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Benjamin Hawkins and the Creek Indians.

“Weapons of Health Destruction…” How Colonialism Created the Modern Native American Diet

On the impact of systematic oppression on indigenous cuisine in the United States.
by Andrea Freeman via Literary Hub on July 24, 2024
Native American ruin.

A 600-Year-Old Blueprint for Weathering Climate Change

During the Little Ice Age, Native North Americans devised whole new economic, social, and political structures.
by Kathleen DuVal via The Atlantic on April 2, 2024
American Indian woman embraces a horse wearing a ceremonial mask.

Taken Together, Archaeology, Genomics and Indigenous Knowledge Revise Colonial Human-Horse Stories

New research adds scientific detail to Indigenous narratives that tell a different story.
by William Taylor, Yvette Running Horse Collin via The Conversation on March 30, 2023
Artists conception of the Annis Mound and Village Site.

Against the Grain?

Native farming practices and settler-colonial imaginations in the video game "Empire: Total War."
by Thomas Lecaque via Age of Revolutions on March 27, 2023
Sean Sherman, a co-owner of Owamni restaurant.

How Owamni Became the Best New Restaurant in the United States

In this modern Indigenous kitchen, every dish is made without any ingredient introduced to the continent after Europeans arrived.
by Carolyn Kormann via The New Yorker on September 12, 2022
Rose Dougan at the Wright School of aviation in 1915

Flying Rose Dougan: On the Trail of Native American Art

Uncovering the life of Rose Dougan, a real Renaissance woman, and her pioneering role in preserving Native American art.
by Ann Japenga via California Desert Art on February 8, 2022
Comedian Charlie Hill on stage with a microphone.

‘Part of Why We Survived’

Is there something in particular about coming from a Native background that makes a person want to write and perform comedy?
by Ian Frazier via New York Review of Books on December 23, 2021
William Burnet meeting with Native American leadership

The Native American Roots of the U.S. Constitution

The Iroquois, Shawnee, Cherokee, and other political formations generally separated military and civil leadership and guarded certain personal freedoms.
by Robert J. Miller, Livia Gershon via JSTOR Daily on September 15, 2021
Lithograph of Native Americans, 1870.

Polygamy, Native Societies, and Spanish Colonists

Having more than one wife was an established part of life for some Native peoples before Europeans tried to end the practice.
by Livia Gershon, Sarah M. S. Pearsall via JSTOR Daily on April 19, 2021
One of Yellowstone's infamous hot springs.

The Lost History of Yellowstone

Debunking the myth that the great national park was a wilderness untouched by humans
by Richard Grant via Smithsonian on January 5, 2021
Ernest Thompson Seton posing with three citizens of the Blackfeet Nation, ca. 1917.

This Land Is Your Land

Native minstrelsy and the American summer camp movement.
by Asa Seresin via Cabinet on December 15, 2020
A Native American community gathers for a powwow

How to Have a Powwow in a Pandemic

Native communities in North America have been particularly hard-hit by COVID-19. This isn't the first time.
by S. I. Rosenbaum, Arigon Starr via The Nib on July 29, 2020
Totem poles near houses

‘Proud Raven, Panting Wolf’ — A History of Totem Poles in Alaska

A New Deal program to restore Totem Poles in Alaska provided jobs and boosted tourism, but it ignored their history and significance within Native culture.
by Jean Bundy via Anchorage Press on August 12, 2019

The Gods of Indian Country

How American expansion reshaped the religious worlds of both settlers and Native people.
by Jennifer Graber via Not Even Past on May 1, 2018
A girl in Native American tribal regalia being crowned as homecoming queen.

The Complex Politics of Tribal Enrollment

How did the U.S. government become involved in “adjudicating Indianness”?
by Rachel Monroe via The New Yorker on November 20, 2024
Collage of different Indigenous people from the present day.
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Native Narratives: The Representation of Native Americans in Public Broadcasting

A selection of radio and television programs that reinforce or reject stereotypes, and Native-created media that responds to those depictions.
by Sally Smith via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on November 16, 2024
A drawing depicting the 1637 massacre at the Pequot village of Mystic.

Tribute and Territory in the Pequot Country

Seventeenth-century maps and conflicts in colonial New England.
by Alice King via Norman B. Leventhal Map & Education Center on July 17, 2024
Deb Haaland.

Deb Haaland Confronts the History of the Federal Agency She Leads

As the first Native American Cabinet member, the Secretary of the Interior has made it part of her job to address the travesties of the past.
by Casey N. Cep via The New Yorker on April 29, 2024
Ledger drawing of Plains Indians on horseback.

A Shameful US History Told Through Ledger Drawings

In the 19th century ledger drawings became a concentrated point of resistance for Indigenous people, an expression of individual and communal pride.
by John Yau via Hyperallergic on February 21, 2024
A colorful drawing of Native Americans on horses.

Pictures From a Genocide

An astonishing new show of Native American ledger drawings brings a historic crime into focus.
by Jerry Saltz via Vulture on February 16, 2024
A botanical drawing of a pawpaw on a branch.

Consider the Pawpaw

For some, it is a luscious dessert, a delightful treasure hiding in the woods. For others, it is, to say the least, an acquired taste. It is an enigma.
by Matthew Meduri via Belt Magazine on February 15, 2024
‘View of Grave Creek Mound’; engraving by Ebenezer Mathers, 1839.

The Plunder and the Pity

Alicia Puglionesi explores the damage white supremacy did to Native Americans and their land.
by Ian Frazier via New York Review of Books on January 18, 2024
The fur of the woolly dog Mutton

What Happened to the Extinct Woolly Dog?

Researchers studying the 160-year-old fur of a dog named Mutton found that the breed existed for at least 5,000 years before European colonizers eradicated it.
by Alicia Ault via Smithsonian on January 16, 2024
A faux Brazilian village constructed for Henry II and Catherine de’ Medici on the banks of the Seine in Rouen, France, and inhabited by fifty Tupinambá people who were forcibly brought there from Brazil, 1550.

The Discovery of Europe

A new book investigates the indigenous Americans who were brought to or traveled to Europe in the 1500s—a story central to the beginning of globalization.
by Álvaro Enrigue via New York Review of Books on December 28, 2023
Statue of Pocahontas.

Pocahontas, Remembered

After 400 years, reality has begun to replace the lies.
by Victoria Sutton via Unintended Consequences on December 24, 2023
Reconstruction of a woolly dog.

Mutton, an Indigenous Woolly Dog, Died in 1859

New analysis confirms precolonial lineage of this extinct breed, once kept for their wool.
by Logan Kistler via The Conversation on December 14, 2023
A woman of the Mi’kmaq Nation stands in front of a lake.

Tribes in Maine Spent Decades Fighting to Rebury Ancestral Remains. Harvard Resisted Them at Nearly Every Turn.

The university’s Peabody Museum exploited loopholes to prevent repatriation to the Wabanaki people while still staying in compliance with NAGPRA.
by Mary Hudetz, Ash Ngu via ProPublica on December 4, 2023
Lily Gladstone and Martin Scorsese on the set of "Killers of the Flower Moon."

How Publicity of Killers of the Flower Moon Recalls Rosebud Yellow Robe’s 1950 Hollywood Tour

On the performance of authenticity and the native stories left to tell.
by Paul Morton via Literary Hub on November 20, 2023
Onions.

A Brief History of Onions in America

On ramps, xonacatl, skunk eggs and more.
by Mark Kurlansky via Literary Hub on November 9, 2023
Clyde Warrior and others displaying the Red Power sign at the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) parade, 1966.

"Let's Raise Some Hell": Clyde Warrior and the Red Power Movement

This year marks the 50th anniversary of the Siege of Wounded Knee, the 71-day occupation of Wounded Knee by American Indian Movement (AIM) activists.
by Paul McKenzie-Jones via Process: A Blog for American History on October 10, 2023
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