American artists were instrumental in propagating the false narrative of Thanksgiving, a deliberate erasure of violence against Indigenous peoples.
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Harvard Admits Owning Hair Samples of 700 Native American Students
The university said it will return the samples, some of which were used in research that directly or indirectly supported scientific racism.
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This Thanksgiving, Don’t Forget the History of Native Bounties in the US
The documentary short Bounty and its accompanying website make a potent statement from the Penobscot Nation that they are still here.
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The First National Memorial to Native American Veterans
Indigenous people serve in the US Armed Services at a higher rate than any other group, but their contributions are often diminished. A new memorial in Washington, DC, hopes to change that.
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The Native Americans Whose Activism Made DC’s Football Team Change Its Name
The National Museum of the American Indian will be hosting two screenings of the documentary More Than a Word alongside a conversation with activist Amanda Blackhorse, who took pro football to court.
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Wendy Red Star Is Teaching Children About the Crow Nation With Her Art
“You don’t have to make things easy for them,” says Red Star about her new exhibition for children at MASS MoCA.
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Why Dior’s Appropriation of Native Identity to Sell Perfume Miserably Backfired
Footage from the perfume’s release party also featured white people dressed in sacred war bonnets dancing around tipis and belting out war whoops as spectators sipped champagne.
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Filming Native American Performance Through a Decolonized Lens
In her three-channel video “Mother Drum,” Dara Friedman avoids many of the problematic patterns non-Native artists often fall into when making art about Native American communities.
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The Long and Toxic History of Exoticism in Tobacco Advertising
An exhibition at the Wolfsonian-FIU tracks romantic and racist stereotypes of native cultures in European tobacco advertising from the 1880s to the 1940s.
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Cleveland’s Major League Baseball Team Will Retire Racist “Chief Wahoo” Logo
Though it will still appear on some merchandise sold in northeast Ohio and the Arizona city where the team holds its spring training.
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Dakota Elders Decide to Bury Sam Durant’s Controversial Sculpture
Dakota Elders have decided the fate of Sam Durant’s “Scaffold,” which is legally in their possession.
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Jimmie Durham Retrospective Reignites Debate Over His Claim of Native Ancestry
Though he has both claimed to have and denied having Cherokee heritage, institutions often present Durham as a Native American artist.