7/9 Homelands: Native North America

 

Homelands: Native North America

Today we look at some of the complex history of Turtle Island (North America - attrib. Lenape) and traditional and contemporary dance practices

 


Above: Choreography by Tanya Lukin Linklater at Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art

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Warmup

Land Acknowledgement:

[We] acknowledge that we stand on the land of the Tequesta, Calusa, Miccosukee and Seminole peoples. We stand in solidarity with them and we honor and respect the ancestors, elders and descendants of these tribes. 

- Miami Light Project

 

Dignity Practice (Miakoda Taylor)

 

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Natasha Oda, Miss Aloha Hula 2001


 

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Student Presentation: Distant History

 

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History

America B.C.

0:00 - 6:18 Introduction & Creation Stories

Beringia Land Bridge Theory

12:24 - 20:48 Ocean Arrival

28:00 - 32:00 Language

Question: What event or cultural feature stood out to you from the video?

 

Tribal Nations Map (Carapella 2013)


Native American History Timeline

History.com

Activity & Question: With a partner, look through your assigned section of the timeline. What is an event that stands out to you or you think is pivotal?

Question: What 'creation myths' do we find embedded in the dominant historical perspective?

 

Native dance, in association with religious and cultural practice, was made 'illegal' under U.S. law.  This was not officially repealed until the American Indian Religious Freedom Act, 1978.

 Question: Imagine a time or place where dance was declared illegal. What impact would that have on you, your community, and the form?

 

Seminole History

Seminole Tribe of Florida History

"The only treaty I will ever execute will be this!"  

 Chief Osceola


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Native Choreographers & Dancers

 Tanya Lukin Linklater (Alutiiq)


Reading: 

Gathering From Within: Indigenous Nationhood and Tanya Lukin Linklater's Woman and Water (Shea-Murphy 2010)

 

Supaman

 

DJ Shub


 Question: What impressions do you get from this last video by DJ Shub? How does setting, clothing, and lighting factor into this?

 

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Dance Practice

Score of Home

or

Friendship

 

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Closing

 

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Additional Resources

Decolonizing Methodologies (Tuhiwai-Smith 2012)

 Gesturing Indigenous Futurities Through the Remix (Recollet 2016)

What Does Cultural Appropriation Really Mean? (New York Times 2022)

Oral History of Seminole Tribe (Willy Johns)

 

  

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