Native Americans

Aztec sacrificial altar, Mexico by Kevin Beary FOR DECADES now, African-American leaders have been calling for a formal United States apology for the American role in the slave trade, with some even demanding reparations. Indian tribes proclaim their tax-exempt status as something they are owed…

ACCORDING TO Almon Lauber’s booklet, Indian Slavery In Colonial Times Within The Present Limits Of The United States, published by the Faculty of Political Science at Columbia University in 1913, slavery and the slave trade were nearly universally practiced among the ‘Native’ Indians prior to…

by Kenn Gividen HERE ARE two stories. The first is fictional. The second is factual. Imagine an African family — a father, mother, and seven children — trekking across the African Savannah to find a new home. It’s the 19th century. They were warned: Slave traders are lurking in the underbrush. They will…

EDITOR’S NOTE: Under the regime’s laws, Amerindian ancestry means everything, and White ancestry means nothing — absolutely nothing. While the idea of keeping a child within his or her own racial community is valid, this law — which considers a White child to “belong”…

by Mark Deavin IN JULY 1996 two students wading in the Columbia River at Kennewick, Washington, stumbled across the skeletal remains of a middle-aged European male. At first anthropologists presumed they had discovered a pioneer who had died in the late 1800’s. But radiocarbon dating subsequently…

A firsthand report from an army officer who was there Introduction: John Greenway, Professor of Anthropology at the University of Colorado and a specialist in the history of American Indians has found thirteen errors on the first page of the introduction to Dee Brown’s bestseller Bury My Heart…

Majority versus minority anthropology ANTHROPOLOGY, which is the study of ethnicity and race, is itself a creation of race. The present-day American anthropologist who does not trace his spiritual ancestry back to “Papa Franz” Boas cannot expect to win any remunerative reputation…

by Mark Twain (pictured) First published in The Galaxy (1870) IN BOOKS he is tall and tawny, muscular, straight and of kingly presence; he has a beaked nose and an eagle eye. His hair is glossy, and as black as the raven’s wing; out of its massed richness springs a sheaf of brilliant feathers; in his…