A Tribute to the Trails of Tears Tee "Rifles & Bibles"

Spending a long day with Cherokee Natives during the Pow Wow Weekend in TN, Red Mountains,  I became inspired to design a Tee specifically for what happened in that time to them people that slipping from what it seems further and further into history.

Although, Natives have a "reserved" place for their own little existence, National Park's and historical state sites shouldn't be the one addressing Native tales because often what you hear is the one sided version of "history" rather than.

Listening and eventually soaking in the feeling of "disturbance" that I could even hear from Elder Natives who just sat their silent, unspoken.

I felt obligated: Rifles and Bibles. For the weapons used and for the mission of why they came to "explore" and settle on lands already settled in.

This Tee pays a tribute to not only the Cherokee Trails of tears but all Indigenous natives in Melanin populated areas worlwide who have been or are currently being displaced for their own people and land wealth.

Here's a few images from my trip... 

John Ross was elected Principal Chief of The Cherokees despite having only 1/8 Cherokee Blood.

 

Hundreds of "Indians" were Christianized and educated.

This is Brainerd Cemetery where nameless missionaries and some nameless natives rest. TN

In 1838, the first detachment of Cherokee captured by the GA Guards were forced to depart Ross Landing, Chattanooga, TN. 

 

"All of the suffering and the difficulties of the Cherokee People were charged in the accounts of Ridge"...

18 hundreds Census

Walini, 1888. A "Normal" Cherokee looked like this before the forced race intermixing with settlers of the old and Indigenous of the New.

Cherokee Farmstead

This is Sequoyah, often depict as a "White" Native although this is in dispute. Many says he was full blood native and others say he was a Half English man named George Gist, son of a Virgina Fur trader. As you can see from the Farmstead images, a Native then wouldn't look like him unless he was of mix races or as in many cases, the portrays usually "whitened". Whatever the case maybe, he came up with the "Indian" syllabary and with missionary Boudinot, the Indian-English newspaper.

Wounded Knee Massacre with settler guard

Native Land sold to new settlers...

Paying respect and taking it all in...

Types of Melanin and what should you should know about Melanin

What primary determines hue man beings skin make up is Melanin. Melanin is the prime determination of the skin tones of people of color. People that do not have black or brown skin or dark dominating eye color or hair color does not have a good source of Melanin production thus, not only having lighter skin but skin that is highly sensitive to the source of Melanin energy which is the Sun.

Melanin isn't only responsible for the pigmentation on natural black, brown or colorful hue's. There is EuMelanin of the skin and Melanin of the Brain. There is also Melanin in the iris and in the inner of our ear.

Our whole body functions on many different dark matters of Melanin. Your skin hue getting browner or darker is Melanin in the Skin and this is just one attribute of Melanin.

There is Skin Melanin but there is also another form of Melanin that is important to the overall brain functioning. This Melanin is called, Neuro-Melanin.

Having a conscious, being humble, naturally happy and even when you feel bad because of something you did, this Brain Activity or Brain Melanin is called Neuro Melanin.

Neuromelanin is also a dark pigment that is present in pigmented neuros. The center control that groups other parts with the central part.

Whites of all ages are more than twice as likely than darker pigment people to have hearing loss. This is due to the lack of Melanin. They comprise 90% of the population who suffer with hearing loss. According to the aging society, amongst the population with hearing loss, only 39% are in good or excellent physical health.   

Round the web:
Without melanin coating the inside of your eye and throughout the iris, images passing through the pupil would "bounce" around and form a "fuzzy" image on the back of your eye; this is why people with albinism have poor eyesight. Read more here

Melanistic Animals but what about the Melanistic People?

When I first started doing Melanic Tees, I would do a search for Melanic or Melanistic and Animals with Melanism would always come up. Never People, never black people, never brown or "his panic/latino", never people of color who have Melanin. I don't know why this is. You would think the people would come up who have Melanin, don't you think? If animals come up there is no reason people wouldn't come up. Everyone needs to know about Melanin, what is Melanin,  why melanin is important, who has it, who doesn't it, what does it do, is it good for you, is it bad if you have too much or not enough.

Hopefully when you do a search a few  years from now for MELANIN, I hope you find what Melanin is on MelanicTees!

Comparing to Kingdom Of...

Kingdom of England. Wit'chu English speaking ass..[]..

New Spain. New... 2050?

Colors can make you happy & those around you!

 Color is everything. Colors are the best ways to self express, ain't it? Look at these purpleish, pinkish hues?! Pretty colors aren't they? :) Make you feel cute? Of course, they do! Colors make you feel. Like Yellow makes you feel "brighter" becos you look brighter (right?) or Orange for "energy"? Or Black makes you feel cool & lighter (slimmer)? Or like how Blue is associated to "feeling blue or bringing you down" or red associated with intense & heat (maybe becos of fire or volcano?) or like green associated with money or feeling lucky. See? Colors can change your mood & to this day, this is another thing like Melanin that scientist can't prove why or what this reason is. Colors can bring out any outfit, any home, any hair color/style. Color is the closest thing to the rainbow. No, wait! Colors are the Rainbow! When you see or wear colors, red, blues, pinks, yellow., bright colors it is science that it makes you feel better & can even have the same reaction to someone who is looking at the colors on you! Wear colors! Will brighten you up & those around you. It's like Color therapy. :) B Happy

Australian Aborigines are the Mother Root of The whole Pacific

Aborigines are the mother land of the whole Pacific. This is true. Due to the Colonization & countless attempts of genocide and "stolen generations" of Aborigine kids then & now, Aborigines still are here HAVEN'T GOTTEN EXTINCT. No, they haven't and we haven't neither. We, Mexica Natives, Mayans & the lineage of Olmecs, We are still here. That's is our root & that's the truth.

Like the exploitation of Slaves, human properties of others who consider themselves superior so they are worked and used to death usually for free against their will, despite any weather condition, working for crumbs and to be dehumanized serving them, building for them, cleaning, cropping, laboring, taking care of their children many times for hours on end; in Australia... 

Contact with Colonist.

Besides our complexion & other similar features, this is another experience, tragic experience that still may occur just not broadcast on national television. We share this bond of bondage that was done to our people also. The New Stolen Generation & the identity loss when placing Indigenous children in Non Indigenous Homes.

Aborigine Tribes Men & Young Men now

It is estimated since Australia sorry day to these people for the "Stolen Generation" more Aborigine kids are being taken out of Aborigine communities and into Non Aborigine Homes.
... HISTORY JUST REPEATING ITSELF

"Mental/psychological health issues (e.g. depression, drug/alcohol abuse, suicide) come hand in hand with identity loss. It’s quite clear that DOCS (Queensland’s Department of Child Safety Service) and the QLD government as a whole, are acting as the proverbial ambulance at the bottom of the cliff. There’s no denying that alcohol/drug abuse, domestic violence and negligence are serious problems within many Indigenous families; for that we can thank the disease of colonization". Read more here