{"id":3866,"date":"2020-10-30T08:23:16","date_gmt":"2020-10-30T13:23:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.indianz.com\/News\/?p=3866"},"modified":"2020-10-30T10:08:43","modified_gmt":"2020-10-30T15:08:43","slug":"clara-caufield-the-tribal-roots-of-a-haunted-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/10\/30\/clara-caufield-the-tribal-roots-of-a-haunted-holiday\/","title":{"rendered":"Clara Caufield: The tribal roots of a haunted holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1920\" data-attachment-id=\"3868\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2020\/10\/30\/clara-caufield-the-tribal-roots-of-a-haunted-holiday\/halloween\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/halloween-scaled.jpg\" data-orig-size=\"2560,1920\" data-comments-opened=\"0\" data-image-title=\"halloween\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/halloween-1024x768.jpg\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/halloween-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"halloween\"   class=\"alignnone img-fluid wp-image-3868\" \/>\r\n<figcaption class=\"figure-caption\">A Halloween scene. Photo by Indianz.Com <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-nc-sa\/4.0\/\">(CC BY-NC-SA 4.0)<\/a>\r\n<\/figcaption>\r\n<div class=\"h3-responsive font-weight-bold\">Happy Halloween<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"date\">Friday, October 30, 2020<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"byline\">By Clara Caufield<\/div>\r\n<div class=\"source\">Native Sun News Today Columnist<\/div>\r\n<strong>Note: Copyright permission <A href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">Native Sun News Today<\/A><\/strong>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n\tHere we are again, at the start of what I call the \u201cFall &#038; Winter Party Season\u201d.  First comes Halloween, then Turkey Day, right upon its heels Christmas and then New Year\u2019s.  This year and perhaps well into the future, due to the <a href=\/covid19\/>COVID<\/a> many of these celebrations will be much different than before.<P><\/P>\r\n\tAlready, for example trick or treating &#8211; going door to door &#8211; is being discouraged because of social distancing.  Although its pretty conclusive that the virus isn\u2019t transmitted by food, it is transmitted by people and part of the great fun of Halloween has ever been to show off either frightful or delightful costumes, trying to stump people with your identity.  I guess this year, I\u2019ll leave some treats by the front door for salvage, but that takes the fun out of it too.<P><\/P>\r\n\tAs for Turkey Day (I refuse to call it Thanksgiving, because as Natives what do we have to be thankful for about that development), COVID specialists are already warning about the dangers of small, intimate gatherings of family and friends, suspecting that might be a major means of transmission.  What? No stuffing, cranberries, Mom\u2019s famous jello salad or punkin pie \u2013 about the only time we have such delicacies?  To say nothing about the card games which followed.  Just don\u2019t seem right.  <P><\/P><div class=\"mt-1 mb-1\"><ins class=\"adsbygoogle\" style=\"display:block; text-align:center;\" data-ad-layout=\"in-article\" data-ad-format=\"fluid\" data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-8411603009680747\" data-ad-slot=\"6394965691\"><\/ins><script>(adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});<\/script><\/div><p><\/p>\r\n\tBack to Halloween.  Do you know that this started as a very old tribal, (now called pagan) event?  It was among the Celtic People, who lived about 2,000 years ago, ancestors of modern-day Irish, to which I also claim heritage.  On October 31, the last day of the year, they observed the Samhain celebration, also known as All Hollows Eve, when ghosts could roam the earth.  \r\n<P><\/P>\r\nWhile the Druids, 9their tribal priests) made large bon fires to keep ghosts (spirits) at bay, the people dressed up, wearing costumes to confuse or ward off ghosts. It was also the end of summer and harvest, the beginning of cold and dark winter.  In addition, having ghosts roaming the earth on this last night of the year, the Celts believed it was then easier for the Druids to make prophecies for the upcoming year.  The priests would make huge bonfires also wearing costumes, often furs and animal heads.  \r\n<P><\/P>\r\n\tBy 43 AD the Roman Empire had defeated the Celts, killing all the Druids in the process, just as later America would try to eradicate Native American priests and ceremonial leaders. \r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<div class=\"card mb-3\">\r\n  <div class=\"row\">\r\n    <div class=\"col-md-4\">\r\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">\r\n\t\t  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/2016\/09\/12\/nativesunnewstoday.png\" class=\"img-fluid\" alt=\"native sun news today\"\/>\r\n\t\t<\/a>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n    <div class=\"col-md-8\">\r\n      <div class=\"card-body\">\r\n        <h5 class=\"card-title\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">NATIVE SUN NEWS TODAY<\/a><\/h5>\r\n        <p>\r\n           Support Native media!\r\n        <\/p>\r\n\t\t<p>Read the rest of the story on Native Sun News Today: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/articles\/happy-halloween\/\">Happy Halloween<\/a>\r\n\t\t<\/p>\r\n\t\t<p>\r\n\t\t\t<div class=\"source-links\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\"><i class=\"fas fa-link fa-xs\"><\/i> nativesunnews.today<\/a>\r\n&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/nsweekly\"><i class=\"fab fa-facebook fa-xs\"><\/i> nsweekly<\/a>\r\n<\/div>\r\n\t\t<\/p>  \r\n      <\/div>\r\n    <\/div>\r\n  <\/div>\r\n<\/div>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<HR><EM>Clara Caufield can be reached at acheyennevoice@gmail.com<\/em><HR>\r\n<P><\/P>\r\n<strong>Note: Copyright permission <A href=\"https:\/\/www.nativesunnews.today\/\">Native Sun News Today<\/A><\/strong>\r\n \r\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Here we are again, at the start of what I call the Fall and Winter Party Season.","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":3868,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_vp_format_video_url":"","_vp_image_focal_point":[],"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[9],"tags":[160,2],"class_list":["post-3866","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-opinion","tag-clara-caufield","tag-native-sun-news-today","no-wpautop"],"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pcoJ7g-10m","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/10\/halloween-scaled.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3866"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3866\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3868"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3866"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3866"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/indianz.com\/News\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3866"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}