Media Bias (ongoing)

 

The People the Declaration Called ‘Savages’ Were Mostly Ignored in the Celebration 250 Years Later

And yet Native Americans were largely absent from US corporate media opinion pieces about America’s semiquincentennial.

I found 79 opinion articles about the 250th anniversary published between May 30 and July 4 in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, Washington Post and USA Today. Only three explicitly mentioned “Native American,” “Indian” or “Indigenous”; another referenced the genocide without using those terms. None gave Native Americans more than a line or two.

READ:  https://fair.org/home/the-people-the-declaration-called-savages-were-mostly-ignored-in-the-celebration-250-years-later/

Indigenous perspectives on the American Revolution

 We can learn a lot from these discussions. And it's the right time to do it. - Trace

First America podcaster Rebecca Nagle

It's an incredible series... Rebecca should WIN every award out there for this type of journalism! Megwetch! Thank you Sister!

What Grade Would you Give America?

 

LINK: 

https://nativenewsonline.net/currents/what-grade-does-america-deserve-native-leaders-weigh-in-on-equality-at-250

 

I call this an opportunity.  We see what his-story did and didn't do... This outpouring of Native Voices is remarkable - and I think long overdue. What grade do you give America?

Leave a comment_- and thanks!

Trace 

TONIGHT: American 250: A Republic Built on Native Land Live Stream

LINK:

https://www.youtube.com/live/k3sv3Xe23Wc?si=Azvf7SyxKm8Mz3RN

American 250: A Republic Built on Native Land Live Stream

What we’ll explore:

• As the U.S. approaches its 250th anniversary, is this moment a celebration, a reminder of historical injustice, or both?
• Has the United States lived up to the Declaration of Independence’s promise that “all men are created equal” for Native Americans?
• How do you reconcile being both Native and American, given that Indigenous ancestors were referred to as “merciless Indian savages” in the Declaration of Independence?
• What would make America250 more meaningful and inclusive for Native peoples and Tribal Nations?
• Looking ahead to the next 250 years, what is your greatest hope for Native Nations and the United States?

 THIS IS AWESOME👇💓

 

Native America Calling: Native historians elevate overlooked history in the wake of America250 celebrations

JULY 1, 2026

Fifteen days after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, the new nation signed its first international treaty with the Wolastoqey and Mi’kmaq Nations of present-day Maine. It’s a history that historian and Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians ambassador Osihkiyol Crofton-Macdonald wishes more Americans knew. Brown University assistant professor and Narragansett Nation citizen Dr. Mack Scott III is working to get Black and Indigenous histories better integrated into the K-12 curriculum in northeastern schools. This includes histories like how Narragansett citizens fought in the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, a unit long celebrated as an all-Black unit. We’ll hear from Native historians about reclaiming these narratives along with their tribes’ stories from 1776.

 

 

LINK: https://www.nativeamericacalling.com/wednesday-july-1-2026-native-historians-elevate-overlooked-history-in-the-wake-of-america250-celebrations/

 

ICT NEWSCAST | July 1, 2026 | America 250, Greasy Grass and the Menominee bring back a tradition

 

Toward a Fuller Understanding

As America celebrates her 250^th birthday this weekend, Stockbridge-Munsee Mohican Nation President Shannon Holsey is hoping people educate themselves on the role of her tribe in the founding of the U.S.

“America 250 presents an opportunity to move beyond incomplete narratives and toward a fuller understanding of this country’s history,” she writes. “It is a chance to recognize that Tribal Nations stood at its beginning and remain essential to its future.”

The Mohicans were one of the few tribes to side with the Americans during the Revolutionary War and served alongside George Washington’s forces as soldiers, scouts and intelligence gatherers.

“We carried knowledge that could not be mapped,” Holsey wrote. “We moved between worlds, providing intelligence, protection, and leadership at a time when the outcome of the war remained uncertain.”

Many Mohicans also paid the ultimate sacrifice, such as in August, 1778, at Kingsbridge in present-day New York when about 40 warriors were killed in one of the most devastating losses suffered by Native forces supporting the U.S. during the war.

After the war, General Washington visited the Mohicans in their hometown of Stockbridge, Massachusetts, and celebrated with an ox feast.

A generation or two later the Mohicans would be forced from their homes in favor of new European immigrants.

The tribe eventually settled in Wisconsin, where it still has a reservation today.

“We were not observers to the founding of the United States. We were participants in it,” Holsey wrote. “But when the war ended, the promises we believed in did not materialize.”

The tribe endured and governs itself as a sovereign nation maintaining and revitalizing its traditions and culture.

“The ideals of liberty that defined the Revolution were not applied equally. The gap between principle and practice became a defining feature of federal Indian policy—and remains so today,” Holsey writes. “This is a truth that must be told alongside any commemoration of America’s founding: We helped secure freedom for a new nation while fighting to preserve our own existence.”

She wrote the U.S. must remember the contributions of Mohicans in creating this country, and honor its treaty obligations.

“A commemoration without accountability is incomplete,” Holsey writes. “Recognition without action is insufficient.” READ: https://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/story/news/native-american-issues/2021/04/19/stockbridge-munsee-tribe-prove-george-washington-ox-roast-happened/7231006002/?gnt-cfr=1&gca-cat=p&gca-uir=false&gca-epti=z1180xxe1180xxv000053&gca-ft=150&gca-ds=sophi

Part 3: First America

 Hosted and reported by Rebecca Nagle and featuring leading Native historians, First America unveils how the founders’ treatment of Indigenous nations—and their resistance—shaped US democracy. The show does not simply add another blemish to the image of the founding fathers, it reveals the real story of why the colonists rebelled, what kind of government they created, and, crucially, how our current political moment was 250 years in the making.

FIRST AMERICA (podcast) #FirstAmerica #America250

 First America Merciless Indian Savages | Episode 1 Rebecca Nagle View All Episodes 

• Native people have been written out of the American story."

  Without us, you don’t know what happened.

  We’ve all been told the American Revolution was fought over taxation and representation. But that’s not what the Declaration of Independence says. According to our founders, in their own words, what they were most upset about was Native Americans. How did we all miss that? Rebecca sits down with historian Ned Blackhawk (Western Shoshone) to talk about how hunger for Indigenous land drove the Revolution. Welcome to First America, the true story of how the United States came to be, and how our current political moment was 250 years in the making.

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  Don’t know whose land you live on? Look it up here!  
  
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  – Dig into more of Ned Blackhawk’s scholarship here

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• And how our current political moment is 250 years in the making. 
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