Cherokee and Kanyen’kéha are both in the same language family, but not the same language, so it probably wouldn’t help even if I knew Cherokee. But here is an interesting article about the language use in that clip.

Cherokee is common enough in parts of Oklahoma that there is street signage in Cherokee. It’s all over Tahlequah. Apple Maps will display town names in the Cherokee alphabet when you are in that area.

The skeleton, as Prince Midnight tells Guitar World, belonged to his uncle, Filip, who passed away in the ‘90s in Greece.

“He originally donated his skeleton to the local college and was medically prepared for the school,” Midnight says.

“After 20 years, he ended up in a cemetery my family had to pay rent on. Like, literally in a wooden box. It’s a big problem in Greece because orthodoxy religion doesn’t want people cremated.”

Prince Midnight proceeded to contact the proper authorities, including the state department and state attorney’s office, in order to repatriate his uncle’s remains.

Here’s him playing Dark Throne’s Transylvanian Hunger on it, as linked in the article. (it’s a little hilarious that this is marked “for kids” by YouTube)

Yeah, there’s a long and bitter history of the descendants of those slaves getting tribal membership.

In very recent good news, the Muskogee freedmen just won their tribal memberships as well. IIRC, the Muskogee freedmen still have some unique dialects - me and a buddy threw around the idea of doing some documentation/research on it back in college.

Native American slavery wasn’t always the same sort of chattel slavery practiced by white Americans - intermarriage was a bit more common and the boundaries were often (if not always) fuzzier.

I’m just really wary of the idea that indigenous people are “extinct” - the idea that their cultures are unknowable. The sentence “Native Americans had nine genders” is functionally meaningless.

Maybe it’s because I grew up going to powwows, but there still are separate and distinct cultures. A lot does get mixed in - fancy dance is a pan-Indian thing, for example, but there are still things specific to tribes, like the Seminole and their stomp dancing.

Native people are very much alive - Star Wars has been dubbed into Navajo, the state of Oklahoma just started graduating Cherokee teachers, the Choctaw nation has put out an app (I’d be legally Choctaw if my mom hadn’t lied about my dad lol). Heck, I am craving an alligator po’ boy from the Chickasaw cultural center right now!

Our study findings suggest that children in foster care represent a critically vulnerable population. Children in foster care were 42% more likely to die than children in the general population, and the disparity was largely irrespective of race or age. In addition, the mortality gap widened over time.

Locally, Oklahoma DHS did not report a teen missing from a group home missing for THREE WEEKS. She turned up dead. I knew kids who ran away from their group homes to get medical care.

The government still doesn’t give a fuck about treaties.

Yeah - even in terms of “how white people treated them” there’s the idea of the “Five Civilized Tribes.” A Cherokee might be recognized as at least somewhat human, while an Apache as something to be shot on sight.

It’s important to talk about tribes and not just generalize to “Native Americans.” It’s like talking about “European” culture and implying that the French have the same culture as the Italians. Plains Indian culture ≠ Pueblo culture ≠ Salish culture ≠ Alaskan indigenous culture ≠ etc. Any generalization that flattens these groups to “Native American” is dicey at best.

The Zuni have lhamana, like We’wha. The Choctaw and Chickasaw have hatukiklanna/hatukholba (pronounced/spelled slightly differently but closely related). The Cherokee have asegi. I’m just listing off the ones I know off the top of my head; research the tribes local to your neck of the woods and learn about what they have.

Like I’m really mystified as to where your 9 is coming from. Also “had” - native Americans are still here ya know.

Hatred is a strong emotion, and it keeps the rabble fixated and obsessed on non issues with easy “wins.” It’s not really that they even care about queer people, it’s that they know stupid people enjoy having a group they have permission to abuse.

I really think you should reach out to a friend or family member.

I read through that conversation. They didn’t doxx you. You appear to be having some sort of mental health crisis, maybe log off the internet for a bit and talk to someone you trust.

Holy shit. Like at least a full on week of this…

I’ve had middle schoolers tell me which gas stations will give you vapes. And gotten in trouble with principals for trying to shut down kiddy drug rings…

Notice how massive meltdowns over video games get, versus things that actively harm/kill people.

Not that I don’t agree with Stop Killing Games’s mission, or recognize that micro transactions being shoved into everything is a symptom of how shit late stage capitalism is, but I wish that same kind of “front page on every website, massive signature/phone call campaign” that happened when that Diablo mobile game was bad happened for all the shit that ends up on ProPublica on the daily. Like, can we phone bank to tell Idaho to stop treating disabled kids like shit or something?

A lot of folks lives seem to revolve entirely around video games/gooning, and it’s just kind of sad.

The American Dream is being able to cover up your wife drunk driving in state vehicles.

When daddy gives me his juice, I’m howling like a hound dog.

You’d think if they are going to being censoring things, they’d start with the full on Holocaust denial that Rowling has normalized.

They’ve had people arrested on those false accusations.

Yeah. The high school I worked in had 107hoovas, which is a group of Crips. Pretty sure we had Bloods too, but the hoovas were the ones defacing my desks. Also worked with some South Side Locos.

Kid walked out of my chemistry once to go jump someone in the bathroom, because they ignored gang lines when redrawing the district and put rival gangs in the same high school. He only got one day of suspension, and they threw away the write up I gave him for walking out because he also got written up for the “beating the shit out of someone in the bathroom” thing and they didn’t want to “punish him twice for the same incident”.

Edit: I just googled that kids name. He died 2 years after I knew him. Fuck. He was smart, he was capable, he just made god awful decisions.

cough they also covered up the murder of a transgender teenager, and everyone on the internet believed the coroners report despite it being fucking obvious to everyone in the state it was a cover up cough