Historical Research
Earlier this year, using a controversial bill signed into law by Arizona Gov. Jan Brewer in 2010, the Tucson school board voted to end its Mexican American studies program.
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April 3, 2012 // 0 Comments
Where you are about one half of one percent of the population, how many people can you afford to leave behind by categorical self-definition? One obvious answer is that
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April 2, 2012 // 0 Comments
Mexico’s Supreme Court has ruled that a Tarahumara (Raramuri) community in the state of Chihuahua has the Constitution right to participate in the decision-making of
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April 2, 2012 // 0 Comments
The governments of the five large countries of the Global South, the BRICS states, met in New Delhi this week for their fourth summit. These five countries, Brazil, Russia,
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April 2, 2012 // 0 Comments
In his groundbreaking 1969 volume Custer Died for Your Sins: An Indian Manifesto, Vine Deloria Jr. wrote a now famous critique of anthropologists. He argued that they—as
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March 28, 2012 // 0 Comments
Historically, when different groups of people came into contact with one another, they offered different explanations for the phenotypic variations they saw. Because skin
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March 27, 2012 // 0 Comments
The whole damned history of the world is a story of the struggle between the selfish and the unselfish! . . . All the bad around us is bred by selfishness. Sometimes
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March 27, 2012 // 0 Comments
A group of Native American activists who gathered in Cushing, OK, today were stunned after local authorities forced them into cage, miles away from their destination. The
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March 22, 2012 // 0 Comments
For the vast majority of human history, the only form of government was the few ruling over the many. As human societies became settled and stratified, tribal chiefs and
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March 22, 2012 // 0 Comments
The recent opinion by White Earth Chair Erma J. Vizenor responding to the misinformation presented by fellow chairs Jourdain and LaRose, on behalf of MIGA, raises questions
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March 21, 2012 // 0 Comments