Journal of Universalist History Volume XLI (2017-2018) Special Issue: 2016 Convocation of Unitarian Universalist Studies Editor: Kathleen R. Parker 2018, Unitarian Universalist History and Heritage Center The Montana Industrial school for Indians at Romona Ranch, 1886-1897 by Dana Capasso Stivers, pgs. 38 – 65 Dana Capasso Stivers has, so far to date, offered up one…
Being Native American may mean being deeply involved in protecting, teaching and advancing the knowledge and traditions of one’s tribe(s). Or it may mean being less connected to tribal communities while maintaining unique Native American identities in other ways within the larger society. There is no “one way” to be Native American. Every tribe and…
The movement at Standing Rock significantly undermined the systemic erasure of Native peoples from the dominant American narrative. At a time when most Americans continued to believe that Native Americans and Nations no longer exist in the United States, Americans were presented with a movement that forced a new conversation around values, identity, and our…
The first comprehensive treatments of this subject were published very recently, in 2012 and 2014. These are An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley, and Murder State: California’s Native American Genocide, 1846-1873 by Brendan Lindsay. . . . Over the past few months, I’ve read these books…
To be released by Publishers, Simon and Schuster, September 1, 2020~Excerpt from Chapter 9~Overview Prophecies, Dynamic Change, and a New Global Civilization. Chapter Nine was written by Chief Phil Lane Jr., a hereditary Chief of the Inhanktonwan Dakota and Chicksaw Nations. His presence has graced us many times here in the Pacific Northwest, especially in…
