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On this date… January 9-10, 1879… Nebraska

Posted on January 11, 2014 by Stephen Carr Hampton

On this date in 1879, in weather even colder than today’s, the long saga of Dull Knife’s (aka Morning Star) band of Cheyenne reached a climax. Three years earlier, in the aftermath of the Battle of the Greasy Grass (Custer’s … Continue reading →

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The Hopi Artifacts and the Paris Auction

Posted on December 22, 2013 by Stephen Carr Hampton

This article includes a link to the NY Times detailed article of how the Annenberg Foundation secretly bid and won back most of the artifacts in order to return them to the Hopi and Apache. http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2013/12/21/255544805/what-part-of-sacred-don-t-you-understand?ft=1&f=1001

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On this date… December 15, 1970… New Mexico

Posted on December 16, 2013 by Stephen Carr Hampton

On this date in 1970, the Taos Pueblo won back Blue Lake through an act of Congress and sixty-four years of struggle. At 11,332 feet above sea level, the lake reflects the deep dark blue of the bold sky.  The … Continue reading →

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What really happened: The account of the first Thanksgiving

Posted on November 27, 2013 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Here is the original account of the first Thanksgiving. It’s only three short paragraphs. But first, a little context.  It’s 1621. The Pilgrims arrived the previous December, finally settling in the abandoned Native village of Patuxet.  A year or two … Continue reading →

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Colonial Bros and Nava-hos: Why did these frats think this was okay?

Posted on November 24, 2013 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Last week, several fraternities and sororities at Cal Poly San Luis Obispo hosted a party with the theme “Colonial Bros and Nava-hos”.   As word of the party leaked out afterwards, the campus president, faculty, and many students denounced it. Other … Continue reading →

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On this date… November 19, 1863… Pennsylvania

Posted on November 20, 2013 by Stephen Carr Hampton

The airwaves today are filled with gushing remembrances of Abraham Lincoln’s brief eloquent eulogy at the Gettysburg Battlefield site on November 19, 1863.  In that speech, Lincoln stated that the nation was “dedicated to the proposition that all men are … Continue reading →

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Redskins

Posted on November 14, 2013 by Stephen Carr Hampton

[I will keep adding to this list as I find more quotes.] From the 1500’s thru the 1800’s, the most common derogatory term for Native Americans was “savages”.  In the 1830’s, large scale ethnic cleansing (called “Indian Removal”) become official … Continue reading →

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On this date… November 2, 1542… California

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Stephen Carr Hampton

On this date in 1542, a party erupted on the deck of the San Salvador anchored off Santa Barbara, California. The captain of the ship was raised on the Cuban genocide, came of age in the conquest of Mexico, and … Continue reading →

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On this date… October 18, 1540… Alabama

Posted on October 19, 2013 by Stephen Carr Hampton

The bloodiest battle between Europeans and Native Americans took place on this date in 1540 in Alabama.  De Soto’s army had been rampaging through the southeast, stripping villages of their entire winter stores of food, kidnapping political leaders, chopping off … Continue reading →

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On this date… October 12, 1492… Bahamas

Posted on October 12, 2013 by Stephen Carr Hampton

On a small white sand island in the Bahamas, Cristoforo Colombo came ashore. Since the first task of the conqueror is always to re-name the conquered, Colombo wrote, “I reached the Indian sea where I discovered many islands thickly peopled, … Continue reading →

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