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 aren’t sites of memorialization or r
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
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 define coverage of them in the media, or the
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 attentio
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 in our public and pol
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
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 against their Creek enemie
This is the mass grave for the victims of the 1890 genocidal massacre of the Lakota at Wounded Knee. I assume that everyone knows the story of Wounded Knee, but maybe they don’t, so I guess I wi