Native American history

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• 10/29/19
  

  Native Americans, government authorities, and reproductive politics

  In her new book, assistant professor of history Brianna Theobald traces the long history of efforts by federal and local authorities to manage the reproductive lives of Native families, and the response from Native Americans themselves.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/14/19
  

  Celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day should mean honoring migrants’ rights

  by Liz Ellis

  People must have a human right to migrate and to move across borders that historically crossed them.

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• SOURCE: Vox
  10/14/19
  

  How the US stole thousands of Native American children

  The long and brutal history of the US trying to “kill the Indian and save the man.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/14/19
  

  Here are the indigenous people Christopher Columbus and his men could not annihilate

  This year the District of Columbia joins at least five states and dozens of cities and counties in replacing Columbus Day with Indigenous Peoples’ Day. It’s part of a decades-long reckoning with the sanitized version of the European colonization of the Americas.

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  9/22/19
  

  The bodies of three young Native American girls are returned to the Oneida Reservation. And a community heals.

  For the Oneida people, the heartbreak and wounds of the past remain vivid in their memories and stories.

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• SOURCE: New Yorker
  9/16/19
  

  Crazy Horse Monument to Native American History is Built on Controversy

  The world’s largest monument is decades in the making and more than a little controversial.

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• 9/15/19
  

  The Native Americans Who Assisted the Underground Railroad

  by Roy E. Finkenbine

  Studying the role of Native Americans in assisting freedom seekers in the pre-Civil War Midwest requires the historian to assemble an archive from a range of disparate sources.  

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• 9/15/19
  

  How the Kikotan Massacre Prepared the Ground for the Arrival of the First Africans in 1619

  by Gregory D. Smithers

  English (and ultimately, United States) colonialism was (and is) built not only with the labor of stolen bodies from Africa, but the stolen lands of Native Americans.

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• SOURCE: San Francisco Chronicle
  9/8/19
  

  Newfound Artifacts alter timeline for Native Americans in California

  The presence of newfound artifacts is evidence, archaeologists say, that native people in Northern California carried on their traditions and maintained tribal ties much longer than many historians thought.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  9/7/19
  

  A State Wrestles With Its Imagery: A Sword Looming Over a Native American

  The debate in Massachusetts comes at a time of reckoning over the nation’s history.

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• SOURCE: AP
  9/1/19
  

  Jeffrey Ostler's "Surviving Genocide" argues that the emergence of American democracy depended on the taking of Native lands

  The book comes as scholars and writers are challenging narratives around American history and how it hurt people of color.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/26/19
  

  200 years ago, the Cherokee Nation was offered a seat in Congress. It just announced its chosen delegate.

  The conversation about nominating a delegate has been ongoing in the Cherokee Nation.

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• SOURCE: Phys.org
  8/5/2019
  

  Archaeologist works with tribe to explore its history and to repair historic injustices

  Archaeology Professor Matthew Liebmann took a group of undergraduate and graduate students to Jemez this summer to help members of the tribe excavate the site of two mission churches.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/5/2019
  

  Arthur Lazarus Jr., Champion of Native American Rights, Dies at 92

  Over six decades, Mr. Lazarus helped Native American tribes across the country develop their democratic institutions, reclaim lands and exercise their sovereign powers.

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  6/25/2019
  

  Lawmakers seek to revoke Wounded Knee medals for US soldiers

  Native American groups have called for years for the Medals of Honor to be rescinded from the soldiers who were at the Wounded Knee massacre.

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• 6/23/19
  

  Why We Need Better Children's History Books

  by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Assembling a coherent narrative that inspires students to image a different world is much more complicated than a Wikipedia search. Teachers can only carry out this task if they have access to narrative histories that are decolonized.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/19/19
  

  America Has Tried Reparations Before. Here Is How It Went.

  With a renewed focus on reparations for slavery, what lessons can be drawn from payments to victims of other historical injustices in America?

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/19/19
  

  ‘It’s Called Genocide’: California Gov. Newsom Apologizes to the State’s Native Americans

  The governor’s proclamation is part of a cultural moment in which Americans are increasingly grappling with the nation’s past sins.

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• SOURCE: Powell Tribune
  6/4/2019
  

  Preserving the history of Yellowstone

  It’s important to preserve the history of Native tribes in the Yellowstone region.

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• SOURCE: Yahoo News
  6/4/2019
  

  Native Americans' D-Day stories come to light

  For Charles Norman Shay, commemorating his people's sacrifice will never replace the friends he lost on D-Day.