Ottawa Tribe Quotes

The fact is, the primary way that Ottawa and Washington deal with Native people is to ignore us. They know that the court system favors the powerful and the wealthy and the influential, and that, if we buy into the notion of an impartial justice system, tribes and bands can be forced through a long, convoluted, and expensive process designed to wear us down and bankrupt our economies. Be good. Play by our rules. Don't cause a disturbance.

Whether it would be possible for these men to forget what had happened remained a mystery for the future to decide. But once decided, it would affect the lives of the many tribes currently living in the state of Ohio—the Delaware, Shawnee, Seneca, Ottawa, and Wyandot—and those living farther to the north and west in the old Ohio Country—the Miami, Pottawatomi, Kickapoo, Sac and Fox, Menominee, Chippewa, and Winnebago—who for three months in 1814 had a country of their own.65 TWO Starting Over at Springwells The opening weeks of 1815 passed with a sad and unbearable slowness for James Madison.

Back in my room I put my earphones in. Put on A Tribe Called Red. They’re a group of First Nations DJs and producers based out of Ottawa. They make electronic music with samples from powwow drum groups. It’s the most modern, or most postmodern, form of Indigenous music I’ve heard that’s both traditional and new-sounding. The problem with Indigenous art in general is that it’s stuck in the past. The catch, or the double bind, about the whole thing is this: If it isn’t pulling from tradition, how is it Indigenous? And if it is stuck in tradition, in the past, how can it be relevant to other Indigenous people living now, how can it be modern? So to get close to but keep enough distance from tradition, in order to be recognizably Native and modern-sounding, is a small kind of miracle these three First Nations producers made happen on a particularly accessible self-titled album, which they, in the spirit of the age of the mixtape, gave away for free online.