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Post by waganari on Jan 23, 2020 8:15:38 GMT -5
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Post by waganari on Jan 6, 2017 18:03:44 GMT -5
According to Edward Sweeney "it was first called Fort Floyd, soon to be renamed Fort McLane, at a site that the Apaches called Apache Tejo."
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Post by waganari on Oct 12, 2016 12:09:59 GMT -5
My copy arrived a few hours ago. Looking forward to reading the personal account of the Clown Family.
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Post by waganari on Jul 31, 2016 3:52:23 GMT -5
An American Genocide: The United States and the California Indian Catastrophe, 1846-1873 by Benjamin Madley(May 24, 2016) "The first full account of the government-sanctioned genocide of California Indians under United States rule Between 1846 and 1873, California's Indian population plunged from perhaps 150,000 to 30,000. Benjamin Madley is the first historian to uncover the full extent of the slaughter, the involvement of state and federal officials, the taxpayer dollars that supported the violence, indigenous resistance, who did the killing, and why the killings ended. This deeply researched book is a comprehensive and chilling history of an American genocide. Madley describes pre-contact California and precursors to the genocide before explaining how the Gold Rush stirred vigilante violence against California Indians. He narrates the rise of a state-sanctioned killing machine and the broad societal, judicial, and political support for genocide. Many participated: vigilantes, volunteer state militiamen, U.S. Army soldiers, U.S. congressmen, California governors, and others. The state and federal governments spent at least $1,700,000 on campaigns against California Indians."
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Post by waganari on Dec 9, 2015 8:04:38 GMT -5
Canada’s government has launched a long-awaited national inquiry into the murder or disappearance of hundreds of indigenous women, as Prime Minister Justin Trudeau promised a “total renewal” of the country’s relationship with its aboriginal population. Speaking to an Assembly of First Nations (AFN) special chiefs gathering in Gatineau, Québec, the Liberal leader announced that his government had begun the process to create the inquiry into the nearly 1,200 indigenous women and girls who have been murdered or who have gone missing in Canada over the past three decades. Read more here: www.theguardian.com/world/2015/dec/08/canada-40m-inquiry-violence-indigenous-women-justin-trudeau
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Post by waganari on Jul 9, 2015 16:00:39 GMT -5
Thanx for the update! Much appreciated.
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Post by waganari on Apr 30, 2015 4:52:52 GMT -5
Great to see the archive back online. I've tried contacting them several times, but never got a reply. Thanks for the update, Kingsley!
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Post by waganari on Apr 30, 2015 4:50:10 GMT -5
"A peaceful patch of farmland in southeastern Idaho likely holds a grisly, bitter history — but the full story remains hidden, at least for now. Archaeologists surveying acreage along the Bear River, just north of the town of Preston, say there are “compelling” signs that it’s the site of an event whose gruesomeness is matched only by its obscurity: the largest single massacre of Native Americans in U.S. history. The researchers say their investigations may ultimately bring to light the lost story of the Bear River Massacre, a daybreak raid carried out by U.S. soldiers on a winter village of the Northwest Band of Shoshone, killing as many as 250 men, women and children on a January morning in 1863." Read more, here: westerndigs.org/site-of-deadliest-native-american-massacre-identified-in-idaho/
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Post by waganari on Mar 29, 2015 7:54:37 GMT -5
William Neptune, Indian tribe chief of Passamaquoddy, photo 1920. Chief Wrinkled Meat (aka John Smith) of the Chippewa
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Post by waganari on Mar 4, 2015 16:19:14 GMT -5
The discovery of a rare Native American artifact in Newtown is exciting for archeologists, but it's also raising more questions. Contractors digging a trench for a fiber optic box north of Newtown's administrative hall earlier this month found human remains. They called the police who quickly realized it was a burial site and not a crime scene. They, in turn, called the Cincinnati Museum Center. “When the police department actually called us, when I talked to them, he said they found some human remains and he said there was a plate with it. And I kind of knew exactly what he meant because we had found these other two back in 1981,” says Rieveschl Curator for Archeology Bob Genheimer. Genheimer says the plate is actually a gorget, a decorative seashell, with the image of an animal carved on it. “A gorget is an ornamental item. These gorgets have three holes in them. They have two at the top for suspension and there’s one in the middle where they possibly could have been attached to clothing or something else,” he says. “And on the inside, they are engraved.” For more info: wvxu.org/post/rare-native-american-artifact-discovered-newtown
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Post by waganari on Mar 3, 2015 13:54:56 GMT -5
Excerpt from wvxu.org/post/how-indians-came-live-cincinnati-zoo: In the late 1800's Cincinnatians loved Indians and Indians loved Cincinnati. Wild West shows at the end of the 19th century were big because the frontier had disappeared and people were enamored with all things Indian. So when a Wild West show in Bellevue, Kentucky closed up, and Cree Indians from Montana were stranded, the Cincinnati Zoo came to the rescue, as far as the Native Americans were concerned. The Indians signed contracts to work and live at the zoo in the summer of 1895. Zoo Director Thane Maynard looks back. "They were not at all an exhibit, like you would imagine zoo animals on exhibit. It was a cultural exhibit as much as we might bring drummers from a far away place to show culture." The shows were popular and the zoo made $25,000 in just three months. That led them to hire another group in 1896. The Sicangu Sioux from the Rosebud Reservation in South Dakota brought 89 people to live and perform here. The zoo had to first get approval from the Bureau of Indian Affairs. The Cincinnati Museum Center's curator of archeology Bob Genheimer says the Indians liked living in Cincinnati. It was such a contrast to their impoverished life on reservation where buffalo were almost extinct. He said in Cincinnati they lived an urban life, saw all the sights and went shopping. They may have even ridden the streetcar. More pics can be found on the website's slideshow.
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Post by waganari on Mar 3, 2015 13:31:33 GMT -5
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Post by waganari on Feb 25, 2015 14:51:21 GMT -5
The Munich-born English photographer, 'the man who made the camera sing', visited America in 1926 where he spent some time among Native American tribes. The only picture I am familiar with is the one about the controversial yet fascinating character of Big Chief White Horse Eagle of the Osage Tribe who was trending topic in Europe in 1930 when he was all over the german, dutch and english newspapers. Are there any more pictures of Native American tribesmen by Emil Hoppé? www.npg.org.uk/hoppe/timeline.html#t1920
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Post by waganari on Feb 25, 2015 13:36:10 GMT -5
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Post by waganari on Jan 6, 2015 9:45:30 GMT -5
Picture taken from a 1939 newspaper article. Alas no higher resolution. Any ideas who he is?
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