Reflections Following Martha Redbone's Carl Shurz Park Native American Concert - Animation of Chants - Early Oil Paintings Series on Mother and Child- Algonquin and Shephardic Roots...Fathers and Child... an Artist Self-Portrait

Algonquin Tapestry

Birchbark 

Animation Film - Native Acoustic Chants after Martha Redbone

by Peter G Pereira 2012

Mother and Eagle Child (Phoenix)

Long Journeys Home - America to America

Oil on Wood 24" x 36" by

Peter G Pereira

Following in the Long Tradition on the Theme of Mother's and Child, I explored my American Indian Roots on my Mother's Paternal Side (which included French, Irish and German)

Algonquin Roots

My Spirit Names were/are Fiery Eagle (Phoenix) and Red Wolf - born of Camp Fire and Sunfire.

I can remember in my Youth years ago visiting the wonderfully diverse Texture of my Relatives in Rural Quebec - and among them the wonder of seeing the Native Textures of certain Uncles and Aunts.

I was to embrace this Heritage, extending the Real and Dream Territories I was to explore  in Body and Spirit journeys of my Ancestral Lands which extended from the Canadian North to the South - in  proximity what would become New York and Manhattan - the Land of Gently Rolling Hills.

On my Father's side an equally Rich and Diverse Body and Soul of People - Journeys  from Epypt, through Spain and Portugal - France (Pre and Post Inquisition) to the  Carribean (Hispanola/Haiti) and my Birthplace in Queens New York...Home in America...

...where the Confluence of All History, Spiritual and Physical Ideas and Ideals have Converged in Person and Peoples to find through Diversity and Law and Pursuits of Happiness a Home for all Colors Shapes Sizes Creeds and Languages...

As a Great Work in Progress.

Mother and Child - From Egypt to America

Long Journeys Home

Oil on Canvas 24" x 36" - 1985

by

Peter G Pereira

Portrait of My Father Dr. Gerard Pereira

Pioneering Diabetes Researcher at Columbia University NY

(The Tie is a Give-away as to the Time Period- Guess)

Beautiful Mother Celine and Sister Mary

Digital Painting/Collage by

Peter G Pereira 2012 

Journeys Of My Direct Family Dating Back

 Over Many Years Through Europe and to the Americas

Self- Portrait of the Artist

Journeys Of my Direct Family Dating back Many Years

From America to America

Father and Child

Oil on Canvas 18" x 24"

Peter G Pereira 2001

Algonquian Most populous and widely distributed of the Native North American linguistic stocks, originally comprising several hundred tribes who spoke nearly 50 related languages. The Algonquian people occupied most of the Canadian region south of Hudson Bay between the Rocky Mountains and the Atlantic Ocean and, excluding certain territory held by Siouan and Iroquoian tribes, that section of what is now the United States extending northward from North Carolina and Tennessee. Algonquian tribes inhabited various isolated areas to the south and west, including parts of what are now South Carolina, Iowa, Wyoming, and Montana. The best-known Algonquian groups include the Algonquin, from which the stock takes its name, Amalecite, Blackfoot, Cheyenne, Conoy, Cree, Delaware, Fox, Gros Ventre, Kickapoo, Massachuset,Miami, Mi'kmaq, Mohegan, Mahican, Montagnais, Musi, Narragansett, Naskapi, Nipmuc, Ojibwa, Ottawa, Pequot, Potawatomi, Sac (Sauk), Shawnee, Tête de Boule, and Wampanoag. Some of the principal Algonquian confederacies were the Abenaki, Pennacook, and Illinois. "Algonquian," Microsoft® Encarta® Online Encyclopedia 2000 http://encarta.msn.com © 1997-2000 Microsoft Corporation. All rights reserved.

Algonquian/Anishnabek The numerous bands that inhabited the area between the territories of the Montagnais and the Chippewas (or Ojibwas), and south of the present city of Ottawa, were called Algonkins by Champlain and other seventeenth-century writers. They and the Montagnais were allies of the French in their conflicts with the Iroquois. (DCB Dictionary of Canadian Biography"," G. Brown"," ed.)

"Kishpin bontoyeg kidatsokanan, kiga onikemin kajibikinamagoyeg...If we cease sharing our stories, our knowledge becomes lost." Anishnabe O'datsokewin The Anishnabek, known in the academic world as the Algonquin, never called themselves Algonquin. We, the People called ourselves Anishnabek and had names that specifically referred to where we came from. For example, Kitigan Zibi Anishnabek means Garden River People, and Kitiganik Anishnabek means Garden People. Through generations, much has been taken from us. Today, we still encounter problems with the government and corporations cutting down our forests and taking our land. With technology and institutions overlapping our world, how we run our communities is affected. We forget where we come from, which in turn affects our stories. "Our brothers and sisters, the animals, are leaving us and there is a risk of losing our connection to them." Those of us who remember and follow our teachings will continue to survive through the stories, the ceremonies and our love for the land. As spiritual people, it is in these stories and in our ceremonies that we have gathered strength, learned about ourselves and the connection we have to Ni-djodjomnan, Aki (Mother Earth). If we stop sharing our stories, our knowledge becomes lost. -pic- Birchbark Pipe Pipes could be made from any material, including birchbark, wood and stone. Whatever the material, pipes helped to bring knowledge and peace of mind. This particular one is in the form of a miniature moose call. Birchbark Etching This etching tells the story of the Water People, the Panabekwek and Panabek . . . the Merfolk, who are half human and half fish. Each symbol is like a page in a storybook. Museum of Civilization, Ottawa, CanadaPHOTOS OF CMC ARTIFACTS: Richard Garner, Harry Foster