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Paula Mitchell Marks is an American historian specializing in U.S. women’s history and the history of the American West. She was a finalist for the 1999 Pulitzer Prize for history for her book, In a Barren Land: American Indian Dispossession and Survival. [1] [2]
The idea of land exchange, that Native Americans would give up their land east of the Mississippi in exchange for a similar amount of territory west of the river, was first proposed by Jefferson in 1803 and first incorporated into treaties in 1817 (years after the Jefferson presidency). The Indian Removal Act of 1830 included this concept. [46]
The atrocities against Indigenous peoples have related to forced displacement, exile, introduction of new diseases, forced containment in reservations, forced assimilation, forced labour, criminalization, dispossession, land theft, compulsory sterilization, forcibly transferring children of the group to another group, separating children from ...
The re-classification of a children's book on Native American history in a Texas library has caused an uproar among consumers, activists and library organizations nationwide.. Last month, a ...
The fervor for termination faded before Alaska Natives became subjects of the discussion. Alaska Natives hurriedly filed land claims with the Department of the Interior as state land selections and statehood drew closer. Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall was a supporter of the Natives. In 1966, he issued a freeze on state land selections.
Indigenous decolonization describes ongoing theoretical and political processes whose goal is to contest and reframe narratives about indigenous community histories and the effects of colonial expansion, cultural assimilation, exploitative Western research, and often though not inherent, genocide. [1]
Many individual Native Americans, whose tribes are headquartered in other states, reside in Texas. The Texas Historical Commission by law consulted with the three federally recognized tribes in Texas and as well as 26 other federally recognized tribes headquartered in surrounding states. [1] In 1986, the state formed the Texas Commission for ...
In 1890, Dawes himself remarked about the incidence of Native Americans losing their land allotments to settlers: "I never knew a White man to get his foot on an Indian's land who ever took it off." [40] The amount of land in native hands rapidly depleted from some 150 million acres (610,000 km 2) to 78 million acres (320,000 km 2) by 1900. The ...