Native American history

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/20/19
  

  Vermont passes bill abolishing Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day

  The state is one signature away from abolishing Columbus Day altogether and permanently recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/23/19
  

  A quest to reconstruct Baltimore’s American Indian ‘reservation’

  by Ashley Minner

  The East Baltimore Church of God, which was founded by Lumbee Indians, was once located in the heart of ‘the reservation,’ in the 1700 block of E. Baltimore Street. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/20/19
  

  Native children benefit from knowing their heritage. Why attack a system that helps them?

  by Bob Ferguson and Fawn Sharp

  For 40 years, the Indian Child Welfare Act has protected the best interests of Native children and helped preserve the integrity of tribal nations across the United States.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/6/19
  

  Historian Nick Este's New Book Puts Standing Rock in In Broader Native American Story

  Modern Indigenous American history is a history of resistance.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  3/4/19
  

  The F.B.I. Is Trying to Return Thousands of Stolen Artifacts, Including Native American Burial Remains

  Five years after the F.B.I.’s six-day raid on a rural Indiana home, the agency is turning to the public for help identifying and repatriating the artifacts.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  2/24/19
  

  Overcoming A 'Long, Bitter Relationship,' Grand Canyon And Tribes Mark Centennial

  Eleven tribes have traditional ties to the Grand Canyon.

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• SOURCE: San Antonio Express
  2/12/19
  

  Native Americans want to reimagine Alamo as a cemetery

  Judging from the way it was summarily dismissed by the Alamo’s CEO, there may be trouble ahead.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/11/19
  

  Trump’s Trail of Fears

  by Jamelle Bouie

  The president, channeling his hero Andrew Jackson, continues to champion a particularly virulent form of reactionary white majoritarianism.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/31/19
  

  European colonisation of the Americas killed 10% of world population and caused global cooling

  by Alexander Koch, Chris Brierley, Mark Maslin, Simon Lewis

  This new study clarifies the size of pre-Columbian populations and their impact on their environment.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/20/19
  

  The Catholic Church’s shameful history of Native American abuses

  by William S. Cossen

  Colonizing indigenous land and constructing walls, both figurative and literal, to win public influence and political power is not a new story in American Catholic history.

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• SOURCE: Politico Magazine
  1/17/19
  

  The Horror of Trump's Wounded Knee Tweet

  by Alyssa Mt. Pleasant and David A. Chang

  The president poked fun at a devastating massacre and reinforced racist, misogynistic stereotypes. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  1/20/19
  

  A New History of Native Americans Responds to ‘Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee’

  Through memoir, interviews and extensive reading, Treuer counters the familiar narratives of invisibility that have so readily frozen America’s indigenous peoples.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Universe
  12-20-2018
  

  Downsized national monuments threaten Native American history, opponents say

  Whether it’s construction of a proposed oil pipeline across Native American lands or the federal government’s recent decision to downsize national monuments in the West, many people who have lived in these areas for decades say their voices aren’t being heard.

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• SOURCE: The Harvard Crimson
  2-9-18
  

  Harvard Hires First Professor of Native American History

  History professor Philip J. Deloria, began teaching last month, after years of activists calling for Native American studies offerings.

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• SOURCE: Huffington Post
  11-25-15
  

  Most Students Have No Clue What Accurate Native American History Looks Like

  "They're re-learning history. When we talk about Thanksgiving -- they're wrestling with these stories that they grew up with."

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• 5-18-14
  

  Review of Sherry L. Smith's "Hippies, Indians, and the Fight for Red Power"

  by Ron Briley

  Rather than simply focusing upon the excesses of the movement which degenerated into the Rolling Stones Altamont concert and the bloody murders of the Manson family, Smith chooses to emphasize the positive legacy of the counterculture’s interest in Native American history and culture.

• SOURCE: Fox News
  6-11-13
  

  Oldest cave art discovered in U.S. shows prehistoric southern living

  The oldest and most widespread collection of prehistoric cave and rock art in the United States has been found in and around Tennessee, according to a new paper in the journal Antiquity that documents the art. It provides intriguing clues about what life was like for Native American societies more than 6,000 years ago. That is the age of the newly discovered cave art, one of which is seen here, showing what appears to be a human hunting. Other images are of a more direct spiritual/mythological nature.Lead author Jan Simek, president emeritus and a distinguished professor of science at the University of Tennessee’s Department of Anthropology, told Discovery News, “The discoveries tell us that prehistoric peoples in the Cumberland Plateau used this rather distinctive upland environment for a variety of purposes and that religion was part of that broader sense of place.” Jan Simek, Alan Cressler, Nicholas Herrmann and Sarah Sherwood/Antiquity Publications Ltd.A very large polychrome pictograph depicts humans, serpents and circles. The image, from the same overall site, but extending into Alabama, likely illustrated a myth spread across generations via word of mouth, with such permanent imagery further preserving its meaning, lost to history....

• SOURCE: History.com
  5-28-13
  

  The battle for Jim Thorpe’s body

  On May 28, 1888, Jim Thorpe was born in a one-room cabin in Prague, Oklahoma. A member of the Sac and Fox Nation, Thorpe—an Olympic champion and football and baseball star—was perhaps the greatest all-around athlete America has ever produced. Nearly a year following his death in 1953, his widow transported his body to a small Pennsylvania hamlet that agreed to rename itself in his honor. Now amid a family feud, Thorpe’s two surviving sons are seeking to re-inter his remains on tribal lands in his native Oklahoma, and a federal judge has ruled in their favor....

• SOURCE: WaPo
  5-6-13
  

  George P. Horse Capture, curator at Indian museum, dies at 75

  When Native American activists from around the United States took over Alcatraz in 1969, George P. Horse Capture was a steel inspector for the California Department of Water Resources — a young man on his way to a solid career and ever further away from any sense of pride in his Montana reservation roots.“I was very happy climbing that white mountain of success,” he once said. “But then I looked down over the top, and there was nothing there.”The solution was to switch mountains. Joining the protesters for short periods over their 19-month stay, Mr. Horse Capture went on to become a passionate advocate for Native American culture and a museum curator who helped give his people an unprecedented voice in how their heritage would be presented and their artifacts displayed.“He was profoundly important in contemporary American Indian history,” said Herman Viola, a longtime friend and curator emeritus of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian in Washington....