Category Archives: american indian

Native American Heritage Month

Posted on November 8, 2024 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

Nanye’hi (pictured), a Cherokee leader, called for peace between the denizens and settlers. When the U.S. Supreme Court decided in 1832 that Georgia had no authority over the Cherokee, which was a sovereign nation, President Andrew Jackson ignored the ruling. … Continue reading →

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Labor Day

Posted on September 2, 2024 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

How Sioux history intersects with Labor Day 2 September 2024 I am reposting a bit of history about Labor Day to recognize workers who lost their lives before such a day was commemorated in their honor. Today—2 September—marks not only … Continue reading →

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POSTCARDS REDUX

Posted on August 20, 2024 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

Remembering What We Forgot The photo from the February 1939 issue of National Geographic was repurposed as a postcard: a rare example of Native history that features fishers at Celilo Falls. Credit: Three Lions, Inc. (A US photo agency), copyright … Continue reading →

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POSTCARDS AS COMMUNIQUES When Indigenous History Gets Overlooked, Ignored

Posted on August 7, 2024 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

[The Wasco and Wishram lived along what is now called Hood River in Oregon, and lost their territory to settlers in the 1800s. Edward S. Curtis captured an image of a Wishram girl in 1909. Photo from the Library of … Continue reading →

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May I have your permission to land?

Posted on September 4, 2019 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

When visitors arrive in Nanaimo in their canoes, they ask permission to land. We learned this traipsing through Departure Bay, the waterfront of our new and temporary digs on Vancouver Island in British Columbia. We found a carving that faces … Continue reading →

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When News is Like Magic

Posted on August 12, 2019 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

What you don’t see can hurt you James Tankard, one of journalism’s key scholars, talks about news reporting as a “magician’s sleight of hand.” Tankard means that we muggles pay attention to the rabbit and the high-top hat, while oblivious … Continue reading →

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This Book will Haunt You

Posted on February 26, 2019 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

Watch out for Teddy I’m beginning to hear voices. Ted Van Alst’s latest story about growing-up-Indian in Chicago has a captivating spirit that won me over. Completely. His character—Teddy—gets inside your head. Here’s a scene in the book (Sacred Smokes) … Continue reading →

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A Pescatarian’s Dream

Posted on January 12, 2019 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

I looked forward to sampling the local fish in India as we made our way farther and farther south. We landed at the southern-most tip in the lovely city of Kovalom at a resort with a pool, hot-running water and … Continue reading →

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Can I Afford to be Moral?

Posted on November 26, 2018 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

Books by Native American Authors The delightful feature of attending Portland’s annual literary fair—held this month–was discovering the works of American Indian writers. I was transfixed, hearing Layli Long Soldier, Tommy Orange, Trevino Brings Plenty, and a host of American … Continue reading →

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November Welcomes Native American Heritage Month

Posted on November 1, 2018 by Cynthia (Istá Thó Thó) Coleman Emery

But Can We Really Celebrate? Native American Heritage Month has been officially celebrated—at least as an idea–for nearly 30 years. The first official announcement occurred when President George Herbert Walker Bush declared November as National Native American Heritage Month in … Continue reading →

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