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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:
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!') (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