Applied Social Science Presentation

has anybody figured out walk se?

Another name is Buju.

The simply means hello in Native American.

More for my daughter and all.

Jimmy. Wait.

I am Nitya, an older boy, Native American.

I wanted to show the slide on symbols as I

had mentioned that me, who was black of symbols, that

we have been using it for hundreds of years that

we use on a daily basis as well we have

on this slide.

We have four colors that are very sacred to us.

We have white, yellow, fried, read, excusing and black.

These are colors that you can see in our beating

in our regalia or our offense that we wear our

clothing. You can see these in the medicine wheel circles,

drink countries.

Warpaint that wasn't ancestors is four colors we use in

everything that we do.

At least one of those colors isn't there.

We also pray in four directions before direction are east,

south, west and north, and the that is the way

in the order that we great by thinking each one

of those directions kind of like when you have communion,

it can be compared to, as you know, acknowledged a

better life and the blood.

We have very, um, very in order type things and

slow east, south, west north.

Say what?

You are praying for, what you are asking for, and

then we until uncle we also have Everybody has the

four seasons before season, their spring summer fall in winter.

So everything music consider is going in a circle.

We have four secret medicines these medicines be used to

either. As for healing toe, lay down with prayers to

it's burning for different things or lay them down for

asking for protection.

UH, four things to be revealed to us, and those

are free grass.

Seema, which is also some tobacco, sage and cedar.

Then we have It's a four park of South.

Those include spirituality, emotions, body, and you cannot have one

without the other or you'll be unbalanced.

You can't have a the spiritual and not have emotions

are not having your mind site.

You can't be into with your body if you don't

have the others, and you have to have all of

them to be in balance.

So I tracked a bone, everything being in a circle,

and this is one symbol that shows the things in

a circle.

Also, on this slide you will see part of a

dream catcher.

This dreamcatcher is made in a circle.

The inside is we've together that resembles a spider web.

It allows the good dreams to go through and the

bad dreams to be caught so they cannot hurt you.

It's protecting you.

There is also yeah, little I can hear a little

formal, all a native woman or man, cause we really

take a lot in our hair.

We take a lot of pride in our hair that

she or he looks like that She has warping our

red paint on her face, almost as if it's like

the war paint used my ancestors.

Now I do know that this is a female only

because it says speak sisters all the ways.

A lot of times guys have long here that are

traditional, will be made fun of by other people because

they don't understand saying that they look like girl.

But anyways, so we have the girl with the red

paint over her eyes and the black hand over her

mouth. This is seen in a lot of social movements,

posters, day shirts, a lot of people have seen this

before. In this, the black hand means you can put

your hand over a month and you can silence us.

But we will never have anything taken from us.

We will never have our spirituality taken from us.

We cannot take our traditions from us.

You cannot make us into something ever again that we're

not. And I say, never again because things were taken,

we literally were taken from our families, put in boarding

schools and put in our Children were put in different

families. And, ah, with the women were raped.

And I don't hear any of this, you know, in

a history book.

And when they did that, we were supposed to worship

their gods.

So that was very big, for this is a very

big symbol sign.

Ah, Blue War paint and the Black Hand.

Also on this slide as a picture off a native

American. Don't meddle with his head down on horse.

This represents the trail of tears.

It's really tears.

It wasn't a is very, very big in our history.

It was a battle that really nobody one we lost.

A lot of our Native American people are tribal members

and in our communities.

We we're fighting again for what was promised to us

or what are right were that were being taken away

again. I'm forcefully taken away.

We have tried in the past two talk to do

things peacefully, but has anybody here know all of the

government isn't always so peaceful and done things political way?

Whether it's right for you are your hand or whoever,

they're going to do what they want to do well,

to move on with the symbol of the circum.

We do everything in a circle.

We live in a circle.

We go from being an infant at birth to going

into a young adult morning range to be an actual

mind out.

Then we go in, we're elders, and then we return

to the spirit world when we pass, await to be

reincarnated. So that is, in a circle.

The seven seasons besides even our days, but they're not

days. It over week isn't four, but that's the same

type of thing.

It goes monitor Sunday and then Monday through Sunday, and

it doesn't change.

We also eat in a circle.

We have our elders eat first and then our Children

dinner women in the Nermin.

We do this tin signs to show respect.

A lot of times I will go to, um functions,

and I will see many eating before Children are winning,

eating for elders and that's not holding of people do

it. Another thing that is done in a circle is

we, that's and when you sing in a circle, we

don't go like the country line dance and dance in

line. We do it in a circle, a circle that

includes everybody.

There is not one person that's better than the other

person. We're all equal in that circle.

We also do what's called talking circles.

Some people will sit and discuss stools or go online

wherever it may be or shout at each other and

and try to get things shuttled.

We have actual feelings or goals, which is just one

type of circle, and we talk during those circles to

get things off of our chance to, um, ask her

interest for blessings to help us guide us through these

things. In the only person that talks is the one

that is holding that eagle feather.

If you have the eagle feather, then you were the

only one talking in everybody else soldiers.

Bankston listens.

Too many Italians.

I have witnessed people trying to talk about something or

trying to get something on for their Just when they're

constantly Carl offer people talk over them, and that is

beyond disrespectful.

We also what we do in circles is me here.

Continue to we continue to pray with our medicines and

we put our tobacco Orsino in our left hand and

with use one of our sacred medicines, which is the

same and will burn stage.

And the smoke is uplifting.

Our prayer, our thoughts, our request to Grayer.

We passed this in a circle for the next person

we call.

It's mugging for the next person to smudge down.

The next person it goes in the circle, for the

simple is very important to us.

It shows meeting.

This is why you will see a lot of times

Native American Julie or Native Americans wearing medallions, which is

big circle, negative things and certain colors and earrings that

are medallions.

Everything goes in folder full circle.

So I ask you, when you think about social movements

or when you think about signs and symbols.

What signs in some long do we have to Do

you have we as a people, United States, we have

no American flag.

That is one thing that is very distinct to our

nation. In order to become a citizen off the United

States and officially belonging to now the new United States,

you have to know what the flag means.

You have to know your white and laws are actually

constitutional rights.

Before you can become a citizen, you have to know

some of the history after the well, this in a

really big test before you are a citizen.

So if that's the case and women were here, native

Americans were shared before anybody else.

Waas. That's another reason why they're called the First Nations

people. If we were the first ones here, how come

you don't have to personal tests of ours?

Not only that, how come you don't ask what some

of our colors mean in things that we have used

over time in history since our existence?

That what they mean?

How come you don't have to your language?

People say they want others to speak English because they

live here.

Have you ever really thought about that wasn't our first

language. So next time you find or hear somebody saying

in that you can think to yourself nobody.

There's a lot of people that don't speak the first

language, which is Native American in this country.

So ask yourself how come you haven't learned these things

in history?

And maybe I hope you will start to learn This

is a new beginning and we will be able to

learn from each other.

But you cannot hide behind something and saying you you

don't want to know.

You don't want to open up that can.

And you know all this new information which is done

is done.

We don't put down the flag.

We don't criticize it.

Don't criticize Native Americans.

If you live in a miracle, don't you want to

know the history?

Don't you want to know the language, the rial language

in the real history?

Think about that big love women means.

See you later.

Thank you

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