My guess is that Donald Trump has never thought about Native Americans in his life except to bemoan the fact that they can break into the casino industry. And maybe to tell some Tonto jokes with his good buddy Roy Cohn. But like everything else...
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The following characterization does not by any means describe all LGM commenters, or even a majority. But there is certainly a strong group of people around here who look down.
This is great: In light of Trump’s presidential win, Tohono O’odham Nation tribal leaders said they would refuse to support building a border wall on their land. “Over my dead.
The obvious solution to the North Dakota pipeline protests is just to reroute the thing so that it stays far away from the reservations. This is not rocket science, even if it is largely completed outside of North Dakota. If it costs a little more...
The esteemed historian Richard White reviews Benjamin Hadley's new book on the organized American genocide against California Indians and reiterates the utter brutality behind American expansion, a history Americans are.
Rob Parkinson, a colleague from my master's program many years ago, has a great editorial in the Times on the connections between the fear of slave revolts and American independence..
This is a really powerful piece about how indigenous peoples in South America have integrated the horrors of the rubber baron era into their oral histories and storytelling style. “After he had put them into a deep sleep, the tigre negro entered the camp and...
Let's be clear, the claim that Orlando is the deadliest mass shooting in U.S. history is just flat out wrong. Among other examples: On this day in 1890, in the.
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.
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 movement has been great in basically all conceivable ways. But I think there is one...
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.