George Washington is called the “village burner” in Mohawk because of all the villages he ordered burnt. Villages would be surrounded. As the people came running out, they would be shot, stabbed, women, children and elders alike. In one campaign alone “hundreds of thousand died, from New...
Jemez– Pronounced “Hay-mess,” or traditionally as “He-mish,” the Jemez is a federally recognized American Indiantribewith 3,400 tribal members, most of whom reside in the pueblo village known as Walatowa, a Towa word meaning “this is the place.” Oral traditions say their ancestors o...
We conduct a close reading of key historical and ethnographic accounts of four historical AI/AN contexts—the Iroquois Confederation under the Great Law of Peace, 19th century accounts of the Ojibwa village, the Santa Clara Pueblo government in pre-19th century, and Yup’ik village life in the...
During thestatewide 1934 heat wave, residents of Gallipolis, a village in Ohio, bore the brunt of the highest temperature ever recorded in the state. Residents left their furnace-like houses in the hopes of finding a shady spot to cool off, while many slept on their rooftops, porches, or ...