Wabanaki Confederacy

The university’s Peabody Museum exploited loopholes to prevent repatriation to the Wabanaki people while still staying in compliance with NAGPRA.

“The connection between a hot temper and an empty stomach,” explained through a history of colonial interactions with indigenous peoples.

The settlers who are mythologized at Thanksgiving as peace-loving Pilgrims were offering cash for Native American heads less than a generation later.

Cluelessness about Native people is rampant in New England, which romanticizes its Colonial heritage.

In the 1970s and 1980s, homeowners were terrified by the idea that they didn't own the land they'd just bought.

It is not attempting to tell a story about Native erasure. It is not trying to tell a story about Native Americans at all. And that tells the real story.

Indigenous Americans knew how to avoid starvation. Colonists were too hungry to notice.

The shortage is a calamity—not a victory for breastfeeding.