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AHA Signs Amicus Curiae Brief in Haaland v. Brackeen (August 2022) Added August 19, 2022
The AHA, along with the Organization of American Historians, has become a signatory to an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court case Haaland v. Brackeen. This brief, based on decades of study and research by professional historians, aims to provide an accurate historical perspective as the Court considers the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act.
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AHA and OAH Amicus Curiae Brief for Brackeen v. Haaland Featured in New York Times (November 2022) Added November 17, 2022
An amicus curaie brief co-sponsored by the AHA and the Organization of American Historians has been featured in a New York Times article on Haaland v. Brackeen by Jan Hoffman. The brief, based on decades of study and research by professional historians, aims to provide an accurate historical perspective as the court deliberates the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act.
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AHA Amicus Curiae Brief in Haaland v. Brackeen (August 2022) Added August 19, 2022
The AHA has co-sponsored, along with the Organization of American Historians, an amicus curiae brief in the Supreme Court case Haaland v. Brackeen. This brief, based on decades of study and research by professional historians, aims to provide an accurate historical perspective as the Court considers the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act.
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AHA and OAH Amicus Curiae Brief for Haaland v. Brackeen Featured in Native News Online (August 2022) Added August 25, 2022
An amicus curiae brief submitted by the American Historical Association and the Organization of American Historians was featured in a Native News Online article by Andrew Kennard. The article summarizes the amicus briefs submitted to the US Supreme Court for Haaland v. Brackeen, a case that questions the constitutionality of the Indian Child Welfare Act (IWCA). The brief submitted by the AHA and the OAH, Kennard writes, “puts ICWA in the context of the United States’ legacy of removing Native children from their homes, dating back to the federal Indian boarding school era.”
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US Supreme Court Cites AHA and OAH Amicus Curiae Brief in Haaland v. Brackeen Decision (June 2023) Added June 15, 2023
In the US Supreme Court’s June 15 decision in Haaland v. Brackeen upholding the Indian Child Welfare Act (ICWA), Justice Neil Gorsuch cited the amicus curiae brief co-sponsored by the AHA and the Organization of American Historians in his concurrence. The brief, based on decades of study and research by professional historians, aimed to provide an accurate historical perspective of the IWCA as the court considered the case.
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AHA Member Awarded Robert F. Kennedy Book Award (June 2021) Added June 08, 2021
Congratulations to AHA member Claudio Saunt, who has been awarded the 2021 Robert F. Kennedy Book Award for his book Unworthy Republic: The Dispossession of Native Americans and the Road to Indian Territory. The Robert F. Kennedy Book Award is given annually to a book that “most faithfully and forcefully reflects Robert Kennedy's purposes-his concern for the poor and the powerless, his struggle for honest and even-handed justice, his conviction that a decent society must assure all young people a fair chance, and his faith that a free democracy can act to remedy disparities of power and opportunity.”
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AHA Member Spotlight: Neal Hampton Added June 20, 2017
Neal Hampton is a volunteer at the Indian Archives of the Oklahoma Historical Society.
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Grant of the Week: AIIS Research and Arts Fellowships to India Added June 20, 2018
The American Institute of Indian Studies is accepting applications for fellowships from pre- and post-doctoral scholars to conduct research in India.
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AHA Member Named Randolph W. Townsend Jr. Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University (July 2021) Added July 06, 2021
Congratulations to AHA member Ned Blackhawk (Yale Univ.), who has been named the Randolph W. Townsend Jr. Professor of History and American Studies at Yale University. Blackhawk has written about American Indian historiography for the AHA, including the booklet American Indians and the Study of U.S. History.
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"Why Trump Is Making Muslims the New Chinese" Added January 30, 2017
In an opinion piece for CNN, Mae Ngai (Columbia Univ.) makes the historical comparison between President Donald Trump's recent Executive Order on immigration and the Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. Made ostensibly on the grounds of national security, the Act also displayed "palpable animus" toward an ethnic group. Responses to the Act in the late twentieth century changed immigration law to prohibit blatant discrimination. But "it remains to be seen how far we have really come."