Twenty-three-year old Virginia Algonquian man, from 1645 etching from Antwerp.
Native Americans
This is the grave of John Ross. Born in 1790 in the Cherokee town of Turkeytown, in what is today Alabama, Ross grew up in a mixed race household. His.
Joseph Kossuth Dixon staged photograph of Native Americans riding into the sunset, 1913 Larger version of this image at the Library of Congress website. No info though on which tribe.
I've stated my before that I am uncomfortable with land acknowledgements. Like, it's fine for me to say I am on Narragansett land, which I am. But what does it mean for me to say so? Is it backed up with anything meaningful? Or does...
Biden is moving to create more national monuments and protect key parts of this beautiful nation from further development. President Joe Biden on Wednesday announced he will establish a new.
This is the grave of Marcus and Narcissa Whitman, as well as others who died with them when the Cayuse struck against the missionary colonialists in 1847. Born in 1802.
On April 12, 1959, unions led by the International Hod Carriers', Building, and Common Laborers' Union of America and with assistance from the United Steelworkers of America and the Operating Engineers, filed for an election with the National Labor Relations Board at a mine in...
This is the grave of Stand Watie. Born in 1806 in the Cherokee Nation village of Oothcaloga, which is today Calhoun, Georgia, Watie grew up in a time of massive.
From 1492 to 2022, the point of white colonization (settler colonialism if you will though that term is really just the academic jargon of the day and flattens experiences across.
There is a very long history of whites passing as non-whites when it works for them. Rachel Dolezal is perhaps the most infamous example of this in recent years but there are many others. One question worth asking is how much of the rapid rise...
The latest white liberal fad for meaningless diversity is the land acknowledgement. Theoretically, this is a good thing. Remembering that this land was stolen from Native peoples is in fact.
On November 1, 1879, the Carlisle Indian School opened in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. This school, central to the genocidal project to end Native American culture in the late nineteenth century, was.