Although Native Americans may seem to have equal rights in American society, along with their own allotted “property” in an attempt to make up for stolen land, the reality is far different. Property, as defined by Jesse Ribot and Nancy Peluso in their paper,A Theory of Acces...
GENOA, Neb. — Researchers say they have uncovered the names of 102 Native American students who died at a federally operated boarding school in Nebraska. The Omaha World-Herald reports that the discovery comes as ground-penetrating radar has been used in recent weeks to search for a cemetery ...
"The number of deaths uncovered could be just the tip of the proverbial iceberg," Press TV noted, adding that the investigation revealed that the actual death toll of the Native American children is likely in the thousands. "The painful legacy of the notorious system," which was run by the...
Her castaway tale captured 19th-century imaginations and inspired the novel 'Island of the Blue Dolphins.' Scholars today are diving deeper into her people's history in California's colonial past.
The American Indian Holocaust, known as the “500 year war” and the “World’s Longest Holocaust In The History Of Mankind And Loss Of Human Lives.” Genocide and Denying It: Why We Are Not Taught that the Natives of the United States and Canada were Exterminated Death Toll: 95,000,...
Alabama - Native American, Civil War, Reconstruction: The present-day state of Alabama was originally inhabited by various Indigenous peoples. Visible traces of their occupancy, which spanned nearly 10,000 years, may be seen at Dust Cave, a Paleo-Indian
Leonard Peltier is an American Indian (mostly Ojibwa) activist who, after becoming one of the best-known indigenous rights activists in North America, was convicted in 1977 of having murdered two Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) agents. His case bec
Native Americans, also known as American Indians and Indigenous Americans, are the indigenous peoples of the United States. By the time European adventurers arrived in the 15th century A.D., scholars estimate that more than 50 million Native Americans we
The name came from me smushing together “Native”/”Native American” and “cultural appropriation.” I didn’t really think a lot about it, nor did I think it would become my “brand.” I had been an anthropology major as an undergrad and cultural appropriation was a thing that we had...
The Impact of Disease on Native American Culture Though warfare and attacks on entire villages took a definite toll on the populations of Native Americans, disease was by far the biggest killer. We’ve all heard the stories of smallpox infected blankets being given to the Native Americans, and...