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kris_inwood , to anthropology
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A systematic genocide? Army violence against Native Americans was greater when land values increased due to gold mining or RR building & in recessionary election years, according to economist Warren Anderson in the Asia-Pacific Economic History Review.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12283

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In her powerful debut novel, Looking for Smoke, author K. A. Cobell (Blackfeet) weaves loss, betrayal, and complex characters into a mystery that will illuminate, surprise, and engage readers until the final word.

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Today in Labor History March 12, 1928: The St. Francis Dam failed in Los Angeles, California, killing 431 people. It is the second deadliest disaster in California, after the 1906 earthquake, and one of the worst U.S. civil engineering disasters ever. A defective foundation and design flaws caused the failure. Yet, the inquest absolved chief engineer, William Mulholland, of all criminal responsibility, and he continued to earn a salary from the Bureau of Public Works (though his career was effectively ended). The authorities continued to find the remains of victims of the flood until the mid-1950s. Many of the victims were washed out to sea. Some washed ashore as far south as Mexico. Mulholland was also the designer of the 233-mile Los Angeles Aqueduct, which sucks water from the Owens Valley and is a major cause of the depletion of the fragile Mono Lake. As its water levels continues to decline, it threatens the world’s second largest gull rookery, home to up to 50,000 birds. The aqueduct’s construction, and the shady methods Mulholland used to acquire the water rights, led to the California Water Wars between L.A. County and Owens Valley farmers. Many of those same Anglo farmers (or their predecessors) usurped the land from Piute people during the 1863 Owens Valley Indian War, which was precipitated, in part, by the vast loss of human and cattle lives, and the displacements, caused by the Megaflood of 1861, which inundated much of the West, from Idaho and Oregon, down to northern Baja California. The corruption related to the construction of the aqueduct has been portrayed in the film Chinatown, and in the nonfiction book, “Cadillac Desert.”

For more on the Megaflood of 1861, please read my article, “Worse Than the Big One”: https://michaeldunnauthor.com/2023/01/04/worse-than-the-big-one-californias-coming-megaflood-2/

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The economic & political logic of US Army violence against 19thC Native Americans is analyzed in a new open access paper in the Asia-Pacific EcHR. Armed conflict was greater in recessionary election years & when land values increased due to gold mining or RR building.
https://doi.org/10.1111/aehr.12283
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In sad news from the world of letters. I had to read 'House Made of Dawn' back in grad school.

>N. Scott Momaday, pioneering Native American writer, dies https://www.axios.com/2024/01/30/n-scott-momaday-native-american-writer-dies


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Federal Regulations Prompt Closure of Native American Displays at American Museum of Natural History by Karen K. Ho

"The American Museum of Natural History recently announced it will close two major halls exhibiting Native American objects in response to new federal regulations regarding the display or research of cultural items.

“The halls we are closing are artifacts of an era when museums such as ours did not respect the values, perspectives and indeed shared humanity of Indigenous peoples,” museum president Sean Decatur wrote in a letter to the museum’s staff on the morning of January 26. “Actions that may feel sudden to some may seem long overdue to others.”"

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https://www.artnews.com/art-news/news/federal-regulations-prompt-closure-native-american-displays-american-museum-of-natural-history-1234694404/

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How did a Klan leader transform himself into a faux-Native American from ? A recent book uncovers the untold story of Forrest and Asa Carter, who were actually one and the same.

From our magazine: https://www.texasobserver.org/asa-forrest-dan-carter-klansman-book-review?utm_medium=social&utm_source=mastodon&utm_campaign=audience

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Today being , we can enjoy being treated to a host of historical commentaries & corrections

Gifted for you from behind the paywall, this important piece from 2021

Thanksgiving anniversary: Wampanoag Indians regret helping Pilgrims 400 years ago: Long marginalized and misrepresented in U.S. history, the Wampanoags are bracing for the 400th anniversary of the first Pilgrim Thanksgiving in 1621 Washington Post

https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/11/04/thanksgiving-anniversary-wampanoag-indians-pilgrims/?utm_campaign=wp_veatvoraciously&utm_medium=email&utm_source=newsletter&wpisrc=nl_veatvoraciously

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And, keeping it here in Massachusetts, from our friends at WBUR :

Beyond turkey: How to start a conversation with children about Thanksgiving

A children’s book author who often goes to to talk about gratitude has advice about how parents can reframe the story of Thanksgiving for their young children.

We revisit a conversation Here & Now’s Deepa Fernandes had last year with Traci Sorell, author of “We are Grateful: Otsaliheliga."

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Let’s celebrate with these two great novels !






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mostaurelius , to bookstodon
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Spent the afternoon at Pocket Books Shop in Lancaster, PA and picked up some more reading. 📚

www.pocketbooksshop.com
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ablueboxfullofbooks , to bookstodon
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Three Feathers is a powerful graphic novel about restorative justice and traditional native ways. I loved the simple, but powerful message , as well as the transformative growth of the characters.


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Today in Labor History August 30, 1813: The Fort Mims massacre took place during the Creek War. The Red Sticks faction of the Creek Nation, under the command of head warriors Peter McQueen and William Weatherford, stormed Fort Mims and defeated the militia garrison. Afterward, they massacred nearly all the remaining Creek métis, white settlers, and militia at the fort. Their victory spread panic throughout the Southeast. Settlers fled. Thousands of whites fled their settlements for Mobile, which struggled to accommodate them. The Red Stick victory was one of the greatest Native American victories. They were facilitated by the fact that Federal troops were bogged down at the northern front of the War of 1812. However, local state militias, commanded by Major General Andrew Jackson and allied with Cherokees, ultimately defeated the Red Sticks Creek faction at the Battle of Horseshoe Bend, ending the Creek War.

The Fort Mims massacre is cited in Gone with the Wind, by Margaret Mitchell. Grandma Fontaine shares her memories of seeing her entire family murdered in the Creek uprising following the massacre as a lesson to Scarlett.

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THE CARE/REPATRIATION OF HUMAN REMAINS HELD IN MUSEUMS.

As @ricketson points out, this is a problem that has been tirelessly debated for many years. And it is a multifaceted problem. Some examples (there are, of course, many more):

➡️ MOVE Bombing and the Penn Museum:
https://hyperallergic.com/725976/philadelphia-move-bombing-penn-museum-still-keeps-secrets-on-the-remains/

➡️ Having a code of ethics:
https://www.britishmuseum.org/sites/default/files/2019-11/DCMS-Guidance-for-the-care-of-human-remains-in-museum.pdf

➡️ What to do with human remains from archaeological sites:
https://digital.csic.es/bitstream/10261/234258/1/The%20Dignity%20of%20the%20Dead.pdf

➡️ The situation at natural history museums:
https://icom.museum/wp-content/uploads/2018/07/nathcode_ethics_en.pdf

➡️ Displaying mummies:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/303938184_The_Living_Dead_Egyptian_Mummies_and_the_Ethics_of_Display

➡️ Colonial violence and human remains:
https://items.ssrc.org/where-heritage-meets-violence/the-body-snatchers-colonial-museum-collecting-as-violence-and-violation/

➡️ Repatriation of human remains:
https://www.propublica.org/article/repatriation-nagpra-museums-human-remains

➡️ Remains of Human Victims of Nazi Terror:
https://www.bu.edu/jewishstudies/files/2018/08/HOW-TO-DEAL-WITH-HOLOCAUST-ERA-REMAINS.FINAL_.pdf

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Today in Labor History August 21, 1680: Pueblo Indians captured Santa Fe from the Spanish. The Pueblo Revolt was an uprising against the Spanish colonizers in the province of Santa Fe de Nuevo México. The Pueblos killed 400 Spaniards and drove the remaining 2,000 settlers out of the province. However, the Spaniards reconquered New Mexico 12 years later. One cause of the revolt was the Spaniard’s attempt to destroy the Pueblo religion and ban their traditional dances and kachina dolls.

The Pueblo Revolt has been depicted in numerous fictional accounts, many of which were written by native and Pueblo authors. Clara Natonabah, Nolan Eskeets & Ariel Antone, from the Santa Fe Indian School Spoken Word Team, wrote and performed "Po'pay" in 2010. In 2005, Native Voices at the Autry produced “Kino and Teresa,” a Pueblo recreation of “Romeo and Juliet,” written by Taos Pueblo playwright James Lujan. La Compañía de Teatro de Albuquerque produced the bilingual play “Casi Hermanos,” written by Ramon Flores and James Lujan, in 1995. Even Star Trek got into the game, with references to the Pueblo Revolt in their "Journey's End" episode. The rebel leader, Po’pay, was depicted in Willa Cather’s “Death Comes for the Arch Bishop” and in Aldous Huxley’s “Brave New World.”

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ablueboxfullofbooks , to bookstodon
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A Council of Dolls is gorgeous, quietly devastating, and ultimately hopeful, shining a light on the echoing damage wrought by Indian boarding schools, and the historical massacres of Indigenous people. With stunning prose, Mona Susan Power weaves a spell of love and healing that comes alive on the page.

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Barros_heritage , to archaeodons
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AMERICA’S BIGGEST MUSEUMS FAIL TO RETURN NATIVE AMERICAN HUMAN REMAINS (ProPublica, by Logan Jaffe, Mary Hudetz and Ash Ngu, 2023).

"As the United States pushed Native Americans from their lands to make way for westward expansion throughout the 1800s, museums and the federal government encouraged the looting of Indigenous remains, funerary objects and cultural items. Many of the institutions continue to hold these today — and in some cases resist their return despite the 1990 passage of the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act."

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https://www.propublica.org/article/repatriation-nagpra-museums-human-remains

This article is part of THE REPATRIATION PROJECT (The Delayed Return of Native Remains). It is worth reading.

https://www.propublica.org/series/the-repatriation-project

Barros_heritage OP ,
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A very interesting source of information on the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA) are the minutes of the Review Committee Meetings. They are available on this website:

https://www.nps.gov/subjects/nagpra/meetings.htm

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If you're looking for a character-driven, immersive, heartbreaking yet heartwarming novel, I highly recommend Calling for a Blanket Dance by Oscar Hokeah. Stayed up late finishing it last night/this morning. Brilliant. @bookstodon

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