The legendary American Indian Movement activist is dead. Let's remember him through the song Kris Kristofferson wrote about him.
Native Americans
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.
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 fail in this task yesterday and if so, he might as well hand the keys...
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.
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 the reservations where they had refused to live by taking away the technology that defined...
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.
Still from The Exiles, Kent MacKenzie’s 1961 film about Native Americans leaving their reservations and moving to Los Angeles. I'm glad the Obama administration settled a lawsuit brought by Native.
Race and history in New Mexico are contested in a way unique to the United States. This has to do with discrete historical events that took place in the Land of Enchantment and the layers of conquest the state deals with today. What you had...
Having started my annual summer trip to see family in the Pacific Northwest, it's incredibly depressing to see what's happening to the climate and thus the ecology of the place.
I've long said that the most underrated state in the U.S. in terms of horrible racism is South Dakota. Such was the case when a group of academic achievers from.