Psychiatric Destruction of Native American Culture.

"Our peoples, for centuries students and philosophers of the stars and of all nature, gentle, compassionate, hard-working and courageous, lived a completely Spirit-dominated life. In a very short period of time our millennia-old way of life was nearly wiped out."

"Native peoples generally do not have a notion of “insane” or “mentally ill.” I have been unable to locate a Native Nation whose indigenous language has a word for that condition. The closest I can come is a word more closely aligned with “crazy,” which means someone is either very funny, or too angry to think straight."

Pemina Yellow Bird.

Read more> http://www.mindfreedom.org/pdf/wildindians.pdf

Read it all. Makes for very painful reading. It never fails to amaze me the capacity that people have for destroying each other's lives and culture, for no reasons other than greed, and arrogance, and ignorance.

Even in Welsh history there is the same kind of story; our language, our culture, our people, were brutalised by those who wanted to impose their own identity on us. Nothing on the same scale as the Native Americans suffered, or what's been seen in so many other countries over time, but enough to make me ashamed to be part of the human race sometimes.

The courage of all those deemed insane, or criminal (another favourite excuse to destroy people - Malcom X springs to mind) or simply destroyed because they were of a different culture, is humbling.

That was a very sad but great read. I myself am native American and really appreciate you taking the time to inform people.

From my experience Native American folks are very accepting of how it is people are. Instead of negativities such as labelisms of disorders, they are positive by comparison.

I talked and listened to many Native Americans online in a voice chat program.

I want to go to a pow-wow one time.

I made some native style flute songs on my website, they are towards the bottom and can be streamed for free.

http://www.nathanyoung.net

nngittsiaq (not well)
Maliseet (broken talkers)

Example

"The word ilisaijuq can be interpreted as a fully inflected verb - "he studies" - but can also be interpreted as a noun: "student". That said, the meaning is obvious to a fluent speaker, when put in context."

Different tribes have different words, the inuk have words for crazy that dont translate to crazy. Forgotten snow, rock with many cracks. That can be applied if put into context.

JamieJ23 wrote:nngittsiaq (not well)
Maliseet (broken talkers)

Example

"The word ilisaijuq can be interpreted as a fully inflected verb - "he studies" - but can also be interpreted as a noun: "student". That said, the meaning is obvious to a fluent speaker, when put in context."

Different tribes have different words, the inuk have words for crazy that dont translate to crazy. Forgotten snow, rock with many cracks. That can be applied if put into context.

Are the above words also examples of the Inuit language, or is it another language? Thanks for the information. Language can be a tricky thing.

Nngittsiaq is of Kalaallisut or greenland inuit.
Maliseet is of the i think is algonkin

Naklin (forgotten snow) is of canadian inuit.

Interesting tid bit...the huron wouldnt kill a man if they think he's crazy or "touched". There were story from hundreds of years ago of lost christians who when found to be surrounded by some hurons in the bush would start singing the lords prayer assuming they were going to die, the hurons laughed and thought them to be "touched", left them alone to there songs.

Or to use the example if it was the kalaallisut they thought them to be Nngittsiaq and left them be.

What's sad is that this is all down to religion. They were singing to their spirits? Well, I guess the spirits didn't help them.

verty wrote:What's sad is that this is all down to religion. They were singing to their spirits? Well, I guess the spirits didn't help them.

Who, the christians?.