Native American history

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• SOURCE: Zip06.com
  5/26/2020
  

  Old Saybrook Historical Society Wins Prestigious History Award, Publishes New Book

  The winner of a 2020 Award of Excellence from the American Association for State and Local History's new book focuses on the Battles of Saybrook Fort during the Pequot War.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/28/2020
  

  Amy Cooper Played the Damsel in Distress. The Troubling History of this Trope

  by Mia Brett

  Purportedly protecting white women has justified centuries of racist violence — while doing little to actually protect white women.

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  5/24/2020
  

  An Act of Remembering Native American Children Who Died so Long Ago

  The Carlisle Indian Industrial School took Native children from their families in an effort to strip them of their language, culture and religion. This year, COVID restrictions limited but did not stop annual remembrance of children who died there. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/7/2020
  

  Ask Who Paid for America’s Universities

  by Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee

  The Morrill Act created endowment funds from land that the U.S. Government took from Native Americans with little or no compensation. Addressing the problems of public universities must not exclude addressing the problems of Native communities.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/5/2020
  

  Irish Return an Old Favor, Helping Native Americans Battling the Virus

  More than 170 years ago, the Choctaw Nation sent $170 to starving Irish families during the potato famine. Now hundreds of Irish people are repaying that old kindness.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/29/2020
  

  My Native American Father Drew the Land O’Lakes Maiden. She was Never a Stereotype.

  by Robert DesJarlait

  The son of the Red Lake Ojibwe artist who redesigned "Mia" contends that taking her image off the butter package destroys a symbolic connection between indigenous people and place. 

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  4/28/2020
  

  Land O’Lakes Drops the Iconic Logo of an Indigenous Woman From Its Branding

  The dairy company's decision to remove an iconic logo has been praised and (and occasionally condemned). Learn the history of the logo and reaction to it here.

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• SOURCE: High Country News
  3/30/2020
  

  Land-Grab Universities

  by Robert Lee and Tristan Ahtone

  Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/24/2020
  

  ‘Unworthy Republic’ Takes an Unflinching Look at Indian Removal in the 1830s

  Claudio Saunt’s book traces the expulsion of 80,000 Native Americans over the course of the 1830s, from their homes in the eastern United States to territories west of the Mississippi River.

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• SOURCE: Time
  2/11/20
  

  The Civil War Wasn't Just About the Union and the Confederacy. Native Americans Played a Role Too

  by Megan Kate Nelson

  “Inasmuch as bloody [conflicts] were the order of the day in those times,” their report read, “it is easy to see that each comet was the harbinger of a fearful and devastating war.”

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• 2/9/20
  

  The Unique Struggles of Women and Native Americans to Vote

  by Thom Hartmann

  And how efforts to surpress certain voters continue. 

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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.