| | "The Next Best Thing To Hell": The Story Of The Worst Mass Execution In ...“If you strike at them they will all turn on you and devour you and your women and little children,” the Dakota ... |
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Native American women still have the highest rates of rape and assault
A flawed tribal court structure, little local law enforcement and a lack of funding fail to protect women from violence.
| | Native American women still have the highest rates of rape and assaultA flawed tribal court structure, little local law enforcement and a lack of funding fail to protect women from v... |
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"Columbus’s treatment of the Taíno people meets the UN definition of genocide. But there has also been a curricular genocide — erasing the memory of the Taíno from our nation’s classrooms"
| | Whose History Matters? Students Can Name Columbus, But Most Have Never H...Bill Bigelow Columbus’s treatment of the Taíno people meets the UN definition of genocide. But there has also been a curricul... |
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Indigenous peoples are decolonizing virtual worlds
Video games have a malicious history of inaccurate portrayals of Indigenous characters.
In the 1980s and ’90s, they were the human targets of shoot-’em-ups like Indian Attack, Cowboy Kid, and Hammer Boy, and the repetitive rape of a Native American woman was the main aim of Custer’s Revenge. GUN, released in 2005, required that gamers murder a set number of Native Americans in order to graduate through levels, and the “pan-Indian” stereotypes of mystic chief, ritualistic warrior, or Indian princess continue to dominate storylines. A 2010 academic paper that analyzed the race of characters in the 150 bestselling games in the United States in one year revealed that Native Americans were the most underrepresented segment of society and appeared only as secondary characters.
| | Indigenous peoples are decolonizing virtual worldsVideo games have a malicious history of inaccurate portrayals of Indigenous characters. |
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What Harvard professors who were part of Elizabeth Warren’s hiring say about it
"More than 60 Harvard professors were eligible to vote on whether to offer Elizabeth Warren a tenured position at the law school in 1993. The Globe reached out to all of the living professors who could have been in that room to ask whether her claims to Native American heritage were a factor in their votes.
Here’s a sampling of what they said.
Laurence Tribe : “I would be willing to swear on a hundred bibles, if I believed in the Bible, that the idea that she took advantage of some minority status was ludicrous.”
Martha Minow : “I was there. I was in the meetings. It never came up. . . . There is no news here. I can utterly close the door. There was no conversation of her having any Native American identity. I can say that conclusively.”
| | What Harvard professors who were part of Elizabeth Warren’s hiring say a...Annie Linskey - Reporter The Globe reached out to all of the living professors who could have voted on Elizabeth Warren’s hiring to ask w... |
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Native Americans & Colonists on the Northeastern Coast
In this episode of the Ben Franklin’s World podcast, Andrew Lipman, an Assistant Professor of History at Barnard College, Columbia University and author of The Saltwater Frontier: Indians and the Contest for the American Coast (Yale, 2015), leads us on an exploration of the northeastern coastline and of the Native American and European peoples who lived there during the seventeenth century. You can listen to the podcast here: www.benfranklinsworld.com/198
Ben Franklin’s World is a podcast for people who love history and for those who want to know more about the historical people and events that have impacted and shaped our world. Each episode features an interview with an historian who shares their unique insights into our early American past. It is a production of the Omohundro Institute.
| | Native Americans & Colonists on the Northeastern CoastIn this episode of the Ben Franklin’s World podcast, Andrew Lipman, an Assistant Professor of History at Barnard... |
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