Eka Darville Instagram – Today we celebrate the day that Americans welcomed and fed undocumented immigrants from Europe. So I want to pose a little challenge for each of you: no matter where you live on this earth, there were Indigenous people exiting in harmony with that land for thousands of years before you. So the challenge is simple.. Find out who’s land your living on. What Nation of people? What is their history? .
I’m currently in Brooklyn NY: this area has always been a melting pot with over 14 different tribes calling what was a lush fertile green island Home. *The Abenaki tribe
*The Cayuga tribe
*The Erie tribe
*The Laurentian tribes
*The Mohawk tribe
*The Mohican tribe (including Wappingers)
*The Mohegan tribe (including Montauk and Shinnecock)
*The Munsee Delaware tribe
*The Oneida tribe
*The Onondaga tribe
*The Poospatuck/Unkechaug tribe
*The Seneca tribe
The Dutch, the biggest colonisers of Manhattan in the early 1600s, began to buy land across the river in 1636. Their fortunes vastly contrasted those of the Indigenous Americans. As a result of diseases, such as smallpox, that were new to America; war; land deals that were rarely honorable; by the 1680s the Indigenous owners had lost all claims to their rolling, heavily forested Home. Comment below with where your from and who’s land you stand on! #indigenouspeoplesday #riseup #✊🏽✊🏾✊🏿 | Posted on 23/Nov/2018 06:45:49
