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
This is the grave of Francis Hicks. I don’t know a lot of details about Francis Hicks. He was Wyandot, born around 1800, and he only comes up in the historical record (at least the relatively ac
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
I have no interest in playing Oppression Olympics. What happened to Gabby Petito is horrible and should spark a national conversation on domestic violence. However, those who point out that the media
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-
Good news for those of us who follow the history of major Euro-American institutions looting objects from tribal peoples around the world. And more importantly, good news for the Ponca. A tomahawk onc
Sorry for breaking in the law in 25 states or so by mentioning how the structures of law enforcement are indifferent to Native deaths. Six years later, the circumstances of Ms. Highwolf’s death rema
There’s no way around it–Mt. Rushmore is a centerpiece of the culture wars. This place means so many different things to so many different people. When the monstrosity was created, it was