Native American history

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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: Slate
  2/2/2023
  

  Native Wikipedians Fight Back against Erasure of Indigenous History

  by Kyle Keeler

  While the internet is often seen as a hotbed of revisionism and "political correctness," Wikipedia editors who seek the inclusion of indigenous perspectives on American history often are stymied by resistant editors and the platform's rules, which discount the reliability of new, critical scholarship. 

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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: ProPublica
  1/11/2023
  

  Major Museums are Failing Obligation to Return Human Remains to Tribes

  Why has the 1990 Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act failed to ensure the return of human remains, funerary artifacts, and other items to tribal authorities? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/30/2022
  

  Can We Learn from a 300-year Old Murder, and the Treaty that Followed?

  by Nicole Eustace

  The resolution of a crisis caused by the murder of a Seneca man by two English fur trappers modeled the kind of restorative justice principles that are being raised today by criminal justice reformers. 

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• SOURCE: National Constitution Center
  11/17/2022
  

  Podcast: The Battle for the American West

  H.W. Brands, Lori Daggar and Lindsay Robertson join National Constitution Center President Jeffrey Rosen to discuss new perspectives on the histories of conquest in the American west. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/8/2022
  

  Haaland v. Brackeen: The Case that Could Break Native Sovereignty

  by Rebecca Nagle

  "The U.S. has been passing laws that treat tribes and tribal citizens differently from non-Native citizens since the founding of the republic. If that is unconstitutional, the entire legal structure defending the legal rights of Indigenous nations could crumble."

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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: Humanities
  10/1/2022
  

  Saying Hello in Navajo with NEH Chair Shelly C. Lowe

  The new NEH chair discusses her family history in Arizona, the maintenance of Navajo language and culture, and the future of the humanities. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/10/2022
  

  Which Native Land are You On?

  "Native Land Digital, an Indigenous-led nonprofit based in Canada, is working to facilitate such conversations and document this history including by putting together a searchable map of Native territories, languages and treaties."

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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: Washington Post
  10/5/2022
  

  Will a Cherokee Nation Delegate be Seated in Congress?

  Even without a vote in Congress, Delegates can use the privileges of their position to make a difference. Kimberly Teehee's potential seating as the Cherokee Nation's delegate would create a dedicated voice for Native issues. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  10/5/2022
  

  What Should Historians Know about Indigenous Land Acknowledgments?

  by Elizabeth Ellis and Rose Stremlau

  "Treating the practice of land acknowledgment seriously requires more than just getting the names, phrasing, and pronunciation right; rarely are there simple answers."

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  10/4/2022
  

  Pekka Hamalainen's Ambitious Book Reinforces Some Old Myths (Review)

  by Ned Blackhawk

  The new book shows the complexity of territorial conflict between settler and indigenous groups, but by ending in 1890, it punts on the task of explaining how the conflict ended resoundingly in favor of the settlers and their ideas of territory, law and power. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  10/1/2022
  

  New Archaeology of Lost Crops Shows the Reign of Corn Wasn't Inevitable

  The establishment of corn as the center of indigenous American agriculture was slow; researchers are considering how other crops could have come to dominate the American food system.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  10/3/2022
  

  What Must Be Done with Native Remains in Texas's Big Bend Region?

  Byron Schroeder ran into difficulty tracking down the story of a commerical artifact digging operation on private land. Past participants were reticent because, in addition to artifacts, some had removed human remains. The story highlights the divides between academic and amateur archaeologists and the ethics of digs.

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• SOURCE: KTLA
  10/2/2022
  

  Native Activist Sacheen Littlefeather, Known for 1973 Oscar Protest, Dies at 75

  The Academy had earlier this year issued an apology to Littlefeather for the abuses she endured after protesting the depiction of Native Americans in films during the Oscars ceremony. 

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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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• SOURCE: Chronicle of Higher Education
  9/14/2022
  

  UC's Initiative for Free Tuition to Members of Recognized California Tribes Opens Difficult Questions about Native Identity

  Legally, the University of California system can only offer a tuition benefit to members of federally recognized tribes. But this runs afoul of historically complex issues of federal recognition, definitions of tribal membership based in race and ancestry, and the actions of tribes to manage their own membership rolls.