#006: The Red Record

#006 The Red Record

Continuing from "The Red Man" into the fascinating Red Record, we will look in more detail at the first nations legends, myths and records that we do have which are on the brink of extinction. Why were the cultures of the Red People and their language attacked so? Join in to find out why not only the first nations people should search out and embrace their cultural past, but why the "white man" should too. This Friday, at 7pm eastern time Al and I will answer questions from last week's episode and also take new questions from the chats.
Why do hundreds of cultures around the globe all have creation and great flood mythologies? Why do so many of those mythologies involve a turtle? Why did the Amerindians refer to North America as "Turtle Island?" Why was red ochre sacred in so many aboriginal cultures? Why did the Amerindians refer to themselves as "red people?" Hint: It had nothing to do with the colour of their skin, and everything to do with their creation stories and their original languages. The tragedy is that you wouldn't know this except through cultural understanding - multiple cultures that white man worked very hard to eradicate, even from the surviving red people. Eradication of the first nations languages topped the list of tactics which has tragically led to the near extinction of first nations languages.
Al and Ian do a deep dive into this incredibly fascinating topic.

Random References:

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Beautiful art by Laura Dieter:
https://www.facebook.com/LauraDieterArt

Waynaboozhoo and the Great Flood, an Ojibwe legend retold by Valerie Connors
http://www.uwosh.edu/coehs/cmagproject/ethnomath/legend/legend9.htm

Teno Groppi & 'The Bible Rules the World" Bath Bible Institute, Teno explaining the Lakota Indian Pictographs:
https://youtu.be/vmBXHph9lbc?t=1305

David McCutcheon's website for his book "The Red Record", complete with original photographs of the prayer sticks:
https://www.mccutchenworks.com/red-record

Why the similarity between Traders and Prostitutes derived from words by Mr. Devdutt is wrong?
Varun Mohanpuria, July 26, 2016
www.linkedin.com/pulse/why-similarity-between-traders-prostitutes-derived-from-mohanpuria
"The root word for both “Vaishya” (वैश्य) and “Veshya” (वेश्या) is same; “Vish” (विष). Unlike the current reference of “Vish” as poison, it meant “water” in Vedic Sanskrit. It alsor
eferred to “tribe” or “settlers”."

The Riverwinds recounting their story of their their first nations language in Israel being mistaken as high Hebrew
Now You See TV interview: https://youtu.be/og_YWTsOze8?t=2325

Making Neanderthal Superglue - Science Shorts!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5dNFxoUFzD8

Miwok People's flood myth:
https://www.yosemite.ca.us/library/miwok_myths/08.html

One example of Ojibwe Nanaboozhoo / Waynaboozhoo:
http://ojibwelanguageandculture.weebly.com/turtle-island.html

Hila Science Camp Algonquin Language project:
http://www.hilaroad.com/camp/nation/speak.html