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About Stephen Carr Hampton

Stephen Carr Hampton is an enrolled citizen of Cherokee Nation, an avid birder since age 7, and a former resource economist for the California Department of Fish & Game, where he worked as a tribal liaison and conducted natural resource damage assessments and oversaw environmental restoration projects after oil spills. He writes most often about Native history and contemporary issues, birds, and climate change.

Columbus Gets the Ax

Posted on October 13, 2015 by Stephen Carr Hampton

In an artistic display of rebellion, a statue of Christopher Columbus in Detroit (the old French fort between the Haudensaunee Confederacy and the Anishinaabe) was decorated with an ax to the forehead, complete with fake blood. This is reminiscent of … Continue reading →

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The Slave Trade that Textbooks Ignore

Posted on October 6, 2015 by Stephen Carr Hampton

The release of new textbooks in Texas, which diminish the African slave trade by describing the slaves in the US as “workers” or “immigrants”, has sparked outcry.  Many have commented that this is a classic attempt at erasure, to erase the … Continue reading →

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Protest Vandalism by Native Americans Considered a Hate Crime Against Spanish Missionaries

Posted on September 29, 2015 by Stephen Carr Hampton

In a surprising twist, the victims of genocide, who vandalized statues and gravestones of their ancestor’s oppressors, may be charged with a hate crime. The incident occurred last weekend at the Spanish mission in Carmel in the wake of the … Continue reading →

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Our Shared History of Violence

Posted on September 25, 2015 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Sherman Alexie discusses the impact of history on children today.

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Native Americans Discuss Immigration- Trump Style

Posted on September 16, 2015 by Stephen Carr Hampton

credit to the 1491s

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Remembering Genocide in the Sacramento Valley

Posted on September 7, 2015 by Stephen Carr Hampton

This story is breaking out across Indian Country: History Professor Denies Native Genocide: Native Student Disagrees, Gets Expelled From Course The ultimate irony is that the university is Sacramento State.  Though no one much talks about it, the Sacramento Valley … Continue reading →

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ISIS’s “Theology of Rape” is Nothing New to Native Americans; It Happened Here

Posted on August 25, 2015 by Stephen Carr Hampton

On August 14, the New York Times published an article describing how ISIS uses their Islamic beliefs to justify rape and sex slavery.  The story explains how ISIS soldiers pray before and after each rape, and even go to the … Continue reading →

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A Facebook Discussion Puts the Makah Whale Hunt on Trial

Posted on July 29, 2015 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Originally posted on Memories of the People:
There are just a few days left to comment on granting permission to the Makah to resume their hunt of the gray whale.  Summary information is available here.   Written comment on the…

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A Facebook Discussion Puts the Makah Whale Hunt on Trial

Posted on July 27, 2015 by Stephen Carr Hampton

There are just a few days left to comment on granting permission to the Makah to resume their hunt of the gray whale.  Summary information is available here.   Written comment on the alternatives will be accepted at makah2015deis.wcr@noaa.gov.  THE DEADLINE … Continue reading →

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Stealing Oak Flat without Apology

Posted on July 24, 2015 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Here is a great piece by Mark Charles about the loss of sacred Apache lands: The Stealing of Oak Flat & the Trauma of the Doctrine of Discovery It notes that both the theft of Oak Flat and a general … Continue reading →

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