Suzan Shown Harjo

I learned about the banning of Rethinking Columbus: The Next 500 Years from Dr. Debbie Reese (Nambe Pueblo), who blogs at American Indians in Children’s Literature....

January 24, 2012
African Americans and American Indians can both tell tales of historical injustice—but to what extent do those tales overlap?...
This year marks the 200th anniversary of the start of the War of 1812, during which the United States fought British and aboriginal forces in a conflict that helped define Canada a...
The term Massachusetts comes from the Moswetuset part of Moswetuset Hummock, which is a small, wooded hillock on Quincy Bay. But what’s the significance of the hummock?...
Steve Russell

The traditions of my people teach that acting unjustly toward others will cause blowback. This is famously illustrated in the story of how disease came to man in retaliation for what he had done to parts of creation he could dominate....

December 22, 2011
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ICTMN Staff
December 18, 2011
The Texas Historical Commission is offering a $5,000 stipend for an eight-week Diversity Internship in Historic Preservation...
Simon Moya-Smith

It was earlier this month during a snowstorm that I stumbled upon an interesting tidbit of American history—the kind you’d hope would make it into inner city high school textbooks, but somehow gets omitted like so many other things....

November 23, 2011
As enigmatic as the Da Vinci Code, the website showcasing fragments of documents from the upcoming exhibit of the Vatican Secret Archives presents the explorer with a sort of puzzl...
Gale Courey Toensing
October 12, 2011
It is a novel idea: Gather in a library a group of individuals who represent stereotypes where people can “borrow” and “read” them instead of books...

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