Fall 2021 Content Warning: This post contains material about gender violence and reproductive harm that may be triggering. Violence against Indigenous women has been and continues to be one of the most pervasive effects of settler colonialism, yet is largely untold when it comes to specific points in history. One …
As you read, try to consider the two distinct “sides” of Ohiyesa as essential parts of understanding him as a full, complex individual. Reaching this understanding is important because historical narratives so often one-dimensionalize Indigenous people, and hopefully this project can be a small step in undoing that harmful legacy. …
Fall 2021 Tensions were high following the death of Sitting Bull on the Pine Ridge reservation in mid-December of 1890 due to an armed response to Sioux disruptions (Calloway 2018). Two days before the new year, the Seventh Cavalry intercepted Big Foot, a Lakota Sioux chief, and his band en …
Fall 2021 There is extensive history of indigenous resistance to the violation of water rights in Oceti Sakowin territory. Beginning with the Louisiana Purchase in 1803, the US government purchased lands including those inhabited by the Oceti Sakowin from time immemorial without the consultation or consent of any Native nation …
Fall 2021 Since time immemorial, what we now call the United States has been the territory of hundreds of Indigenous nations. There were wars between nations, there were treaties, there was trade — there was a flourishing and cosmopolitan community of sovereign civilizations before white settlers arrived. This system was …
Fall 2021 The Dawes Act was passed by the United States Congress in 1887. The act ordered the division of reservations into plots of land, and allotted parcels of these lands back into the individual ownership of Indigenous people. The federal government allotted 160 acres to ‘heads of family’ (men, …
Fall 2021 During the Progressive Era, Native people repurposed settler colonial systems in order to protest their treatment at the hands of the U.S. government and rewrite harmful narratives surrounding their existence. In particular, this period from the 1890s to the 1920s saw many Native people use the colonial educations …
Fall 2021 The 1887 Dawes Act was designed to carve up reservations by allocating land plots to individual Indigenous people and creating a system to sell these plots to outsiders. This resulted in many reservations, including those in Minnesota, being reduced to “checkerboards” of individual plots of land. See this …
Fall 2020 People indigenous to Turtle Island, Hawaii, and Alaska were instrumental in developing the UN Declaration and are actively working to hold the US government to the Declaration’s standards.
