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Five hundred years ago, on March 31 1520, the Portuguese explorer Ferdinand Magellan began a sojourn in a part of South America that has been known as Patagonia ever since. Magellan’s five-month long overwinter in a natural harbour that has become known as Puerto San Julián was part of the first circumnavigation of the globe.
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Since the election of Joe Biden and Kamala Harris, journalists, scholars, and activists have celebrated Harris as the first vice president who is a woman and of Asian American and African American heritage. She is not, however, the first person of color to hold the office. For many people, this comes as a surprise. However, for scholars of Native American and Indigenous Studies (NAIS), as well as many US historians whose work focuses on the executive branch of the federal government, Charles Curtis’s name is already well-known. Curtis, a member of the Kaw Nation and the first person of color to serve as vice president, is suddenly a figure of popular interest.
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Land in eastern Oklahoma that the United States promised to the Creek Nation in an 1833 treaty is still a reservation under tribal sovereignty, at least when it comes to criminal law, the Supreme Court ruled on July 9. Justice Neil Gorsuch wrote for the majority, “Because Congress has not said otherwise, we hold the government to its word.”
OKLAHOMA IS – AND ALWAYS HAS BEEN – NATIVE LAND Reading time: 6 minutes Some Oklahomans...
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AN APACHE CAMPAIGN IN THE SIERRA MADRE – AUDIOBOOK By John Gregory Bourke (1846 –...
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Estimated reading time: 6 minutes On 29 December 1890, between 150-300 Sioux Lakota men, women,...
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Estimated reading time: 8 minutes By Sturt Manning, Cornell University. Columbus famously reached...
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Estimated reading time: 11 minutes In the history of warfare, there have been mismatched conflicts...
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Explore the story of the Roanoke disappearance. And the latest findings and theories that have...
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Reading time: 11 minutes The Civilisation Program, the Indian Removal Act and the Cherokee Trail...
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For over 5,000 years the Eastern, Southeastern, and the Midwestern U.S. were populated by mound-building, Native American cultures that constructed anywhere from tens of thousands, to hundreds of thousands of earthen mounds.
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