Ingeborg, Autumn.
Notoweega Nation:
Covered this in the other thread. I have some distant relation in that group and provided some minor business advice. Was not aware that they gave me a spot on their tribal web site for such minor assistance as a professor I assume, which I am not, as I am not a tribal member either.
Diana
Paducah Community College did not go out of business. Kentucky combined two-year colleges and Voc. Tech into one branch of the education system, and the name was changed. Records still there and available through West Kentucky Voc. Tech, which I also attended for machine shop at one time. It was a self paced course, and I was allowed in the VICA competition because I was close to graduation. I was able to complete it quickly only because I had been apprenticed as a gunsmith before enrolling.
Mid-Continent did go bankrupt, but my records are still available through Murray State University and other accredited universities they had a closing agreement with.
Autumn
“I cannot find your name on the Indigenous Peoples United Nations Facebook”
And you give the public page, the main working page is secret, sorry. And yes I am not listed, as I was not one of the original core group, and only brought in shortly before their charter signing. I am still trying to get up to speed with the group, its members and so on.
Here is what I said about the group’s history on the other thread.
“As to why I am investigating people directly involved with the IPUN, I need to give some background.
We are a tiny tribal nation, and are not seeking recognition by the BIA or any state. We have instead focused on international relations and we have spent considerable time building a relationship with tribes around the world.
The Zo Reunification Organization, ZoRO is one of our closest international allies. I was going to travel there in August to formally start an international alliance we had been discussing for some time.
A small group that also saw the need for such an international organization started the IPUN. They had political contacts, but little else. The UN wanted them to represent tribes from around the world before it would accept their charter, and they were not given much time to do it. So they started frantically searching the net for groups to contact. By chance they saw the ZoRO main site and my campaign to raise funds to speak at their conference in August.
Thus ZoRO and some of my other allies as well joined the IPUN with us before the charter was official signed. At the time of the Charter signing, 99% of the tribes and people represented were my allies, several hundred tribes representing around 1.25 million indigenous people. These were just the ones I could get to quickly before the UN deadline.
As a result we have become part of the core leadership of this newly formed organization, but I do not know these people that started the IPUN and have no history with them.
The IPUN members did not entirely trust me either. After all no one has ever heard of my tribe or nation, as we have been largely forgotten by historians. Only in the last few days have they started to address me by my title as Sachem."
I expected the members of this group to be equally suspicious of me, and I don’t blame you in the least for checking me out as well.”
Autumn
“Also, the IPUN is not "registered with the UN as an international indigenous organization", but it is listed at the UN as an NGO (non-governmental organization, which "is a group whose members are individuals or associations"), so I think you need to get your terms right.”
You are quite right, I should, especially here it seems where every word is examined, but as I said, I am still playing catch-up since joining the IPUN
Also if you read our history with the IPUN, you will see I am not with the traditional people of the Ottawa River Watershed or anyone they consulted with. Just a tiny tribal nation with some contacts to other tribal groups overseas, but we ere the first tribal nations and groups to be with the IPUN at the time of the charter signing.
Cherokee Descent:
Yes, my mother is Cherokee, my dad Weapemeoc, and I got a half a dozen other tribes in my blood, just like a lot of other Native Americans, and proud of them all.
Stage Hand:
Yes I was a stagehand IATSE Local 281, what is so unusual about that, my father was a union stagehand?
Little Feather:
Yes Little Feather was my tribal nickname in my youth, and I have used it for much of my life.
Piff
Congratulations on digging father back than anyone else so far on this thread, my hats off to you on that one.
After a severe heart attack I was unable to work and got interested in physics to pass the time, as well as some online RPG games, and various forums. Aireal and Arueal were two of the name I used at that time.
"His full name is Charles A. Laster. Here is his proposal for a new type of currency"
Piff, I know you don’t owe me anything, but can you remove this post. I was asked to take down copies by the IPUN while work is being done on that project, but Research Gate will not let me take it down.
The same info is found in this paper, with the name Wheel Money and no mention of the IPUN
https://www.academia.edu/6884274/An_Economic_Model_For_Native_Nations_TribesPlease and thank you
Autumn
You found discrepancies in our history, and I am sure you will find more. Easy to explain if you care to listen.
When the Scimitar was passed down to me, my tribe was close to dead, and had only a few extended family who still cared anything about it left in West Kentucky. We had some oral stories and histories passed down and were called the Laster tribe.
I resolved to learn as much and record as much as I could before we faded away completely. By chance I meet remnants of the Yeopim tribe in North Carolina, and the Erie Moundbuilders who were also related to us, and their Chief knew the story of the Scimitar well. His grandmother was a member of the Laster tribe in NC recorded by historians in the early 1900’s.
Yes my distant cousin Tecumseh Brown-Eagle is quite eccentric, but family is family. I don’t agree with a lot of his views, and I doubt he agrees with all of mine.
Here is what little I know of his tribe. They are Algonquins from Erie region south to the Ohio, and probably only a few from any one tribe. The branch of the Laster Tribe mentioned by historians moved from NC to Detroit in the 50’s and joined them. Their tribal government is a strange mix of Islamic and Native traditions.
Also a few scatted people who still maintained their some identity were also found, and we slowly, along with historical records that matched out oral history, reconstructed what we could of the past.
How is this any different than a number of other tribes around the world devastated by colonialism and assimilation?
Piff
“I believe the Laster Tribe was simply a community of people who were identified as mixed-race. They were named after the surname (including variations) of some or many of their community members.”
That is probably the most accurate statement yet, and yes there is doubt about whether we had NDN heritage. We blended into society to hide and nearly died out due to assimilation from that choice. For most of the history of the US, being Indian was not a good thing.
But on that note, those same surnames are found in a number of tribes, unlikely that we would have married into so many tribes if we did not have some native blood in us.
Did I get our history right, I hope so, and did I make mistakes, probably.
However when we appealed to the Royal Family and the UK concerning our status with them, we had to go through a process similar to formal recognition in the US to prove our claim.
They found the sum total of the evidence convincing, and we got our ruling.
Am I a fraud, a well-intentioned idiot, or an eccentric nut case, that is for you people to decide?
In any event, if I can get indigenous peoples around the world united, their voice heard, and their rights honored, it will be worth it.
Because in the end, my tiny tribal nation, its history, and myself are insignificant compared to the fate facing millions of indigenous peoples around the world.
If you don’t think I should be involved with such an endeavor, please jump in and replace me, I could use the rest.
