#005: The Tragic Eradication of the Red Man (audio repairs and reupload)

#005 The Tragic Loss of the Red Man
(Please note this is a re-upload of the original podcast as the audio was badly distorted on the live)
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:
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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

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 also referred 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