Native American history

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• SOURCE: High Country News
  3/30/2021
  

  As the Country Reckons with Race, Will Tribal Nations Lead the Way?

  by Alaina E. Roberts

  The decision of the Cherokee Nation to accept obligations conferred by treaty to honor the citizenship claims of descendants of Black people enslaved by the Cherokee accepts reckoning with past injustices as a tribal strength instead of a liability. 

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• 3/28/2021
  

  America Does Have an "Original Sin": A Response to James Goodman

  by Joshua Ward Jeffery

  "Original Sin" is a fit metaphor for longstanding inequities in American society, but it's important to understand that the original sin is settler colonialism and the seizure of indigenous land, which American civic religion has been all too willing to accommodate. 

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• 3/21/2021
  

  Why Deb Haaland Matters

  by Michael Leroy Oberg and Joel Helfrich

  New Interior Secretary Deb Haaland's nomination signals a hopeful turn for "those who value the environment and appreciate the 172-year long historic relationship between Interior and America's Native Nations."

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• SOURCE: KUNC
  3/2/2021
  

  Colorado Lawmakers Poised To Replace Capitol's Civil War Monument With Sand Creek Massacre Memorial

  Native American advocates say the Colorado state capitol is an appropriate place for the memorial to the massacre of Cheyenne and Arapaho by the US military, but critics question whether it should replace a memorial to the Union Army. 

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  3/3/2021
  

  ‘We Had a Little Real Estate Problem’: Native American Comedians Get Their Due | Book review

  Charlie Hill’s TV debut, making him the first Indigenous comedian in prime time, is one of the milestones that Kliph Nesteroff chronicles in We Had a Little Real Estate Problem, an illuminating and stereotype-busting history of Native Americans and comedy.

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• SOURCE: Sierra
  3/2/2021
  

  John Muir in Native America

  by Rebecca Solnit

  John Muir's conservationist vision erased the historical and ongoing presence of indigenous people on the land. Can the environmental movement and the national parks change direction? 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  3/2/2021
  

  Biden Administration Pauses Transfer of Holy Native American Land to Mining Firm

  While tribes and environmental groups celebrated the Forest Service announcement, they noted the threat of losing Oak Flat remains.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  2/24/2021
  

  Cherokee Nation Addresses Bias Against Descendants of Enslaved People

  The decision by tribal authorities was a significant step toward resolving the issues created by prior decisions to exclude the descendants of Black people enslaved by members of the Cherokee nation from full citizenship privileges. 

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• SOURCE: National History Center
  1/25/2021
  

  Washington History Seminar TODAY: Claudio Saunt's "Unworthy Republic"

  Please join the National History Center of the American Historical Association for a Washington History Seminar roundtable on Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory with author Claudio Saunt. TODAY 4:00 PM EST

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  1/19/2021
  

  Why is Charles Curtis's Legacy So Complicated?

  by Kiara M. Vigil

  VP Charles Curtis advocated for policies toward Native American nations that today seem steeped in paternalist and assimilationist values, but in the context of the 1920s his legacy should be seen as part of debate among Native leaders about the tension between preservation and incorporation of modern American society.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/13/2021
  

  ‘World’s Greatest Athlete’ Jim Thorpe Was Wronged by Bigotry. The IOC Must Correct the Record

  A fellow Olympic winner contends that the IOC must restore medals and recognition stripped from Jim Thorpe; his violation of amateurism rules was encouraged officials of the Carlisle Indian Industrial School and the American Olympic Committee who made the Native American athlete a fall guy. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  1/3/2021
  

  How Children's Books Grapple With The Native American Experience

  Host Michel Martin speaks with Aaron Carapella of Tribal Nations Maps about children's books that address the history and experiences of Native Americans.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  12/13/2020
  

  A UMBC Professor is Documenting the History of the Lumbee Indian Community in Baltimore

  Folklorist Ashley Minner is collecting artifacts and documentation of the Lumbee community in Baltimore, a large and vital community of urban Native Americans that has had its existence obscured and erased. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  12/13/2020
  

  Cleveland’s Baseball Team Will Drop the Name "Indians"

  “Oh no!” Trump tweeted. “What is going on? This is not good news, even for ‘Indians’. Cancel culture at work!”

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• 12/13/2020
  

  How Hudson Stuck's Ascent of Denali Boosted Recognition of Indigenous Alaskans

  by Patrick Dean

  Hudson Stuck came to America from England in 1885 and lived a life that echoed the era's adventure books, with one important twist. He leveraged his fame from summitting North America's highest peak to advocate for the rights of native Alaskans, beginning with insisting that the mountain he climbed be known by its indigenous name, Denali. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  12/2/2020
  

  Eddie Benton-Banai, Co-Founder of American Indian Movement, Dies Aged 89

  One of the founders of the American Indian Movement has died. Eddie Benton-Banai came to focus his activism more on education and the preservation of indigenous heritage than the militant tactics of other AIM leaders, but was key to the movement's growth. 

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• 11/22/2020
  

  UCLA Historian Carla Pestana Debunks Myths About the Pilgrims and the Plymouth Colony

  by James Thornton Harris

  Alert Tom Cotton: Plymouth Rock, the Mayflower Compact, and the origins of Thanksgiving are just a few of the things Professor Carla Pestana finds in need of historical revision. 

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• SOURCE: Crosscut
  11/16/2020
  

  Native History Is Washington History, And Tribes Are Helping Schools Teach It

  Teachers are working to implement a 2015 change to Washington state's history standards that requires content developed with the state's native tribes. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  11/18/2020
  

  The Thanksgiving Myth Gets a Deeper Look This Year

  “There was an event that happened in 1621,” Wampanoag historian Linda Coombs said. “But the whole story about what occurred on that first Thanksgiving was a myth created to make white people feel comfortable.” Native activists hope to disrupt the stories of Thanksgiving by questioning public history and by recovering indigenous food practices.

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• 11/15/2020
  

  Reckoning with Marcus Whitman and the Memorialization of Conquest

  by Cassandra Tate

  The same period that saw the public affirmation of the Confederate Lost Cause myth saw a proliferation of monuments that portrayed the conquest of the indigenous people of the west as virtuous pioneering. The case of Marcus Whitman shows a national reckoning is in order.