Native American

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• 6/7/2020
  

  Mourning in America

  by Ed Simon

  Historically the powerful have described deaths from disease and starvation as "natural" to hide the political nature of suffering and their own responsibility. To mourn is to fight this erasure.

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• SOURCE: Duluth News-Tribune
  4/12/2020
  

  3 North Dakota Colleges May Soon Acknowledge Campuses Are On Indigenous Land

  "That practice, even if it is only a ritual formality, it nevertheless, I believe, sets a tone that makes for a more civil society in a land where a settler society lives alongside Indigenous peoples," said Tom Isern, a history professor at North Dakota State University.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  3/10/2020
  

  A Fresh Take on the Mayflower’s History

  “We are changing the narrative at this moment in history,” said Michele Pecoraro, executive director of Plymouth 400. Today, she said, “it is all about a shared history among four nations, that looks at it from that perspective probably for the first time. The Wampanoag involvement is a first. The Netherlands involvement is a first. Those added perspectives offer more of a balanced picture.”

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• SOURCE: Tom Dispatch
  11-29-18
  

  The DNA Industry and the Disappearing Indian

  by Aviva Chomsky

  DNA, Race, and Native Rights

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  10-16-18
  

  How Pocahontas — the myth and the slur — props up white supremacy

  by Honor Sachs

  The roots of the attacks on Elizabeth Warren.

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• 10-16-18
  

  How Unprecedented Would It Be to Have a President with Native American Ancestry?

  by David Pietrusza

  From 1920 through 1932 the National Republican ticket boasted a nominee with Native American blood.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  7-6-18
  

  Trump wants Warren to prove her Native American heritage.

  Could she?

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• SOURCE: Vox
  6-4-18
  

  The new US policy of separating immigrant children from their parents has chilling historical echoes

  by Nicole Hemmer

  America has never treated families — nonwhite families, anyway — as sacrosanct.

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  2-9-18
  

  From the ‘Pocahontas Exception’ to a "Historical Wrong"

  by Arica L. Coleman

  The Hidden Cost of Formal Recognition for American Indian Tribes

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• SOURCE: Time Magazine
  9-11-17
  

  How a Court Answered a Forgotten Question of Slavery’s Legacy

  by Arica L. Coleman

  The question was whether black slaves held by the Cherokee are entitled to the rights of the Cherokee. The answer is yes.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  7-4-16 (accessed)
  

  For More Than 100 Years, the U.S. Forced Navajo Students Into Western Schools. The Damage Is Still Felt Today

  by Luci Tapahonso

  Photographer Daniella Zalcman explores how native populations had a new nation foisted upon them.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  6-5-16
  

  A major Native American site is being looted

  Will Obama risk armed confrontation to save it?

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• SOURCE: Al Jazeera America
  2-19-16
  

  ‘Open the land’: The Shawnee aim for a return to Ohio

  One tribe is bidding to go all the way home to the Midwest, some two centuries later.

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• SOURCE: Indian Country Today
  7-7-15
  

  Indigenous woman scholars join in open letter to denounce Andrea Smith

  by List of Scholars Below

  Smith has claimed she’s Native American. The ample evidence, they say, is that she’s not.

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• SOURCE: The Washington Post
  11-19-14
  

  Project to show Native American link to Route 66

  The lesser known story is that of the more than two dozen American Indian tribes scattered along the 2,400-mile byway, which stretched from Chicago to California.