Native American history

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/27/2020
  

  Why New Mexico’s 1680 Pueblo Revolt Is Echoing in 2020 Protests

  Indigenous groups in the Southwest are imbuing their activism this year with commemorations of the 340-year-old Pueblo Revolt, one of Spain’s bloodiest defeats in its colonial empire.

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• SOURCE: AzCentral
  9/13/2020
  

  Arizona has Suppressed Black, Latino and Native American Voters for More than a Century

  From its territorial days to the present, Arizona has a history of suppressing votes which came back with a vengeance after the 2013 Supreme Court decision crippled the Voting Rights Act. 

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• 9/13/2020
  

  Native Actors Outside the Frame

  by Liza Black

  Liza Black's new book traces the lives of prominent and anonymous Native actors, examinng the way that Hollywood films exploited their labor and images while spinning narratives that justified the historical conquest of Native lands.

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• SOURCE: Native America: A History
  9/3/2020
  

  I'm So Bored with the Lost Colonists

  by Michael Leroy Oberg

  Speculative energy focused on the fate of the "Lost Colonists" of Roanoke Island might be better spent investigating how Native people responded to their arrival. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  9/1/2020
  

  Roanoke’s ‘Lost Colony’ Was Never Lost, New Book Says

  Historians Malinda Maynor Lowery and Lauren McMillan discuss the evidence behind a new book's claim that the "lost" inhabitants of the Roanoke colony were absorbed by the Croatoan indigenous people of the area. 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/16/2020
  

  A Saint's Sins

  Columnist Elizabeth Breunig consults historians including James Sandos, Robert Senkiewicz and Steven Hackel to evaluate how the canonization of Father Junipero Serra among Catholics and his memorialization by Californians squares with recognition of atrocities committed against Native Americans by Spanish colonizers. 

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• SOURCE: New York Post
  8/8/2020
  

  Queens Powhatan and Pocahontas Democratic Club Considers Name Change

  Columbia professor Mae Ngai, co-director for the school’s Center for the Study of Ethnicity and Race, called the use of Pocahontas’ name “clueless.”

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• SOURCE: The Guardian
  8/3/2020
  

  Statue of White Woman Holding Hatchet and Scalps Sparks Backlash in New England

  Hannah Duston, subject of the first publicly funded US monument to a woman, is implicated in the deaths of 10 Native Americans

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• 8/2/2020
  

  What's in an Un-Naming? Berkeley's Kroeber Hall

  by Tony Platt

  Alfred Kroeber built the University of California's anthropology department into a world leader literally with the bones of the Native peoples of California. It's time to honor them. 

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• 8/2/2020
  

  From Historical Injustice to Contemporary Police Brutality, and Costs of Monuments to the Unworthy

  by Billy J. Stratton

  Silas Soule and Joseph Cramer, two Civil War-era heroes who rebelled and refused to join a brutal attack against Native peoples represent the moral courage we would do well to honor.

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• 8/2/2020
  

  Federal Agents, “Insurrection,” and the Long, Bloody History of U.S. Counterinsurgency

  by Rachel Ida Buff

  Now, on the streets of U.S. cities, federal agents join militarized police in waging war on Americans who are exercising their lawful rights of freedom of speech and assembly. There is no doubt that the results endanger us all.

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• SOURCE: MassLive
  7/28/2020
  

  Massachusetts Senators Form Panel To Suggest New State Seal, Which Would Replace Version Native Americans Call Racist

  The current seal depicts a Native man standing beneath a disembodied arm and sword, implying violent subjugation of the Indigenous people. 

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• SOURCE: WBUR
  7/27/2020
  

  'They Were Always There': The Power Of Including Indigenous Perspectives

  If Kiara Vigil wanted to learn more about her family's past and their tribes' roles in United States history, she understood she'd have to seek it out herself.

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• 7/26/2020
  

  What's in a Name?: Decolonizing Sports Mascots

  by Paul C. Rosier

  Decolonizing sports history requires a deeper analysis of how false historical narratives that ‘blamed the victim’ became embedded in public venues in everyday life that shaped generations of Americans’ perceptions of Native people.

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• 7/26/2020
  

  Mankato’s Hanging Monument Excluded Indigenous Perspectives when it was Erected and when it was Removed

  by John Legg

  Both while it stood and when its presence became inconvenient, the Hanging Monument shows how memorials control historical narratives and elevate particular interpretations of the past.

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• SOURCE: TIME
  7/14/2020
  

  The Deep History—and Troubling Impact—of Sports Teams Using Native American Mascots

  Adrienne Keene — a citizen of the Cherokee Nation and faculty member at Brown University’s American Studies and Ethnic Studies department, who is also the author of the Native Appropriations blog and a co-host of the All My Relations podcast — spoke to TIME about the history of Native American mascots and imagery.

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• SOURCE: Los Angeles Times
  7/12/2020
  

  San Gabriel Mission, a Symbol of Faith, History and Oppression, is Badly Damaged by Fire

  Historians Yve Chavez, Philip Ethington and William Deverell comment on the conflicted legacy of the historic mission structure. 

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  7/12/2020
  

  The McGirt Case Is a Historic Win for Tribes

  by Julian Brave NoiseCat

  Gorsuch, a westerner with experience in Indian law, who is no liberal, applied a conservative textualist approach to the reading of treaty law and statutes. The result: A legal theory that has been marshaled to combat abortion rights and gay marriage delivered the most significant and favorable Supreme Court decision for tribes in the 21st century.

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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.