While there is no reliable figure, they represent an estimated 50,000-100,000 people, according to the International Working Group on Indigenous Affairs. May those of us who have directly inherited the legacy of European colonization – through our biological ancestry – be empowered to seek healing from the “genocide within”, and wake up to our true nature as children of this beautiful Earth … and may we do this for the benefit of all beings. The Saami activist also noted that infrastructure projects financed by the European Investment Bank included no specific requirements on their impact for indigenous peoples' rights, besides general mentions of human rights, which wouldn't be possible for development projects funded through external action. The second-largest Christian group in Europe were the Orthodox, who made up 32% of European Christians. This is the time she beckons us to. There are three major denominations: Roman Catholic, Protestant and Eastern Orthodox, with Protestantism restricted mostly to Northern Europe, and Orthodoxy to East and South Slavic regions, Romania, Moldova, Greece, and Georgia.
The Jewish population of Europe is composed primarily of two groups, the Ashkenazi and the Sephardi. Could it be they lived in a pressure cooker of oppression for so long that conquer-or-be-conquered is all they knew? At this time 'Indigenous people(s)' also began to be used to describe a legal category in indigenous law created in international and national legislation. I promise you will hear it when who climb the mountains of Switzerland! While peace and love is the correct response to hatred, it is not the easy response by any means. Montenegro is a multiethnic state in which no group forms a majority.

But, of course, they did not care. [53] The term has come to apply to countries whose history has been strongly marked by European immigration or settlement during the 18th and 19th centuries, such as the Americas, and Australasia, and is not restricted to Europe. When we remember this, we will remember that the fates of all beings are intertwined with our own.
Native Americans are only recently becoming something they are not. [69], Judaism has a long history in Europe, but is a small minority religion, with France (1%) the only European country with a Jewish population in excess of 0.5%. I wish I could have realized the days when Indigenous Europeans were deeply connected to the earth and to kinship. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1848. I have been called a mutt. Significant minorities are present in the rest of Europe. According to the German monograph Minderheitenrechte in Europa co-edited by Pan and Pfeil (2002) there are 87 distinct indigenous peoples of Europe, of which 33 form the ethnic majority population in at least one sovereign state, while the remaining 54 constitute ethnic minorities. I sobbed and I sobbed and I sobbed. In fact, it was only a few decades ago that any Welsh child caught speaking Welsh in school would have a block of wood tied to their neck. It definitely does lead to some self-hatred, confusion and conflict, and yet the way you look at it… the analogy of Two Great Rivers… has also allowed something to shift and heal within me. These grandmothers and grandfathers set the ancient medicine of Welsh blue stone upon my aching heart. But one day, as I sat in the ceremonial house of my mother’s people, a wondrous revelation landed delicately inside of my soul. In Greenland, a self-governing territory within the Danish Realm, out of a total 57,691 of inhabitants 89.6% are Greenlandic Inuits, according to 2018 estimates cited by the International Working Group on Indigenous Affairs (IWGIA). Of Scotland! • Andrews, Peter A.; Benninghaus, Rüdiger (2002), Ethnic Groups in the Republic of Turkey, Reichert, ISBN 978-3-89500-325-7 She is waiting for us to scratch past the surface of time, into the B.C. Lyla June Johnston was raised in Taos, New Mexico and is a descendent of Diné (Navajo) and Tsétsêhéstâhese (Cheyenne) lineages. Cf. To my surprise, it felt as if the earth was pulling all the sorrow I was carrying down into her core where she could transform it into beauty. A number of authors like Diodorus Siculus, Pausanias and Sallust depict the ancient Sardinian and Corsican peoples. The present is the dominant tense. Lyla June, of Diné and European heritage, is an Indigenous water protector active in the struggle at Standing Rock. This all-out warfare on Indigenous European women, not only harmed them, but had a profound effect on the men who loved them. Iron Age (pre-Great Migrations) populations of Europe known from Greco-Roman historiography, notably Herodotus, Pliny, Ptolemy and Tacitus: Ethno-linguistic groups that arrived from outside Europe during historical times are: The earliest accounts of European ethnography date from Classical Antiquity. She provided various examples, including the current project to build an Arctic railway, which is likely to kill reindeers if no mitigating measures are implemented. You are absolutely right, thank you. Shared to Cerne Giant Festival Facebook page. I wished I knew how beautiful they were. Pan and Pfeil (2002) distinguish 33 peoples which form the majority population in at least one[a]. They do not understand the beauty of who we were before the onslaught. If you find what we offer helpful, please make a contribution. And now, for the first time, I could feel her delicate hands run through my hair as she told me she loved me. long long ago another aspect of history to value, Really a positive story, one race per planet, we the sister and brother hood of all nations are complex in our story of history, pain and life struggles but the same in love and connection in that what heals.

The survival of their ancestral languages is also among the key concerns of indigenous peoples across the world and Europe is no exception. [citation needed] The population of the European Union, with some five hundred million residents, accounts for two thirds of the current European population. The European diaspora is spread all throughout the world, searching the planet for something that lives is inside. Saxo Grammaticus and Adam of Bremen give an account of pre-Christian Scandinavia. FILE PHOTO: A Saami young woman in national costume smiles during the national festival, Russia June 14, 2003. We are remembering and together we rise. If the men respond to this hatred with hatred, the hatred is passed on. Resource and extraction industries on their traditional lands are another vital challenge for indigenous peoples.

https://www.thomhartmann.com/articles/1998/10/lost-people. I plucked a strand of hair from my scalp and placed the offering upon the earth, still wet from morning dew. The parallels between the genocide of Indigenous Europeans and Native Americans are astounding. The Chronicon Slavorum (12th century) gives an account of the northwestern Slavic tribes. trans. Hunting has always been central to Inuit cultures, and until a few decades ago Greenland's indigenous people lived completely off the land and sea. They blew worlds through my mind like windswept snow over Alpine mountain crests. If you hold this descent, or any forgotten descent for that matter, I am asking you to join me in this prayer to remember who we are. When I remembered this, I found whole-ness in my self—no longer a half-breed, but a daughter of Two Great Lineages, Two Great Rivers that ran together to make one precious child. The cultural difference between the Europeans and Native Americans caused many clashes that led into destruction of land and the people. Impure. The culture differences led to a bloodshed in the war of Captivity which resulted in the Native American to migrate west into the European culture. It boggles my mind that more people don’t see how we are the same people, who have undergone the same spiritual assault. This ancient Indigenous European culture is just as beautiful as Native American culture and was just as tragically murdered and hidden from history books.

When we remember this, the healing of our lineages comes full circle. As the largest provider of development aid in the world, the EU has developed far-reaching policies when it comes to engagement with indigenous peoples in international cooperation. | Euronews answers. Their joyous laughter echoed on and on like Baltic waves against Scandinavian shores. "I think in that regard, the EU has something they can contribute to. In 2009, archaeologists came across a female effigy believed to be the Goddess of the Earth buried inside of German soil. As a British person, your words of kindness, love and forgiveness opened something up in me, and well… when you mentioned the Welsh Not, I just started crying. I have a feeling this prayer will heal the whole world. "[18][19][20], The total number of national minority populations in Europe is estimated at 105 million people, or 14% of Europeans.[1].

Our task is to shake the amnesia. It’s special that the author, like me, live in Taos, New Mexico where three cultures live side by side and strive for understanding and harmony. But then, as thousands of European ancestors swirled around me and reassured my fearful heart, I wished I had honored them sooner. Font size reflects population size (groups smaller than 2 million not to scale) I spend a lot of time honoring and calling upon my Native American ancestors. "We are a nomadic people that follow the reindeers' herding rhythm most of the year, " Elle Merete Omma, Head of the EU unit of the Saami Council, told Euronews.