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Science, myths, and alternative histories: An overview of what we know about the peopling of Turtle Island

Posted on December 2, 2018 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Migration across the Bering Land Bridge is a controversial subject among Native Americans, kind of like creation and evolution with Christians. It’s also a hot topic among archaeologists and anthropologists. The science behind the peopling of the Americas in still … Continue reading →

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New Landmark Book Documents Genocide by Design in California

Posted on July 31, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

A recently published book, An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley, provides a thorough and exhaustive review of the well-documented but poorly-known genocide of Native Americans in California, primarily after the Gold Rush.  Madley … Continue reading →

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Bernie’s attention to Native issues is unprecedented

Posted on March 27, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Bernie Sanders appointed a respected Native advocate as his adviser on Native issues– and it appears she’s doing a good job and he is listening to her.  It’s hard to think of a presidential candidate– ever– that gave such attention … Continue reading →

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Racism at Nebraska High School Basketball Tournament

Posted on March 12, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

just re-tweeting this; it speaks for itself http://panicbutton.sportsblog.com/posts/13931503/racism-alive-and-well-at-nebraska-state-basketball-tournaments.html  

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Trump: anti-Denali and full of racist imagery

Posted on February 27, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Presidential candidate and National Idiot Donald Trump recently stated that changing the US government’s official name of the continent’s highest mountain from McKinley to Denali (which is what all the locals call it anyway) was “a great insult to Ohio” … Continue reading →

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Chris Rock, the Academy Awards, and Native Americans

Posted on February 9, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

With the Academy Awards under scrutiny for its all-white nominations, and Chris Rock schedule to host the awards show amid boycotts (he was schedule to be the host before the nominations came out), NPR interviews the 1491s about the The Revenant … Continue reading →

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A Dead Hawk-Owl, Native Americans, and Bird Conservation

Posted on January 31, 2016 by Stephen Carr Hampton

On December 30, 2015, Dan Waggoner, a bird-watcher, discovered a Northern Hawk-Owl near Brewster, Washington, on the Colville Reservation.  A charismatic bird, and very rare south of Canada, the news spread on social media, resulting in a steady flow 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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Selective Memories from Syria to Fort Pitt

Posted on September 19, 2013 by Stephen Carr Hampton

President Obama is right to voice outrage at the use of chemical weapons in Syria.  While the concept of rules in warfare is a bit ironic, maintaining an international consensus against the use of these weapons, which kill civilians so … Continue reading →

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On this date… August 20, 1705… Florida

Posted on August 20, 2013 by Stephen Carr Hampton

Not much remained of the original inhabitants of Florida by 1705.  The villages and towns of the Apalachee, Timucua, Ais, Jeaga, Calusa, Tocobaga, and Matecumbe had all been devastated by the Yamasee, who worked as slavers for the British.  All … Continue reading →

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