Albert Bender
LATEST ARTICLES BY Albert Bender
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Culture
Cherokee Indian Fair back after pandemic cancellations
October 20, 2022Having attended the fair since I was a child made this a particularly joyous occasion.
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U.S.
Nashville’s Interstate 65 becomes a billboard gallery of ancient Indigenous history
September 19, 2022The installation is informing the public about the magnificence of ancient Indigenous cultures in the Nashville area that were all part and parcel of the Mississippian civilizations.
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Opinion
Supreme Court anti-Native decision sets stage for Tribal-State conflict
September 6, 2022The Court stated in its inflammatory decision that Indian Country is part of state territory. This is incredibly shocking and betrays an apparent complete ignorance of Federal Indian law.
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Opinion
Rogue Supreme Court’s latest Indian law decision a huge step back in time
July 6, 2022This decision, like so many recent rulings, shows the Supreme Court is out of sync with public opinion and is an outlier in U.S. society.
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Politics
Indian boarding schools report details horror of Indigenous dispossession and genocide in U.S.
July 1, 2022U.S. government admits responsibility for 150-plus years of atrocities committed against Indigenous children.
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Opinion
Politicians who do nothing to stop mass shootings are themselves monsters
June 2, 2022The U.S. government is in a state of “moral paralysis” on the recurrence of mass shootings.
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Culture
‘Recovering Ancient Spiro’: Remembering one of Native America’s most forgotten but important sites
April 12, 2022Spiro is considered by many scholars to have been at one time the single most powerful political and cultural entity in North America.
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U.S.
Indigenous community confronts development to prevent erasure of Nashville’s ancient history
March 9, 2022With every shovel full of dirt excavated, pieces of Native history are undoubtedly being erased.
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