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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 174

By Erik Loomis

In General

On December 4, 2017

This is the grave of Michael Green and the future grave of Theda Perdue. Pioneering historians of Native America, both Green and Perdue have had impressive careers. Green finished his PhD from Iowa in 1973 before teaching at West Texas State, Monmouth, Iowa, Dartmouth, and Oklahoma before landing his last job at the University of […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 168

By Erik Loomis

On November 17, 2017

This is the grave of Pushmataha. Probably born in 1764 in modern-day Mississippi, Pushmataha became a warrior at an early age among the Choctaw and fought in their many wars against their Creek enemie

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 157

By Erik Loomis

On October 17, 2017

This is the mass grave for the victims of the 1890 genocidal massacre of the Lakota at Wounded Knee. I assume that everyone knows the story of Wounded Knee, but maybe they don’t, so I guess I wi

Genocide Day

By Erik Loomis

In General

On October 9, 2017

Another October so it’s another Genocide Day, by which I mean of course the celebration of the genocidal murderer Christopher Columbus running into America like a drunk who stumbles toward his home, finds himself in someone else’s home, and then rapes, kidnaps and murders all the people who live there. Upon landing in Hispanola, Columbus […]

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 150

By Erik Loomis

On September 28, 2017

This is the grave of Sa-go-ye-wa-tha, or as he was known among whites, Red Jacket. Born in approximately 1750, the future Seneca leader lived in a world of massive and terrible change for his people.

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 126

By Erik Loomis

On August 12, 2017

This is the grave of John Chivington. One of the most reprehensible loathsome Americans to ever live and yet a man representative of 19th century America, Chivington was born in 1821 in Lebanon, Ohio.

Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 111

By Erik Loomis

In General

On July 24, 2017

This is the grave of Phil Sheridan. Born in 1831 in Albany, New York, Sheridan’s family moved to Ohio when he was young. He was a very lucky young man. He worked as a bookkeeper as a teenager but got to know his local congressman, who set him up with an appointment at West Point, […]

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Finally, White People Stand Up for Military History

By Erik Loomis

On May 1, 2017

Minnesota’s Fort Snelling is one of those places where a lot of things have happened that make it hard to construct some sort of triumphant narrative. It’s where Dred Scott was taken by hi

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Whiteclay

By Erik Loomis

On March 26, 2017

The case of Whiteclay, Nebraska makes for an interesting moral dilemma perhaps worth discussion. It’s probably the worst town in the nation. It literally exists strictly to provide alcohol to th

Indigenous Nicaragua

By Erik Loomis

In General

On March 3, 2017

During the Sandinista Revolution, there was open hostility between the FSLN and the Miskito peoples who lived on the Atlantic Coast. This was emblematic of how a lot of Marxist groups felt about native peoples, who largely just wanted to be left alone and had no interest in the modernization projects pushed by Marxist ideology. […]

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This Day in Labor History: February 14, 1940

By Erik Loomis

On February 14, 2017

On February 14, 1940, a group of Navajos named Scott Preston, Julius Begay, Frank Goldtooth, and Judge Many Children wrote a letter of protest to their congressman, John Murdock of Arizona, against th

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Erik Visits an American Grave, Part 69

By Erik Loomis

On February 5, 2017

This is the grave of Ely Parker. Born in 1828 on the Seneca Reservation in western New York, Ha-sa-no-an-da, or as he was known in English, Ely Parker, grew up within the declining Seneca elite, with

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