Fall 2021 This project uses poetry and primary source documents to tell the story of the Castle Bravo Nuclear Test in the Marshall Islands. Structured around excerpts from oral interviews, newspaper articles, press conferences, and congressional logs, I have created loose poems that weave together conflicting historical narratives. My goal …
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 the wars for the West came to an end, the United States and Canadian governments began to reform existing Indian policies, shifting their focus towards eliminating Indian cultures, values, and families. These reform groups determined that the government should try and “save” Native peoples by assimilating them into Western …
Fall 2021 From 1778 to 1871 the United States signed 375 official treaties with Indigenous nations.1 Many of these treaties involved Indigenous cession of land to the US in exchange for the right for Indigenous people to use that land, or in other cases the Indigenous people were brutally forced …
Fall 2021 The Mayo Clinic Health System is one of the most well-known networks of medical services in the world. Whether people recognize it as the largest employer in Minnesota, the #11 best medical school for research, or the #1 hospital in all of the United States, it is clear …
History is shaped by narratives, and narratives of the same event can be drastically different depending on their source. Understanding the power of perspective when reading history is extremely important, especially with regard to Indigenous history. An example where this is apparent is in Dakota history, and the history of …
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 The Marshall Islands, located in the northern Pacific Ocean, first became a primary target of Japanese and US occupation during World War II, when both sides sought an outpost west of Hawai’i but east of Asia. The US military eventually succeeded in driving out Japanese troops and taking …
