Native American history

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/3/2022
  

  Harvard Holds Remains of 7,000 Native and Enslaved Persons

  by Gillian Brockell

  A university task force convened last year to investigate the provenance of human remains in Harvard's museums and collections condemned the leak of the report while defending their committee's work toward returning remains to appropriate tribal authorities and memorializing the deceased. 

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• SOURCE: High Country News
  6/6/2022
  

  Considering the Full Life of Wilma Mankiller

  by Alaina E. Roberts

  Wilma Mankiller's career as an activist included a stint as the first female head of the Cherokee Nation, but she must also be remembered for the mass disenrollment of the descendants of Cherokee Freedmen from the tribe's rolls and their exclusion from a share of new income to the tribe. 

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  5/26/2022
  

  The Monument Controversy We Aren't Discussing

  by Cynthia C. Prescott

  Outside of the former Confederacy, efforts to replace "Pioneer Mother" statues with depictions of Native American women have sparked a backlash including outright theft.

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  5/22/2022
  

  "We're Still Here": Past and Present Collide at a Native American Residential School

  What is the experience of Native American students at one of the few surviving government-run indigenous residential schools in the United States? 

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• SOURCE: Associated Press
  5/14/2022
  

  Report Shows Church-State Collusion on US Native Residential Schools

  The Interior Department report, quoting a 1969 Senate investigation, acknowledges that “federal policy toward the Indian was based on the desire to dispossess him of his land. Education policy was a function of our land policy.”

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• SOURCE: Harvard Gazette
  5/16/2022
  

  Harvard Peabody Museum Returns Sacred Scrolls to White Earth Tribe

  Professor Philip Deloria praised the repatriation of the artifacts as a "rebalancing" of accounts between the tribe and the university. 

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• 5/8/2022
  

  Confronting the Erasure of Native Americans in Early American Towns and Cities

  by Edward Rafferty

  Colin Calloway's book explores the presence of Native Americans in early American towns and cities, demolishing the longstanding myth that they vanished with the wilderness and highlighting indigenous critiques of the settler society. 

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• 4/24/2022
  

  "Two-Spirit" Visibility and the Year Activists Rewrote History

  by Gregory D. Smithers

  In 1990, a group of Native activists coined the term "Two-Spirits" to encompass a variety of people who embodied masculine and feminine traits in indigenous communities, replacing colonizers' terminology that emphasized shame or deviance. Marginalized communities change their history by changing who tells their story, and how. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/8/2022
  

  What Does Pope Francis's Apology Mean to Indigenous Americans?

  by Annie Selak

  "Pope Francis apologized on April 1, 2022, to First Nations, Inuit and Métis delegations, acknowledging the harm done by residential schools in Canada and marking a crucial step in the church admitting its role in the abuse of Indigenous communities and children."

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  3/11/2022
  

  Texas's Anti-Transgender Policies Erase the State's Indigenous Transgender History

  by Gregory D. Smithers

  The prominent role of what would now be called transgender individuals in indigenous societies in Texas was part of the justification Europeans claimed to colonize the land; students compelled to learn Texas history in school could learn a much more inclusive set of stories. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  3/1/2022
  

  Review: The Afterlife of Black Hawk

  by David Roediger

  A suppressed history of conquest and expulsion pervades the state of Illinois; A new book seeks to recover it.   

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• SOURCE: BET
  2/14/2022
  

  Cherokee Nation Seeking To Collect Family Histories Of Slave Descendants

  The outreach to collect family stories is part of the efforts by the Cherokee Nation to address slaveholding and the exclusion of Black descendants from tribal membership. 

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Review of Books
  2/9/2022
  

  Crossing the Blood Meridian: Cormac McCarthy as an American Historian

  by Bennett Parten

  "One of the most striking things about reading Blood Meridian now, almost 40 years since its release, is that it anticipates some of the major historical turns of the past decades."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  2/2/2022
  

  As the Washington Football Team Rebrands, Remember an All-Native Pro Team from 100 Years Ago

  Walter Lingo started the "Oorang Indians" in Ohio to promote his dog kennels, hired Jim Thorpe to play and coach, and launched an episode of sports history that highlights the tradeoffs Native athletes had to make between opportunity and participation in caricatured performances of "Indianness." 

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• SOURCE: CommonPlace
  1/25/2022
  

  Salt and Deep History in the Ohio Country

  by Annabel LaBrecque

  American expansion into the Ohio Valley was built upon a long natural and indigenous history of salt resources that formed the geography of the territory in obvious and surprising ways. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  1/18/2022
  

  Native on TV in 2021

  by Liza Black

  "Where 20th- and early 21st-century shows used Native characters in superficial ways, perhaps to create an appearance of diversity, Reservation Dogs and Rutherford Falls center Indigenous characters, themes, and content, decolonizing conventional television narratives about Native people."

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• 12/12/2021
  

  The Value of a "Greater Chaco" National Park

  by Richard Moe

  President Biden's decision to create a buffer zone around the Chaco Culture National Park protects not just a natural landscape but a potentially priceless trove of yet-to-be discovered artifacts and sites sacred to Native people today. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  12/4/2021
  

  Nevada Governor Apologizes for State's Role in Indigenous Schools

  "Descendants of Paiute, Washoe and Shoshone people who attended the Stewart School during the 90 years it was in operation told stories of bounties being offered to bring Native children to the school; of students attempting to run away due to starvation; and of extreme overcrowding in dormitories."

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• 12/5/2021
  

  Honoring Memory of the Sand Creek Massacre in the Age of COVID

  by Billy J. Stratton

  The community of descendants of the Sand Creek Massacre maintain rituals of healing that honor the dead while affirming bonds of community that have been tested by a long history of dispossession and the recent trauma of the COVID-19 pandemic.

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• SOURCE: The New Republic
  11/18/2021
  

  The Storm over the American Revolution

  by Eric Herschthal

  By shoehorning his recent book on the Revolutionary War into the space of the debate about slavery and the founding, critics of Woody Holton are missing important points about the importance of indigenous land to the founding and the global context of colonial independence.