabanaki Peoples, have severely limited control over the land that is set aside for their nations."
Source:
https://www.gorhamtimes.com/usms-david-shane-lowry/#LandBack #IndigenousNews #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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Faculty Focus - USM’s Dr. #DavidShaneLowry
April 25, 2024
"Meet Dr. David Shane Lowry, the new anthropology professor at the University of Southern Maine, who teaches classes at the Gorham and Portland campuses. Lowry is a member of the #Lumbee tribe of #NorthCarolina, and is the first Native (Indigenous) tenure-track professor at USM.
"Starting at MIT and finishing his doctorate at UNC Chapel Hill, Lowry went on to be the Distinguished Fellow in Native American Studies at MIT, and Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University, before accepting a tenure-track position at the University of Southern Maine.
"During his undergraduate at MIT, he envisioned himself becoming an engineer, be it civil, mechanical, or chemical, but he couldn’t shake an idea that he 'should begin to tell stories.' Like so many students, Lowry took one class that changed everything. In his case it was an anthropology course. He kept up with his science courses as well, studying and eventually working in healthcare before embarking on a doctorate.
"Lowry recalls working in pharmacy in North Carolina in 2003 during the Iraq war, and seeing the maimed soldiers returning, 'they were living side by side with Lumbee people who were also maimed from other conditions, different types of violence, different types of disease states etcetera.'
"In the United States, Native American communities tend to be made into industrial dumping grounds and sites of environmental degradation. The effects of this on the health of Lumbee people that Lowry witnessed led to his doctoral research, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, studying health, healing, and dying in the Lumbee community. Lowry completed this doctorate degree in five years – a notable accomplishment by any measure, and indicative of his sense of purpose.
"Lowry describes coming to Maine as an opportunity. Maine has a deep history as well as numerous contemporary issues that it is working through in regards to Native American communities who live here. Lowry is working to build bridges, raise awareness, create discussions, and be the best educator and resource that he can be for his students.
"Lowry leads the #IndigenousRelationshipLab (IRL) at USM, which focuses on issues of #justice and #remattering. That second word, ‘remattering,’ warrants a little explanation. Native people once mattered in this country, in that the United State’s founding fathers feared them and saw a need to clear them away so that their land could be taken and put to different uses by non-Native peoples. In the years since, Native American issues have too often fallen by the wayside; this has been so much the case that a 2018 study found that 40% of Americans didn’t know that Native people still existed or that they were oppressed. Remattering is in one sense the work of making this topic, and these people, matter again. Today, an estimated 2.5% of Maine’s population are Native people whose existence here goes back more than 12,000 – perhaps 125,000 years.
"One current issue in Maine focuses on LD 2004, a bill which was vetoed in 2023, but would have restored access to federal protections for the Indigenous tribal nations that make up the #WabanakiConfederacy, and worked to reinstate their #sovereignty. Tribes in Maine are currently treated as municipalities under the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980, which makes Maine’s relationships with the tribes an outlier in the United States.
"Essentially, of the small portions of land the United States government reserved or held in trust for #NativeAmericans, what we call reservations, the Indigenous peoples of Maine, #Wabanaki Peoples, have severely limited control over the land that is set aside for their nations."
Source:
https://www.gorhamtimes.com/usms-david-shane-lowry/#LandBack #IndigenousNews #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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Faculty Focus - USM’s Dr. #DavidShaneLowry
April 25, 2024
"Meet Dr. David Shane Lowry, the new anthropology professor at the University of Southern Maine, who teaches classes at the Gorham and Portland campuses. Lowry is a member of the #Lumbee tribe of #NorthCarolina, and is the first Native (Indigenous) tenure-track professor at USM.
"Starting at MIT and finishing his doctorate at UNC Chapel Hill, Lowry went on to be the Distinguished Fellow in Native American Studies at MIT, and Visiting Senior Fellow in the School of Social Policy at Brandeis University, before accepting a tenure-track position at the University of Southern Maine.
"During his undergraduate at MIT, he envisioned himself becoming an engineer, be it civil, mechanical, or chemical, but he couldn’t shake an idea that he 'should begin to tell stories.' Like so many students, Lowry took one class that changed everything. In his case it was an anthropology course. He kept up with his science courses as well, studying and eventually working in healthcare before embarking on a doctorate.
"Lowry recalls working in pharmacy in North Carolina in 2003 during the Iraq war, and seeing the maimed soldiers returning, 'they were living side by side with Lumbee people who were also maimed from other conditions, different types of violence, different types of disease states etcetera.'
"In the United States, Native American communities tend to be made into industrial dumping grounds and sites of environmental degradation. The effects of this on the health of Lumbee people that Lowry witnessed led to his doctoral research, sponsored by the National Science Foundation, studying health, healing, and dying in the Lumbee community. Lowry completed this doctorate degree in five years – a notable accomplishment by any measure, and indicative of his sense of purpose.
"Lowry describes coming to Maine as an opportunity. Maine has a deep history as well as numerous contemporary issues that it is working through in regards to Native American communities who live here. Lowry is working to build bridges, raise awareness, create discussions, and be the best educator and resource that he can be for his students.
"Lowry leads the #IndigenousRelationshipLab (IRL) at USM, which focuses on issues of #justice and #remattering. That second word, ‘remattering,’ warrants a little explanation. Native people once mattered in this country, in that the United State’s founding fathers feared them and saw a need to clear them away so that their land could be taken and put to different uses by non-Native peoples. In the years since, Native American issues have too often fallen by the wayside; this has been so much the case that a 2018 study found that 40% of Americans didn’t know that Native people still existed or that they were oppressed. Remattering is in one sense the work of making this topic, and these people, matter again. Today, an estimated 2.5% of Maine’s population are Native people whose existence here goes back more than 12,000 – perhaps 125,000 years.
"One current issue in Maine focuses on LD 2004, a bill which was vetoed in 2023, but would have restored access to federal protections for the Indigenous tribal nations that make up the #WabanakiConfederacy, and worked to reinstate their #sovereignty. Tribes in Maine are currently treated as municipalities under the Maine Indian Claims Settlement Act of 1980, which makes Maine’s relationships with the tribes an outlier in the United States.
"Essentially, of the small portions of land the United States government reserved or held in trust for #NativeAmericans, what we call reservations, the Indigenous peoples of Maine, #Wabanaki Peoples, have severely limited control over the land that is set aside for their nations."
Source:
https://www.gorhamtimes.com/usms-david-shane-lowry/#LandBack #IndigenousNews #DavidLowry #IndigenousVoices #IndigenousPeoplesDay
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The Leonard Peltier story today has me thinking yet again about Eddie Hatcher, Timothy Jacobs, & Robeson County, NC. My understanding of the 1988 event at the office of The Robesonian differs from Wikipedia's account, especially prior knowledge & events with respect to the newspaper and the "hostages" themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robesonian_takeover
#NC #USA #Lumbee #politics #Lumberton #Tuscarora #indigenous #imprisonment #RobesonCounty #NativeAmericans -
The Leonard Peltier story today has me thinking yet again about Eddie Hatcher, Timothy Jacobs, & Robeson County, NC. My understanding of the 1988 event at the office of The Robesonian differs from Wikipedia's account, especially prior knowledge & events with respect to the newspaper and the "hostages" themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robesonian_takeover
#NC #USA #Lumbee #politics #Lumberton #Tuscarora #indigenous #imprisonment #RobesonCounty #NativeAmericans -
The Leonard Peltier story today has me thinking yet again about Eddie Hatcher, Timothy Jacobs, & Robeson County, NC. My understanding of the 1988 event at the office of The Robesonian differs from Wikipedia's account, especially prior knowledge & events with respect to the newspaper and the "hostages" themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robesonian_takeover
#NC #USA #Lumbee #politics #Lumberton #Tuscarora #indigenous #imprisonment #RobesonCounty #NativeAmericans -
The Leonard Peltier story today has me thinking yet again about Eddie Hatcher, Timothy Jacobs, & Robeson County, NC. My understanding of the 1988 event at the office of The Robesonian differs from Wikipedia's account, especially prior knowledge & events with respect to the newspaper and the "hostages" themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robesonian_takeover
#NC #USA #Lumbee #politics #Lumberton #Tuscarora #indigenous #imprisonment #RobesonCounty #NativeAmericans -
The Leonard Peltier story today has me thinking yet again about Eddie Hatcher, Timothy Jacobs, & Robeson County, NC. My understanding of the 1988 event at the office of The Robesonian differs from Wikipedia's account, especially prior knowledge & events with respect to the newspaper and the "hostages" themselves. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Robesonian_takeover
#NC #USA #Lumbee #politics #Lumberton #Tuscarora #indigenous #imprisonment #RobesonCounty #NativeAmericans -
Congratulations to Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate on this groundbreaking accomplishment. May LOKSI' lead the music world into something new that will change it forever.
6/6
#LoksiShaali
#JerodImpichchaachaahaTate
#JerodTate
#Chickasaw
#Choctaw
#Chikashasha
#Chahta
#Cherokee
#Mvskoke
#MuscogeeCreek
#Lumbee
#Pueblo
#CanterburyVoices
#OklahomaCity
#OKC
#OKCPhilharmonic
#opera -
Congratulations to Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate on this groundbreaking accomplishment. May LOKSI' lead the music world into something new that will change it forever.
6/6
#LoksiShaali
#JerodImpichchaachaahaTate
#JerodTate
#Chickasaw
#Choctaw
#Chikashasha
#Chahta
#Cherokee
#Mvskoke
#MuscogeeCreek
#Lumbee
#Pueblo
#CanterburyVoices
#OklahomaCity
#OKC
#OKCPhilharmonic
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"Today’s guest is Environmental scientist #RyanEEmanuel, a member of the #Lumbee Nation and he provides listeners some highlights from his new book, #OnTheSwamp: Fighting for #Indigenous #EnvironmentalJustice (UNC Press, 2024). On the Swamp includes shared stories from #NorthCarolina about Indigenous survival and resilience in the face of radical #environment|al changes."
https://soundcloud.com/burntswamp/on-the-swamp-fighting-for-indigenous-environmental-justice
#NativeAmericans #FirstNations #ecoactivism #pipelines #wetlands #books -
Congratulations to Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate on this groundbreaking accomplishment. May LOKSI' lead the music world into something new that will change it forever.
6/6
#LoksiShaali
#JerodImpichchaachaahaTate
#JerodTate
#Chickasaw
#Choctaw
#Chikashasha
#Chahta
#Cherokee
#Mvskoke
#MuscogeeCreek
#Lumbee
#Pueblo
#CanterburyVoices
#OklahomaCity
#OKC
#OKCPhilharmonic
#opera -
Congratulations to Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate on this groundbreaking accomplishment. May LOKSI' lead the music world into something new that will change it forever.
6/6
#LoksiShaali
#JerodImpichchaachaahaTate
#JerodTate
#Chickasaw
#Choctaw
#Chikashasha
#Chahta
#Cherokee
#Mvskoke
#MuscogeeCreek
#Lumbee
#Pueblo
#CanterburyVoices
#OklahomaCity
#OKC
#OKCPhilharmonic
#opera -
Congratulations to Jerod Impichchaachaaha’ Tate on this groundbreaking accomplishment. May LOKSI' lead the music world into something new that will change it forever.
6/6
#LoksiShaali
#JerodImpichchaachaahaTate
#JerodTate
#Chickasaw
#Choctaw
#Chikashasha
#Chahta
#Cherokee
#Mvskoke
#MuscogeeCreek
#Lumbee
#Pueblo
#CanterburyVoices
#OklahomaCity
#OKC
#OKCPhilharmonic
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#Trees #ControlledBurning #Lumbee #NorthCarolina #Pine
A U.S. pine species thrives when burnt. Southerners are rekindling a ‘fire culture’ to boost its range.
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/us-pine-species-thrives-burnt-southerners-are-rekindling-fire-culture-rcna129904 -
#Lumbee #NorthCarolina #NativeAmerican #Indigenous
These portraits show young people who are proud to be Native — even if others don’t see them that way | CNN
https://www.cnn.com/2023/11/21/style/lumbee-you-dont-look-native-maria-sturm-hyphenated-cec/index.html -
After the Brown vs Board of Education ruling, which desegregated schools nationally, KKK activity saw a rise across the South. However, a KKK rally at Hayes Pond #OTD in 1958 was dispersed by hundreds of armed Lumbee tribal members, who had collaborated on intelligence gathering with Black community members. Today the Battle of Hayes Pond is a Lumbee holiday.
Today's art is from Lumbee artist Gene Locklear: https://www.genelocklear.com/
#history #lumbee #USA #IndigenousArt #Indigenous #ToWeRi #Jan18
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After the Brown vs Board of Education ruling, which desegregated schools nationally, KKK activity saw a rise across the South. However, a KKK rally at Hayes Pond #OTD in 1958 was dispersed by hundreds of armed Lumbee tribal members, who had collaborated on intelligence gathering with Black community members. Today the Battle of Hayes Pond is a Lumbee holiday.
Today's art is from Lumbee artist Gene Locklear: https://www.genelocklear.com/
#history #lumbee #USA #IndigenousArt #Indigenous #ToWeRi #Jan18
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Ah, the pesky #introduction (from a new server!)
My name is Dominique and I’m a #NerdyNative wife & mama from the #Lumbee tribe. I own an online book boutique that specializes in diverse and inclusive reads. I’m absolutely ruled by my #ADHD. I inhale words through reading and exhale through writing that will hopefully become a book soon. I adore all things cozy! Needed to work on my physical health so I started #weightlifting. Can’t wait to build community here. #Bookstodon #books #Amreading -
Ah, the pesky #introduction (from a new server!)
My name is Dominique and I’m a #NerdyNative wife & mama from the #Lumbee tribe. I own an online book boutique that specializes in diverse and inclusive reads. I’m absolutely ruled by my #ADHD. I inhale words through reading and exhale through writing that will hopefully become a book soon. I adore all things cozy! Needed to work on my physical health so I started #weightlifting. Can’t wait to build community here. #Bookstodon #books #Amreading -
New profile on #FediLink to #follow Decolonize Your Bookshelf🧡 (@Paperbacks_n_Frybread) - Mastodon https://fedi.bihlink.com/shaare/nyCjdA Tags: #bookstore #indigenous #author #writer #bookish #nerdynative #decolonizeyourbookshelf #lumbee #mmiw #neurodivergent #anxietysquad -
New profile on #FediLink to #follow Decolonize Your Bookshelf🧡 (@Paperbacks_n_Frybread) - Mastodon https://fedi.bihlink.com/shaare/nyCjdA Tags: #bookstore #indigenous #author #writer #bookish #nerdynative #decolonizeyourbookshelf #lumbee #mmiw #neurodivergent #anxietysquad -
#Acawrimo accountability post 4. For Nov. 4, I'm going to post brief notes about two short pieces in the 2022.9 special issue of the *Journal of #Folklore in #Education* on #Death, Loss, & Remembrance Across Cultures
--Ashley Minner's "Riding With James: More than a #Map" (25-35)
--Browning Neddau's "A Conversation with #Nokmes (My Grandmother) in #Poetry" (36-40)Each of these is a personal reflection about relationships with the dead by indigenous people, and though neither is from the indigenous groups that Wright-Maley drew on in the article I wrote about yesterday, their reflections illustrate the broad-brush generalization of the differences between #SettlerTime and #IndigenousTime.
Minner writes about learning the history of an area in East #Baltimore that had been a #Lumbee Reservation through conversations with her elder cousin (before his death) and his age peers. Together they annotate an existing map, then draw their, own maps, and then just Minner and her cousin drive through the mapped area, talk to the people there now, eat lunch, and tell stories.
The first map Minner brings to the group of elders had been made by a white anthropologist for a federal government report (28). This map represents historical knowledge based on the evidentiary record available to the anthropologist. It is ultimately incomplete and unsatisfying because it does not represent the lived reality of the Lumbee who had homes, businesses, and lives there. Their maps begin from the same grid but add significantly more depth and nuance to the representation of the Lumbee Reservation. Their folk knowledge is essential to actually understanding this geographic place, its past, and its present.
In her conclusion, Minner notes that her cousin James lives on in the stories of their community, in the continuity of the language, and in the actions of people continuing to walk in his footsteps, both metaphorically and literally (33).
Helpfully, Minner offers a brief lesson plan based on the experiences she shared in this reflection.
Neddeau also emphasizes the importance of stories, connecting the importance of telling the community's stories to the #Potawatomi's charge to "keep the fire burning" among the #Anishinaabe peoples (37).
The personal reflection in this piece tells the story of Neddeau's process of creation, revisiting the stories of his grandmother's early life, recalling his memories of her, and bringing her into his present for a conversation in the form of a poem.
One idea that stands out to me in this reflection is the importance of listening. It's not unusual to have the importance of telling a community's or a person's stories emphasized, but Neddeau also talks about the importance of listening. It's incredibly obvious, but the reminder was like a lightbulb for me--we can only tell the stories we've heard, the ones we've listened to enough times to recall and to tell ourselves.
My own grandmother turned 98 this year, and we can all see her life on this earth approaching its end. I appreciate the reminder to listen in order to tell. As a widow, I have often also felt like the curator of my late husband's life, choosing the stories that I tell his children. In short, I guess, even as a non-indigenous person, the way of relating to the dead presented by these two reflections resonates with me a lot, and I think they describe an important truth about humanity's relationship to our dead in general.
https://jfepublications.org/article/riding-with-james/
https://jfepublications.org/article/a-conversation-with-nokmes-my-grandmother-in-poetry/
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#Acawrimo accountability post 4. For Nov. 4, I'm going to post brief notes about two short pieces in the 2022.9 special issue of the *Journal of #Folklore in #Education* on #Death, Loss, & Remembrance Across Cultures
--Ashley Minner's "Riding With James: More than a #Map" (25-35)
--Browning Neddau's "A Conversation with #Nokmes (My Grandmother) in #Poetry" (36-40)Each of these is a personal reflection about relationships with the dead by indigenous people, and though neither is from the indigenous groups that Wright-Maley drew on in the article I wrote about yesterday, their reflections illustrate the broad-brush generalization of the differences between #SettlerTime and #IndigenousTime.
Minner writes about learning the history of an area in East #Baltimore that had been a #Lumbee Reservation through conversations with her elder cousin (before his death) and his age peers. Together they annotate an existing map, then draw their, own maps, and then just Minner and her cousin drive through the mapped area, talk to the people there now, eat lunch, and tell stories.
The first map Minner brings to the group of elders had been made by a white anthropologist for a federal government report (28). This map represents historical knowledge based on the evidentiary record available to the anthropologist. It is ultimately incomplete and unsatisfying because it does not represent the lived reality of the Lumbee who had homes, businesses, and lives there. Their maps begin from the same grid but add significantly more depth and nuance to the representation of the Lumbee Reservation. Their folk knowledge is essential to actually understanding this geographic place, its past, and its present.
In her conclusion, Minner notes that her cousin James lives on in the stories of their community, in the continuity of the language, and in the actions of people continuing to walk in his footsteps, both metaphorically and literally (33).
Helpfully, Minner offers a brief lesson plan based on the experiences she shared in this reflection.
Neddeau also emphasizes the importance of stories, connecting the importance of telling the community's stories to the #Potawatomi's charge to "keep the fire burning" among the #Anishinaabe peoples (37).
The personal reflection in this piece tells the story of Neddeau's process of creation, revisiting the stories of his grandmother's early life, recalling his memories of her, and bringing her into his present for a conversation in the form of a poem.
One idea that stands out to me in this reflection is the importance of listening. It's not unusual to have the importance of telling a community's or a person's stories emphasized, but Neddeau also talks about the importance of listening. It's incredibly obvious, but the reminder was like a lightbulb for me--we can only tell the stories we've heard, the ones we've listened to enough times to recall and to tell ourselves.
My own grandmother turned 98 this year, and we can all see her life on this earth approaching its end. I appreciate the reminder to listen in order to tell. As a widow, I have often also felt like the curator of my late husband's life, choosing the stories that I tell his children. In short, I guess, even as a non-indigenous person, the way of relating to the dead presented by these two reflections resonates with me a lot, and I think they describe an important truth about humanity's relationship to our dead in general.
https://jfepublications.org/article/riding-with-james/
https://jfepublications.org/article/a-conversation-with-nokmes-my-grandmother-in-poetry/
