A useful story on how energy companies place pipelines as close to Native American reservation land as possible without any input (or very little anyway) from Native Americans themselves. This story is from North Dakota, but could be any number of states on the Plains...
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Join us Sat., April 2, Winslow, AZ for a vigil @ 3 PM to demand #Justice4Loreal. @apachesk8boards @douglasmilesart pic.twitter.com/8iejsHCnbt— The Red Nation (@The_Red_Nation) March 30, 2016 The Black Lives Matter.
Here is another story on how the oil companies are exploiting the Huaorani people of Ecuador. This is a story that might not be familiar to you, but is very.
Yesterday in 1909, the great Lakota leader Red Cloud died. He's someone you all might have heard of but probably don't know very much about. Heather Cox Richardson helps you fill that gap: In the summer of 1865, after winning a war to spread the...
The legendary American Indian Movement activist is dead. Let's remember him through the song Kris Kristofferson wrote about him.
Angela Pulley Hudson's fascinating and very readable new book details a remarkable story of an ex-slave from Mississippi and a Mormon convert who met during the tumultuous early years of.
I am really excited to watch the 1920 film The Daughter of Dawn, once thought lost (like about 85 percent of silent films) and now found. The Daughter of Dawn is more than just another Friday night flick. It is a cinematic wormhole into America's...
One of Obama's signature policy triumphs has been preventing Washington from defeating Oregon on the gridiron during his presidency. I was worried that in this time of crisis, he would.
On October 15, 1990, President George H.W. Bush signed the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act, finally providing a path forward for some of the Cold War's most exploited workers, Navajo uranium.
Normally I would wish you all a Happy Genocide Day, remembering the 523rd anniversary of Christopher Columbus landing in Hispaniola and immediately seeking to enslave the Taino people, starting a 500-year process of genocide of Native Americans throughout the Americas, a process that arguably still...
On September 28, 1874, the U.S. military defeated the Comanche in Palo Duro Canyon, south of modern Amarillo, Texas, largely by stealing their horse herds. This forced the Comanche to.
David Bacon, who has done so much great work over the years exposing the plight of Mexican migrants to the U.S., has an excellent piece on how so many of.