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"In Occupied America, Rodolfo Acuña argues that Anglo-Americans invaded Mexico for the sole purpose of forging an economically profitable North American empire. In justifying their use of conquest and violence to bring about progress, bitterness arose between two people—a bitterness that actually “gave birth to a legacy of hate.” Like Howard Zinn, Acuña demonstrates how President James K. Polk manufactured the war with Mexico"
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13,000 year old North American spear point
"The first clear evidence of human activity in North America are spear heads like this. They are called Clovis points. These spear tips were used to hunt large game. The period of the Clovis people coincides with the extinction of mammoths, giant sloth, camels and giant bison in North America. The extinction of these animals was caused by a combination of human hunting and climate change.
How did humans reach America? North America was one of the last continents in the world to be settled by humans after about 15,000 BC. During the last Ice Age, water, which previously flowed off the land into the sea, was frozen up in vast ice sheets and glaciers so sea levels dropped. This exposed a land bridge that enabled humans to migrate through Siberia to Alaska. These early Americans were highly adaptable and Clovis points have been found throughout North America." 
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May 16, 2012 1:29 AM
Native Americans in the U.S. now make up less than 1% of the population #2010census
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May 16, 2012 3:28 PM
"It’s impossible for me not to think of these people as all very young. I mean that’s just the way it seems to be with Stone Age people that they don’t live very long lives, and it has even been suggested that many of these Clovis points were made by teenagers – young men or women on the move, old enough to reproduce, old enough to explore and very switched on as hunter-gatherers." -Gary Haynes, Archaeologist, University of Nevada
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Modern teenagers get into trouble because they have no real responsibilities. No job, no kids, no family (of their own making), no possessions (of their own earnings), no payments. So they explore and experiment with risk taking since they have nothing to loose.
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Here are some of the things in American history I was taught little to nothing about at American high school. I post this as a way to compare notes and get ideas for future posts. It is hard to kno...
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"Slavery by Another Name: The Re-Enslavement of Black Americans from the Civil War to World War II" (2012) is a PBS television documentary based on the 2008 book of the same name by Douglas A. Blac... Delete the scoop?
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"Actress Sandra Oh reads the speech given by Yuri Kochiyama who was held in a Japanese internment camp during WWII. Part of a reading from Voices of a People's History of the United States given October 5, 2005 in Los Angeles California"
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Yuri Kochiyama is a Japanese American human rights activist who was put into a U.S. concentration camp at age 17. She was influenced by Malcolm X and was there holding his hand as he lay bleeding from his fatal gun shot wound. Delete the scoop?
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" There should be a White History Month in America. That way we can teach all about the things White Americans have done in history, like: Cherokee Trail of TearsJapanese American internmentPhilippine-American WarJim CrowThe genocide of Native AmericansTransatlantic slave tradeThe Middle PassageThe history of White American racismBlack CodesSlave patrolsKu Klux KlanThe War on DrugsTreaty of Guadalupe HidalgoHow white racism grew out of slavery and genocideHow whites still benefit from slavery and genocideWhite anti-racismThe Southern strategyThe rape of black slave women - MORE -
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Abagond's list of historical events to study for European Heritage History Month. Also known as a list of what happens when European Americans believe that white people are superior.
And here are two questions students can answer during 'White' History Month:
What happened when racism confronted pluralism? What continues to happen when racism confronts pluralism?
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"In order to get the real horror of slavery, we need to grapple with this fact. Slave revolts were unusual through most of the period, even when Blacks were often in a position to overwhelm their masters. Post-emancipation, revenge didn’t really happen, even when responding to mistreatment on such a magnificent scale with violence would have been all too sadly understandable. ... Whites had most of the guns and the legal cover to do pretty much as they pleased when it came to Black people. Chain gangs, lynchings, violent white uprisings, white racist vigilantes, and extrajudicial assassinations were common, and the chilling effect kept Black people in virtual chains throughout the country and especially in the South. Django is a fictional character for a reason, and knowing that reason is necessary to understanding slavery and the persistence of its legacy of inequality in contemporary American life."
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There were actually many revolts from enslaved Blacks in the U.S.
*New York Slave Revolt of 1712
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"The following is based on “Birth of the Negro Myth”, chapter two of Cheikh Anta Diop’s “The African Origin of Civilization: Myth or Reality” (1974) ... Europeans assumed that their material advantage extended to morals, society, government and everything else. They also assumed this advantage extended to all of history. This caused them to misread history in certain ways.
So, for example, when the French scholar Count Constantin de Volney arrived in Egypt in the 1780s he was shocked to find that the people there appeared to be part black – even though he knew his Herodotus.
The myth started out as an understandable misunderstanding of Portuguese sailors of the 1400s. But it proved so useful an excuse for the slave trade and colonization that it got written about and in time flowered into revealed truth, part of the European mindset."
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A lot of good information here. I wish more was told about Amerindians discovering the Americas.
Settlement by the Spanish started the European colonization of the Americas. In 1513, Juan Ponce de Leon found Florida.
The first French settlement was Port Royal in 1604.
The first successful English settlement was at Jamestown in 1607. Delete the scoop?
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disclaimer: People are not illegal - actions are illegal
Christopher Columbus (1451-1506) Born in Italy.
While looking for a shorter route to Asia, Columbus sailed west from Europe, instead of east and landed on the island of Hispaniola (Dominican Republic and Haiti). This landing started the invasions, murders, rapes, disease outbreaks, theft and colonization of the Americas.
Columbus was not the first to discover the Americas. Indigenous Amerindians discovered it first when they migrated from Asia.
Next, Bjarni Herjólfsson, a Norse (Norwegian) explorer was the first known European to discover the mainland of the Americas, which he sighted in 985 or 986.
Leif Ericson, another Norwegian, with the knowledge from Herjólfsson, lead an expedition that landing in North America, about 500 years before Columbus. Delete the scoop?
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Former first lady Jackie Kennedy and Coretta Scott King at Martin Luther King Jr.'s 1968 funeral. Delete the scoop?
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Freedom's Unfinished Revolution: An Inquiry into the Civil War and Reconstruction (American Social History Project) [American Social History Project,Stephen Brier]
"From the award-winning authors of Who Built America?, Freedom's Unfinished Revolution offers a ground-breaking presentation of the Civil War and Reconstruction. Filled with a wide array of original source materials including letters, speeches, excerpts from novels and newspapers, photographs, engravings, art and political cartoons, Freedom's Unfinished Revolution arose out of what the Teacher's Advisory Committee has called "the need and desire to create a textbook for high school students that would make the Reconstruction come alive"." Delete the scoop?
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"This book describes the affects of Spanish, Mexican, and American settlement in Indian country on Californian tribes. The author points out differences and similarities between northern, central and southern coastal California Indians and how some tribes were affected and therefore reacted differently to new arrivals from Spain, and the east coast of the blossoming United States.
This book is clearly written and moves at a consistent pace because every sentence is pertinent to California's amazing history!
Sutter's treatment of and plan for Native Americans is something so-called "historians" at Sutter's Mill should learn about before they tout him as some kind of heroic frontiersman. Rape, murder, suicide, disease, corrupted politics, vigilantism, paradoxical alliances between tribes and "White" men... and much more are all in here! I couldn't put this book down! Though it is a history book (of sorts), it reads like a dramatic murder-mystery book... only difference is is that this is non-fiction!! I never knew California's history was so unique and full of intrigue! You'll never think of California as the surfer-dude, Hollywood, sunny golden state again after reading this book..." -Rook Andalus
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Indian termination was the policy of the United States from the mid-1940s to the mid-1960s.[1] The belief was that Native Americans would be better off if assimilated as individuals into mainstream American society. To that end, Congress proposed to end the special relationship between tribes and the federal government. The intention was to grant Native Americans all the rights and privileges of citizenship, and to reduce their dependence on a bureaucracy whose mismanagement had been documented. In practical terms, the policy terminated the U.S. government's recognition of sovereignty of tribes, trusteeship of Indian reservations, and exclusion of Indians from state laws. Native Americans were to become subject to state and federal taxes as well as laws, from which they had previously been exempt.[2]
Effects During 1953–1964, 109 tribes were terminated, approximately 1,365,801 acres (5,527 km2) of trust land were removed from protected status, and 13,263 Native Americans lost tribal affiliation.[21] As a result of termination, the special federal trustee relationship of the Indians with the federal government ended, they were subjected to state laws, and their lands were converted to private ownership.[7]
Education By 1972 termination clearly had affected the tribes' education. There was a 75 percent dropout rate for the Menominee Tribe. This dropout rate resulted in a generation of Menominee children who had only a ninth grade education.[24] The tribes lost federal support for their schools. The states were expected to assume the role of educating the Indian children.[25] The Menominee children for example did not have their own tribal schools anymore and were discriminated against within the public schools.
Health Care The Indian Health Service provided health care for many Indian tribes, but once a tribe was terminated they lost their eligibility.[12] Many tribes no longer had any hospitals and no means to get health care. For example in the Menominee people had no tribal hospitals or clinics. The tribal hospital at Keshena had to close because it did not meet state standards.
Regaining federal recognition There were over one hundred tribes terminated during this era. A few were able to regain their federal recognition. The tribes achieved this through long court battles, which for some tribes took decades and exhausted large amounts of money. Delete the scoop?
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The comprehensive Negro Act of 1740 passed in South Carolina made it illegal for slaves to move abroad, assemble in groups, raise food, earn money, and learn to write English (though reading was not proscribed). Additionally, owners were permitted to kill rebellious slaves if necessary.[1]
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So, I'm sitting here completely stunned by this and unsure how to process it. It's not the "possibility" that the government was involved in the assassination that has me floored, but that I have ...
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Whoa! This is the first time I've heard this. But, I guess I shouldn't be surprised. I knew about COINTELPRO which was the U.S. government's underhanded smear campaign to bring down the Black Panthers and AIM (American Indian Movement). I just checked wikipedia and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. was also a target of COINTELPRO. Delete the scoop?
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American abolitionists (fl. 1829-1865) were those who worked to abolish slavery to free the slaves. Among others: David Walker wrote "An Appeal to the Coloured People of the World" (1829) three yea... Delete the scoop?
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Japanese history textbooks used in schools are famous for whitewashing history. In particular there are three events they downplay or just plain leave out: The Nanjing Massacre (1937), also known a...
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"White Americans generally have little interest in black history: They see blacks and Africa as unimportant and therefore not worth knowing much about beyond a few self-serving stereotypes.They use history not to understand themselves and the world butto feel they are better than everyone else. A true black history threatens feel-good white history.So blacks must uncover their own history. It is harder than you think: Before 1865few blacks could write – it was against the law to teach a slave to read and write – so precious little has been recorded about what they remembered of Africa and what they experienced in America.Before 1970few could make a full-time living as black historians.From 1808 to 1950 blacks were almost completely cut off from Africa: in 1808 slaves stopped coming regularly from Africa and until at least 1950 the white rulers of Africa kept out most Black Americans as possible troublemakers."- MORE - Delete the scoop?
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Between 1849 and 1950, blacks were segregated from whites by law and by private action in transportation, public accommodations, armed forces, recreational facilities, prisons, and schools in both Northern and Southern states. Via Venus Evans-Winters
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"I was about 10-years-old when I tried to read Alex Haley's Pulitzer Prize winning book, Roots. ... Roots -- published in 1976 -- was a ground-breaking book that helped cure the country's collective amnesia about the brutality of American slavery."
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The British (1603- ) were Europeans who lived on the islands of Britain and Ireland off the north-west coast of mainland Europe.
The British lived in the United Kingdom, made up of four kingdoms. Since each kingdom had its own language, “British” is more a political term than a cultural one.
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President Coolidge signs the 1924 immigration act, restricting non Northern European immigration. Delete the scoop?
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By Victor Landa, NewsTaco
"Finding a voice or reason on immmigration is not as futile as it sounds, you just need to know where to look. I found such a voice in a friend."
#SocialSecurity #Agriculture #HighSkilledJobs #LowSkilledJobs #Microsoft #MeltingPot #NationOfImmigrants #Economy
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June 14, 2012 2:41 AM
I had thought the best way to 'sell' open immigration was to tug at your heart strings, however Mr. Aldrete explains the benefits of immigration via our pocket books. He has the most effective description to 'sell' progressive immigration reform that I've ever heard.
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I had thought the best way to 'sell' open immigration was to tug at your heart strings, however Mr. Aldrete explains the benefits of immigration via our pocket books. He has the most effective description to 'sell' progressive immigration reform that I've ever heard.
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"“Roosevelt needed the support of Southern Democrats for his New Deal programs, and he therefore decided not to push for anti-lynching legislation…though he did denounce lynchings as “a vile form of collective murder”.
Who is the more admirable character, the person who supports lynching because of racist beliefs, or someone who has the presence of mind to call it “vile” and the power to stop the practice, but does nothing for the sake of politics?" Delete the scoop?
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