Articles sur Indian Removal Act

20 novembre 2023

Thanksgiving stories gloss over the history of US settlement on Native lands

A scholar of Native American and Indigenous rhetorics writes about the harm done to Native American nations through colonization and what can be done to reduce it.

23 octobre 2023

For the Osage Nation, the betrayal of the murders depicted in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon’ still lingers

Despite the perpetrators being tried and convicted, anti-Indigenous sentiment roiled the area for decades.

16 octobre 2023

Gangsters are the villains in ‘Killers of the Flower Moon,’ but the biggest thief of Native American wealth was the US government

The Osage murders of the 1920s are just one episode in nearly two centuries of stealing land and resources from Native Americans. Much of this theft was guided and sanctioned by federal law.

6 décembre 2022

Cherokee Nation wants to send a delegate to the House – it’s an idea older than Congress itself

The right is explicitly laid out in the same treaty that led to the Trail of Tears.

20 juillet 2022

Russia’s mass kidnappings of Ukrainians are a page out of a wartime playbook – and evidence of genocide

Russia and other countries and political regimes have a long history of forcing people to move, mostly for security and economic gains.

15 décembre 2021

How the Native American population in the US increased 87% says more about whiteness than about demographics

Circe Sturm, The University of Texas at Austin

They’re called ‘pretendians’ – people who long identified as white but are now claiming to be Native American. In the last US Census, the number of Native Americans almost doubled because of them.

26 avril 2021

US landmarks bearing racist and Colonial references are renamed to reflect Indigenous values

The name change of a local creek in central Iowa reflects broader national trends that are recognizing derogatory or racist connotations.

20 novembre 2020

Returning the ‘three sisters’ – corn, beans and squash – to Native American farms nourishes people, land and cultures

For centuries Native Americans intercropped corn, beans and squash because the plants thrived together. A new initiative is measuring health and social benefits from reuniting the “three sisters.”

4 novembre 2019

India’s social media content removal order is a nail in the coffin of the internet as we know it

The order requires Facebook, Twitter and Google to remove certain content globally, based on it being defamatory under India’s local law.

26 juin 2018

The long history of separating families in the US and how the trauma lingers

The US has a long history of separating families. Research shows the long-term effects of that trauma.

Thèmes connexes

  1. Indigenous peoples
  2. Movies
  3. Native Americans
  4. Oklahoma
  5. Religion and society
  6. Reservations
  7. Thanksgiving
  8. Trail of Tears
  9. US history

Les contributeurs les plus fréquents

  1. Jessica Pryce Executive Director, The Florida Institute for Child Welfare, Florida State University
  2. Shannon Toll Associate Professor of Indigenous Literatures, University of Dayton
  3. Christina Gish Hill Associate Professor of Anthropology, Iowa State University
  4. Dan Jerker B. Svantesson Professor specialising in Internet law, Bond University
  5. Sarah Dees Assistant Professor of American Religions, Iowa State University
  6. Alexander Hinton Distinguished Professor of Anthropology; Director, Center for the Study of Genocide and Human Rights, Rutgers University - Newark
  7. Torivio Fodder Indigenous Governance Program Manager and Professor of Practice, University of Arizona
  8. Circe Sturm Professor of Anthropology, The University of Texas at Austin
  9. Lisa Michelle King Associate Professor of English, University of Tennessee
  10. Julie Reed Associate Professor in History, Penn State

Partager ce thème