Greg Who Cooks
Executive Chef
My father and grandfather came from the age when Indians were on the lowest end of the totem pole.
You have made an assumption that lower on the totem pole indicates lower status.
My father and grandfather came from the age when Indians were on the lowest end of the totem pole.
Where I'm from In Maine, the term Indian wasn't considered offensive to the Native Americans at all. They still call their reservation, Indian Island.
Thanks for clearing that up I've never been in America. I only know what I've read and seen on movies!
Funny how wrong TV can be.
There are some things I do take offense to. Asking me if I do war dances. Do I/we still scalp people. Do we still live in tee pees. Do we need permission to leave the reservation.
You have made an assumption that lower on the totem pole indicates lower status.
Totem poles are items of the Northwest tribes. The top of the pole was usually a Thundrbird. The pole told a story of a family or incident. A successful hunting foray. The addition of a long awaited child. The least member of the hunting party was depicted on the bottom of the totem pole.
You sure about that? I recall you said your heritage was from the Northeast.
Telling Native American "races" is much like telling "Asian" races by appearance. I suspect most people think there is some look that be correlated to some tribe or some Asian country/ethnicity.
It's not that easy, and movies don't even have a clue. Particularly in earlier times the movie producers hired white people and dressed them up in wigs and "Indian" costumes. I suspect fewer than 5% of the Hollywood movies got it right, probably even less.
Figured as much. It's the same with South Africans. People either think we are all black or white with Khaki clothes and lions as pets and they assume we can't speak English properly
I've never owned any Khaki clothes ( those are to make tourist look stupid ), we have game reserves so wild animals don't roam freely and SA has 11 official languages and people from all cultures. Guess that's why we're called the rainbow nation!
I never believe movies.
As a child I thought everyone in Africa ate any and all wild animals for their meals. I thought you had to go out and hunt for every meal. Fortunately in the fourth grade we started with social studies and we learned about the geography of the world and people of different nations. I also thought ALL of Africa was just jungle and there were animals hiding ready to jump out at any person nearby and eat them. I had a very scary mental picture of Africa.
Luckily the only chance you have of being eaten by wild animals here is if you jump over fences that have BIG WARNING signs on them. Believe it or not, many rural people get killed when they jump over electric fences into the bush. Lots of poachers in Africa. And one too many people that can't read.
I've learned most of what I know about Americans from you guys on DC and my nephew. He's been to America more than once.
We never did American history in school, only British, French, German, South African and Egyptian history as far as I can remember.
When I went to school we had world geography and world history. I also took Ancient History in High School. It started in the fourth grade and continued through the 11th grade. The 12th grade was mostly electives for extra grade points.
Luckily the only chance you have of being eaten by wild animals here is if you jump over fences that have BIG WARNING signs on them. Believe it or not, many rural people get killed when they jump over electric fences into the bush. Lots of poachers in Africa. And one too many people that can't read.
I've learned most of what I know about Americans from you guys on DC and my nephew. He's been to America more than once.
We never did American history in school, only British, French, German, South African and Egyptian history as far as I can remember.
About 20 minutes from where I live, every year the Indians from all over New England hold a big Pow Wow at the Topsfield Fair Grounds. The public is invited to attend. We do have cowboys that still ride horses and herd the cattle to different pastures. Then they are shipped off to the slaughter house. Some ranches move their herds with a helicopter or plane. We do have rodeos where they ride bucking horses and mean bulls. Most folks think of cowboys being rough and tough. They are to a degree. But they also hold a contest every year for just cowboys that write love poetry.
I love the beauty of a horse, but they are such stupid animals. Because their eyes are on the side of their heads, they don't see forward and spook very easily.