(5/5) #nativeamericanheritagemonth #nativeamerican#native #indigenous #indigenoushistory#americanhistory #history #indigenousactivism

(4/5) Additionally, you can visit sites like native-land.ca to learn more about the original inhabitants of your area and their descendents’ claim to sovereignty. Finally, please feel free to visit the websites of our tribal partners.

(3/5) There are many ways to connect with Native nations and communities today, including attending a powwow, reading Native authors, donating to Native museums and cultural centers, and supporting Native political movements like LandBack and Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women.

(2/5) To fully recognize the resiliency of these cultures, one must consider the centuries of enslavement, exploitation, and assimilation endured by Indigenous people and their persistence in resisting these forces.

(4/4) Source: Chronicling America. The Brownsville Daily Herald, September 9, 1898. #indigenoushistory #history #indigenous #colonialhistory #historicalresearch #massachusettshistory #massachusetts #newspaper

(3/4) This source was printed in 1898, in a piece titled “Peculiar Requests—An Indian Slave in Massachussetts,” suggesting that even 127 years ago, the existence of Indigenous enslavement had been erased from public memory enough to seem abnormal, rather than part of a long history of similar cases.

(2/4) According to the will, they would be made free after another six years of labor under Jacques’ executor. It is unclear whether Jasper’s next legal master would indeed follow the will’s promised manumission.

(4/4) Source: America’s Historical Newspapers. Boston News-Letter, October 25, 1708. #indigenoushistory #history #indigenous #colonialhistory #historicalresearch #massachusettshistory #massachusetts #newspaper

(3/4) The impact of these erasures are felt today. The descendants of enslaved Indigenous people often identify family histories through their captors’ names, due to the lack of attention paid by the historical record to their own ancestors. This anonymity robs them of that ability.

(2/4) However, it is not just the child who was erased from the record. His captor or previous slaveholder is also not described by name, though they must have existed. An interested potential slaveholder would communicate with the Post-Office, rather than this person.

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(4/4) Source: Soldiers in King Philip's War, by George Madison Bodge (1891), page 69. #indigenoushistory #history #indigenous #nipmuc #colonialhistory #historicalresearch #massachusettshistory #massachusetts #militaryhistory

(3/4) Her ultimate death is described in only two lines of text, as a postscript. In the document, she is only referred to as “the Indian,” thus being stripped of her name, identity, and community, outside of what can be speculated from her location of capture.

(2/4) Once she provided information in the form of locations and numbers, Samuel Mosley ordered her to be killed by dogs. Her brutal capture, exploitation for information, and death show the inhumanity that colonial forces approached Indigenous communities with, including non-combattants.

(5/5) Stolen Relations is committed to telling these stories of enslavement and dispossession while also honoring and elevating present-day Native nations and communities.

(4/5) Instead, celebrating Indigenous Peoples’ Day focuses on the historical resilience of Indigenous peoples in the Americas as well as their ongoing presence and vitality.

(3/5) He also proposed a regular slave trade of “Indians” to Europe to help finance colonization–a proposal that was rejected by Isabella and Ferdinand.

(2/5) Not only did Columbus’ arrival lead to large-scale enslavement, murder, and dispossession by Spanish conquistadors, he was also directly responsible for the enslavement and shipment of hundreds of Lucayan and Tiano peoples back to Spain.