Someone Put a Fake Native American Head on the Lap of Andrew Jackson

Sheena Louise Roetman
7/3/15
A fake Native American head was found early Tuesday in the lap of a statue of Andrew Jackson in Jacksonville, Florida...

How Did I Miss That? Mankiller for the $20; Citizen Godzilla

Steve Russell
6/26/15
In the journalism trade, they call it a “scoop” or a “beat” and, if it involves special access to a source, a “get.” The basic idea is arriving at a destination first...
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Getting Andrew Jackson off the $20 Just Got Harder

Steve Russell
6/22/15
Treasury Secretary Jacob J. Lew has corrected the terms of the recent Jackson Removal debate by pointing out there has been one woman on U.S...

Crowdsourcing Jackson Removal

Steve Russell
5/26/15
New York Times columnist Gail Collins has dived into the Jackson Removal debate, commenting that replacing the slave owner and Indian killer with the escaped slave, Harriet Tubman,...

Eyes On Jackson Removal: Tubman Over Mankiller in Unofficial Vote

Steve Russell
5/14/15
The final votes are in and cosmic justice will not prevail. The point of Women on 20s is not to remove Andrew Jackson as much as to accomplish a woman on U.S...

‘Baseless and Fictitious Anti-Indian Rhetoric’ at Rogue Congressional Hearing on Fed Recognition

Gale Courey Toensing
5/13/15
The United South and Eastern Tribes, seven partner organizations and a federally recognized sovereign Indian nation have asked the House Natural Resources Subcommittee on Indian, I...

Song of Sophomores II: The Other Half of Humanity

Steve Russell
4/17/15

When I first started university teaching, I was many times the bearer of shocking news to some young woman that her grandmother was not allowed to vote....

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Dump Jackson From the $20; Replace him with a Mankiller

Steve Russell
4/13/15
It’s time for an update on the women organizing what some people like to call Andrew Jackson’s “removal” from the $20 bill, after what President Jackson called the policy that put ...

The Odds on Jackson Removal and a Native on Paper Money—Yes, It Happened

Steve Russell
3/17/15
Andrew Jackson the Indian fighter was a working class hero in his time...
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What One Spoon Can Mean Through Generations: An Essay Winner Explains

ICTMN Staff
2/26/15
Each year the Young Native Writers Essay Contest encourages Native American students to write about their experiences as a member of the Native community and the culture that inspi...

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