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🎉 Now Available! Lyda Conley and the Fight to Preserve Huron Indian Cemetery edited by Stephanie Bennett, Samantha Gill, and Tai S. Edwards. 👉 Discover the story: https://kansaspress.ku.edu/9780700641215/

#LydaConley #IndigenousHistory #WomensHistory #KansasHistory #UPKansas

Before the Erie Canal Walking past De-o-wain-sta in Rome, NY: long before the Erie Canal, the Oneida people created trails connecting waterways like the Mohawk River. This place honors their knowledge, labor, and history. 🧡 #RomeNY #OneidaNation #IndigenousHistory #Dustiria

Southern Alberta Indigenous Tour | 2-Day Cultural Experience Explore Blackfoot culture, Writing-on-Stone & Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump on a 2-day Indigenous heritage tour. Book now!

🪶 6,000 years of history. Two days to experience it.

Sacred landscapes, petroglyphs, and authentic Blackfoot culture. Don't miss this post-congress tour.

📅 Aug 19–20 | Deadline: May 31 | Code: IUCR4

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#IUCr2026 #IndigenousHistory #SouthernAlberta

Caribou Hunting in Alpine West Greenland. An Archaeological Investigation | EAZ – Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift EAZ, EAZ journal, Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift, Ethnographisch-Archäologische Zeitschrift, EAZ – Ethnographisch-Archaeologische Zeitschrift

🦌🏔️🔍#EAZAarchive: EAZ 56 (1/2), 2015
Research from West Greenland: What did caribou hunting look like in the centuries before industrialisation?
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#Archaeology #ArcticStudies #HunterGatherers #IndigenousHistory #LandscapeArchaeology #EAZ

Marriage of Pocahontas (1855)

Pocahontas’s capture was part of a wider pattern of pressure and diplomacy that shaped early relations between English settlers and Indigenous nations in North America.

Follow the page for more daily history!

#Pocahontas #Jamestown #ColonialAmerica #IndigenousHistory #SamuelArgall

Clearing the Plains and Clearing the Air: Environmental History and National Memory [Video] In November 2015, Professor James Daschuk delivered the annual Melville-Nelles-Hoffmann Lecture in Environmental History at York University. The title of his lecture was, "Clearing the Plains and Clea...

Throwback to the 2015 Melville-Nelles-Hoffman Lecture.

Professor James Daschuk detailed how Canadian expansion, disease, and government policy devastated Indigenous peoples on the plains, impacting modern health.

niche-canada.org/2016/01/20/c...

#envhist #cdnhist #indigenoushistory #histmed

April 12, 2026, marks 150 years since the introduction of the Indian Act.

Read our blog post: downiewenjack.ca/150-years-indian-act

#IndianAct150 #ReconciliACTION #IndigenousHistory #TruthAndReconciliation #IndigenousRights #DoSomething #IndigenousVoices #CanadaHistory #DownieWenjack

The Black Line was a failed colonial effort in Van Diemen’s Land to capture Aboriginal people, exposing settler fear, military overreach, and the brutal realities of frontier conflict.

#TasmanianHistory
#ColonialViolence
#IndigenousHistory
#FrontierConflict

This plan depicts lands associated with Big River I.R. 118A (Canada Lands #06608). The lands depicted in this plan are associated with Big River First Nation. “854 CLSR SK. Plan, Indian Reserve No. 118A, Addition for Big River Indians of Reserve no. 118. Treaty 6, Saskatchewan. [cartographic material].” 1908. Library and Archives Canada.

Call for Papers – Treaty 6 at 150: Reading the Land, Reckoning the Past

A NiCHE & @skhistoryfolklore.bsky.social series
Proposal Deadline: 30 June 2026
Series publication beginning in August 2026

niche-canada.org/2026/04/09/c...

#envhist #cdnhist #indigenoushistory #treatysix #skhistory #alberta

They called it “civilization.”

Children were taken.
Languages were forbidden.

This wasn’t chaos.

It was policy.

#IndigenousHistory
#HiddenHistory
#Colonization
#ResidentialSchools
#HistoryExplained
#UncomfortableQuestions
#DarkCorridors

“LaRocque urges us to relate to each other as more than the ‘sum of our colonial parts’ (xxiv); this is key to challenging oppression.”

Read a new review of The Emma LaRocque Reader from @lseblogs.bsky.social: bit.ly/4sj9UNj

#IndigenousStudies #IndigenousHistory

Today is the last day for public comment. Protect our public lands. #Chaco #IndigenousHistory #UNESCO #BLM #culture

MAN BATHING IN PAGOSA HOT SPRING, COLORADO - NARA - 524321.jpg

The world's deepest known geothermal hot springs, where 9,000 years of human history bubble up from volcanic depths that scientists still cannot measure.

https://qualla.com/pagosa-hot-springs/

#HotSprings #Geology #IndigenousHistory

@metaactor.bsky.social This isn’t the past. This is a system resurfacing. #Zapotec #Oaxaca #Archaeology #AncientCivilizations #Mesoamerica #IndigenousHistory #CulturalHeritage #HiddenHistory #Smithsonian #ArchaeologyNews #AncientWorld #SacredSites www.facebook.com/share/p/1BYP...

Who was Matoaka? What don’t they tell us about “Pocahontas?“

#Pocahontas #Matoaka #IndigenousHistory

If you are in the UBC AREA, please join us for this KAIROS Blanket Exercise. I’ve done it before and it is a powerful way to learn about the colonial history of this country.

#Reconciliation #IndigenousHistory

Historian Drew Crooks traces Medicine Creek Treaty, Chief Leschi and the legal legacy for Puget Sound tribes At a Lacey Museum history talk, Drew Crooks reviewed the Medicine Creek Treaty of 1854, the disputed role of Chief Leschi and Governor Isaac Stevens, subsequent violence and trials, later reservation changes and the treatylegal legacy for tribal fishing rights.

Drew Crooks reveals how the Medicine Creek Treaty of 1854 continues to influence land and fishing rights, shedding light on Chief Leschi's pivotal role in this historical narrative.

Learn more here!

#LaceyThurstonCounty #WA #LaceyTribalRights #CitizenPortal #FishingRights #IndigenousHistory

Gaming for Truth and Reconciliation: A Player’s Perspective Learn more about playing The Truth in Truth and Reconciliation Educational Board Game.

How can a board game teach hard truths about colonization and Indigenous resilience? 🎯 One player shares their powerful experience with The Truth in Truth and Reconciliation—a game that challenges, educates, and inspires.
Read more: buff.ly/S11Wv8R
#TruthAndReconciliation #IndigenousHistory #SPICE

They called it “discovery.”

But kindness was met with control.

First comes the label.

Then the taking.

Then the erasure.

The story didn’t just describe history.

It replaced it.

#History
#HiddenHistory
#Colonization
#IndigenousHistory
#HistoryExplained
#DarkCorridors

Mathinna, a young Aboriginal Tasmanian girl, was adopted by colonial officials Sir John and Lady Franklin, symbolizing imperial ambition and cultural disruption, before being abandoned, reflecting the tragic consequences of colonialism on..

#Mathinna
#ColonialHistory
#IndigenousHistory
#Tasmania

Episode 389: Nicole Eustace, Indigenous Justice in Early America Nicole Eustace using details from Covered with Night: A Story of Murder and Indigenous Justice in Early America, will take us through one cross-cultural encounter in 1722.

What did justice mean to Indigenous nations in early America? ⚖️

In Ep. 389, Nicole Eustace shares how Native ideas of repair and restoration shaped diplomacy and law.

🎧 benfranklinsworld.com/389

#IndigenousHistory #VastEarlyAmerica #History #NativeHistory #Pennsylvania #USHistory

Electa Quinney helped make public education real in Wisconsin. In 1828, she opened a tuition-free school near Kaukauna, teaching like every kid mattered—because they did. Access is the whole point.
#Wisconsin #WomensHistoryMonth #IndigenousHistory #Wisconsin #ElectaQuinney

Fort Loudoun. Built 1756. Captured by the Cherokee 1760. Relocated above the reservoir line 1979.

The Overhill towns are below the water. Itsa'sa. Talikwa. Si'tiku.

The fort was moved.

April 3, 2026.

EmperorOfTheCherokee.com

#CherokeeHistory #FortLoudoun #IndigenousHistory #HistoricalFiction

Indian Act 150: Call for Submissions NiCHE has partnered with Active History to provide some environmental focused histories of the Indian Act and its widespread implications to their Indian Act 150 series.

ONE WEEK to get your proposals in to @drheathergreen.bsky.social on the environmental dimensions of the Indian Act at 150 for our collaboration with @activehist.bsky.social!

niche-canada.org/2026/03/11/i...

#envhist #cdnhist #indigenoushistory

“…For the wheel of Karma grinds slowly but it does grind finely. And it makes a complete circle.”
Vine Deloria, Jr., in “Custer Died For Your Sins-An Indian Manifesto”, Norman, 1988.
#IndigenousHistory
#ColonizerReality
#AmericanHistory
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Engage LIVE on March 31 at 8:30pm ET:
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#MoanaNuiPodcast #IndigenousHistory #BlackHistory #POCHistory #THIStory #HiddenHistory #BIPOCVoices #GlobalHistory #History #Podcast

Battle of Powder River 1876: US cavalry attacked village | Buffalo’s Fire The first battle of the Great Sioux War ‘set the tone’ for the following 20 conflicts, including the Battle of the Little Bighorn

Often overlooked, the Battle of Powder River set the tone for the Great Sioux War. A UTTC professor reflects 150 years later.
Read more: www.buffalosfire.com/tribes-to-ma...
#GreatSiouxWar #LittleBighorn #IndigenousHistory

Quarantine in the Northwest: The Hudson’s Bay Company’s Measures to Stop the 1779-1783 Smallpox Epidemic The 1779–1783 smallpox epidemic devastated Indigenous communities in western North America; Hudson’s Bay Company traders used quarantine and sanitation to slow spread.

New Comment:

"I am researching book on the Saugeen Ojibway at Saugeen Chippewa Village near Southampton. Is there any record of the smallpox epidemic in that area?" - Keith Stelling

niche-canada.org/2020/04/03/q...

#histmed #cdnhist #indigenoushistory #envhist

The New Yorker recently published “The Hidden History of Native American Enslavement.”

At Native Bound Unbound, we are working to recover and reconnect the lives behind this history.

Support the work:
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#IndigenousHistory #PublicHistory

Indian Act 150: Call for Submissions NiCHE has partnered with Active History to provide some environmental focused histories of the Indian Act and its widespread implications to their Indian Act 150 series.

We are teaming up with @activehist.bsky.social to highlight the environmental dimensions of the the Indian Act at 150.

You have until March 30th to get your proposals in to @drheathergreen.bsky.social!

niche-canada.org/2026/03/11/i...

#envhist #cdnhist #indigenoushistory