Author Archives: Stephen Carr Hampton

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.

My White Privilege

Posted on June 24, 2019 by Stephen Carr Hampton

My father was born on a small farm in Delaware County, Oklahoma in 1925. At the time it was one of the poorest counties in the poorest state in the nation. His parents’ birth certificates say “Indian Territory”. His father, … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts | Tagged affirmative action, Cherokee, discrimination, gi bill, grove, homestead act, Oklahoma, racism, reparations, story, white privilege | 3 Comments

Twitter banned me for quoting the Bible and saying it applied to Trump

Posted on June 23, 2019 by Stephen Carr Hampton

I posted this picture, which is Psalm 10 in its entirety: CLICK TO ENLARGE I introduced it as “A prayer for God to kill @realDonaldTrump”, which Psalm 10 very much seems to be (as well as a prayer for God … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts, news | Tagged banned, Bible, locked, Old Testament, prophet, Psalm, Psalm 10, trump, twitter | 1 Comment

A California genocide vignette

Posted on June 22, 2019 by Stephen Carr Hampton

On June 18, 2019, California Governor Gavin Newsom made headlines with an executive order apologizing for a past “war of extermination”, emphasizing the state’s commitment (via AB 52 and executive order) to tribal consultation (including many non-federally-recognized tribes), and establishing … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts, news | Tagged apology, california, diggers, Executive Order, extermination, genocide, governor, Ishi, madley, newsom, redding, Yahi, Yana | Leave a comment

The strange truth about smallpox and Native Americans

Posted on June 15, 2019 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Did Europeans deliberately give smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans? Absolutely. There is one proven case and many other suspicious ones. But the largest smallpox outbreak, the one that killed possibly hundreds of thousands of Natives, started during the Revolutionary War. … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts | Tagged Amherst, biological warfare, blankets, Comanche, disease, epidemic, fenn, indians, infection, inoculation, mather, native americans, Onesimus, plague, puget sound, Shoshone, smallpox, war, winter count | 3 Comments

Land acknowledgement: Port Townsend, Washington

Posted on May 3, 2019 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Port Townsend is S’Klallam (or Klallam) land. The town occupies the northeast corner of the Olympic Peninsula, where the Straight of Juan de Fuca meets Puget Sound. The tides, as well as every bird, fish, or orca traveling into or … Continue reading →

Posted in land acknowledgments | Tagged Jamestown, land acknowledgement, land acknowledgment, Native American history, port gamble, port townsend, s'klallam, treaty | 2 Comments

Capitalism: A river that don’t know where it’s flowing

Posted on April 27, 2019 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Native Voice One recently featured a discussion on capitalism and socialism. Since I have a PhD in economics, I had to provide my take. Here it is. Capitalism exists. For as long as there have been two neighbors willing to … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts, news | Tagged capitalism, economics, Native Voice One, river, socialism, trade | Leave a comment

How reparations could work: Using the US’s past affirmative action for whites as a model

Posted on April 9, 2019 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Reparations for on-going injustices against Native and African Americans are entirely feasible. Historic government programs for white people serve as a model. The giant Monopoly game Imagine the US economy thru history as a giant Monopoly game. In the beginning, … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts, news | Tagged african american, Black Hills, blacks, Bundy, Cherokee, citizenship, discrimination, FHA, gi bill, homestead act, indians, jubilee, lakota, life expectancy, mining law, monopoly, native americans, naturalization act, preemption, redlining, reparations, Sioux, slavery, socialism, Supreme Court, Trail of Tears, unions, white privilege, white supremacy | Leave a comment

White supremacy and the vulnerability of peaceful villages

Posted on March 23, 2019 by Stephen Carr Hampton

In recent days, Donald Trump has threatened domestic violence against “the left”. In an interview with Breitbart, he said, “I can tell you I have the support of the police, the support of the military, the support of the Bikers … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts, news | Tagged 2016, 7th Cavalry, Black Kettle, camp grant, Cheyenne, chief joseph, county, Custer, election, ghost dance, lakota, looking glass, marias, Massacre, peaceful, peaceful villages, Piegan, Sand Creek, Sioux, spotted elk, Steve King, trump, tucson, washita, white supremacy, Wounded Knee | Leave a comment

Apaches and Afghans, Geronimo and bin Laden: How the US military uses allies to fight their own people and then abandons them

Posted on February 22, 2019 by Stephen Carr Hampton

In 1886, when Geronimo went “off the reservation” for the third time, the US military’s only hope of finding him was to use friendly Apache scouts. For most of the year, the US military, with 5,000 white soldiers and dozens … Continue reading →

Posted in news | Tagged afghanistan, apache, geronimo, miles, osama bin laden, scouts, SIV, special immigrant visa, terrorists | Leave a comment

Land acknowledgement: San Diego Bay, California

Posted on February 2, 2019 by Stephen Carr Hampton

I recently found myself staying in San Diego. It was a work trip related to oil spill response– one of the things we gotta do in the modern industrialized world: prepare for oil spills. Keeping with my new year’s resolution, … Continue reading →

Posted in land acknowledgments | Tagged Kumeyaay, land acknowledgement, mission, San Diego, Serra, uprising | Leave a comment