I descend from the brazilian Tupi-Guarani tribe. One thing that I found interesting was the creation myth of the Tupi: At the Beginning there were only Nhanderuvuçu (Think the Greek Kaoz ) And from Nhanderuvuçu both Anhang ( + )and Gwea ( - ) sprung forth an then they merged together into Anhangwea (Lit: Old Soul) and from Anhangwea, Anhandeci (Matter ) was created. And with Anhandeci the World was shaped. Interesting take on the big bang, no?
I really enjoyed reading all the answers. The tribes in the Southwest also had children taken and sent to boarding schools. There is an exhibit about the subject at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. It made me tear up.
This was very very interesting, I wish I could hear a LOT more. This is the living cultures, that is, how the cultures survived and are being practiced today - with the shadow, but also pride, of history. I could go on reading all day.
My Navajo tribe has a tradition where they put these glass stones ( think of the glass pebbles ) and lay them in the graves of those who past on. When ever I go to the graves I would try to fix all the gifts for the graves including putting these glass pebbles back on the gravestone
Aussie (Vic) here, there are over 300 different native languages in Australia so it's be difficult to teach. But more knowledge about Aboriginal culture is always enriching. However, the museum of natural history in Victoria has a wall of different tribal shields. It's really interesting.
@@davidclark9619 Western Australian here. Yes I know there are many which is truly amazing, but perhaps languages and cultures within your area is what I'm thinking.
I was hoping to hear some Creeks traditions. Unfortunately that is one part of my family I am not familiar with. My family somehow got mostly looked over when they were going through Georgia and preparing for the Trail of Tears. So much got lost because of the fear of being found out in not being "dark Germans." We found our cousins on the Cherokee branch but I always wanted to know more about my great grandmother's father's family.
I don't have a Reddit account, so here's my two cents: I'm part Cherokee and part Wyandotte. The Cherokee language(while dying), is fascinating, especially when you include Sequoyah's syllabary. The Wyandotte(or Wyandot) total under 5K people, and have a language, although it is currently extinct(currently). I have actually handwritten a writing system for it that looks just as intriguing as the Cherokee version of it as well. I'd recommend looking up more detail of the Cherokee stuff and especially the Wyandotte stuff. Very interesting.
It's been years since I wrote anything in the Cherokee language but I have heard of Wyandot, I just haven't tried to research it much. Could you direct me to some accurate information? I am also interested in the alphabet that you are working on. That sounds pretty dang amazing, honestly.
@@amethyst5538 Ah, native languages are so amazing! It is one of the things that makes Chilean Spanish (Much based off Quechua IIRC) and Brazilian Portuguese (Firstly based of Tupi-Guarani, then african languages like Yorubá ) are so different from their european counterparts.
My girlfriend is first nations Canadian. Her tribe (for lack of a better word) live near a lake that formed a couple million years ago in the crater of an asteroid impact. *Her nation's oral tradition talks about the impact of that meteor in terms that match the modern scientific consensus of how impact crater lakes are formed as well as an accurate description of the panspermia hypothesis.* That is to say, Europeans were still figuring out how to use fire to refine metals at the same time my girlfriend's people discovered evolution, germ theory, and rudimentary astrophysics. Then they tried sharing this knowledge with the French and were put to the fire for heresy.
This reminds me that the Jesuits weren't that bad with my ancestors. Actually, it is because if them that we know so much about the Tupi, they standardized the Tupi language after all
There is a novel by Philip Caputo called "Indian country" and it was the first thing that opened my eyes to the rich and incredibly deep cultural beliefs of native American tribes. A large section of the book is about one character, dead in Vietnam war, who is the best friend of the book's main character (couldn't spell protaginist ll) and his family on the reservation. The descriptions of the medicine man's ascension into the spirit world, how he gets there and what he sees, are all fascinating and kind of blew my mind a little. The native Americans have "religion" and comparing it to the kind of Protestant religion I grew up with is like comparing a cap gun to an atom bomb. Theres was living breathing interaction with the spirit world between mortals and the after-life...that's the only way I can describe it.
i am white, my step cousins are Ojbiway , and had the honour of being apart of Renne and her then husbands wedding, Renne is Ojbway her then husband was white , they had the tradiation Christian wedding then went back to her parents house around port hope Ontario Canada , and did their wedding, and i was asked to join the pipe ceremony where they smoke from a pipe and pass it around as they pass it they blow smoke on the next person. was very cool and awesome to me . at the time i was dating a girl who was Cree , but she cheated on me often, but thats another story., after the pipe event , we had dinner, and gary built a big ass fire and the family danced around it, praising God and such and seeking blessings for the new couple.
One thing I like about being native is the medicines that we know from the land. A medicine man has told me about some. I haven’t had a cold in a few years (if I’did feel one coming on I would drink the medicine) and lowered my blood sugar getting off of one prescription (so far) cause I’m diabetic.
I know a bit about my tribes traditions. I know we keep our dead for three days, at the time we never leave them alone and children can not be outside without an escort from sundown to sunrise. Forgot to mention, our dead need to be in the ground by noon and are usually buried with a last meal. Depending on how close you are to the deceased one, women who were close family are to wear a shawl till the funeral is over. Blankets are to be brought if you are be attending and are handed out at the feast to significant people After the burial, we head to the village or reservation and have a feast where the attendees are divided between family, the casket carriers, and friend or non family. Before entering the eating area you are to wash yourself with cedar smoke. Another thing is clans which I'm not sure of other tribes do, but I'm part of black bear clan and can not eat or kill black bears on normal circumstances (I'm osage)
For anybody there is Navajo that’s actually really cool the owl story it’s something we also have in my country the PPO people they do believe that the owl if it is in a place at night and that howls it symbolizes death n that someone has passed . Also for any natives I do have a question what are some of the lake rituals so whatever you wanna call them for like malignant feelings because we have a couple in my country in many of them have what I find really interesting ways to cure my favorite one would probably have to be what we call bad I so person you don’t need to be a shaman for this any person who has had bad guy twice has double bad eye and that person is able to actually go ahead and do the procedure What you would do is your chew herbs tobacco and you place it on the baby face you place it on the chest and leave it there for a little bit afterwards usually the baby goes to sleep and whenever they have bad eye symptoms such as fever diarrhea it’s called just uneasiness is very common but for some strange reason it always works I don’t know why but it does and another thing we do to try to prevent it is when you take your child out you’re supposed to have them wear a red string that has a little wood looks like a stone but it’s made out of wood
most of us are fine with history and understand that nothing was stolen from us. Someone asked me something about aboriginal day, i asked where is plumbing day? where is infant mortality decreased by many multiples day? If sitting bull had the ships and guns he would have done the same things that were done to him. That's how history works.
Differnt cultures have different morales, your speaking solely from a different culture that was okay with raping women and killing gays. If sitting bull did have the ships and guns he definitely wouldn't go across the pond to rape and assimilate. Native culture is clearly more complex than know or maybe able to handle but hopefully you can learn what aboriginal day is tho🤣
The thumbnail is a trashy piece of red face. Females in the plains Indians are not allowed to wear breast plates and war bonnets for religious reasons. As an Apache I don't know the particulars because we don't do this. But I'm on lots of Native groups and sights and it's one of the things that will get you instantly banned. You should do 2 minutes of research before you post something so offensive to a supposedly positive native video.
Please change the thumbnail!!! That's literally someone appropriating Native American culture. At least a picture of a traditional Jingle dancer or a circle of drummers! Not some chick dressed up in a 'Halloween looking Native headgear' Really disappointing 😞
The comanches used to.cut the arms and legs off of the men, women and children that they'd captured then burn them on a fire. They also ate their enemies. They were savages.
My family is white and my brother and sister are native American. We were lucky enough to get them out of the drug den they were living in. They both were born drug addicted and have several medical issues that are directly caused by the neglect of their parents. I dont care about ur stories. All the natives I've ever met are stuck up racists. They were even racist to my bro and sis just because they were raised by us so they were disowned by the tribe. But ya keep telling ur lil stories im sure that will really matter.
I descend from the brazilian Tupi-Guarani tribe. One thing that I found interesting was the creation myth of the Tupi:
At the Beginning there were only Nhanderuvuçu (Think the Greek Kaoz ) And from Nhanderuvuçu both Anhang ( + )and Gwea ( - ) sprung forth an then they merged together into Anhangwea (Lit: Old Soul) and from Anhangwea, Anhandeci (Matter ) was created. And with Anhandeci the World was shaped.
Interesting take on the big bang, no?
I really enjoyed reading all the answers. The tribes in the Southwest also had children taken and sent to boarding schools. There is an exhibit about the subject at the Heard Museum in Phoenix. It made me tear up.
This was very very interesting, I wish I could hear a LOT more. This is the living cultures, that is, how the cultures survived and are being practiced today - with the shadow, but also pride, of history. I could go on reading all day.
My Navajo tribe has a tradition where they put these glass stones ( think of the glass pebbles ) and lay them in the graves of those who past on. When ever I go to the graves I would try to fix all the gifts for the graves including putting these glass pebbles back on the gravestone
I'm from Australia, I truly believe schools should be teaching students more about indigenous Australian culture and languages.
Aussie (Vic) here, there are over 300 different native languages in Australia so it's be difficult to teach. But more knowledge about Aboriginal culture is always enriching.
However, the museum of natural history in Victoria has a wall of different tribal shields. It's really interesting.
@@davidclark9619 Western Australian here. Yes I know there are many which is truly amazing, but perhaps languages and cultures within your area is what I'm thinking.
I was hoping to hear some Creeks traditions. Unfortunately that is one part of my family I am not familiar with. My family somehow got mostly looked over when they were going through Georgia and preparing for the Trail of Tears. So much got lost because of the fear of being found out in not being "dark Germans." We found our cousins on the Cherokee branch but I always wanted to know more about my great grandmother's father's family.
I am Mohawk and Mattaponi.My dad blesses the house with sage when he feels like there’s something in the house.
I don't have a Reddit account, so here's my two cents:
I'm part Cherokee and part Wyandotte. The Cherokee language(while dying), is fascinating, especially when you include Sequoyah's syllabary. The Wyandotte(or Wyandot) total under 5K people, and have a language, although it is currently extinct(currently). I have actually handwritten a writing system for it that looks just as intriguing as the Cherokee version of it as well.
I'd recommend looking up more detail of the Cherokee stuff and especially the Wyandotte stuff. Very interesting.
It's been years since I wrote anything in the Cherokee language but I have heard of Wyandot, I just haven't tried to research it much. Could you direct me to some accurate information? I am also interested in the alphabet that you are working on. That sounds pretty dang amazing, honestly.
@@amethyst5538 Ah, native languages are so amazing! It is one of the things that makes Chilean Spanish (Much based off Quechua IIRC) and Brazilian Portuguese (Firstly based of Tupi-Guarani, then african languages like Yorubá ) are so different from their european counterparts.
My girlfriend is first nations Canadian. Her tribe (for lack of a better word) live near a lake that formed a couple million years ago in the crater of an asteroid impact.
*Her nation's oral tradition talks about the impact of that meteor in terms that match the modern scientific consensus of how impact crater lakes are formed as well as an accurate description of the panspermia hypothesis.*
That is to say, Europeans were still figuring out how to use fire to refine metals at the same time my girlfriend's people discovered evolution, germ theory, and rudimentary astrophysics.
Then they tried sharing this knowledge with the French and were put to the fire for heresy.
Sadly sounds accurate.😖
This reminds me that the Jesuits weren't that bad with my ancestors. Actually, it is because if them that we know so much about the Tupi, they standardized the Tupi language after all
My wife is First Nation. She brought our kids to the rez' for a Potlatch (Powow) so they could ceremoniously be given their Native names.
There is a novel by Philip Caputo called "Indian country" and it was the first thing that opened my eyes to the rich and incredibly deep cultural beliefs of native American tribes. A large section of the book is about one character, dead in Vietnam war, who is the best friend of the book's main character (couldn't spell protaginist ll) and his family on the reservation. The descriptions of the medicine man's ascension into the spirit world, how he gets there and what he sees, are all fascinating and kind of blew my mind a little. The native Americans have "religion" and comparing it to the kind of Protestant religion I grew up with is like comparing a cap gun to an atom bomb. Theres was living breathing interaction with the spirit world between mortals and the after-life...that's the only way I can describe it.
i am white, my step cousins are Ojbiway , and had the honour of being apart of Renne and her then husbands wedding, Renne is Ojbway her then husband was white , they had the tradiation Christian wedding then went back to her parents house around port hope Ontario Canada , and did their wedding, and i was asked to join the pipe ceremony where they smoke from a pipe and pass it around as they pass it they blow smoke on the next person. was very cool and awesome to me . at the time i was dating a girl who was Cree , but she cheated on me often, but thats another story., after the pipe event , we had dinner, and gary built a big ass fire and the family danced around it, praising God and such and seeking blessings for the new couple.
One thing I like about being native is the medicines that we know from the land. A medicine man has told me about some. I haven’t had a cold in a few years (if I’did feel one coming on I would drink the medicine) and lowered my blood sugar getting off of one prescription (so far) cause I’m diabetic.
Would like a part 2 to this video 👀
I know a bit about my tribes traditions. I know we keep our dead for three days, at the time we never leave them alone and children can not be outside without an escort from sundown to sunrise. Forgot to mention, our dead need to be in the ground by noon and are usually buried with a last meal. Depending on how close you are to the deceased one, women who were close family are to wear a shawl till the funeral is over. Blankets are to be brought if you are be attending and are handed out at the feast to significant people
After the burial, we head to the village or reservation and have a feast where the attendees are divided between family, the casket carriers, and friend or non family. Before entering the eating area you are to wash yourself with cedar smoke.
Another thing is clans which I'm not sure of other tribes do, but I'm part of black bear clan and can not eat or kill black bears on normal circumstances
(I'm osage)
One of the coolest threads I have seen.
And now I'm looking at pictures of skinned bears...
Cree pride!!
That thumbnail is pretty offensive
For anybody there is Navajo that’s actually really cool the owl story it’s something we also have in my country the PPO people they do believe that the owl if it is in a place at night and that howls it symbolizes death n that someone has passed . Also for any natives I do have a question what are some of the lake rituals so whatever you wanna call them for like malignant feelings because we have a couple in my country in many of them have what I find really interesting ways to cure my favorite one would probably have to be what we call bad I so person you don’t need to be a shaman for this any person who has had bad guy twice has double bad eye and that person is able to actually go ahead and do the procedure What you would do is your chew herbs tobacco and you place it on the baby face you place it on the chest and leave it there for a little bit afterwards usually the baby goes to sleep and whenever they have bad eye symptoms such as fever diarrhea it’s called just uneasiness is very common but for some strange reason it always works I don’t know why but it does and another thing we do to try to prevent it is when you take your child out you’re supposed to have them wear a red string that has a little wood looks like a stone but it’s made out of wood
Where's my Chickasaw peeps at🤪
most of us are fine with history and understand that nothing was stolen from us. Someone asked me something about aboriginal day, i asked where is plumbing day? where is infant mortality decreased by many multiples day? If sitting bull had the ships and guns he would have done the same things that were done to him. That's how history works.
Differnt cultures have different morales, your speaking solely from a different culture that was okay with raping women and killing gays. If sitting bull did have the ships and guns he definitely wouldn't go across the pond to rape and assimilate. Native culture is clearly more complex than know or maybe able to handle but hopefully you can learn what aboriginal day is tho🤣
I guess for my tribe, its all the back stabbing, betrayal, and corruption. Honestly, if I weren't getting money from them, I would have unenrolled.
what tribe are you from
@@eziiofftheb7s Colville Confederated Tribes.
The thumbnail is a trashy piece of red face. Females in the plains Indians are not allowed to wear breast plates and war bonnets for religious reasons. As an Apache I don't know the particulars because we don't do this. But I'm on lots of Native groups and sights and it's one of the things that will get you instantly banned. You should do 2 minutes of research before you post something so offensive to a supposedly positive native video.
Did it get changed or what? If so, good.
I noticed that also. It's cringy. I wished they would change it also.
Please change the thumbnail!!!
That's literally someone appropriating Native American culture.
At least a picture of a traditional Jingle dancer or a circle of drummers!
Not some chick dressed up in a 'Halloween looking Native headgear'
Really disappointing 😞
How are you gonna ask about the “coolest things” of indigenous traditions but have a random girl in red face as the thumbnail lol
Let's go im first
And im native American to let's goooooo
The comanches used to.cut the arms and legs off of the men, women and children that they'd captured then burn them on a fire. They also ate their enemies. They were savages.
My family is white and my brother and sister are native American. We were lucky enough to get them out of the drug den they were living in. They both were born drug addicted and have several medical issues that are directly caused by the neglect of their parents. I dont care about ur stories. All the natives I've ever met are stuck up racists. They were even racist to my bro and sis just because they were raised by us so they were disowned by the tribe. But ya keep telling ur lil stories im sure that will really matter.
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