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.theguardian.com/us-news/2021/jun/03/i-promised-brando-i-would-not-touch-his-oscar-secret-life-sacheen-littlefeather

https://www.cbc.ca/radio/unreserved/reflections-of-oka-stories-of-the-mohawk-standoff-25-years-later-1.3232368/sisters-recall-the-brutal-last-day-of-oka-crisis-1.3234550

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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