Native American history

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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.

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• SOURCE: Anadisgoi
  11/10/2020
  

  Cherokee Nation Announces New Plan to Explore the History of Cherokee Freedmen

  In 1863, Cherokee Nation passed an act to abolish slavery in the Cherokee Nation, and later those freed slaves and their descendants were granted “all the rights of native Cherokees” through the Treaty of 1866.

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• SOURCE: WAMU
  11/9/2020
  

  The Smithsonian Will Open A National Native American Veterans Memorial In D.C. Wednesday

  The National Native American Veterans Memorial will open with virtual programming, including a tour and video tribute, on Wednesday, November 11.

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• SOURCE: History.com
  11/9/2020
  

  The Native American Government That Inspired the US Constitution

  The government of the Iroquois Confederacy wasn't a template for the Constitution, but it was an example, visible to the framers, of concepts of federalism that were only abstractions in European political theory. 

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• SOURCE: Perspectives on History
  10/30/2020
  

  In Memoriam: Jenny Tone-Pah-Hote (1980–2020)

  by Malinda Maynor Lowery

  "Her contributions to historical scholarship, undergraduate teaching, and graduate mentorship will be remembered, and deeply missed, by all who knew her."

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• 11/1/2020
  

  Columbus Still Kills: Trump, Colonial Apologetics and Anti-Native Violence

  by Thomas Lecaque

  As a historian, I see recent attacks on indigenous Americans and intrusions on tribal lands as part of a lengthy tradition of violence. But this year has witnessed a surge in apologetics for colonial violence in history that give support to present-day harm. 

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• SOURCE: National Geographic
  10/28/2020
  

  The Heartbreaking, Controversial History of Mount Rushmore

  “What happened with the Black Hills is so clearly theft in relation to the U.S.’s own laws,” says Christine Gish Hill, a professor of anthropology at Iowa State University.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  10/12/2020
  

  Prof. Kiara Vigil: Why It Is Important To Highlight Roles Of Native Americans In History (audio)

  "This last spring, for the first time, I taught a class called Native Futures, and I thought that it would make sense to teach a class where Native people themselves not only are part of the past and the present, but they're going to be part of the future."