Did you know that in the 1990s Plimoth Patuxet Museums teamed up with botanists from UMASS Amherst to develop a corn which closely resembled period descriptions of the corn grown by the Wampanoag and adopted by the Pilgrims in the 1600s? Plimoth 8-Row Flint Corn is the result!
Happy Jim Thorpe Day!
In 1973, President Richard Nixon proclaimed April 16th "Jim Thorpe Day" in recognition of his accomplishments. Thorpe (1887-1953) was Sac & Fox/Potawatomi.
He won Gold Medals for the Pentathlon and Decathlon at the 1912 Olympics.
#NativeAthlete#SacFox
One of the joys of being a professor is encountering extraordinary students who teach me vital, new things.
Last year, a student educated me on the violent origins of the word “deadline.” Are folks familiar with this history? Do historians agree with this peoples-history?
Just left the “Quin” on Comm Ave which claims to be inclusive spot etc. But when I asked the DJ to put on hip hop I was told: we ain’t allowed to play hip hop here. In Boston. Smdh. The more the things change….this is why Boston has the rep we do.
Indigenous people:
"Colonization isn't over, it's on-going, and you are a participant..."
Settlers:
"Well I'm not sure your dIvIsIvE aTtItUdE is helping!"
via @NYTimes “with every degree of temperature increase, roughly a billion people will be pushed outside the zone in which humans have lived for thousands of years.” Awesome bit of journalism and reality. https://t.co/0oATltDasb
"Cannabis reform is a critical and urgent matter of racial justice," Reps. Earl Blumenauer and Barbara Lee write for @CNNOpinion. https://t.co/49JNRgSBmt