Indigenous history

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• SOURCE: KTVZ
  5/27/2023
  

  Canada Day Festivities Spark Controversy over National History

  The dispossession of indigenous peoples and the exclusion of Chinese immigrants are among the historical episodes that have complicated the celebration of Canadian nationhood in recent years. 

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  2/7/2023
  

  "Indigenous Continent" Seeks Shakeup of American History

  by Sean T. Byrnes

  Pekka Hämäläinen seeks to frame the history of North America in terms of the indigenous peoples who settled the continent before the arrival of Europeans and, crucially, continued to dominate the continent into the nineteenth century. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  1/26/2023
  

  Caroline Dodds Pennock on The Indigenous Americans Who Visited Europe

  by Karin Wulf

  In contrast to the stock story of the "Age of Exploration," Indigenous Americans often traveled to Europe afte 1492. A new book looks to this history to examine the origins of a cosmopolitan world. 

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• SOURCE: Organization of American Historians
  11/9/2022
  

  OAH, AHA File Joint SCOTUS Brief in Case Affecting Indigenous Adoption and Family Rights

  "If the court strikes down the ICWA in whole or in part, the decision could have devastating impacts on Native American families and, potentially, on federal Indian law writ large. Resuming the practice of Native child removal would cause active harm to Native families as well as jeopardize the future sovereignty of tribal governments.

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/20/2022
  

  Remarks by LA City Council Members Struck at Local Oaxacan Community

  by A.S. Dillingham

  Remarks stigmatizing Mexican immigrants with indigenous ancestry point to the fallacy of a unitary Latino identity and highlight the persistence of racial hierarchies in Latin America. 

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• SOURCE: Axios
  10/10/2022
  

  New Project to Interrogate Indigenous Enslavement in Americas

  The project hopes to build a publicly accessible database of documents to allow descendants of enslaved indigenous people to locate information about their ancestors. 

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• SOURCE: Democracy Now!
  10/10/2022
  

  Indigenous Singer-Activist Buffy Sainte-Marie Condemns Doctrine of Discovery at Heart of Colonialism

  Indigenous musician and activist Buffy Sainte-Marie has written and sung about the struggles of Native American and First Nations peoples for decades.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/20/2022
  

  A Finnish Historian's Ambitious Rethinking of Native American History Draws Praise and Criticism

  Pekka Hamalainen describes a four-centuries long continental war between settlers and indigenous Americans during which the indigenous frequently won. Critics, including Native historians, contend he doesn't reckon with the ultimate consolidation of conquest. 

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• 8/28/2022
  

  Stephen Aron's Work Examines Moments of Intercultural Peace in the West

  by James Thornton Harris

  Both triumphalist and revisionist histories of America's westward expansion emphasize violence, and disagree about whether to understand it with pride or guilt. But what can we make of the moments where understanding and accommodation temporarily prevailed? 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  7/24/2022
  

  A Brief History of the Vatican and Western Canadian Missions

  by Roberto Perin

  "Residential schools and the papal bulls justifying the fallacious doctrine of discovery call out for concrete acts of atonement and reparation on the part of the church."

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• 7/24/2022
  

  The Thirty Meter Telescope Project Exemplifies Scientific Progress and Indigenous Dispossession

  by Marissa Gavin

  The narrative of progress inspired by a new astronomy project clashes with the ongoing reality of indigenous dispossession in the selection of Mauna Kea, sacred to native Hawaiians, as the telescope's site. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/28/2021
  

  Are Native Land Acknowledgments Empty Gestures?

  by Graeme Wood

  Too often, says Atlantic writer Graeme Wood, the rote ackowledgment by a speaker that an event is taking place on land historically occupied by an indigenous people is an empty gesture that short-circuits discussion of Native demands.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/12/2021
  

  New Translations Give Indigenous Perspective on Brazilian Colonization

  The Potiguara people split their alliances between the Dutch and Portuguese in 1645; the letters show the consequences of the split and the internal politics of the indigenous nation. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  11/15/2021
  

  New England Once Hunted and Killed Indigenous People for Money, Say Survivors' Descendants

  "We are part of the team behind the new short documentary Bounty. In New England alone, we’ve uncovered government payments for 375 human scalps, submitted in 94 separate claims and equaling government payments of millions of dollars in today’s money."

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  11/12/2021
  

  Pre-Colombian City in Peru site of Mass Grave of Women, Children

  The discovery at Chan Chan is another important archaeological find in the UNESCO World Heritage site. 

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• SOURCE: LitHub
  11/11/2021
  

  Rethinking Afro-Indigenous History in the United States

  by Kyle T. Mays

  A historian argues for rethinking the cultural practices of enslaved Africans and their encounters with Native Americans by considering that both were, in a sense, "indigenous" resistance to the European settler-colonialist agenda. 

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• 10/17/2021
  

  The Trouble with Truth, Reconciliation, Peace and Friendship Treaties: Indigenous Land and Resource Rights Among the Mi’kmaq  

  by Rachel Herrington

  Honoring the history of the treaties is not just about the past but also about the present and future of indigenous Canadians. 

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• 10/17/2021
  

  The Fantasy of Hispanic Heritage Month

  by Frank P. Barajas

  Conceived by a Congressman to honor the contributions of ethnic Mexicans to American society, Hispanic Heritage Month is based in a mythical Spanish past that obscures the indigenous history of the west and legitimates the succession of power from Iberian to Anglo elites. 

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• SOURCE: National Post
  8/16/2021
  

  The Canadian Historical Association's Genocide Statement "Brazenly Unscholarly" (Opinion)

  Columnist Barbara Kay supports Canadian historians who have dissented from the Canadian Historical Association's statement that Canadian treatment of First Nations peoples was genocidal. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/10/2021
  

  Texas Plan to Direct Tourists to Sites of Native Displacement Draws Criticism

  Even as the state's educational authorities move to diminish coverage of Native displacement in school curricula, the Texas Historical Commission wants help from the state's tribes to identify historical heritage sites.