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Native American Creating Huge Social Network
Native American designer of myrezspace David Baker aka Eagle Vale is gathering a huge social network.
Currently in prelaunch is a unique new social networking online game space launching Sept. 2007.
Join the team by pre-registering now for free and make some extra money this fall.
ePlaySpace.com
Eagle Vale
Native American designer of myrezspace David Baker aka Eagle Vale is gathering a huge social network.
Currently in prelaunch is a unique new social networking online game space launching Sept. 2007.
There are 3 technologies built into one platform including online games with an initial 30 games available
to play at launch time. The othe 2 technologies involved are social networking and it?s own web based
instant messenger which works with all the other major IMs.
Join the team by pre-registering now for free and make some extra money this fall.
ePlaySpace.com
Eagle Vale
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Where Native American History Was Lost And Found
In 1492, when Christopher Columbus accidentally discovered the America?s on his way to India, our history was forever changed in ways that our ancestors could not imagine at the time.
From the early days of European settlement in the America?s, the relationship between the Europeans and our First Nation?s people has been one of convenience for the European?s. At times they would feast with our peoples with a great camaraderie, and at other times, they would war with our people and kill us without regard for civility.
The feast that is referenced in the great U.S. holiday, Thanksgiving, was one of mutual respect between the Europeans and our First Nation peoples. Pilgrims.net stated that the First Thanksgiving was a three-day holiday, in which at least 90 Native Americans participated. Both the Europeans and the local native residents brought food for the feast, and all shared a great time together.
But, Native history has been marred and forever changed by the whimsical pleasures of the Europeans. When it was their pleasure to be friendly with the First Nations, they were friendly. When it was more to their liking to engage us in war, they did. When faced with great challenges in the relationships with certain tribes, they would engage in agreements with opposing tribes to engage the problem tribes in warfare.
As long as our people remained an asset to the Europeans, the Europeans kept us close. When our people fell out of value to the European settlers, then our people were swept aside as if we meant nothing to them.
Historical relationships that our peoples had with the Europeans, held no long-term value with the Europeans who settled near and around our lands. Europeans continue to show disdain for historical relationships even today. As America called out for help in the aftermath of 9/11, Europeans turned their backs to the people who helped Europeans escape tyranny through the twentieth century.
Starting With Christopher Columbus?
Everyone knows that Columbus and his ships came to the Americas in 1492. But, not everyone knows that his first contact with the natives was when he met up with the Island Arawaks (or Taino) in the Carribean Islands. It is said that the Taino?s numbered in the range of one quarter million to one million people. Within six decades of Columbus? arrival, the Taino had been reduced to just fewer than 500 people. Despite historical notes to the contrary, the Taino people are still with us. To read more about the Taino People Of Boriken and their struggle for recognition from the American government, please visit the Taino Tribe website at: http://www.taino-tribe.org/jatiboni.html
The Integral Role of Jamestown In Policy Decisions Concerning The First Nations
In 1607, John Smith created a settlement at what is now known as Jamestown in the Virginia colony. Smith found himself constantly at odds with the Algonquian Nation, who inhabited the land before Smith?s arrival. The European colonists and the local Algonquian Tribe (who were part of the Powhatan Confederacy) engaged in a four-year war from 1609-1613 called the First Anglo-Powhatan War. An uneasy peace continued for another decade, before war came again between the colonists and the native tribes.
In 1622, the Powhatan Confederacy launched a new war that ended in the deaths of nearly one-third of the colonists. Later in the same year, the colonists struck back with such ferocity that the leader of the Powhatan Confederacy, Chief Opechancanough decided to seek a peace with the colonists. A peace accord was reached between the colonists and the Powhatan Confederacy. At the official celebration of the peace accord, the Jamestown leaders spiked the native?s share of the alcohol for the ceremonial toast with poison. Two hundred of the attendant natives died from ingestion of the poisoned drinks and the colonists killed another fifty by hand.
There are two reasons why the Jamestown story is important to the historical relationship between the European?s and the people of the First Nations.
First off, the 1622 raid by the Powhatan Confederacy convinced European?s that all tribes of the First Nation were savages. In that fateful moment in history, the European?s and the colonists forgot about better times they had shared with the native people and decided that ALL aboriginal tribes of the Americas were a savage people on the order of animals.
Secondly, because Chief Opechancanough and other tribal leaders had managed to escape the fate of their compatriots who had died at the hands of the Jamestown leaders at the peace celebration, the story of the double-cross was carried to other tribal leaders of the First Nation.
The sad events of 1622 left the colonists with the belief that our people were savages, and our people were left with the understanding that the European?s could not be trusted to their word. This set of events led to three centuries of oppression by the European colonists and the subsequent U.S. governments perpetrated against our people by U.S. government policy. And, our distrust of the colonists continued to deteriorate as the American government regularly made and broke treaties with the many tribes of the First Nations.
The Loss Our Culture In The Face Of Oppression
Some tribes of the First Nations have been able to hang on to their relationship with their native lands. Within these tribes, our people have been able to maintain our all-important ancestral relationship with our lands.
Other tribes have not been so fortunate, as their lands had rested in the path of the European and American expansions across North America. These tribes were introduced to forced relocation by the American government at gunpoint.
Our lands have always played such an integral role in our relationship with the Great Spirit. When we were born, the Great Spirit gave us to our parents. It was our parents job to teach us how to live-at-one with our lands. Our society, our culture, our history and mythology, our religion and our spiritual souls have always been tied to the land that the Great Spirit had given us.
But, when European and American expansion tore us from our native lands, our people lost that important connection to their ancestors and the Great Spirit who leads us in our daily lives.
The trauma of the relocation was such an ordeal that many of our ancestors sat down to wait for death on the Trail of Tears. For those individuals, death was preferential to the loss of their connection to their past and their spiritual existence.
The Strength of Our Grandparents
Some tribes met a ninety percent reduction in the size of their population during the forced relocations of the late 1800?s. More died on arrival to the new lands that we were given, because frequently we were given lands that no American considered habitable.
To exacerbate the problems, the American government had decided that they would set up schools to teach our children. But, we were not permitted to teach our native history in the new native tribal schools. Even to this day, many schools ridicule students who want to learn about our native history.
We praise the strength of our grandparents, who realized that we as a people were on the road to losing our native culture, language and heritage. Our newly established tribal governments worked with the elders to encourage teaching the young our culture so that it could survive into future generations. Without those individuals who had the foresight to preserve our culture over the last century, we would certainly be a people lost to our history and cultural identity.
The Modern Age
In this modern age of the Internet, we have discovered an opportunity to preserve our history, mythology, language, culture and heritage through the ages into eternity. With the global and digital nature of the Internet, our elders are now able to come together for a sharing of ideas and history with those of our extended tribal families.
MyRezSpace is building a community for the people of the First Nations to share all aspects of their tribal heritage. All of the extended members of the First Nations family are encouraged to come in and set up their own window to the past, so that our children, grandchildren and great-great-great grandchildren will have a place to go to learn of our cultural heritage.
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Native Americans Torn From Their Past: Surviving forced resettlement
How indigenous Native American people faced forced resettlement and survived.
For thousands of years, we native american people lived our lives at one with our lands and the animals that occupied our lands. Mother Earth gave us what we needed to survive, thrive and grow as a people, and we returned the favor by taking good care of our Mother Earth.
When our first native american ancestors were born, the Great Spirit placed us with our mothers and fathers to live our lives in the lands of our ancestors. We lived this way for generations, unaffected by the events that took place in lands far away on other continents.
When the black plague swept Asia, the Middle East, and Europe beginning in the early 1300's, our native american ancestors were immune to its wrath. Two great oceans protected our people from such a pandemic that nearly wiped out the populations were captured in its death march.
Our tribes lived happy and free until one day in 1492 when the seeds of change were placed in our soil. When Christopher Columbus sailed to our lands and put his stake in the ground, the lives of our children and grandchildren were fated to be changed forever more.
Almost immediately, the European settlers began to try to convert our aboriginal ancestors to their religion. Any who stood against the European's religion stood the chance of being put to death. It was a truly bizarre turn in events, considering that the stated purpose for the European's migration to the American continent was "to escape religious persecution in Europe."
The European's came to our land seeking tolerance for their own beliefs, but they did not have the same tolerance to share with our first nations people.
Forced Relocations
In the aftermath of the American Civil War, the US government forced a large number of native american tribes to migrate from their indigenous lands.
The public excuse for this move was the fact that a few of the native tribes stood with the South against the US government.
When the South fell to the North at the end of the Civil War, many of our ancestors were forced at gunpoint to vacate the land that had been our homes for thousands of years. Many of the native tribes were forced to migrate west to new lands set aside for us by the US government.
Within the same generation, many tribes were forced to move again to a place called Oklahoma, which was known at the time by the Americans as the "Great American Desert."
These forced tribal relocations led to the deaths of many of our people on the Trail Of Tears. Many of our elders and young died during the journeys.
Settling In At Our New "Indian Reserve" Homes
Those tribes who were forced to move experienced another significant loss, once they had reached their new homes.
Tribal culture had always been connected to the land and the animals that lived amongst us. And now, we had no lands to call our own. Indian Territory in Oklahoma was a barren landscape void of many of the elements we have come to know and love.
As our grandparents and great-grandparents brought up their children, many began to realize that our tribal customs, stories and culture did not have the same connection that it once had.
When the tribal elders would tell a story of the black bear, it made perfect sense to the elders, but for the young, it had become an empty story. There were so few black bears in Oklahoma that most youngsters had never seen one to know what their parents and tribal elders were describing.
When elders told of a wolf, it too was seen too infrequently to make much sense to the youngest of our tribes. When our people arrived in our forced 'Indian Territory', wolves were few. By the time the 1930's rolled around, there was no such animal living in 'Indian Territory'.
The Birth Of Native American Cultural Preservation
When our tribal elders realized that the young could no longer appreciate the message behind our ancestral stories, it became crystal clear that steps would need to be taken to ensure the preservation of our culture. The tribal elders were insightful enough to realize that if nothing were done, our traditional culture would disappear from the face of the Mother Earth, to be lost forever to future generations. For thousands of years, our traditions had been passed from generation-to-generation without any consideration to "what if?" It was just assumed that our world would live forever with our people there to tend to it. But all of that ended in just one generation.
Suddenly, a crisis faced our people. With the introduction of a new way of living, the traditions of our ancestors began to fade off into a distant memory. The new world offered so much distraction that our young began to see our traditions as a waste of their time.
Our people had reached a crossroads. We had to find a way for our culture and traditions to be carried to future generations, or our identity as a people would cease to exist.
The time had arrived when our tribal elders would need to actively recruit students to learn of our culture and history. The time had arrived when our tribal elders would need to explore new ways of carrying our identity into future generations.
The active and planned preservation of our cultural identity began to take shape.
Record Keeping Was Introduced
Many of the tribal elders thought it wise to adopt the ways of the white man. Our elders began to find ways to write our history and our language on paper.
Fortunately, we were able to retain a bit of our independence through the tribal government system allowed to us by the US, Canadian and Mexican governments.
Our tribal governments set up actual systems to help us to retain our history and culture. Many of our tribal leaders have arranged to set up college scholarship funds for those who were willing to learn our tribal history and culture.
These are only steps. We still have a long way to go to ensure the preservation of our cultures through generations not yet seen. The way this world is changing now, it will only become more difficult moving forward to keep the native spirit alive.
The Native American Internet
We are a growing group of native american individuals who appreciate where we have come from and have turned to the newest resources in the preservation of our history and culture. The Internet is a huge storehouse of information that can be shared with a world audience.
We now have the ability to stay in close touch with those of our band who have moved away from the reservations. We have an unprecedented opportunity to share our past with those who wish to know it. We are now a growing number of dedicated native people who are channeling the power of using the internet to lead other aboriginal people towards the positive direction of helping us preserve our past. As such, we have put together some very informative resources for those who wish to study our past.
Recognizing all that is good in our little portion of the Internet, we realized that it could be helpful to bring all of that information together in one place where it could be protected for eternity. Individual people live and die, but organizations can live forever.
In our little corner of the Internet, we are building a set of web sites that will permit anyone who is of First Nations origin to come in and set up a resource that can survive for generations.
We hope you will come by and visit us. We hope that you will stay long enough to learn of our culture, history and religions. And we hope that you will like our little corner of the Internet enough that you will come by and visit us often.
Written by: Eagle Vale of MyRezSpace.com
The name is a merging of the Myspace concept, with "The Rez,"
from a television show of the same name that reflects life on
the reservation in Northern Canada.
This article about native american culture was created for the
express purpose of bringing awareness to our "Native American
Cultural Preservation Project" at http://www.MyRezSpace.com
You may also use the MyRezSpace Native American MySpace
Interactive Community at:
http://www.MyRezSpace.org
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Native Myspace Article About?HOT NEW Native MySpace
MyRezSpace.org is the companion Native MySpace to MyREzSpace.com for Native North Americans Enjoy 3D Chat, Voice Chat, Video Chat, built in IM, Interactive Games, Native Blogging and much much more!!! Come and join our 24hrs/365days online native myspace PowWow today.
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Why You Need to Help Preserve Our Native Heritage
Native people from all over North America hold unwritten stories and legends which may become permanently lost if we don?t record them. Untold accounts of native history dating back over 10 thousand years need to be documented for the benefit of humanity.
You either are a keeper of one of these ancient native stories or you know people who are. Either way the stories need to be told and remembered. We now have the technology to preserve and continue what is left of our native heritage and culture.
If you are native or have native friends you need to get the word out about this while there is still time!!! Every legend and story holds nuggets of valuable information about the cultural native history of North America.
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3D Native American MySpace Native Pow Wow in Virtual Reality
Have you been to a 3D Native American MySpace Native Pow Wow lately? Did you know they even exist? I was pleasantly surprised and amazed at finding this awesome Pow Wow in virtual reality 3d world called 2nd life. There are all kinds of people and lifestyles co-existing in this strange new world where anything imaginable can be experienced in a virtual 3d environment where may people have opened up a whole new realm of possibilities. Get your own 2nd life and join the growing aboriginal tribal presence here dedicated to recreating native culture in 3d. My name in 2nd life is Eagle Vale. Come inside and join my native myspace 3d group myrezspace.com today. Click on graphic below to join free and find Pow Wow location.
Who would like to participate in a project to create a native canadian myspace or native mexican myspace in 3D?
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Blogging on Native American Myspace
It doesn?t matter whether you are more interested in native american myspace native canadian myspace or native mexican myspace or even a native myspace group from another country you are welcome and encouraged to have your say here. Are you native and have opinions or knowledge about your culture then register to add your submission here. We need native writors and this is a great way for you to gain recognition for your contribution. This is a growing collaborative work in progress and we the aboriginal people have a chance to record our own history here as we know it.
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Native Business Directory
Myrezspace.com native myspace.com offers free advertising for your native owned business. Many people prefer to deal with aboriginal owned businesses so why not make it easy for them to find you and list your company here.
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Native Elder Storytellers
There are so many enlightening stories which exist in every band which have never before been published. These are stories which have been passed on by word of mouth for longer then anyone can remember. There are some stories which are more current yet there are still many stories that are lengendary and ancient. The remaining Hopi Elders in a commendable effort to preserve their cultural history collaberated on recording this information in a book. The book of the Hopi can now be found in most public libraries. With the age of technology approaching at the speed of light, ancient knowledge and stories from native elders are at risk of becoming unavailable unless recorded. If you are a native elder or have a story to tell which was passed on to you by a native elder please record the story here for others to read.
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Chief?s Corner
Where Chief?s from all over North America gather to discuss issues and plan strategies. If you are currently a Chief please be the leader you are and introduce yourself in a blog here.
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