Category: Piscataway Nation

The Flickering Flame — Life and Legacy of Chief Turkey Tayac

The story of the man who led the Piscataway Indian Nation and their revitalization in the 20th century. From his childhood and service in WWI to his work as an herbalist and traditionalist who embraced the advent of the American Indian Movement, to his last days and the campaign to have him buried in a..

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Kings and QUEENS Family Tree

Meet Craig and Scott Queen – my distant cousins from the Queen – Marsham family lineage…   I’m not sure what’s the cousin math (X cousin X removed?.. if anyone knows?) but we are related through our MCRA “Most Recent Common Ancestor” is my great grandparents x9 Giles Brent and Mary Kittamaquund. However, our great..

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I Stand with Nathan Phillips and Indigenous People!

(? Teko Photo) Washington D.C. Piscataway Territory I am a descendant of Uttapoingasinem, the last pre-contact Tayac of the Piscataway Nation, by way of Big Beaver Chitomachen Kittamaquund, and his daughter Mary Kittamaquund… To all my relations… 4 nations.. I pray we find better dayz. Aho I am also a descendant of the Brent’s, Beavens,..

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Native elder, water protector, and veteran, Nate Phillips brings the medicine.

“This is a teachable moment for the youth. The earth is talking. The power of those drums. The sun is shining and the sacred mother moon is coming. Cleanse your spirit. Breathe.” – Quese IMC (Marcus Frejo) ‘Opposed to the dignity of the human person’: Kentucky Catholic diocese condemns teens who taunted vet at March..

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Sebi Medina Tayac – Piscataway Nation Represent

June 5th, 2018 – Check out my fam Sebi Medina Tayac doing his thing representing the Piscataway Nation opening with a song at the Robert F. Kennedy Human Rights Award Ceremony on Capitol Hill before Rep. John Lewis speaks on the 50th anniversary of RFK’s assassination. Watch the full video via Now This  HOW ARE..

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