Category: Native Americans/First Nation

  • “Squaw Men,” “Half-Breeds,” and Amalgamators: Late Nineteenth-Century Anglo-American Attitudes Toward Indian-White Race-Mixing American Indian Culture and Research Journal Volume 15, Number 3 (1991) David D. Smits, Professor of History The College of New Jersey Indian-white biological amalgamation, whether in or out of wedlock, is a subject well calculated to evoke spirited conceptions and feelings; certainly,…

  • One of the Family: Métis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan by Brenda Macdougall (review) Canadian Ethnic Studies Volume 44, Number 3, 2012 pages 147-148 DOI: 10.1353/ces.2013.0012 Frits Pannekoek, President and Professor of History Athabasca University, Athabasca, Alberta, Canada Brenda Macdougall, One of the Family: Metis Culture in Nineteenth-Century Northwestern Saskatchewan (Vancouver: University of British Columbia…

  • Multiracial Identities in Trinidad and Guyana: Exaltation and Ambiguity Latin American Issues Volume 13 (1997) (The Caribbean(s) Redefined) Article IV Camille Hernandez-Ramdwar, Associate Professor of Sociology Ryerson University, Toronto, Ontario For people of formerly colonized countries, race mixing among the populace has always been a reality. This is particularly true for Caribbean peoples. This paper…

  • How does a group of people who have American Indian ancestry but no records of treaties, reservations, Native language, or peculiarly “Indian” customs come to be accepted—socially and legally—as Indians?

  • Who is an Indian?: Race, Place, and the Politics of Indigeneity in the Americas University of Toronto Press August 2013 272 pages Paper ISBN: 9780802095527 Cloth ISBN: 9780802098184 Edited by: Maximilian C. Forte, Associate Professor of Sociology and Anthropology Concordia University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada Who is an Indian? This is possibly the oldest question facing…

  • This book shows that without the cooperation of the “mixed-bloods,” or part-Indians, dispossession of Indian lands by the U.S. government in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries would have been much more difficult to accomplish.

  • A Tale of Two Seminole Counties Indian Voices August 2013 page 7 Phil Fixico Some coincidences can’t be ignored, like February the 26th, in both Florida’s and Oklahoma’s Seminole Counties. What does this date and these counties have in common. Trayvon Martin was killed on February 26th, 2012, in Seminole County, Florida. He was born…

  • Fighting the ‘White Man’s War’ The New York Times 2013-07-19 Aaron Barnhart and Diane Eickhoff The Battle of Honey Springs was one of the only Civil War engagements where the majority of the combatants were non-white. Three miles down a gravel road near Rentiesville, Okla., sits a portable building that, for now, serves as the…

  • The story of Mary Musgrove (1700-1764), a Creek Indian-English woman struggling for success in colonial society, is an improbable one.

  • Black Indians: An American Story Rich-Heape Films 2001 60 Minutes Close Captioned NTSC All Regions Steven R. Heape – Executive Producer/Producer Chip Richie – Director/Producer James Earl Jones – Narrator Neville Brothers – Soundtrack Daniel Blake Smith – Screenwriter Howard Tyler – Editor “Black Indians: An American Story”— (as seen on ABC) brings to light…