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Silhouette of two bison on the plains

The Bison and the Blackfeet

Indigenous nations are spearheading a movement to restore buffalo to the American landscape.
by Michelle Nijhuis via Sierra Club on May 31, 2021
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Rick Santorum and His Critics are Both Wrong About Native American History

The Founders terrorized and exterminated Native Americans instead of learning from them.
by Michael Leroy Oberg via Made By History on April 29, 2021

America’s Conflicted Landscapes

A nation that identifies itself with nature begins to fall apart when it can no longer agree on what nature is.
by David E. Nye via The MIT Press Reader on April 20, 2021
Caribou at the Arctic Refuge.
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Indigenous Advocacy Transformed the Fight Over Oil Drilling in the Arctic Refuge

Racial justice is now as much a part of the debate as environmentalism vs. oil drilling.
by Finis Dunaway via Made By History on March 14, 2021
Mountains in California.

The Lost Rivers of Owens Valley

Water—who owns it, who uses it—has shaped this landscape from the Paiutes’ irrigation canals to the Los Angeles aqueduct.
by Frederic Wehrey via New York Review of Books on February 16, 2021
Map of Massachusetts colonial frontier

The “Indianized” Landscape of Massachusetts

In Massachusetts, the inclusion of Native American names and places in local geography has obscured the violence of political and territorial dispossession.
by Mark Jarzombek via Places Journal on February 1, 2021
Indian Congress installation

The Historic Indian Congress is Reunited in Omaha by Artist Wendy Red Star

The Apsáalooke artist has created a major new installation for her solo show at the Joslyn Art Museum using photographs of the 500 delegates taken in 1898.
by Karen Chernick via The Art Newspaper on February 1, 2021
Forest on fire with two firefighters spraying water

A Note from the Fireline

Climate change and the colonial legacy of fire suppression.
by Jordan Thomas via The Drift on October 21, 2020
Wabanaki people paddling canoes near bridge

The Myth of Native American Extinction Harms Everyone

Cluelessness about Native people is rampant in New England, which romanticizes its Colonial heritage.
by Mali Obomsawin via Boston Globe Magazine on September 15, 2020
Drawing of three Native American men wearing plains dress.

The Last Chief of the Comanches and the Fall of an Empire

Dustin Tahmahkera details the life of the last chief of the Comanches, Quanah Parker.
by Dustin Tahmahkera via TED on July 2, 2020

My Native American Father Drew the Land O’Lakes Maiden. She Was Never a Stereotype.

The blind erasure of native culture is nothing new.
by Robert DesJarlait via Washington Post on April 29, 2020
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Transcontinental

Ed Ayers visits the site where the transcontinental railroad was completed. He considers the project's human costs, and discovers how the environment and photography played key roles on the rails.
via Future Of America's Past on March 23, 2020
Fish in water next to rocks at the base of Kinzua Dam

Halted Waters

The Seneca Nation and the building of the Kinzua Dam.
by Maria Diaz-Gonzalez via Belt Magazine on January 30, 2020
Crow teepee painting by George Catlin

The Supreme Court Upheld Treaty Rights for the Crow Nation

Amid continued standoffs between tribes and states over treaties signed before statehood was achieved, the ruling is a victory for Native rights.
by Massoud Hayoun via Pacific Standard on May 22, 2019

Shaman's Revenge?

The birth, death and afterlife of our romance with tobacco.
by Mike Jay via mikejay.net on January 1, 2019
Drawing of two laborers in a vast agricultural field with a farmhouse in the background.

A Family From High Plains

Sappony tobacco farmers across generations, and across state borders, when North Carolina and Virginia law diverged on tribal recognition, education, and segregation.
by Nick Martin via Splinter on August 2, 2018

This Innovative Memorial Will Soon Honor Native American Veterans

The National Museum of the American Indian has reached a final decision on which design to implement.
by Ryan K. Smith via Smithsonian on June 26, 2018

How America’s Hunting Culture Shaped Masculinity, Environmentalism, and the NRA

From Davy Crockett to Teddy Roosevelt, this is the legacy of hunting in American culture.
by Philip Dray, Em Steck via Vox on June 12, 2018

Pregnant Pioneers

For the frontier women of the 19th century, the experience of childbirth was harrowing, and even just expressing fear was considered a privilege.
by Erin Blakemore, Sylvia D. Hoffert via JSTOR Daily on June 5, 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
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
Drawing of a Caribbean sugar plantation.

Stolen Relations: Recovering Stories of Indigenous Enslavement in the Americas

A tribal collaborative project that seeks to understand settler colonialism and its legacies through the lens of Indigenous enslavement and unfreedom.
by Linford Fisher via Indigenous Slavery on October 6, 2017

The Big, Nearly 200-Year-Old Legal Issue at The Heart of the Dakota Access Pipeline Fight

Tribal sovereignty is a concept that even some of the protesters may not be familiar with. But it's important.
by German Lopez via Vox on March 13, 2017

Native Land Digital

Do you live on Native American territory?
via Native Land Digital on January 1, 2017
Drawing of Native Americans on a boat

Masters of Empire: Great Lakes Indians and the Making of America

Michael A. McDonnell’s book is a wonderfully researched microhistory of the Michilimackinac area from the mid-17th to the early 19th century.
by Adam Nadeau via Borealia: Early Canadian History on June 27, 2016
Lewis and Clark expedition, with Sacagawea whitened out in the center.

How The West Was Wrong: The Mystery Of Sacagawea

Sacagawea is a symbol for everything from Manifest Destiny to women’s rights to American diversity. Except we don't know much about her.
by Natalie Shure via BuzzFeed News on October 11, 2015
Portrait of William Apess.

The Greatest Native American Intellectual You’ve Never Heard Of

The short life and long legacy of the 19th-century reformer William Apess.
by Phillip F. Gura via What It Means to Be American on April 17, 2015
Iron Eyes Cody meets Jimmy Carter, who is wearing a Native American headdress

Among the Tribe of the Wannabes

A closer look at non-Native Americans that appropriate, fabricate, and invent Native identities for themselves.
by Russell Cobb via This Land Press on August 26, 2014

Food in America and American Foodways

Rachel Herrmann asks whether there’s such a thing as “American food.”
by Rachel B. Herrmann via The Junto on July 3, 2013
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Bones of Dispute

Who owns the past? That is the subject of debate after the discovery of a human skeleton on the banks of the Columbia River in Kennewick, Washington.
by MacNeil/Lehrer News Hour via American Archive of Public Broadcasting on January 3, 1997

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