This is the grave of Stand Watie. Born in 1806 in the Cherokee Nation village of Oothcaloga, which is today Calhoun, Georgia, Watie grew up in a time of massive and horrifying change for his people. T
From 1492 to 2022, the point of white colonization (settler colonialism if you will though that term is really just the academic jargon of the day and flattens experiences across the globe while also
The latest white liberal fad for meaningless diversity is the land acknowledgement. Theoretically, this is a good thing. Remembering that this land was stolen from Native peoples is in fact important.
On November 1, 1879, the Carlisle Indian School opened in Carlisle, Pennsylvania. This school, central to the genocidal project to end Native American culture in the late nineteenth century, was repli
The recent stories about the horrors of Indian schools in Canada has finally moved this conversation forward in the United States, with institutions having to reckon with just how many young indigenou
Well this is just pretty cool: Ancient human footprints preserved in the ground across the White Sands National Park in New Mexico are astonishingly old, scientists reported on Thursday, dating back a
On August 10, 1680, the Pueblo Revolt began in New Mexico. The most successful Native rebellion in the history of the Americas, this forced the Spanish out of their northern colonies for twelve years.
This is the grave of Zitkala-Ša, or Gertrude Simmons Bonnin, as she was known in the white world. Born on the Yankton Reservation in South Dakota in 1876 and a member of the Yankton Dakota, Zitkala-