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Review of Records Fails to Support Local Leaders’ Claims of Abenaki Ancestry
Questions are swirling in New Hampshire around attempts by two local groups to gain tribal recognition.
by
Julia Furukawa
via
New Hampshire Public Radio
on
May 22, 2023
Goodbye to Good Earth
A Louisiana tribe’s long fight against the American tide.
by
Boyce Upholt
via
Oxford American
on
September 3, 2019
From the ‘Pocahontas Exception’ to a ‘Historical Wrong'
The hidden cost of formal recognition for American Indian tribes.
by
Arica L. Coleman
via
Time
on
February 9, 2018
One of the Oldest Broken Promises to Indigenous Peoples Is for a Voice in Congress
A treaty commitment to seat a delegate representing the Cherokee Nation in the House has gone unmet for two centuries.
by
John Nichols
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The Nation
on
November 14, 2023
"Let's Raise Some Hell": Clyde Warrior and the Red Power Movement
This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Siege of Wounded Knee, the 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee by American Indian Movement (AIM) activists.
by
Paul McKenzie-Jones
via
Process: A Blog for American History
on
October 10, 2023
Blood-Quantum Laws Are Splintering My Tribe
The rules were supposed to preserve my community. Instead they are slowly cutting people out of it.
by
Leah Myers
via
The Atlantic
on
June 21, 2023
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The Supreme Court Stopped the Latest Assault on Native American Sovereignty
A long history of disrespect, dispossession and mass slaughter is crucial to understanding the case.
by
Angus McLeod
via
Made by History
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June 16, 2023
The Siege of Wounded Knee Was Not an End but a Beginning
Fifty years ago, the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization invited the American Indian Movement to Pine Ridge and reignited a resistance that has not left.
by
Nick Estes
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Benjamin Hedin
via
The New Yorker
on
May 6, 2023
A Return to the Wounded Knee Occupation, 50 Years Later
The new era of social consciousness and racial activism in the 1970s would play a pivotal role in the events leading up to the 71-day occupation.
by
Dennis Zotigh
via
Smithsonian
on
February 27, 2023
The Supreme Court Case That Could Break Native American Sovereignty
Haaland v. Brackeen could have major consequences for tribes’ right to exist as political entities.
by
Rebecca Nagle
via
The Atlantic
on
November 8, 2022
Cherokee Nation Is Fighting for a Seat in Congress
Thanks to an 1835 treaty, they’re pushing Democrats to approve a nonvoting delegate.
by
Gabriel Pietrorazio
via
The New Republic
on
October 31, 2022
This Land Is Whose Land? Indian Country and the Shortcomings of Settler Protest
As a Native person, I believe “This Land Is Your Land” falls flat.
by
Mali Obomsawin
via
Folklife
on
June 14, 2019
A Family From High Plains
Sappony tobacco farmers across generations, and across state borders, when North Carolina and Virginia law diverged on tribal recognition, education, and segregation.
by
Nick Martin
via
Splinter
on
August 2, 2018
Abbot Appointee Slams Brakes On American Indian/Native Studies Course
The course was getting a first read after years of review. Then, the Texas Board of Education needed more time to assess it without “drama or controversy.”
by
Josephine Lee
via
The Texas Observer
on
January 30, 2024
Without Indigenous History, There Is No U.S. History
It is impossible to understand the U.S. without understanding its Indigenous history, writes Ned Blackhawk.
by
Ned Blackhawk
via
Time
on
April 26, 2023
The Pocahontas Exception: America’s Ancestor Obsession
The ‘methods and collections’ of genealogists are political because they have a great deal in common with genealogy as a way of doing history.
by
Thomas W. Laqueur
via
London Review of Books
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March 30, 2023
It’s Time to Rethink the Idea of the “Indigenous”
Many groups who identify as Indigenous don’t claim to be first peoples; many who came first don’t claim to be Indigenous. Can the idea escape its colonial past?
by
Manvir Singh
via
The New Yorker
on
February 20, 2023
The Bodies in the Cave
Native people have lived in the Big Bend region of west Texas for thousands of years. Who should claim their remains?
by
Rachel Monroe
via
The New Yorker
on
October 3, 2022
Those Who Know
On Raoul Peck's "Exterminate all the Brutes" and the limits of rewriting the narrative.
by
Nick Martin
via
The Drift
on
January 27, 2022
The Past and Future of Native California
A new book explores California’s history through the experience of its Native peoples.
by
Julian Brave NoiseCat
via
The Nation
on
January 24, 2022
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