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An engraving of a Native American group featuring a chief speaking to a group of men as women prepare cassina next to him and Europeans spectate on the other side.

The Forgotten Drink That Caffeinated North America for Centuries

Yaupon tea, a botanical cousin to yerba maté, is now almost unknown.
by Ben Richmond via Atlas Obscura on March 28, 2018
A sculpture depicting George Washington and the Seneca leader Guyasuta staring at each other.

‘Our Father, the President’

George Washington's fraught relationship with Native Americans.
by Susan Dunn via New York Review of Books on March 15, 2018

Twenty-Four Things You Should Know about Pocahontas

To begin with, her formal name was Amonute.
by Akim Reinhardt via 3 Quarks Daily on March 5, 2018
Poster for Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show reenactment of Custer's last stand.

The Indians Win

Why have Americans been obsessed with this one loss rather than dozens of victories?
via National Museum Of The American Indian on February 19, 2018
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Native Pasts

This exhibit showcases the cultural, political, and environmental histories of American Indians, from ancient civilizations to contemporary activism.
Painting depicting the sinking of the Monmouth, which was carrying Muscogee people to Oklahoma.

The Removal Act

The phrase "trail of tears" resonates in American conversation because the country is still coming to terms with what happened and what it means.
via National Museum Of The American Indian on February 19, 2018

Ghost Dancers Past and Present

Thinking beyond the dichotomies of oppressor and victim reveals the human urges that inspire so much of our expressive culture.
by Anthony Chaney via U.S. Intellectual History Blog on February 14, 2018

From the ‘Pocahontas Exception’ to a ‘Historical Wrong'

The hidden cost of formal recognition for American Indian tribes.
by Arica L. Coleman via TIME on February 9, 2018
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At Home With Ursula Le Guin

Her novels featured dragons and wizards, but they were also deeply grounded in indigenous American ways of thought.
by Benjamin Breen on January 31, 2018

From Yosemite to Bears Ears, Erasing Native Americans From U.S. National Parks

150 years after Yosemite opened to the public, the park's indigenous inhabitants are still struggling for recognition.
by Hunter Oatman-Stanford via Collectors Weekly on January 26, 2018
Goosefoot plant.

Hunting for the Ancient Lost Farms of North America

2,000 years ago, people domesticated these plants. Now they’re wild weeds. What happened?
by Annalee Newitz via Ars Technica on January 26, 2018

Statues, National Monuments, and Settler-Colonialism

Connections between public history and policy in the wake of Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante.
by Rose Miron via National Council on Public History on December 18, 2017
An 18th-century kitchen in Morristown, New Jersey.

Histories of Hunger in the American Revolution

White soldiers, escaped slaves, and American Indians all dealt with food scarcity but often reacted to it differently.
by Rachel B. Herrmann via Uncommon Sense on December 5, 2017

Will the Real Pocahontas Please Stand Up?

We might be better off if we knew a little more – or a little less – about her actual life.
by James Reinl via Al Jazeera on November 28, 2017

Forgiving the Unforgivable: Geronimo’s Descendants Seek to Salve Generational Trauma

Traveling to the heart of Mexico for a Ceremonia del Perdón.
by Anna Badkhen via Literary Hub on November 21, 2017

Fleas, Fleas, Fleas

A reflection on the role of parasites in early American history.
by Sarah Swedberg via Nursing Clio on November 14, 2017
The two bluffs known as the 'Bears Ears' in the Bears Ears National Monument.
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The Battle for Control of Public Lands

There's a long history of states challenging the federal government, and ignoring Native American claims to the land at issue.
by Gregory Ablavsky via Made By History on November 9, 2017

What If Jimmie Durham, Noted Cherokee Artist, Is Not Actually Cherokee?

He’s been called “the art world’s Rachel Dolezal.”
by Michael Slenske via Vulture on November 1, 2017
Mississippian funerary heads in the collection of Monticello.

“Kicked About”: Native Culture at Thomas Jefferson’s Monticello

Kristine K. Ronan describes her discovery of two Native American statues at Thomas Jefferson's Monticello.
by Kristine K. Ronan via Panorama on October 14, 2017

Playing Indian

How a fight over Native American symbolism in Oregon brought to light the conflict at America's core.
by Alex Ronan via The Outline on September 26, 2017
1884 map of land surrendered by the Cherokee Nation to colonial and U.S. governments from 1721 to 1835.

Cherokee Removal and the Trail of Tears

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Nancy Schurr via Digital Public Library of America on September 18, 2017
John White's drawing of a Powhatan village.

Powhatan People and the English at Jamestown

A primary source set and teaching guide created by educators.
by Catherine Denial via Digital Public Library of America on September 18, 2017

On Monuments and Public Lands

Any critical take on public monuments today must confront the reality that public lands are themselves colonized lands.
by Whitney Martinko via Hindsights on September 15, 2017

How a Court Answered a Forgotten Question of Slavery’s Legacy

As Americans debated how the Civil War period is publicly commemorated, a battle over a related question was finally put to rest.
by Arica L. Coleman via TIME on September 11, 2017
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Excremental Empire

John Gregory Bourke’s "Scatalogic Rites of All Nations" and the American West.
by Benjamin Breen on September 8, 2017
Civil War rifles mounted on wall

A World of Weapons: Historians Shape Scholarship on Arms Trading

The early history of American arms trading is missing from most of the scholarship on guns.
by Kritika Agarwal via Perspectives on History on September 1, 2017

An Independence Day Alternative

How "enlightened" leaders of the early US ignored an Independence Day speech and set in motion indigenous peoples' brutalization.
by Nicholas Guyatt via Jacobin on July 4, 2017

Why the Civil War West Mattered – and Still Does

The West cared very much about the Civil War.
by Megan Kate Nelson via HistoryNet on June 30, 2017

Law Enforcement is Still Used as a Colonial Tool In Indian Country

Leaked documents reveal coordination between big business and law enforcement to break up last year’s protests at Standing Rock.
by Julian Brave NoiseCat via The Marshall Project on June 28, 2017
Map displaying Francis Parkman Jr's route on the Oregon Trail.

Native History: Harvard Rich Kid Starts Research for ‘Oregon Trail’

On June 15, 1846, Francis Parkman Jr., a young, Harvard-educated historian, arrived at Fort Laramie, Wyoming, to begin his journey along the Oregon Trail.
by Alysa Landry via Indian Country Today on June 15, 2017
Drawing of lightning breaking the chains of a woman on trial for witchcraft in Salem.

The Actual 'Single Greatest Witch Hunt of a Politician' in American History

It happened long before a special prosecutor was appointed to investigate the Trump campaign’s ties to Russia. 
by Mary Beth Norton, Yasmeen Serhan via The Atlantic on May 18, 2017
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