This is the grave of Robert Belloni. Born in 1919 in Myrtle Point, Oregon, Belloni was the first person in his family to attend college, at the University of Oregon, where he graduated in 1941. He then fought in World War II, working in field...
Native Americans
On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus stumbled upon Hispaniola. Part of the revolution he wrought was transforming work in the Americas, because what he wanted and how he treated the.
Traditionally, the Department of Interior, which manages the Bureau of Indian Affairs and the public lands in the West where tribes have historical treaty claims, has not been great for.
This is the grave of Luther Standing Bear. Born on the Spotted Tail Agency in South Dakota in 1868, Matȟó Nážiŋ, or Luther as he became known in the white world. Standing Bear grew up at the very end of Lakota autonomy on the Plains...
This is the grave of Jim Thorpe. Born in 1887 near Prague, Oklahoma, Thorpe grew up on the Sac and Fox Nation on what was once Indian Territory (basically the.
This is the mass grave of the dead indigenous people at San Fernando Mission in California. The Spanish intended the California mission system as a way to extend its power.
There's nothing easy or fun about this one. A growing number of tribes in Oregon and California are coming out in opposition to federal offshore wind projects. Some tribes don’t believe there’s been enough research into the impacts on the environment. At least five tribes...
This kind of thing has flown completely under the radar in our broader discussions because basically the political class doesn't care about public lands and neither does anyone who lives.
This is the grave of Charles Curtis. Born in 1860 in North Topeka, Kansas, Curtis was a child of the mixed-race frontier. His father was European, but his mother was.
In our latest podcast, we interviewed Samantha Seeley of the University of Richmond about her recent book Race, Removal, and the Right to Remain: Migration and the Making of the United States. This is a fantastic book about the idea of free migration as central...
A banner encouraging tribal members to vote in the 2018 mid-term elections on the Standing Rock Reservation near Fort Yates, North Dakota, U.S., October 26, 2018. Picture taken October 26,.
For our latest podcast, I interviewed Stephen Kantrowitz of the University of Wisconsin about his new book Citizens of a Stolen Land: A Ho-Chunk History of the Nineteenth-Century United States..