Native American history

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• SOURCE: Made By History at the Washington Post
  10/18/2021
  

  Chuck Sams's Nomination to Head Parks Service is Helping Correct a Big Lie of Western History

  by Blaine Harden

  Memorialized as a godly champion of manifest destiny, Marcus Whitman was in fact "a mediocre missionary whose most significant contribution to history was getting killed."

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• 10/17/2021
  

  Scoring the Presidents on Integrity and Humanity in Dealing with Native American Nations

  by Michael A. Genovese

  Since George Washington, the President has had principal influence in government policy toward Native American nations. The nation's record is not generally a proud one but some presidents have dealt more honorably than others. 

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• 10/17/2021
  

  The Trouble with Truth, Reconciliation, Peace and Friendship Treaties: Indigenous Land and Resource Rights Among the Mi’kmaq  

  by Rachel Herrington

  Honoring the history of the treaties is not just about the past but also about the present and future of indigenous Canadians. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  10/11/2021
  

  Canada is Going through its Own History Wars

  by Ian Rocksborough-Smith

  "To what degree will well-established professional historians and scholars respond and engage with younger generations of activists, intellectuals and cultural workers adamant about centring the experiences of marginalized people?"

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/11/2021
  

  Native Americans Explain the Significance of Indigenous Peoples' Day

  "It is difficult to grapple with the complete accomplishments of individuals and also the costs of what those accomplishments came at," said Mandy Van Heuvelen, the cultural interpreter coordinator at the Smithsonian's National Museum of the American Indian.

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• 10/10/2021
  

  Reviving the Conflict Between Columbus and Taíno Chieftain Caonabó Through Historical Fiction

  by Andrew Rowen

  By resisting the conquest of Columbus, Taíno peoples made the story of conquest their story too. A novelist explains how he worked to recover both sides of the conflict, including the values and worldview of Native and European antagonists, through historical fiction. 

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• 10/3/2021
  

  The Forgotten History of Solidarity Between Black and Indigenous Freedom Movements

  by Kyle T. Mays

  "We have forgotten a similar time in history when African American and Native American activists battled against colonialism and white supremacy, respecting the uniqueness of both groups’ history, but understanding that an end to US empire would require solidarity."

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• SOURCE: The Baffler
  9/29/2021
  

  Traumatic Monologues: The Therapeutic Turn in Indigenous Politics

  by Melanie K. Yazzie

  American and Canadian politicians are happy to promote initiatives based in psychological understandings that "trauma" is the principal source of Native disadvantage, while ignoring the ongoing colonial exploitation of indigenous lands by the oil and gas industries.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  9/26/2021
  

  Few Remember the Worst Slaughter of Native Americans in US History

  The Army killed about 350 members of the Northwestern Band of the Shoshone in present-day Idaho 1863. Racism against natives, the banality of such attacks, and the mass carnage of the Civil War overshadowed the massacre; the efforts of Shoshone have ensured it was not forgotten.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/23/2021
  

  Discovery of Human Footprints Pushes Back Date of Earliest Humans in Americas

  Discovery of preserved human footprints is another element of evidence to challenge the "Clovis" hypothesis that humans populated the Americas only at the end of the last ice age. The footprints are estimated at about 10,000 years older than Clovis tool artifacts. 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  9/14/2021
  

  Osage Nation Denied Purchase of Cave With Ancient Drawings at Auction

  Serving both as a sacred burial site and the location of 290 prehistoric glyphs, the cave holds cultural significance for the Osage Nation, which called the sale "heartbreaking." 

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• SOURCE: NPR
  9/14/2021
  

  California Ski Resort to Change Racist, Sexist Name

  "In modern usage, the word "squaw" is considered to be "offensive, derogatory, racist, and misogynistic," the resort, formerly known as Squaw Valley Alpine Meadows, said as it explained its reasoning."

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• SOURCE: Indian Country Today
  8/27/2021
  

  "Where Else are Our Children?": Paiute Children Believed Buried Under Utah School

  "The bodies of Paiute children are likely buried below summer grasses at the site of an Indigenous boarding school they were forced to attend in Panguitch, Utah tribal leaders and history experts say."

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• SOURCE: EdWeek
  8/16/2021
  

  Why Do Native People Disappear From Textbooks After the 1890s?

  by Joshua Ward Jeffery

  Failure to teach the ongoing history of Native people in the US validates the credo of the Carlisle Industrial School and other Indian residential schools to "kill the Indian, and save the man," perpetuating a view that consigns Natives to the past and erases them from the present. 

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  8/12/2021
  

  How Native Students Fought Back against Abuse and Assimilation at US Boarding Schools

  by Sarah Klotz

  Young Native students like Ernest Knocks Off were not passive victims of forced assimiliation in Indian residential schools; they fought – in his case, to his death – to retain the language and culture the schools sought to expunge.

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• SOURCE: Boston Review
  8/16/2021
  

  The US is Not a "Nation of Immigrants" (Excerpt)

  by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Celebrations of multiculturalism obscure the country’s settler colonial history—and the role that immigrants play in perpetuating it, argues Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz in a new book excerpted here.

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• SOURCE: National Post
  8/16/2021
  

  The Canadian Historical Association's Genocide Statement "Brazenly Unscholarly" (Opinion)

  Columnist Barbara Kay supports Canadian historians who have dissented from the Canadian Historical Association's statement that Canadian treatment of First Nations peoples was genocidal. 

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/10/2021
  

  Texas Plan to Direct Tourists to Sites of Native Displacement Draws Criticism

  Even as the state's educational authorities move to diminish coverage of Native displacement in school curricula, the Texas Historical Commission wants help from the state's tribes to identify historical heritage sites. 

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• SOURCE: Inside Higher Ed
  8/9/2021
  

  Can Colleges and Tribes Build Relationships by Retiring Native Mascots?

  Miami University's negotiations with the Miami tribe over the university's mascot develped into a partnership for the preservation of the tribe's language and culture. 

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• SOURCE: KELO
  7/28/2021
  

  The Hiawatha Asylum: The Threat Behind Indian Boarding Schools

  “People vanished out of boarding schools; people went to jail and didn’t come back. People didn’t know where their relatives were, so it’s still a shock. It’s like finding out you had somebody in your family who was in a concentration camp."