Tag: american-history

November 12, 2024

Dear Family, Friends and Others reading this,

Hello! Belated Honors to all Veterans on Veteran’s Day, yesterday and everyday. Without our Veterans we wouldn’t be here with our freedom today. Native American Indians were the largest group to serve in our armed forces. Here is a photo of my late Great Grandparents, Hyson and Sophia, standing with my late Uncle John, who served in the Marines. He fought in the Korean War for our country. Two of my other uncles: Uncle Richard and Uncle Ed, also served in the military to protect our country.

I am glad the Election, 2024 is finished. I am not happy with the outcome. Thank you to Kamala Harris and Tim Walz for everything they did to help keep our Democracy. Also, thank you to President Joe Biden for all he is doing and has done to keep our freedom. I also thank President Biden for apologizing to what our government did to Indigenous children by forcing them to attend Boarding Schools here in our country. The U.S. Government wanted to assimilate Indigenous children into the white society. I didn’t know about this till much older in my life. Below is a photo of me around 9 years old, dressed as a TV stereotyped Injun. I wore this costume for Halloween, not knowing anything about my Oneida Indigenous nationality nor my Oneida culture and Oneida language. So, sending my Great Grandmother, Sophia Huff, to the Carlisle Indian Industrial Boarding School and my Great Grandfather to Hampton Indian School; definitely worked in assimilating me, my brothers, sisters, relatives to not know who we really a were and are today. Biden’s apology made me cry. God, Our Creator, Bless Deb Haaland for being a wonderful Interior Secretary!

My book, Sky Woman Lives in Me, can be purchased through lulu.com or search on google for bookstores who may sell my book. Thank you for reading this blog. Please feel free to share this. Thank you! Sincerely, Roberta Capasso.

October 14, 2024

Happy Indigenous Peoples Day! It is so wonderful for Indigenous people to have a day of recognition as human beings instead of uncivilized savages. My great grandmother was sent to Carlisle Indian Industrial Boarding to learn English and become a Christianized person. She would be proud of Indigenous People Day. By the way, she was already Christianized Episcopalian and was very civilized, before she was forced to attend Carlisle. My Great-Great Grandmother, Elizabeth Huff, refused to be assimilated white. Thus, her daughters, Sophia and Lily were taken away from her and sent to Carlisle to be assimilated.

The book pictured below named: Stiya, A Carlisle Indian Girl At Home, was written by an author named Embe in 1891. Embe’s real name isn’t given. The real author is believed to be a white, female employee of the Carlisle Indian School. This book was printed at Riverside Press in Cambridge, Massachusettes, funded by the U.S. Army. A copy of this book was given to all graduates of the Carlisle Indian School. The graduates were to read this book to remind them to ‘not go back to the blanket’ (ie their Indian Culture and language). The book is propaganda and full of lies by the author. I thank God, Our Creator, that my great grandmother never received a copy of this book! I am thankful my Great Grandmother, Sophia Huff, kept her Oneida culture and language despite spending years away from her real family in Oneida Wisconsin. My book is still for sale at lulu.com and other book stores, so you can read the whole story that took me fifteen years of research to write. Thank you for reading this blog. Happy Indigenous Peoples Day to all Indigenous people in the world. Please feel free to share this with others if you wish. Sincerely, Roberta Capasso, Author of : Sky Woman Lives in Me. I am also a proud Indigenous Oneida from Wisconsin.