November 11, 2023

Smithsonian: Online Native Cinema Showcase Brings Indigenous Films to Audiences Worldwide

Smithsonian: Online Native Cinema Showcase Brings Indigenous Films to Audiences Worldwide. “The Smithsonian’s National Museum of the American Indian celebrates American Indian Heritage Month with its online Native Cinema Showcase Nov. 17–24…. All films [six features and 29 shorts] are free to watch and are available for streaming, worldwide and on demand, with the exception of The Legend of Molly Johnson, Powerlands and We Are Still Here, which are limited to viewing in the United States.”

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November 7, 2023

ProPublica: UC Berkeley Takes Significant Step to Repatriate 4,400 Native American Human Remains

ProPublica: UC Berkeley Takes Significant Step to Repatriate 4,400 Native American Human Remains. “A notice filed Tuesday in the Federal Register indicates UC Berkeley is committed to repatriating 4,440 ancestral remains and nearly 25,000 items — including jewelry, shells, beads and baskets — that were excavated from burial sites across the San Francisco Bay Area. The notice follows extensive consultations between the university and tribes, including those that claim the Bay Area as their ancestral lands but are not recognized by the federal government, the university said.”

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November 6, 2023

KYW Radio Philadelphia: New digital archive allows Black and Native families to connect with ancestors who served in the Revolutionary War

KYW Radio Philadelphia: New digital archive allows Black and Native families to connect with ancestors who served in the Revolutionary War. “The Museum of the American Revolution and Ancestry.com are working together on a new family history resource for people of Native American and African American descent. The museum acquired the Patriots of Color Archive in 2022. In it: nearly 200 rare documents — original muster rolls, pay vouchers, enlistment papers, discharge forms and more — originally belonging to Black and Native American soldiers who served during the Revolutionary War…. Ancestry.com digitized the collection and made it available online for free.”

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November 5, 2023

Anchorage Daily News: German museum hopes to reconnect Alaska Native communities to artifacts collected in 1880s

Anchorage Daily News: German museum hopes to reconnect Alaska Native communities to artifacts collected in 1880s. “Staff from a museum in Germany traveled to Anchorage this month to stoke interest in reconnecting Alaska’s Indigenous communities to artifacts in its archives. Two representatives from the Berlin Ethnological Museum spoke at the Alaska Federation of Natives conference about its work with Chugach Alaska Corp. and nonprofit Chugachmiut to make accessible hundreds of items removed from the region in the 1880s.”

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October 24, 2023

ProPublica: A Prominent Museum Obtained Items From a Massacre of Native Americans in 1895. The Survivors’ Descendants Want Them Back.

ProPublica: A Prominent Museum Obtained Items From a Massacre of Native Americans in 1895. The Survivors’ Descendants Want Them Back.. “After the mass killing at Wounded Knee, the American Museum of Natural History received children’s toys taken from the site. A 1990 law was meant to ‘expeditiously return’ such items to Native Americans, but descendants are still waiting.”

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October 23, 2023

USC Dornsife: Mapping project reveals LA’s Indigenous past, aims to inform the city’s future

USC Dornsife: Mapping project reveals LA’s Indigenous past, aims to inform the city’s future. “Blending insight from representatives of local Indigenous communities, extensive archival research and contemporary technologies such as spatial analysis and modeling, the long-running project headed by the Spatial Sciences Institute (SSI) at the USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences has developed the first systematic map of L.A.’s natural ecology. ‘Mapping Los Angeles Landscape History’ offers a comprehensive view of the region’s natural environment and how Indigenous people interacted with the land and each other in a sustainable way before the arrival of European settlers.”

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October 20, 2023

Science: Archaeology society spars over publishing photos of Indigenous burial offerings

Science: Archaeology society spars over publishing photos of Indigenous burial offerings. “As editor-elect of the journal Southeastern Archaeology, Rob Beck helped choose a cover photo for the penultimate issue of 2020. It showed about 20 ceramic vessels, some painted with colorful patterns. They had been excavated in the early 1900s from the Crystal River Archaeological State Park in Florida, home to some of the region’s oldest ancient Indigenous earthworks. But Beck, an archaeologist at the University of Michigan, came to regret his choice.”

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October 12, 2023

Leader-Telegram: Historians study dugout canoe at Phillips hardware store

Leader-Telegram: Historians study dugout canoe at Phillips hardware store . “Sissel Schroeder, a professor of anthropology at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and Tamara Thomsen, a maritime archaeologist for the Wisconsin Historical Society, came to see the canoe as part of their long-term study of dugout canoes around the state…. Schroeder said the study began with canoes at museums, historical societies and libraries around Wisconsin. The two historians are now focusing on more than 80 dugout canoes known to be in private hands around the state.”

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October 2, 2023

Undark: Searching for Wisconsin’s Dugout Canoes

Undark: Searching for Wisconsin’s Dugout Canoes . “The dugout canoe, which was likely made from a tree that once grew in Wisconsin, is one of more than five dozen located, catalogued, and photographed by [Sissel] Schroeder and [Tamara] Thomsen as part of the Wisconsin Dugout Canoe Survey Project, an effort to identify and document the origin, style, and tree species used to make dugouts. The team is also building a library of 3D interactive digital models of the dugouts, which is available to the public online.”

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August 31, 2023

New York Times: War Against the Children

New York Times: ‘War Against the Children’. (This link is to a gift article; you should not encounter a paywall.) “The Native American boarding school system was vast and entrenched, ranging from small shacks in remote Alaskan outposts to refurbished military barracks in the Deep South to large institutions up and down both the West and East coasts. Until recently, incomplete records and scant federal attention kept even the number of schools — let alone more details about how they functioned — unknown. The 523 schools represented here comprise the most comprehensive accounting to date of institutions involved in the system.”

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August 26, 2023

Anchorage Daily News: New state database shows circumstances around disappearances of hundreds of Indigenous people in Alaska

Anchorage Daily News: New state database shows circumstances around disappearances of hundreds of Indigenous people in Alaska. “A new state database reveals for the first time the circumstances surrounding the disappearance of hundreds of Alaska Native people considered missing in Alaska. The Department of Public Safety calls the Missing Indigenous Persons Report, released earlier this week, a first-of-its-kind effort to publicly release data on Alaska Native and American Indian people missing in Alaska. The data includes whether police believe the disappearance was related to criminal activity or not.”

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August 25, 2023

Associated Press: Native American Group to Digitize 20,000 Archival Pages Linked to Quaker-Run Indian Boarding Schools

Associated Press: Native American Group to Digitize 20,000 Archival Pages Linked to Quaker-Run Indian Boarding Schools. “A coalition advocating for Native American people traumatized by an oppressive system of boarding schools for Native youths plans to digitize 20,000 archival pages related to schools in that system that were operated by the Quakers.”

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August 2, 2023

Chalkbeat Colorado: Native students learn how to preserve threatened languages through Fort Lewis initiative

Chalkbeat Colorado: Native students learn how to preserve threatened languages through Fort Lewis initiative. “Almost 30 years ago, the majority of Native American students at Fort Lewis College could speak their home language, Janine Fitzgerald recalled. In the years since, more and more students have arrived at the southwest Colorado college without the ability to speak their native language, the Fort Lewis sociology and human services professor said. Nonetheless, these students have wanted to better connect with their family, their culture, and their traditions.”

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