Thursday, June 18, 2020

When many americans were truly revolutionaries
May 1st
Chief Tammany's day 
(the day of American identity) 

During the struggles for US independence, the inhabitants of the British colonies organized themselves into groups called Tammany Societies in honor of Tamanend, head of the Lenni-Lenape Aboriginal nation of Delaware who had received the Quaker leader William Penn "upon arrival in America on October 27, 1682 and he signed an important treaty with the colonists a decade later. Tammany was the inspirer of a legend, great feats were attributed to him, and it was dedicated to him on May 1, a date that became St. Tammany Day later "the day of American identity." They wanted to point out that May Day is celebrated on that day by the death of the Chicago martyrs in 1886. 
The events of Haymarket Square (Chicago) that actually happened on May 4. I think May Day was chosen because there was a historical memory of that day, which was the day of American identity represented in the indigenous figure of Chief Tammany. At that time, in the late eighteenth century, poets wrote odes to Tammany. Soldiers and civilians sang songs in his honor. During the 1770s, revolutionary societies were organized in almost all the English colonies of North America under various names that honored the chief: Society of Saint Tammany, Society of Chief Tammany, Society of King Tammany or simply the Society of Tammany. All Tammany societies followed a native organizational model, frequently of Iroquois inspiration. They were made up of thirteen tribes corresponding to the thirteen colonies, each with its own organization and totem. Societies were presided over by a Grand Sachem and the President of the United States was recognized as the Great Grand Sachem. The meeting rooms were called the "wigwam" and used bows, arrows, and holy pipes. 
Totems of the 13 English colonies of North America 
New York: the eagle 
New Hampshire: the otter 
Massacussets:: the panther 
Rhode Island: the beaver 
Connecticut: the bear 
New Jersey: the turtle
Pennsylvania: the rattlesnake 
Delaware: the tiger 
Maryland: the fox 
Virginia: the deer 
North Carolina: the buffalo 
South Carolina: the raccoon 
Georgia: the wolf 
Several years later the Tammany societies fervently supported the French Revolution and then were the natural hosts of the native delegations that came to visit the United States, which at that time occupied a small portion of its present territory. Just as some colonists had formed the Societies of Tammany, other revolutionaries formed the "Improved Order of the Red Men". Like Tammany societies, the "Red Men" or "Red Men" were organized in tribes, under the presidency of "sachems" they met in "wigwams" and practiced native rituals. However, they had some differences: they were much more radical, they claimed that the Colos had learned their ideas about the democracy of the first Americans, they said that the Europeans "never knew what true freedom really was, given that they had lived under kings all their lives, and without having a vote or voice in their own government. " The "Red Men" offered their prayers to the Great Spirit, "they disavowed Christianity and in their earliest years proclaimed a very clear anti-capitalist ideology calling on their members to emulate the Native Americans who had their property in common." Another would be the American destiny if the "Red Men" had been heard. The origin of federalism One of the most important ideological elements that the European colonists learned and took from the American nations was their political system, whose application was to spread over the following decades: the federal system. This type of political organization existed in many First Nations of the continent, of which there were multiple examples that worked successfully: in the Mapuche societies of the Pacific coast, in the Chaco and Pampean peoples of the South American plains, and in the nations of the forests and tropical savannas of South America. Of all of them, the best known, perhaps due to its proximity to the English colonies, was the Confederate system of the Iroquois nations. Reproduced from Chapter 9 "Anarchism, Communism and Federalism" of the book Amerrique, the orphans of paradise by Danilo Antón, Piriguazú Ediciones

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