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Turtle Island Study Group / Grupo Leer Isla de Tortuga

We address genocide caused by imperialism in all its forms. We promote solidarity between the global south and indigenous people of Turtle Island by mobilizing for migrant rights, studying indigenous Marxist theory, and working towards national liberation and national development. Family separation, settler colonialism, MMIP, trauma-informed, healing, dialectical materialist spirituality, language and cultural reindigenization, anti-BQ. Indigenous people exist globally


Indigenous Resistance Movements

Oral history plays a significant role in Turtle Island indigenous philosophy during the centuries of colonialism, but some written things can be referred to.

Symbolism

There commonly exists an intercultural symbolism with the colors red, white, black and yellow, with some slightly different meanings depending on nation, some more explicitly defined than others. Cultures that have historically used this theme include the Lakota[1], the P'urhepecha,[2]

Red Cloud's Treaty (1868)

"the Wasichus had made a treaty with Red Cloud (1868) that said [the Black Hills] would be ours as long as grass should grow and water flow." - Black Elk Speaks

Tecumseh

Crazy Horse

Sitting Bull

Religious and Spiritual Movements

The Ghost Dance Movement

Legends

  • The Great Peacemaker

Prophesies

  • There is a prophesy that appears in writing in 1932. A long time before the European colonizers arrived (the year is unknown), Drinks Water, a Lakota "holy man", had a dream about the future. He dreamed that the animals were going "back into the earth" and that foreign beings "had woven a spider web all around the Lakotas". And he said, "When this happens, you shall live in square grey houses in a barren land, and beside those square grey houses you shall starve." He died soon after he saw this vision, and it was sorrow that killed him. It is believed that he saw the future of his people occupied by the United States and trapped in the Reservations system.[3]
  • 7th fire prophesy

Turtle Island Indigenous Cultural Particularities

Gender

Matrilineal inheritance: P'urhepecha, Lakota,

Patrilineal inheritance:

Political-social status of women and men:

Sexual division of labor: Lakota: "The women were all busy cutting the meat into strips and hanging it on the racks to dry." ...Men hunt[Black Elk Speaks] P'urhepecha: women cook and take care of the house, men hunt

Attitudes towards women and men:

  • "Among us there in the brush and out in the Hunkpapa camp a cry went up: “Take courage! Don’t be a woman! The helpless are out of breath!” I think this was when Gall⁶ stopped the Hunkpapas, who had been running away, and turned them back."....('Prove yourselves to be men!')..."They hurt and made sores, but if we knocked them off or cried Owh!, we would be called women." (Black Elk Speaks)
  • Tariacuri quote: "Are these not the words of women?" ... (&: Those men who do not prove themselves as men in masculine pursuits are teased as being like women.)

Attitudes towards manly women:

Attitudes towards womenly men:

Attitudes towards two-spirit people:

Attitudes towards homosexuality:

Modes of Production

Original communism

  1. [Black Elk Speaks, Complete Edition (2014). pp. 7)
  2. [La Relación de Michoacán, oral history edited by Fray Jerónimo de Alcalá, circa 1540 (no page number, just 'Primera Parte')]
  3. [Black Elk Speaks, Complete Edition (2014). pp. 7)