Native American history

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/20/20
  

  Native people did not use fire to shape New England’s landscape

  by Wyatt Oswald, David R. Foster, and Elizabeth Chilton

  Our new research, published in the journal Nature Sustainability, tests this human-centric view of the past using interdisciplinary, retrospective science. The data we collected suggest, in New England, this assumption is erroneous.

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• SOURCE: AP News
  12/12/19
  

  Long-awaited Native American museum in Oklahoma has new name

  The long-awaited American Indian Cultural Center and Museum in Oklahoma City is getting a new name. City and tribal officials announced Thursday the facility will be called the First Americans Museum. 

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  12/8/19
  

  "Indian Land Forever": The 50th anniversary of the Alcatraz Island takeover

  Alcatraz didn't become "Indian Land Forever," as the occupiers had hoped. But these brave activists did open America's eyes to the rank poverty, alcoholism, and high infant mortality rate on Native reservations.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  November 27, 2019
  

  Soldiers got Medals of Honor for massacring Native Americans. This bill would take them away.

  by Kayla Epstein and Alex Horton

  More than 900 medals were purged in 1918 for not meeting the criteria. But it did not include the 20 Medals of Honor given after Wounded Knee, which one Army general at the time called a “cold-blooded massacre.”

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• SOURCE: Time
  11/27/19
  

  A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of Native American Women. That History Still Matters

  by Brianna Theobald

  The fight against involuntary sterilization was one of many intertwined injustices rooted in a much longer history of U.S. colonialism. And that history continues to this day.

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• SOURCE: The New Yorker
  11/18/19
  

  The Invention of Thanksgiving

  Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.

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• 11/24/19
  

  Lincoln – not Pilgrims – responsible for Thanksgiving holiday

  by William C. Kashatus

  Since 1863, Thanksgiving has been observed annually in the United States.

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• 11/24/19
  

  The Myth of the First Thanksgiving is a Buttress of White Nationalism and Needs to Go

  by David J. Silverman

  Americans tend to view the Thanksgiving myth as harmless, but it is loaded with fraught ideological meaning.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/9/2019
  

  Documentary Filmmaker's New Film Probes History of Native Americans in the US Military

  "The Warrior Tradition," a new film set to air on PBS, examines the complex history of Native Americans in the U.S. military since World War I and how their service transformed the lives for Native Americans from various tribes.

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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.