Deb Haaland, the Native woman just elected to represent the Albuquerque area in Congress, has a great piece on how the nation simply ignores the plight of Native people. In a few short weeks, I will be sworn in as the first Native American women...
Native Americans
This is the grave of Taza. A leader of the Chiricahua Apache, Taza was born around 1843, the son of the legendary Cochise. He grew up in a period where.
Our history is all around us and yet most of us don't know it because there is no way to know it. Especially for much of our problematic history, there.
This is the grave of Richard Henry Pratt. Born in Rushford, New York in 1840, Pratt had a bit of a tough childhood. He survived smallpox in 1847. Then his father went to California as part of the gold rush, where he was murdered by...
Jennifer Graber's new book is an outstanding look at the white conquest of the West, examined through the lens of the various religious ideas and traditions involved in the conflict..
Above: Acoma Pueblo A piece of the larger problem Native Americans face in the United States is that they are seen as people of the past, which goes far to.
In our long history with Native Americans, there is much we should be ashamed of. First and foremost, it's that even today and even on the left, Native issues simply don't get the attention that racism against other minority groups receive. Part of that is...
One of my hobbyhorses is how frustrating it is that our public discussion of race in this country exists primarily on a black-white binary. At least at one university I.
Great Julien Brave NoiseCat article in High Country News about the problems Native Americans face with housing, whether they live in cities (as they often do yet they are ignored.
This is the grave of Lawrence La Monte. Information on La Monte is not that easy to find. He is known for one thing--he was a member of the American Indian Movement killed at Wounded Knee, on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, on...
This is the grave of Michael Green and the future grave of Theda Perdue. Pioneering historians of Native America, both Green and Perdue have had impressive careers. Green finished his.
This is the grave of Pushmataha. Probably born in 1764 in modern-day Mississippi, Pushmataha became a warrior at an early age among the Choctaw and fought in their many wars.