Tag Archives: Cherokee

Drama on the Rez: Big Oil, Oklahoma, and Trump put the Five Tribes under pressure

Posted on July 24, 2020 by Stephen Carr Hampton

With the ink barely dry on the Supreme Court ruling that eastern Oklahoma is in fact reservation land of the Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, and Seminole, the Five Tribes are under pressure to relinquish some of their new-found sovereignty. The … Continue reading →

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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 →

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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 →

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Land acknowledgement: Covington Catholic High School, Park Hills, Kentucky

Posted on January 27, 2019 by Stephen Carr Hampton

I said I’d do a land acknowledgment for every place I stayed this year. I started with my home. I’m adding one more: Covington Catholic High School, located on Dixie Highway in Park Hills, Kentucky, a wealthy suburb of Cincinnati, … Continue reading →

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What do Native Americans think about Elizabeth Warren?

Posted on January 16, 2019 by Stephen Carr Hampton

It’s complicated. Two white politicians are in conflict. One, virulently racist and anti-Native in thought, word, and deed, verbally ridicules the other, who is an ally of Natives on most policy issues. Let’s start with the ally, Elizabeth Warren. To … Continue reading →

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Cherokee statement on $20 bill

Posted on April 21, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Statement from Cherokee Nation Principal Chief regarding the U.S. Department of the Treasury‘s decision to remove Andrew Jackson from the front of the $20 bill and replace him with abolitionist Harriet Tubman. “Andrew Jackson defied a U.S. Supreme Court ruling … Continue reading →

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On this date… November 3, 1892… Oklahoma

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Stephen Carr Hampton

On this date in 1892, Ned Christie was killed by US marshals asserting federal sovereignty on Cherokee land.  Ned Christie, branded a Cherokee outlaw, had been on the run for five and a half years.  On this morning, he had … Continue reading →

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On this date… March 3, 1832… Georgia

Posted on March 3, 2015 by Stephen Carr Hampton

The Supreme Court ruling granting tribal sovereignty was issued on this date. It still stands today. It all started with Samuel Worcester (left) and Elizur Butler, missionaries to the Cherokee. While the Supreme Court debated, they sat in a Georgia … Continue reading →

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On this date…  June 1, 1773… Georgia

Posted on June 1, 2014 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Many people believe that Europeans took the land from Native Americans by military conquest.  That was almost never the case.  On this date in 1773, the Creek and Cherokee signed over 2.5 million acres of land to the British to … Continue reading →

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