This is the grave of Phil Sheridan. Born in 1831 in Albany, New York, Sheridan’s family moved to Ohio when he was young. He was a very lucky young man. He worked as a bookkeeper as a teenager bu
Minnesota’s Fort Snelling is one of those places where a lot of things have happened that make it hard to construct some sort of triumphant narrative. It’s where Dred Scott was taken by hi
During the Sandinista Revolution, there was open hostility between the FSLN and the Miskito peoples who lived on the Atlantic Coast. This was emblematic of how a lot of Marxist groups felt about nativ
On February 14, 1940, a group of Navajos named Scott Preston, Julius Begay, Frank Goldtooth, and Judge Many Children wrote a letter of protest to their congressman, John Murdock of Arizona, against th
North Dakota Republicans have developed a quite rational response to the Dakota Access Pipeline Protests: Republican lawmakers in North Dakota are taking aim at protesters with a handful of bills that
My guess is that Donald Trump has never thought about Native Americans in his life except to bemoan the fact that they can break into the casino industry. And maybe to tell some Tonto jokes with his g
This is great: In light of Trump’s presidential win, Tohono O’odham Nation tribal leaders said they would refuse to support building a border wall on their land. “Over my dead body will a wall b
The obvious solution to the North Dakota pipeline protests is just to reroute the thing so that it stays far away from the reservations. This is not rocket science, even if it is largely completed out