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 idea was a gigantic ghetto to throw the Indians and hopefully forget about them) and...
Native Americans
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.
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 in the east. But putting Deb Haaland as the head of Interior and Charles Sams...
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.
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, 2018. REUTERS/Dan Koeck - RC12CE7FDE00 North Dakota is so excited by that appeals court ruling...
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..
I always look just a little askance on the desire to push back documented Native American habitation of the Americas farther than the evidence takes it, because while I support.
This is the grave of Major Ridge. Born in 1771, somewhere around Hiwassee, Tennessee, Ridge grew up in the Cherokee elite in a period of great change. His father was full-blooded Cherokee, his mother part Scottish, which had become very common by this time. He...
We have to be very careful when dealing with the intersection of tribal rights and the need for a green energy infrastructure. We also have to be careful to not.
A Ho-Chunk woman stretching a deerhide as part of the tanning process, 1880