Indigenous peoples of the Americas

No. But...

So my dad's Nigerian Igbo, my mum Guyanese, Amerindian, Afro-Indian, so South American, because the only time I say Guyana, people think Ghana.

I was like, no, South America, Caribbean.

But all Igbo firstborn daughters are known as Ada.

Her work makes up a sprawling, award-studded portfolio.

And it brings together influences from her Black, Indigenous American, and European ancestors.

Rhiannon is a busy lady.

Currently, I'm working on several projects, but the biggest one right now is a book on the working-class origins of American music.

I think it was a 49 to 51% vote or something.

Um, so what happened was When they brought up this, I think they got three hundred thousand signatures in Alberta to have a referendum for independence, and the Alberta Court of the King's Bench ruled on May 13th that the, that the, that the citizens' initiative petition that sought a referendum on Alberta's, um, secession was illegal because they didn't go through the legal duty of consulting with First Nation groups, which is just like Native Americans in Canada, they call them First Nations, regarding how secession would impact their nineteenth-century treaties.

But the Premier Danielle Smith of Alberta is holding a vote anyway on this fall, in October.

Um, she's ho-holding a vote to...

"Terra! Terra!" They start shouting.

His journal is remarkable when you read what he, what he says about the natives, the Indians.

He say, he says that they, you know, obviously they don't understand each other's language, but they begin to communicate, and they are delightful people.

They bring them in.

In fact, I've never heard the story of Columbus versus the cannibals.

Now, how can you possibly miss Columbus versus the cannibals? I mean, it's a riveting story.

How can you miss it? You need to prove that Columbus was just this guy coming over, was, you know, all hepped up on, you know, his search for gold, which I agree he was, but then to make him into a, a, a genocidal maniac, you have to make all of the Indians, all of the indigenous people alike, and they're not.

There were three groups of Indians that he, he met.

Chapter two, Henri learns the language.

It was Joan who drew William and the outlaws from their immemorial practice of playing pirates and Red Indians.

"I'm tired of being a squaw," she said plaintively, "and I'm tired of walking the plank, and I want to be something else and do something else." Joan was the only girl whose existence the outlaws officially recognized.

It was partly owing to Joan's own personal attractiveness and partly to the fact that an admiration for Joan was the only human weakness of their manly leader, William.

They received her outburst with pained astonishment.

"Well," said Ginger coldly, "what else is there to do and be?" Ginger felt that the very foundation of the society of outlaws was being threatened.

The outlaws had played at Red Indians and pirates since their foundation.

"Let's play at being ordinary people," said Joan.

And it's very much the seeds of America before it was even the United States of America.

When we think of all these foundational things, the Indian removal and Indian genocide, we think of even before that, the Spaniards in the Americas.

From the beginning, I think it's important to realize that along with Chattel slavery, which a lot of people have already thought some about this sort of indigenous removal of the people that were here from the beginning.

There was this categorization of who belonged, who didn't, who got rights, who didn't.

That's how we fit or don't fit.

And we can go back to the indigenous people like the Indians in North America.

Like other indigenous groups, their philosophy is we are in a garden and our job is to be gardeners.

They saw themselves as keeping harmony in the garden.