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Native America Calling: Native historians elevate overlooked history in the wake of America250 celebrations
Wednesday, July 1, 2026
Native historians elevate overlooked history in the wake of America250 celebrations
Fifteen days after the adoption of the Declaration of Independence, the new nation of the United States signed its first international treaty.
The landmark agreement was between the U.S. and the Wolastoqey and Mi’kmaq Nations of present-day Maine.
It’s a history that historian and Houlton Band of Maliseet Indians ambassador Osihkiyol Crofton-Macdonald wishes more Americans knew.
Meanwhile, Brown University assistant professor and Narragansett Nation citizen Dr. Mack Scott III is working to get Black and Indigenous histories better integrated into the K-12 curriculum in northeastern schools. This includes histories like how Narragansett citizens fought in the 1st Rhode Island Regiment, a unit long celebrated as an all-Black unit.
Tune in to hear from Native historians about reclaiming these narratives along with their tribes’ stories from 1776.
Guests on Native America Calling
Osihkiyol Crofton-Macdonald (Wolastoqey). tribal ambassador for the Houlton Band of Maliseets, a federally recognized tribe in Maine.
Mack Scott III (Narragansett), assistant professor at Brown University in Rhode Island
Jeremy Johnson (Delaware Tribe of Indians), cultural education director for the Delaware Tribe of Indians, headquartered in Oklahoma
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