Asst. Prof. US History and American Indian Studies @ UW-Madison. Turtle Mountain Métis. Part-time historian, full-time geek.
I have a few #Indigenous in #BritishColumbia friends trying to migrate to Mastodon this week. I don't have capacity to write up a beginner's guide for #NativePeoples seeking to migrate over right now - I'm out of spoons today. Putting this out there to #NativeMastodon & #IndigenousMastodon - if you have a beginner's link for our #NativeFriends - post reply here. I'll share this with my native pals in migration process.
Please retoot & boost to help my native friends moving over.
Hey #histodons and #book people! I'm doing a free online event about #OnSavageShores: How #Indigenous Americans Discovered Europe with the excellent Andrew Lipman for lovely indie Brookline Booksmith this Sunday at 2pm EST/7pm GMT. Please do share and come talk to me! #books #history
Not much of a map, but stunning for what it tells of change, on so many levels.
In 1903, eastern Oklahoma was still land held by the "5 Civilized Tribes". You needed permission to put in infrastructure. Here, T.M. Buffington, Chief of the Cherokee and Pleasant Porter "Chief of Muskogee Nation" sign off on putting in the latest technology of a Telephone and Telegraph line. First Nations leaders putting in the network of the future. #native #nativeamerican #maps #oldmaps #technology
It’s always worth reading David Blight and this is a thoughtful piece connecting the 1850s to today. But I think the emphasis on #SCOTUS—comparing Dred Scott in the 1850s and our modern reactionary Court—is misguided for a number of important reasons. https://www.nytimes.com/2022/12/21/magazine/civil-war-jan-6.html 1/
My latest for
#Highcountrynews
regarding the likelihood that #salmon and #steelhead historically ascended the Skagit River above the area the city of Seattle built its dams beginning in 1919, contrary to the city's claims, with implications for fish passage. The city's dams are in the heart of the #UpperSkagitIndianTribe 's usual and accustomed area.
#Indigenous #IndigenousSovereignty #hydropower #Seattle #justice #environmentaljustice #WaterInTheWest
PSA: "Located on the ancestral lands of the Miami, Delaware, Potawatomi, and Shawnee people, the College of Arts and Sciences at Indiana University (IU) Bloomington invites applications for tenure/tenure-track positions in Native American and Indigenous Studies to begin Fall 2023. Interested candidates at the associate or full professor level will be considered for the position of director for the American Indian Studies Research Institute" Applications due January 2, 2023 and beyond.
Just discovered via @yrochat "Lausanne 1830: Stories in History," an educational game that puts the player in the role of a census-taker. I have a hard time expressing just how thrilling this premise is to my geeky #histodon self. https://lausanne1830.ch/wp-content/game/Lausanne_1830.html
Developed in French - "Lausanne 1830: histoires des registres" https://lausanne1830.ch/
#histodons #history #histoire #VideoGames #demography #demographie @histodons
Ohio’s historical society can proceed with efforts to gain control of a set of ancient ceremonial and burial earthworks currently maintained by a country club where members golf alongside the mounds but access to the public is limited, the state Supreme Court ruled Wednesday. https://indiancountrytoday.com/news/court-sides-with-history-societys-access-to-earthworks
Ohio Supreme Court upholds lower court decisions for Ohio History Connection to acquire Octagon Earthworks lease https://www.ohiohistory.org/ohio-supreme-court-upholds-lower-court-decisions-for-ohio-history-connection-to-acquire-octagon-earthworks-lease/
If you're like me, then you were really happy to learn about Mastodon's enthusiastic support for image descriptions, and you were eager to join in.
Then you went to actually write something and realized you have no idea how to present visual info in a way that is helpful/enjoyable to those who are #VisuallyImpaired or #Blind.
I found this guide really informative: https://uxdesign.cc/how-to-write-an-image-description-2f30d3bf5546
Post-viral Edit: Don't forget to give the author some love on medium. They did the work!
Occasionally, we will feature new publications on themes related to the New Fascism Syllabus. In our latest weblog post, Lucie Fremlova provides the first detailed study of queer Roma, who continue to face discrimination both under authoritarian and liberal regimes.
URL: https://newfascismsyllabus.com/contributions/queer-roma/
Tags: #History #Histodons #Homophobia #Queer #Roma #Romani #Sexuality
White House released federal guidance on #Indigenous Knowledge today: https://www.whitehouse.gov/ostp/news-updates/2022/12/01/white-house-releases-first-of-a-kind-indigenous-knowledge-guidance-for-federal-agencies/
In addition to being an important policy document, the guidance should serve as a good example of #histSci / #histSTM and #STS informing #scipol - possibly a good primary source for students!
#histodons UW-Madison has a #Native student house on a city block that the university intends to develop. In a contentious webinar last night, admins suggested it has structural integrity issues, paired with a proposal that an #Indigenous space might be consolidated with other student affinity groups. In anticipation of debate about the imperative of Native students keeping their own building, I'm trying to get a sense of other campus configurations. Which #universities have a Native house?
ICYMI, the music series started last week on Ben Franklin's World with an exploration of Music and Song in Native North America. Our guest is Chad Hamill, an ethnomusicologist and a citizen of the Spokane Tribe.
Contingent Magazine's end-of-year list of books published by historians off the tenure-track is out! Books about the enduring performance of Southern femininity, modern medical architecture, and NATO and nuclear weapons, among other topics. Check out the list and support the work of contingent faculty.
https://contingentmagazine.org/2022/11/26/2022-contingent-book-list/
@histodons #histodons
That was the message of Wamsutta Frank James, a Wampanoag man whose censored speech in 1970 identified the true culprit of the trouble: historians (now known as #histodons!) A reliable path to the past does not run through memory but rather through accurate history, which must include Native knowledge of the past. James' words helped spur the creation of the #NationalDayofMourning. To wit, here's a toast to all the more accurate paths to the past we have all yet to walk together.
As we discuss the merits of a source created 400 years after the event it allegedly depicts, I show my students other Ferris paintings. Turns out, the guy did a whole series paintings depicting seminal moments in American history, many of which represent #Native people. They illustrate four foundational myths about Native people. All of these, I think, are consolidated in the shorthand of what we might call "Thanksgiving myths." Such myths make for great holidays, but pretty bad histories.
Hello, world! I’m a legal scholar who tends to be overcommitted. But I’m always grateful for new connections, research, and conversations with scholars in my fields of interest and those related. I look forward to hearing more about your conferences, drafts, and new ideas—especially projects that relate to American colonialism, Native nations, and United States constitutional law and history.
Boozhoo! Hello! Here's a little #introduction. With family from #TurtleMountain, I'm a #historian or #histodon who teaches #Indigenous, #education, and #environmental histories. Ask me about my book project on #JohnDewey, America's most prominent philosopher of education and democracy and his relationship with Indian #BoardingSchools. In my more-than-academic life, I enjoy #fantasy, #gaming, and #Tolkien, among other geeky pursuits. I'm always happy to think together.
