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“We The Peoples Before” Production at Kennedy Center Told Stories of Native Resilience and Strength (nativenewsonline.net)

 

A portion of the production’s cast.

To read more of Levi Rickert's article, please click here.



WASHINGTON, D.C. The Kennedy Center’s Eisenhower Theater was sold out on Friday, July 1st for the We The Peoples Before stage production that drew a crowd of Native Americans from various parts of Indian Country as well as other attendees who sat for the two-hour long performance.

The First Peoples Fund, an organization that supports the collective spirit of Native Americans artists, hosted the event that brought more than 50 Native performers to the stage, including Joy Harjo (Muscogee Creek Nation), Supaman (Apsaalooke Nation), and Pura Fe Crescioni (Tuscarora/Taino).

“This location feels like the stars have aligned and here we are tonight. We are here to tell our story, as it should be told through our legs, from our hearts and from the place of resilience and love, the love for ancestral homelands and territories,” Lori Pouiri (Oglala Sioux Tribe), president of the First Peoples Fund, said during her opening remarks.

We The Peoples Before was billed as a collaboration in recognition of the rightful place of Native cultural practice as a central influence on the national landscape of arts and culture in the United States.

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1988 U.S. Congressional Resolution #331 acknowledged the role of the Iroquois constitution in the development of our U.S. constitution, (reportedly Iroquois Women had the Rights to: Assert, Debate, VOTE, and declare War-in 1150 A.D.) although their constitution called for "Generational Review" rather than Supreme Court opinions. (I wonder where Susan B. Anthony [growing up in 'former Iroquois territory of upstate New York] got the idea of voting--I don't recall the New York Board of Regents including it in my Elementary or High Public School curriculum. I still 'wonder' if "Generational Review" was intended to also improve ACEs/PACEs in a 'democratic process' ? ? ?

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