Native American history

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• SOURCE: Phys.org
  8/5/2019
  

  Archaeologist works with tribe to explore its history and to repair historic injustices

  Archaeology Professor Matthew Liebmann took a group of undergraduate and graduate students to Jemez this summer to help members of the tribe excavate the site of two mission churches.

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  8/5/2019
  

  Arthur Lazarus Jr., Champion of Native American Rights, Dies at 92

  Over six decades, Mr. Lazarus helped Native American tribes across the country develop their democratic institutions, reclaim lands and exercise their sovereign powers.

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• SOURCE: ABC News
  6/25/2019
  

  Lawmakers seek to revoke Wounded Knee medals for US soldiers

  Native American groups have called for years for the Medals of Honor to be rescinded from the soldiers who were at the Wounded Knee massacre.

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• 6/23/19
  

  Why We Need Better Children's History Books

  by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz

  Assembling a coherent narrative that inspires students to image a different world is much more complicated than a Wikipedia search. Teachers can only carry out this task if they have access to narrative histories that are decolonized.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/19/19
  

  America Has Tried Reparations Before. Here Is How It Went.

  With a renewed focus on reparations for slavery, what lessons can be drawn from payments to victims of other historical injustices in America?

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  6/19/19
  

  ‘It’s Called Genocide’: California Gov. Newsom Apologizes to the State’s Native Americans

  The governor’s proclamation is part of a cultural moment in which Americans are increasingly grappling with the nation’s past sins.

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• SOURCE: Powell Tribune
  6/4/2019
  

  Preserving the history of Yellowstone

  It’s important to preserve the history of Native tribes in the Yellowstone region.

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• SOURCE: Yahoo News
  6/4/2019
  

  Native Americans' D-Day stories come to light

  For Charles Norman Shay, commemorating his people's sacrifice will never replace the friends he lost on D-Day.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  5/26/19
  

  The Indian Law That Helps Build Walls

  by Maggie Blackhawk

  The Supreme Court’s legal abuse of Native Americans set the stage for America’s poor treatment of many of its vulnerable populations.

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• 5/26/19
  

  Where Did the Indigenous Community Mothers Go?

  by Candace Wellman

  Indigenous community mothers seem to have been an uncomfortable truth for historians and other writers that did not fit with the Euro-American mythology they sought to build around “the first white woman” in town. The result was their now-conspicuous absence.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  4/20/19
  

  Vermont passes bill abolishing Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous Peoples’ Day

  The state is one signature away from abolishing Columbus Day altogether and permanently recognizing Indigenous Peoples’ Day.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  4/23/19
  

  A quest to reconstruct Baltimore’s American Indian ‘reservation’

  by Ashley Minner

  The East Baltimore Church of God, which was founded by Lumbee Indians, was once located in the heart of ‘the reservation,’ in the 1700 block of E. Baltimore Street. 

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  3/20/19
  

  Native children benefit from knowing their heritage. Why attack a system that helps them?

  by Bob Ferguson and Fawn Sharp

  For 40 years, the Indian Child Welfare Act has protected the best interests of Native children and helped preserve the integrity of tribal nations across the United States.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  3/6/19
  

  Historian Nick Este's New Book Puts Standing Rock in In Broader Native American Story

  Modern Indigenous American history is a history of resistance.

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• SOURCE: Smithsonian.com
  3/4/19
  

  The F.B.I. Is Trying to Return Thousands of Stolen Artifacts, Including Native American Burial Remains

  Five years after the F.B.I.’s six-day raid on a rural Indiana home, the agency is turning to the public for help identifying and repatriating the artifacts.

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• SOURCE: NPR
  2/24/19
  

  Overcoming A 'Long, Bitter Relationship,' Grand Canyon And Tribes Mark Centennial

  Eleven tribes have traditional ties to the Grand Canyon.

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• SOURCE: San Antonio Express
  2/12/19
  

  Native Americans want to reimagine Alamo as a cemetery

  Judging from the way it was summarily dismissed by the Alamo’s CEO, there may be trouble ahead.

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  2/11/19
  

  Trump’s Trail of Fears

  by Jamelle Bouie

  The president, channeling his hero Andrew Jackson, continues to champion a particularly virulent form of reactionary white majoritarianism.

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• SOURCE: The Conversation
  1/31/19
  

  European colonisation of the Americas killed 10% of world population and caused global cooling

  by Alexander Koch, Chris Brierley, Mark Maslin, Simon Lewis

  This new study clarifies the size of pre-Columbian populations and their impact on their environment.

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• SOURCE: Washington Post
  1/20/19
  

  The Catholic Church’s shameful history of Native American abuses

  by William S. Cossen

  Colonizing indigenous land and constructing walls, both figurative and literal, to win public influence and political power is not a new story in American Catholic history.