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Anthropology, General History, Native Issues, Uncategorized1 Comment

Redskins Etc. as Racial Stereotypes

David G. Lewis, PhD

Native peoples of the America were thought of in early philosophy as being Red Indians, fitting perfectly into a color wheel of peoples of the earth, White people being from Europe, Black people being from Africa, Brown peoples being from the Mediterranean and surrounding regions, Yellow people being from Asia, and Red people being the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. This was common thought in European philosophy that predated the creation of anthropology and most other social sciences (I don’t have the references, just go with this for now). Anthropology was not really borne until the 1850s with Anthropologists like … Continue reading Redskins Etc. as Racial Stereotypes

California Natives, General History, Native Issues, Oregon Coast, Oregon indians, Uncategorized12 Comments

Klamath River Reservation and White Privilege, 1856

David G. Lewis, PhD

Continuing with the ndnhistoryresearch series on the massacres of the Tribes on northern California and Southern Oregon coast, I have found a few more documents that address the removal of the tribes to the Klamath River Reservation and their rights and conditions. These reports are from the microfilm copies of the correspondence series for the California Indian Agents. In the mid-1850s, there was an early plan to create three reservations for Indians of California. In 1851, the three Indian superintendents of California (Barbour, Wozencraft, and McKee) divided the state, north, center and south, and dutifully traveled from Sacramento through their … Continue reading Klamath River Reservation and White Privilege, 1856

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Round-up and Removal of Indians in 2013: Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, USA

David G. Lewis, PhD

In an apparent repeat of history, at least 31 Native people from Wolf Point, Montana, were rounded-up, arrested and removed to the town of Poplar, the apparent contemporary town site of the original Indian Agency of the Fort Peck Indian Reservation. The police action, which rounded up Native people, vagrants, drunks and undesirables, on July 12, 2013, was accomplished by the town police, and ordered by the city council. The people rounded up were stuffed into vehicles, to the point that one person passed out, and suffered a ride to the detention facility in Poplar. There they were not housed … Continue reading Round-up and Removal of Indians in 2013: Fort Peck Indian Reservation, Montana, USA