Native American history

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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. 

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• SOURCE: CNN
  9/7/2022
  

  Cherokee Nation Opens Exhibition on Slavery

  Until recently, the Cherokee National History Museum in Oklahoma did not acknowledge slave ownership by tribal members or the efforts of the descendants of the enslaved to claim tribal membership. 

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  9/4/2022
  

  Search for Missing Native Artifacts Reveals Scandalous Handling of Human Remains by University of North Dakota

  “The best way I can describe how we have found things is in the most inhumane way possible,” Laine Lyons said. “Just completely disregarded that these were once people.” 

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• SOURCE: Cornell University and Indigenous Dispossession Project
  8/11/2022
  

  Assessing Cornell's Response to Revelations it was Funded by Taking Indigenous Land

  by Jon Parmenter

  The university must account for its role in the historical connection between settler colonialism and the development of American higher education. 

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera
  8/15/2022
  

  Native Activist Gets Apology from MPAAS For 1973 Oscars Protest

  Sacheen Littlefeather appeared in lieu of Marlon Brando to decline his Oscar for "The Godfather" as a protest against racist portrayals of American Indians. The Academy has just now apologized for the abuse she endured during the ceremony and afterward.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  8/10/2022
  

  Massachusetts Indigenous Groups Call for Boycott of Living History Museum at Plymouth

  Members of the Wampanoag nation say that Plimoth Patuxet Museums has failed to honor a pledge to create a truly bicultural museum depicting indigenous history respectfully. 

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• SOURCE: Boston Globe
  8/5/2022
  

  Commission Recommends Change to Massachusetts State Seal, Motto

  Activists and members of the state’s Indigenous population have long objected to the image, which one critic called the “last state flag of white supremacy.”

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  8/8/2022
  

  The Dangerous Myth that Pop Warner was Jim Thorpe's Savior

  by David Maraniss

  Most people understand the relationship of the star athlete and his football coach through the story told by a 1951 movie. A biographer says the coach chose hypocrisy and self-protection when Thorpe needed him most – when his Olympic medals were stripped for having played professional baseball with Warner's knowledge.

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  8/2/2022
  

  Tribal Sovereignty Isn't So Fragile

  by Noah Ramage

  Although the United States's campaign to legislate existing Indigenous republics out of existence has been broadly successful, the tenacity and durability of tribal sovereignty has been underestimated. 

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• SOURCE: WDET
  7/22/2022
  

  Preserving Detroit's Native History

  Karen Marrero of Wayne State University discusses how oral traditions have kept indigenous histories alive even as many physical markers of that history have been destroyed. 

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• SOURCE: Axios
  7/26/2022
  

  Pope Francis Seeks Forgiveness from Indigenous Canadians over Residential School Abuses

  "I am deeply sorry, sorry for the ways in which, regrettably, many Christians supported the colonizing mentality of the powers that oppressed the Indigenous peoples," Francis said.

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• SOURCE: Public Books
  7/19/2022
  

  Robert Lee on "Land-Grab" Universities

  Robert Lee of Cambridge University discusses his work documenting the treaty-like arrangements by which universities appropriated indigenous lands to build their endowments, an understudied aspect of the land-grant university system. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  7/21/2022
  

  The Right-Wing Court Has a New Target: Native American Rights

  by Nick Estes

  The Court recently overturned precedent to allow state governments criminal jurisdiction over tribal lands, which has historically been a tactic of oppression and elimination. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/17/2022
  

  Native Americans Fight to Recover Items Looted from Victims' Bodies at Wounded Knee

  Efforts to recover artifacts from a small Massachusetts museum highlight the historical trade in looted items and trophies of conquest. 

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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.”