Bureau of Indian Affairs (BIA) — Bunk History

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Drawing of four red fists intersecting the U.S. Capitol building

The Rebirth of Red Power

The tribal sovereignty movement from the late 1960s never really ended. To find the future of the Native left, look to the past.

by Nick Martin via The New Republic on June 1, 2020

Indian Removal

One of the world's first mass deportations, bureaucratically managed and large-scale, took place on American soil.

by Claudio Saunt via Aeon on April 23, 2020

Goodbye to Good Earth

A Louisiana tribe’s long fight against the American tide.

by Boyce Upholt via Oxford American on September 3, 2019

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

Albert B. Fall swears in as Interior Secretary in 1921.

Reckoning with History: Interior’s Legacy of Bad Behavior

Ryan Zinke isn’t the first Interior secretary to attract controversy.

by Adam M. Sowards via High Country News on January 3, 2018

A Right-Wing Think Tank Is Trying to Bring Down the Indian Child Welfare Act. Why?

Native Americans say the law protects their children. The Goldwater Institute claims it does the opposite.

by Rebecca Clarren via The Nation on April 6, 2017

Photograph of Chief Iron Tail.

American Indians, Playing Themselves

As Buffalo Bill's performers, they were walking stereotypes. But a New York photographer showed the humans beneath the headdresses.

by Michelle Delaney via What It Means to Be American on January 27, 2015

Picture of William B. Shockley (1910-1989)

Indigenous Circuits

While researching the history of racism in Silicon Valley, Lisa Nakamura is surprised to discover the Navajo Nation's role in the creation of the tech industry.

by Lisa Nakamura via Computer History Museum on January 2, 2014

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