Today. Are still here today is going to do wampanoag is a culture of people. Different,wampanoag it could be language. It could be diet. It could be the housing we lived in. How we think about life in general. Human life, plant life, animal life. We do not put ourselves above. I do a lot of teaching, right . Race do wee, what come from . The human race. We should all respect each other. We have been here for 12,000 years. Wife,s me and my lovely who teaches language. I am going to bring you to a major1613, before any interruption in our culture. I will bring you to our new years. A lot of peoples new years starts january 1. Our new year starts when everything comes to life. When does everything come to life . Springtime. That is when the birds start chirping. Is new again. Earth, thether creator. We do a lot of dancing. We do a lot of feasting. We do a lot of socializing. Once that happens, we know we have to get to work. These are the houses we live in during the summertime. We live i
Ok . Do today i am going to is like, wampanoag is a culture of people. One out of over 1000 indigenous cultures going across north america. What makes wampanoag different, from the other 1000, it could be language. It could be diet. It could be the housing we lived in. One common bond we all have is how we think about life in general. We respect all forms of life. Be it human life, plant life, animal life. We do not put ourselves above or below that. That is one thing we have all in common. I do a lot of teaching, right . I ask people, what race do we come from . The human race. Right . So we should all respect each other. And that his rule of thumb for my people. Like i said, we have been here for 12,000 years. That is me up there, my lovely wife, who teaches language. Also right next to me. What i am going to do is im going to bring you to a year, 1613, before any major interruption in our culture. Ok . I am going to bring you to our new years. You think about our new years, a lot of
I have nantucket ties to here. My people have been around this area, massachusetts, for over 12,000 years. As you heard from the last speaker, right . And were still here today. Okay. Now what im going to do today is like wampanoag, right, is a culture of people. 1 out of over 1,000 indigenous cultures going across north america. What makes wampanoag different from the other thousand, it could be language, it could be diet, tkit could be the housinge lived in. But one common bond we have, how we think about life in general. We respect all forms of life, human life, plant life. We dont put ourselves above or below that. Thats one thing we have all in common. I do a lot of teaching. And i ask the people, what race do we come from . The human race, right . So we should all respect each other. And thats rule of thumb for my people, you know. Like i said, weve been here 12,000 years. Thats me up there, my lovely wife who teaches language. Right next to me holding a turkey feather mantle. Wh
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Institute for policy studies released a study thursday showing that in the 8 weeks between march 18th and may 14th the country superwealthy have added a further 368800000000. 00 to their already a normal fortunes and besides this ridiculous state of inequality the rich are also not paying their fair share in taxes they got a giant tax cut for donald trump and the super rich hold 32. 00 trillion dollars in offshore tax havens meanwhile for average americans its. Not good to. A record 36000000. 00 americans have filed for Unemployment Insurance with millions more losing their employer based Health Care Plans and around a 3rd of the country not paying its rent so how does our society not collapsing how is it i wonder why why is the stock market not so low we can see up my skirt well one of the reasons is that we now have a plutonic me citi Group Analysts have used the term plutonic me to describe an economy in which the rich are the driving forces and main beneficiaries of Economic Growth