Mammoth Hot Springs

“You got to be who you say you are . . .”

… Muscogee speaks Muskogean. Cheyenne is Cheyenne because they speak Cheyenne. That’s what identifies us an individual people. That’s the genesis of who we are, the essence of who we are, the language. Because I could pass for an Asian. I could pass for a Crow, Sioux, any Tribal group. But when I say Aya Tsitsalagi, that tells me, ‘He speaks that language. He understands that language. He knows what he is and who he is.’”

~Harry Oosahwee, in Project 562 by Matika Wilbur

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This place is on the traditional territory of the Apsáalooke (Crow), Cayuse, Umatilla and Walla Walla, and Tséstho’e (Cheyenne) nations. (Crowdsourced info compiled by Native-Land.ca. Please visit the nations’ websites to learn more.) We support indigenous land rights and the Land Back movement.

 

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