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Anybody out there want to live for a year in 1749? This tribe is looking for volunteers:
It is April of the year 2004. George W. Bush is running for another term. You go to bed too excited to sleep because when you wake up, you will be living in an Indian Village in the high mountains of Virginia in the year 1749.
The first English permanent settlement in America was founded on May 14th, 1607. By 1699, it had fallen into decay as settlement has pushed west to Williamsburg. The settlement of Middle Plantation was renamed Williamsburg in 1699 and was ncorporated in 1722 just 27 years ago.
A great war between England and France has yet to commence which will settle the question of which European Nation with its own peculiar civilization, including language, government, and social behaviour, will dominate the heart of the new land called North America.
No one seems to be concerned with the interests of the Native American inhabitants of the land, but rather to fight Native Americans to remove them from the way or utilize them to help remove the french or the English depending upon which side of the fence the view is from. The powhatan Confederation in eastern Virginia has suffered great losses at the hands of the English. Here on the western frontier, a first nigration of English, Scots, and Irish settlers has been turned back by the Monacans or killed by the Shawnee.
The small but fierce and greatly respected Tla Wilano speaking peoples known as the Guardians of the Sacred Hunting Grounds, enforce by blood law, the mutual rules for the many tribes who come here to use the North/South/East/West trade paths and to obtain salt and fish and hunt in the sacred lands. Lately, they have had to punish Cherokee to the south,Shawnee, and even six Nations peoples from the far away north and to remind them of the rules. There have even been some white men who have come walking without fear or respect into the sacred place of the earth. The people of a small village only twenty miles from the great Kinnickistay settlement live life as they always have. From April to April you will live among them and as one of them, learn the language and experience a once in a lifetime opportunity to go through time to a place and tradition of long ago.
The ANI-STOHINI/UNAMI NATION announces project Kinnickistay. An American Indian Village of 1749 located on the border of the Mount Rogers National Recreation Area, between the towns of ivanhoe and Fries, Virginia. Prior to opening the village to the public in 2005, one American family will be allowed to go back in time and to stay in the village. They may bring NO modern appliances and will be given a small amount of British pounds to use at what passes for a trading post in 1749. They will hunt, fish, and garden to survive. They will learn the true meaning of community, dress in period clothing, and have no contact with the future world for one year. They must be able to leave 2004, relatives, jobs, and responsibilities behind and be willing to endure hardship and hard work while living in a rustic structure which they help to make. The advantages are pure spring water, language and cultural learning experiences, and a true adventure. Correspondence must be postmarked no later than December 31st, 2003. Finalists will be notified by January 31st 2004. Personal interviews may be conducted in February. In the event that the chosen family cancels, the runner up family must be ready and standing by to take their place. Interested parties should submit Resumes, letters of intent, explaining why your family should be the family chosen for this adventure, details about each family member, what you hope to gain from the experience, and what you think your contributions to the 1749 Indian Community might be. Photos and videotapes may be sent also. No emails, faxes, or phone calls will be accepted. If your family is accepted the family must also agree to participate without compensation in a documentary film about their experiences.
Send correspondence to:
Kinnickistay Village Selection Committee
c/o ANI-STOHINI/UNAMI NATION
P.O. Box 979
Fries, Virginia 24330
http://www.expage.com/page/tlvillage
Do you know what Ani-Stohini means? It sssssuuuuurrrrreeee sounds suspiciously Cherokee to me. 🙂
That does sound interesting tho . . . our life today is so different from the way people used to live. I think I’d get bored without TV, and learn to long for pizza, hot dogs or enchiladas and soda pops. By the end of an average day though, I bet I’d be so tired that I’d forget to remember how bored I thought I was gonna be. 🙂
vance
If you go to that link you’ll find a number of other pages about/by them. They are saying that they have a distinct language with Iroquoian, Algonquin and Siouan elements to it. They’re located in the western edge of the NC/VA border.
If I were still in my twenties I might go for that. Though I think a year long commitment is too much. I saw a documentary about a British family that went back to the year 1900 for six weeks, and that got to be a huge burden, especially on the lady, given how much grueling work she had to do. (Her husband kind of went on as usual, interesting . . .) For one thing, they had to use coal heat, which is incredibly dirty. She had to do the equivalent of spring cleaning once a week. Had to wash clothes by hand with this horrible lye soap that tore up her hands, and there was no such thing as hand lotion. All the while wearing this horrendous corset that wouldn’t let her breath. She was miserable.
Hello Vance
I can`t tell you what ANISTOHINI means but it is ALGONQUIAN,there are I think 2 tribes one in VA & the other in NC,you could try and find an e-mail address on them .
there are many first nations that use the ANI.
the Cherokee =aniyunwiya{real people} also anikeetoowah [principle people}
Ojiway= anishinabe {original man} it breaks down some more
ANI – NISHINA – ABE
from whence- lowered – the male of the species
the Cherokee used the{ ANI }when making reference to many other tribes.here is a list of a few of them.
they{Cherokee} called the
Yuchi= ani-yu-tsi
Chickasaw= ani-tsi-ksu
Catawba = ani-ta-gua
Shawnee = ani-saw-anu-gi
you can get the whole list in john r swatons book /indian tribes of north america.
George
Thanks George.
The prefex “ani” is a Cherokee prefex/word meaning people. That’s why I responded “it sssuuurrreee looks Cherokee.” 🙂 I never heard of anyone but Cherokees using it before to describe “peoples”. When the Cherokee spoke of any groups of people they prefixed it with “ani” this or that.
Do you have evidence of any people except Cherokees usin’ “ani” as a prefix used to denote “people”? Maybe I’ll learn something new today.
I appreciate it. 🙂
thanks
vance
Hey Vance
the cherokee word for People that I know is = Yv-wi
the cherokee word for men that I know is= anisgaya
the Calapooya tribe called the the Nez Perce {aniporspi}
some of the Chippewa refered to them selves as {anishinaubag}
again they are making refrence to MEN.
there is a band of Chippewa and there name is
{ anibiminanisibiwininiwak}
it is a very very old word that our ancestors have used to descrbe themselves and others,in my opinion since first creation here on turtle island.
George
Hey all,
I may be all wet here, but somewhere I read that the “Cheyenne” (classified as Algonquian speakers) referred to themselves as “A’sh———” something or other, no disrepect taken I hope. Point being the linguistic convergence of “A’ ” and “A-ni”.
Both “Cheyenne” and “Cherokee” being classed as the most “aberrant” (or at least “very” aberrant) example of their respective language groups.
Bill
The prefex “ani” is a Cherokee prefex/word meaning people. That’s why I responded “it sssuuurrreee looks Cherokee.” 🙂 I never heard of anyone but Cherokees using it before to describe “peoples”. When the Cherokee spoke of any groups of people they prefixed it with “ani” this or that.
Some of the words sound like Cherokee, but Oli’ichi Tla Wilano is not a language intelligible to Cherokee speakers. The word for people is odah. Oli’ichi odah = we are the people.
There is a living dictionary site for the language: https://livingdictionaries.app/tla-wilano/about
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