by Rich Wandschneider | Mar 6, 2023 | David Treuer, Dee Brown, edward curtis, Edward Sheriff Curtis, Indian survival, Indians in unexpected places, Native American languages, Philip Deloria, Philip J. Deloria, Wounded Knee
There’s a new history book that is rattling across the best seller lists. It’s a collection of essays called Myth America: Historians Take on the Biggest Legends and Lies about Our Past. There are 20 chapters on everything from “American Exceptionalism” to the “New...
by Rich Wandschneider | Jan 10, 2023 | Joe Biden, Native American languages, Native revival
President Biden continued his strong support for Native American causes and cultures this week when he signed two bills into law supporting language revitalization and education. The bills were authored by Senator Brian Schatz of Hawaii, who, as chair of the Senate...
by Rich Wandschneider | May 28, 2016 | African American DNA, Alvin Josephy, Indian DNA, John W. Powell, Native American languages, Smithsonian
There’s an interesting piece in today’s NYT about genetic testing African Americans. The researchers covered in the article calculate that “the ancestors of the average African-American today were 82.1 percent African, 16.7 percent European and 1.2 percent Native...
