Tag Archives: indigenous

Book Review: Rebecca Nagle’s ‘By the Fire We Carry’ burns bright

Posted on November 8, 2024 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Like Rebecca Nagle, I remember that Monday morning in July, 2020, glued to my laptop, waiting for news from SCOTUSblog. My first indication of the McGirt decision was a tweet from Nagle exclaiming that Gorsuch authored the decision. That was … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts | Tagged book review, By the Fire We Carry, Cherokee, history, Indian removal act, indigenous, McGirt, native american, native americans, Native history, Rebecca Nagle, SCOTUS, Supreme Court, Trail of Tears | Leave a comment

Using blood quantum, will there even be a Seventh Generation?

Posted on May 2, 2024 by Stephen Carr Hampton

This topic won’t go away until it goes away. So here goes. In The Truth about Stories (2003), Thomas King (Cherokee) discusses the blood quantum approach that the government of Canada uses to determine “status Indians,” whereby those born a … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts | Tagged blood quantum, enrollment, indigenous, native american, race, seventh generation, tribal citizenship, tribal sovereignty | 1 Comment

Eclipses and Native Revivals

Posted on April 5, 2024 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Seven years ago, I stood atop a sagebrush bluff in eastern Oregon, waiting for the coming total eclipse of the sun. As we gathered and talked and laughed, the air cooled and the yellow landscape faded into muted tones. Ten … Continue reading →

Posted in news | Tagged eclipse, ghost dance, indigenous, native revivals, Paiute, Tecumseh, wovoka | 2 Comments

My badass great-grandmothers and the power of Native women

Posted on January 7, 2023 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Women have always occupied positions of strength and respect across Native America. For starters, most tribes were matrilineal. This generally meant that when a couple marries, the husband moved into the woman’s town and joined her family. Her brothers, the … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts | Tagged Andrew Jackson, Cherokee, detachment, grandmother, Indian Territory, indigenous, Nancy Ward, Native women, Pocahontas, Power of Native Women, Richard Fox Taylor, Susannah, Trail of Tears | Leave a comment

A reverse land acknowledgment: Place names honor ethnic cleansing and slavery

Posted on April 4, 2022 by Stephen Carr Hampton

I live in Port Townsend, Jefferson County, Washington. It was originally called qatáy by the S’Klallam, a place with a small lagoon and a series of freshwater ponds that allowed for kayak portages from Puget Sound to the Strait of Juan … Continue reading →

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Double standards: How white bureaucracy ramps up when Native Americans are involved

Posted on September 30, 2021 by Stephen Carr Hampton

It’s often been said that the most powerful people in government are not the leaders, but the low-level bureaucrats that actually run government programs and implement the law. In a settler colonial society dominated by implicit white supremacy – the … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts | Tagged bias, bureaucracy, certification, chumash, double standard, EPA, grant program, grants, indigenous, oil spill, prejudice, Refugio, response, sovereignty, tribes, unconscious bias, Yurok | 1 Comment

Evo Morales and Bolivia: 500 years of indigenous struggle against international exploitation

Posted on November 13, 2019 by Stephen Carr Hampton

The rise of Evo Morales to the presidency of Bolivia was a landmark moment in the struggle of indigenous people against colonial oppression. Bolivia has been ground zero in this struggle for centuries. Five hundred years ago, enslaved Aymara worked … Continue reading →

Posted in my own thoughts, news | Tagged Bolivia, cashman, coup, evo, indigenous, lithium, machu pichu, morales, Tupac Katari, Wiphala | 2 Comments

Gratitude for the Water Protectors

Posted on December 7, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

It’s astounding that 10,000 people converged on the open plain, with no water, food, sanitation, or housing, and worked together to make it all happen. The first camp was started by Standing Rock youth. Hundreds of other tribes from … Continue reading →

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Indigenous Hawaiians seek Federal Recognition and Sovereignty

Posted on November 2, 2015 by Stephen Carr Hampton

It’s a fascinating twist of history that they don’t have it already, but Native Hawaiians are now taking steps toward federal recognition and sovereignty. Culturally, this is no doubt important. In the legal realm, however, “sovereignty” as defined by the … Continue reading →

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Pope Francis apologizes “for crimes committed against the native peoples”

Posted on July 10, 2015 by Stephen Carr Hampton

In Bolivia, the nation with the highest percentage of indigenous people in the Americas, the nation with the only indigenous head of state in the Americas in 500 years, the nation that flies an indigenous flag (below), Pope Francis stepped … Continue reading →

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