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On #IndigenousPeoplesDay we celebrate and honor the original people of this land and commemorate their histories and cultures.
We also honor the contributions and culture of Native and Indigenous peoples and celebrate their past, present and futures throughout history. 
One way we are marking today is an acknowledgment of the Native lands we live and work on in Oregon.
This article by @JeffFynnPaul has been going around. He argues that it’s a “myth” that Europeans took land from Native Americans. @cakrolik and I read it and it’s one of the worst argued pieces we’ve ever seen. Here is our thread.
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The overall claim of his article is that liberals have perpetuated a “Myth of the Stolen Country” that the US “was founded by a monumental act of genocide, accompanied by larceny on the grandest scale.”
He compares the popularity of this “myth” in the US to ideology in Nazi Germany (Godwin’s law?) and communism.
I was part of the #AHA20 #s279 on Marketing the History major. It was a great conversation w/ Paul Deslandes (Vermont), Sarah Olzawski (@OUHistDept), Darién Davis (Middlebury), and @justin_behrend (@GeneseoHistory). Here’s a recap of @LMU_History's efforts ... 1/26
At @LMU_History, we peaked in our number of majors in spring 2011, but then saw a decline of 60%+ – a function of national trends, revisions to our University Core Curriculum that drastically cut history’s presence in it, and the creation of new majors in @LMUBellarmine. 2/26
But after hitting our low in fall 2017, we’ve seen an increase of 35% in majors, an increase of 120% in minors, and strong enrollments across all courses. How did we reverse course? A combination of curricular reform, programming and publicity efforts, and recruitment. 3/26
