Native American history

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• SOURCE: WTOP
  7/13/2020
  

  Where Did The Term ‘Redskins’ Come From?

  Monday’s announcement that the D.C. region’s football team would be abandoning the Redskins brand marks the end of a decadeslong push to shift the team away from the historically racist and oppressive term.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian Magazine
  7/8/2020
  

  Native Americans and Polynesians Met Around 1200 A.D.

  Genetic analysis of their modern descendants shows that people from the Pacific Islands and South America interacted long before Europeans arrived.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  7/3/2020
  

  A Brief History of The Word ‘Redskin’ And How It Became a Source of Controversy

  Its origins extend back to the 18th century, long before it became the name of a football team.

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• SOURCE: NBC News
  7/5/2020
  

  Racist, Brutal Past or Hispanic History? Latinos Clash over Spanish Colonial Statues

  Activist and associate history professor Yolanda Leyva breaks down the complex legacy of Spanish conquistador Juan de Oñate.

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• SOURCE: Wall Street Journal
  7/5/2020
  

  Redskins, Indians and the Long Push to Drop Native American Mascots

  The National Congress of American Indians, a 75-year-old organization that represents Native American and tribal rights, has long called for the elimination of all “derogatory” mascots.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian
  7/1/2020
  

  Do American Indians Celebrate the 4th of July?

  The history of American Indian people's relationships with the federal government has shaped complex traditions of observing (or not) July 4th. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  7/1/2020
  

  Mount Rushmore Historian: Monument 'Is Like A Rorschach, It Says Different Things To Different People'

  In light of Trump's plans to hold a July 4th celebration at Mount Rushmore on Friday, historian John Taliaferro discusses the monument's complex legacy.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/1/2020
  

  How Mount Rushmore Became Mount Rushmore

  Historian Gene A. Smith and Oglala Lakota activist Nick Tilsen offer contest for the creation of the monument, its relationship to tribal lands, and the legacies of Washington, Jefferson, Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt from an indigenous point of view. 

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• SOURCE: TIME
  6/25/2020
  

  21 Lessons From America's Worst Moments

  Historians reflect on the lessons to be learned from the worst episodes of American history (if Americans can look unflinchingly on them). 

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• SOURCE: SFist
  6/22/2020
  

  Who Was Junipero Serra, and Why Do Activists Want His Name Stripped From Institutions and His Statues Toppled?

  The architect of the Spanish Mission system in California has some defenders among historians, but Native American activists associate his legacy with genocide. 

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• SOURCE: The Hill
  6/16/2020
  

  Will Native Americans Be Left Out Of Conversations About Racial Injustice?

  "Throughout our nation’s history, racial inequality has hit our tribal nations the hardest," writes Ryan Benally.

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• SOURCE: Indian Country Today
  6/17/2020
  

  Santa Fe, New Mexico, Mayor Says Controversial Monuments Will Go

  Santa Fe Mayor Alan Webber announced Wednesday that the city would be removing two monuments honoring Kit Carson, who commanded U.S. troops who forced Navajos to a concentration camp in the 1860s, as well as a statue of Don Diego De Vargas, a Spanish conquistador who murdered hundreds of Pueblo people.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  6/15/2020
  

  Man Is Shot at Protest Over Statue of New Mexico’s Conquistador

  Tensions between persons with Hispanic and Native American ancestry in New Mexico have been crystallized in protests over a statue of a brutal Spanish conquistador. 

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• 5/31/2020
  

  COVID-19 is Devastating Native American Communities. History Illuminates Why.

  by Pete Sigal, Robbie Ethridge, and Nancy Shoemaker

  Centuries of unequal access to resources and decision-making served to weaken indigenous health across the Americas and beyond.

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• SOURCE: Zip06.com
  5/26/2020
  

  Old Saybrook Historical Society Wins Prestigious History Award, Publishes New Book

  The winner of a 2020 Award of Excellence from the American Association for State and Local History's new book focuses on the Battles of Saybrook Fort during the Pequot War.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  5/28/2020
  

  Amy Cooper Played the Damsel in Distress. The Troubling History of this Trope

  by Mia Brett

  Purportedly protecting white women has justified centuries of racist violence — while doing little to actually protect white women.

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• SOURCE: Philadelphia Inquirer
  5/24/2020
  

  An Act of Remembering Native American Children Who Died so Long Ago

  The Carlisle Indian Industrial School took Native children from their families in an effort to strip them of their language, culture and religion. This year, COVID restrictions limited but did not stop annual remembrance of children who died there. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/7/2020
  

  Ask Who Paid for America’s Universities

  by Tristan Ahtone and Robert Lee

  The Morrill Act created endowment funds from land that the U.S. Government took from Native Americans with little or no compensation. Addressing the problems of public universities must not exclude addressing the problems of Native communities.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  5/5/2020
  

  Irish Return an Old Favor, Helping Native Americans Battling the Virus

  More than 170 years ago, the Choctaw Nation sent $170 to starving Irish families during the potato famine. Now hundreds of Irish people are repaying that old kindness.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/29/2020
  

  My Native American Father Drew the Land O’Lakes Maiden. She was Never a Stereotype.

  by Robert DesJarlait

  The son of the Red Lake Ojibwe artist who redesigned "Mia" contends that taking her image off the butter package destroys a symbolic connection between indigenous people and place.