This Land is Our Land (ep 173)
Stories of native North Americans fighting for their ancestral rights
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Show Notes
In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue, and it's been downhill for New World peoples ever since. Today we look at residential schools, the occupation of Alcatraz by Indians of All Tribes, the Oka crisis (aka the Mohawk resistance), and Sacheen Littlefeather's Oscar speech.
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Music by Kevin MacLeod, Steve Oxen, David Fesliyan.
Links to all the research resources are on our website.
Sources:
https://www.history.com/news/how-boarding-schools-tried-to-kill-the-indian-through-assimilation
http://www.nativepartnership.org/site/PageServer?pagename=airc_hist_boardingschools
https://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=17645287
https://hairstylecamp.com/native-american-beard/
https://www.thecanadianencyclopedia.ca/en/article/oka-crisis
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArOIdwcj2w8
https://www.history.com/news/native-american-activists-occupy-alcatraz-island-45-years-ago
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