We Are Healing - 2023 Otoe-Missouria Proclamation Day

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09/21/2023 Added

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Learn more about the 2023 Otoe-Missouria Proclamation Day on University of Nebraska–Lincoln's campus at unl.edu/plains.

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[00:00:13.666]Today is our second annual Otoe-Missouria Day.
[00:00:16.791]Our aim is to reconnect
[00:00:18.291]with the people, the Otoe-Missouria people who were displaced
[00:00:22.500]to make way for our city and our university.
[00:00:25.166]They're the native nation
[00:00:26.750]that ceded the land, that became our university and our city.
[00:00:30.625]And we thought it was really important to reconnect with them
[00:00:34.916]and not to just say, Oh, we acknowledge that this is Otoe-Missouria land.
[00:00:39.375]But but to make a meaningful relationship
[00:00:42.583]with them.
[00:00:46.000]We think this is an important thing to do
[00:00:49.166]to reconnect our community to its history.
[00:00:53.458]I think there's a lot of educational value in that.
[00:00:55.958]It's also a way to pay respect to the people who
[00:00:59.000]whose lives were uprooted, you know, almost 200 years ago.
[00:01:03.041]It's our way of trying to reconnect them to their ancestral homeland.
[00:01:07.375]I think it's a very, very special experience, very spiritual for these people.
[00:01:13.125]I'm glad to be a part of it.
[00:01:14.250]I think it's a beautiful thing.
[00:01:15.500]He says. In the middle.
[00:01:17.541]He says, he puts his on the outside.
[00:01:19.166]This way.
[00:01:20.333]From the outside of this thing.
[00:01:22.166]And so we wanted to make Native presence in Lincoln
[00:01:27.708]at UNL much more visible.
[00:01:30.625]So we got the idea to put up a couple of teepees
[00:01:34.583]because a lot of our local Indian
[00:01:36.000]community are from Plains Indian tribes that use teepees.
[00:01:39.833]So we thought this would be a great way to both raise
[00:01:43.041]awareness of those around us, but also to welcome the Otoes.
[00:01:47.083]You can tell by looking at the lodge
[00:01:50.500]What tribe did they come from?
[00:01:52.958]So if you look at the tops of them, they have they look like a bonnet,
[00:01:56.333]you know, or a headdress in the way that the poles come out.
[00:02:00.625]And so you start with the tripod
[00:02:02.916]you add each pole.
[00:02:04.416]And at each pole, she would go around and tie that.
[00:02:08.000]And that rope signifies the umbilicus
[00:02:11.291]from your mother to you in utero.
[00:02:14.000]And you run that rope through and then fastening back to the earth, establishing
[00:02:19.166]that connection with your home, back to your grandmother, mother Earth.
[00:02:24.166]We’re all about kind of empowerment and culture,
[00:02:28.208]not just focusing kind of,
[00:02:30.500]I guess, on the bad things about natives and, you know, we also want to celebrate.
[00:02:34.250]So we're trying to do a lot of events like that this year.
[00:02:36.916]So this is really up our alley for the kind of stuff
[00:02:39.958]that UNITE wants to be a part of is just a celebration of our people.
[00:02:44.125]This has been really healing for our local native community
[00:02:48.208]and for our local non-native community.
[00:02:50.333]For the Otoe-Missourias. I think that more and more
[00:02:53.875]as we go along, we'll see more cities doing this kind of thing.
[00:02:57.791]There's
[00:02:58.041]really kind of a quiet movement taking place in America
[00:03:01.250]where cities like Lincoln are welcoming back the displaced peoples
[00:03:05.208]that once lived there.
[00:03:06.666]And if we can help heal that wound
[00:03:09.833]by bringing these people home and reconnecting them to these lands,
[00:03:13.541]I think that's a very, very positive thing.

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