Category: History
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LRI: WA State Passes Bill to Mandate Tribal Sovereignty Curriculum to be Taught in Public Schools
From Last Real Indians, here. An excerpt: The Washington State legislature has passed Senate Bill 5433, which will require the teaching of Northwest tribal history, culture, and government in Washington State’s common schools. Washington SB 5433 was an amendment to the 2005 House Bill 1495. When it was passed, H.B. 1495 only “encouraged” Washington State…
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The boarding schools taught us to be ashamed of being Indian
From Indianz.com, here. An excerpt: “It’s hard to forgive,” said a Lakota Episcopal elder from the Cheyenne River Indian Reservation with his voice wavering. Tears sprang to my eyes as he shared his story of being punished for speaking Lakota as a child in a Catholic boarding school. I knew this was a deep pain…
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Class takes a walk in Standing Bear’s footsteps
Via the Journal Star, here, with a h/t to Indianz.com. An expert: NEAR WYMORE — The days must have been hotter, longer than anyone on this pleasant spring morning could begin to imagine. Ryan Christensen knows he could never fully understand what the Poncas experienced on that long march south to Oklahoma from northeastern Nebraska, so…
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Colorado House Education Committee passes a bill to limit Native American mascots
Here is an article from the Boulder Daily Camera on this. Here and here are other articles. We previously posted about this here, where you can see the actual bill. Matthew Campbell, a staff attorney with the Native American Rights Fund, testified on TEDNA’s behalf in support of the bill. You can see his testimony here. An excerpt:…
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Muscogee Creek Nation’s ‘1790 Treaty Of New York’ On Display In Washington
From Oklahoma’s News on 6, here. An excerpt: WASHINGTON, D.C. – A Creek Nation delegation was in Washington, D.C. Monday for the unveiling of a new display featuring the tribe’s 1790 Treaty of New York. The treaty is a part of the Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian Nation to Nation Treaties exhibit. The…
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Scholarship Created In Memory of Evelyn Stevenson
H/t to Turtle Talk. Scholarship Created In Memory of Evelyn Stevenson Evelyn Stevenson touched many lives throughout her lifetime. She will be greatly missed, not only in Indian country but throughout the world. Fortunately, her strong and passionate advocacy for Indian people and tribal sovereignty will continue to ripple forward through those she mentored, mothered…