Native American history

• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/3/2020
  

  Statue of White Woman Holding Hatchet and Scalps Sparks Backlash in New England

  Hannah Duston, subject of the first publicly funded US monument to a woman, is implicated in the deaths of 10 Native Americans

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• 8/2/2020
  

  What's in an Un-Naming? Berkeley's Kroeber Hall

  by Tony Platt

  Alfred Kroeber built the University of California's anthropology department into a world leader literally with the bones of the Native peoples of California. It's time to honor them. 

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• 8/2/2020
  

  From Historical Injustice to Contemporary Police Brutality, and Costs of Monuments to the Unworthy

  by Billy J. Stratton

  Silas Soule and Joseph Cramer, two Civil War-era heroes who rebelled and refused to join a brutal attack against Native peoples represent the moral courage we would do well to honor.

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• 8/2/2020
  

  Federal Agents, “Insurrection,” and the Long, Bloody History of U.S. Counterinsurgency

  by Rachel Ida Buff

  Now, on the streets of U.S. cities, federal agents join militarized police in waging war on Americans who are exercising their lawful rights of freedom of speech and assembly. There is no doubt that the results endanger us all.

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• SOURCE: MassLive
  7/28/2020
  

  Massachusetts Senators Form Panel To Suggest New State Seal, Which Would Replace Version Native Americans Call Racist

  The current seal depicts a Native man standing beneath a disembodied arm and sword, implying violent subjugation of the Indigenous people. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  7/27/2020
  

  'They Were Always There': The Power Of Including Indigenous Perspectives

  If Kiara Vigil wanted to learn more about her family's past and their tribes' roles in United States history, she understood she'd have to seek it out herself.

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• 7/26/2020
  

  What's in a Name?: Decolonizing Sports Mascots

  by Paul C. Rosier

  Decolonizing sports history requires a deeper analysis of how false historical narratives that ‘blamed the victim’ became embedded in public venues in everyday life that shaped generations of Americans’ perceptions of Native people

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• 7/26/2020
  

  Mankato’s Hanging Monument Excluded Indigenous Perspectives when it was Erected and when it was Removed

  by John Legg

  Both while it stood and when its presence became inconvenient, the Hanging Monument shows how memorials control historical narratives and elevate particular interpretations of the past.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/14/2020
  

  The Deep History—and Troubling Impact—of Sports Teams Using Native American Mascots

  Adrienne Keene — a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and faculty member at Brown University’s American Studies and Ethnic Studies department, who is also the author of the Native Appropriations blog and a co-host of the All My Relations podcast — spoke to TIME about the history of Native American mascots and imagery.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  7/12/2020
  

  San Gabriel Mission, a Symbol of Faith, History and Oppression, is Badly Damaged by Fire

  Historians Yve Chavez, Philip Ethington and William Deverell comment on the conflicted legacy of the historic mission structure. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/12/2020
  

  The McGirt Case Is a Historic Win for Tribes

  by Julian Brave NoiseCat

  Gorsuch, a westerner with experience in Indian law, who is no liberal, applied a conservative textualist approach to the reading of treaty law and statutes. The result: A legal theory that has been marshaled to combat abortion rights and gay marriage delivered the most significant and favorable Supreme Court decision for tribes in the 21st century.

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• SOURCE: WTOP
  7/13/2020
  

  Where Did The Term ‘Redskins’ Come From?

  Monday’s announcement that the D.C. region’s football team would be abandoning the Redskins brand marks the end of a decadeslong push to shift the team away from the historically racist and oppressive term.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  7/8/2020
  

  Native Americans and Polynesians Met Around 1200 A.D.

  Genetic analysis of their modern descendants shows that people from the Pacific Islands and South America interacted long before Europeans arrived.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/3/2020
  

  A Brief History of The Word ‘Redskin’ And How It Became a Source of Controversy

  Its origins extend back to the 18th century, long before it became the name of a football team.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  7/5/2020
  

  Racist, Brutal Past or Hispanic History? Latinos Clash over Spanish Colonial Statues

  Activist and associate history professor Yolanda Leyva breaks down the complex legacy of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  7/5/2020
  

  Redskins, Indians and the Long Push to Drop Native American Mascots

  The National Congress of American Indians, a 75-year-old organization that represents Native American and tribal rights, has long called for the elimination of all “derogatory” mascots.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  7/1/2020
  

  Do American Indians Celebrate the 4th of July?

  The history of American Indian people's relationships with the federal government has shaped complex traditions of observing (or not) July 4th. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  7/1/2020
  

  Mount Rushmore Historian: Monument 'Is Like A Rorschach, It Says Different Things To Different People'

  In light of Trump's plans to hold a July 4th celebration at Mount Rushmore on Friday, historian John Taliaferro discusses the monument's complex legacy.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/1/2020
  

  How Mount Rushmore Became Mount Rushmore

  Historian Gene A. Smith and Oglala Lakota activist Nick Tilsen offer contest for the creation of the monument, its relationship to tribal lands, and the legacies of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt from an indigenous point of view. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/25/2020
  

  21 Lessons From America's Worst Moments

  Historians reflect on the lessons to be learned from the worst episodes of American history (if Americans can look unflinchingly on them).