Native American
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Native American is a recurring concept in the Astral Codex Ten archive, appearing 3 times across 3 issues between August 17, 2021 and March 07, 2024. The archive places it in contexts such as “social studies courses would move leisurely through the Native American and colonial era”; “Questions about / alternative explanations for declining Native American test scores”; “proud of her Native American heritage; Native American ceremonial gatherings; Native political causes”. It most often appears alongside 2023 Prediction Contest, 23andme, ACX.
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- Category: Concepts
- Mention count: 3
- Issue count: 3
- First seen: August 17, 2021
- Last seen: March 07, 2024
Appears In
- Kids Can Recover From Missing Even Quite A Lot Of School
- Open Thread 257
- How Should We Think About Race And “Lived Experience”?
Related Pages
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- 2023 Prediction Contest (1 shared issues)
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- 23andme (1 shared issues)
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- ACX (1 shared issues)
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- Adeline Rivers (1 shared issues)
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- Albion’s Seed (1 shared issues)
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- ALS (1 shared issues)
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- Ancestry.com (1 shared issues)
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- Anita (1 shared issues)
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- Arthur (1 shared issues)
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- Arthur Cleveland Harrison (1 shared issues)
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- Benezet experiment (1 shared issues)
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- Berkeley (1 shared issues)
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Source Context
Recovered passages from the original issue text. When the raw archive preserved outbound links inside the source passage, they are listed directly under the quote.
(my own experience with these standardized tests is that eg my school’s social studies courses would move leisurely through the Native American and colonial era, get distracted talking about How Bad Slavery Was, and then a week before the standardized test go into “ohmigod we’re supposed to be at the 1950s now fuck fuck fuck Grant Hayes Garfield Arthur Cleveland Harrison Cleveland McKinley World War One World War Two labor unions Japanese internment ok good luck!” mode. If the day you miss is during that period, I can definitely believe you do worse on test questions about the McKinley administration one week later.)
2: Some updates/corrections to last week’s Links post: Sniffnoy explains how private fire departments stayed in business. Questions about / alternative explanations for declining Native American test scores. The hack to beat AI at Go probably isn’t as interesting as I thought. Cremieux does a deep dive into the persistence-of-poverty-after-slavery study I hoped someone would do a deep dive into. Ivan Fyodorovich on why surname analysis doesn’t disprove Albion’s Seed.
I thought about this while reading A Professor Claimed To Be Native American; Did She Know She Wasn’t? (paywalled), Jay Kang's New Yorker article on Elizabeth Hoover. The story goes something like this (my summary):
A woman named Adeline Rivers drowned under mysterious circumstances in 1928. By the time her granddaughter Anita was growing up, family legend said that Adeline was a Mi'kmaq Indian who committed suicide to escape an abusive white husband. Anita leaned into the family legend and taught her own daughter Elizabeth to be proud of her Native American heritage.
As a kid, Anita would take Elizabeth to pow-wows (Native American ceremonial gatherings) where she would play with all the other young Native girls. As she grew up, many of her closest friends were Natives, and she practiced Native American dance. By the time she was a teenager, she had taken a Mi'kmaq name, wore Native clothing, and was involved in Native political causes. In college, she wrote a thesis on Native American issues, then got a PhD in same, then got a professorship at Berkeley. She married a Crow Indian and went on trips to various Indian reservations where she studied and wrote papers about the problems they faced, and she was informally adopted by one of the Native families she stayed with. She became one of the most influential Native American academics in the country.