Indigenous history

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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. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  6/7/2021
  

  ‘Lady of Guadalupe’ Avoids Tough Truths About the Catholic Church and Indigenous Genocide

  by Rebecca Janzen

  "Although it portrays the story of the Virgin of Guadalupe for a broad audience, ultimately this film sanitizes the real-life brutality of the Church toward Indigenous peoples in the 16th century."

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  4/21/2021
  

  The Fruit of Power

  Raoul Peck's documentary "Exterminate All The Brutes" considers not just the history of settler colonialism, but the epistemology of history in contexts where the powerful seek to shape knowledge. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/12/2021
  

  Aruká Juma, Last Man of His Tribe, Is Dead

  As the last fluent speaker of the tribe’s language, Mr. Juma’s death means that much of the tribe’s language and many of its traditions and rituals will be forever lost.

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• SOURCE: Foreign Policy
  10/7/2020
  

  How Bad History Feeds Far-Right Fantasies

  by Thomas Lecaque

  A fellow medievalist argues that Jeff Fynn-Paul failed to read or understand the historical literature before writing a controversial recent essay exculpating Europeans for mass death in the course of colonialism.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/26/2020
  

  ‘Schitt’s Creek’ Star, and His Fans, Are Taking Indigenous Studies

  “I’m learning a lot of this embarrassingly late in the game,” Mr. Levy said during the first discussion. “But ultimately these stories are crucial to the identity of our country.”

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/1/2020
  

  Roanoke’s ‘Lost Colony’ Was Never Lost, New Book Says

  Historians Malinda Maynor Lowery and Lauren McMillan discuss the evidence behind a new book's claim that the "lost" inhabitants of the Roanoke colony were absorbed by the Croatoan indigenous people of the area. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/1/2020
  

  A Statue of Canada’s First Prime Minister Is Toppled, but Politicians Want It Restored

  Prime Minister Justin Trudeau angered Canadian antiracism activists by condemning vandalism of a statue of the country's first Prime Minister. He angered other Canadians by not offering a stronger condemnation at a time when public acknowledgment of Candian oppression of indigenous people is becoming a hot issue.