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Wendell Yellow Bull

A Prominent Museum Obtained Items From a Massacre of Native Americans in 1895. The Survivors’ Descendants Want Them Back.

A 1990 law was meant to “expeditiously return” such items to Native Americans, but descendants are still waiting.
by Nicole Santa Cruz via ProPublica on October 20, 2023

Perhaps the World Ends Here

Climate disaster at Wounded Knee.
by Julian Brave NoiseCat via Harper’s on December 5, 2019
Frederic Remington illustration of Wounded Knee massacre.

Midterms and Troops: The Bid to Save a Party that Led to the Wounded Knee Massacre

The political context for one of the worst atrocities ever to take place on U.S. soil.
by Heather Cox Richardson via We're History on November 13, 2018
Phil Little Thunder, a great-great-grandchild of the Lakota chief whose village was attacked in 1855.

How Recovering the History of a Little-Known Lakota Massacre Could Heal Generational Pain

The unraveling of this long-buried atrocity is forging a path toward reconciliation.
by Tim Madigan via Smithsonian on October 22, 2024
A herd of bison running.

Speaking Wind-Words

Tracing the transformation of the Great Plains to the widespread belief in “manifest destiny,” and weighing the power of words to shape landscapes.
by Chelsea Steinauer-Scudder via Emergence Magazine on August 17, 2023
Protestors gathered at Wounded Knee in 2022, waving the flag of the American Indian Movement and an upside down United States of America flag. (Photograph by Eunice Straight Head)

The Siege of Wounded Knee Was Not an End but a Beginning

Fifty years ago, the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization invited the American Indian Movement to Pine Ridge and reignited a resistance that has not left.
by Nick Estes, Benjamin Hedin via The New Yorker on May 6, 2023
Nicholas Black Elk

Wounded Knee and the Myth of the Vanished Indian

The story of the 1890 massacre was often about the end of Native American resistance to US expansion. But that’s not how everyone told it.
by Livia Gershon, Lisa Tatonetti via JSTOR Daily on February 17, 2020

When The President Laughs At Genocide

In the period of a few weeks, President Trump mocked both the Trail of Tears and the Wounded Knee Massacre.
by Michael E. Carter via Tropics of Meta on February 10, 2019
American Indian woman and children.

The Heartbeat of Wounded Knee

“Our cultures are not dead and our civilizations have not been destroyed. Our present tense is evolving as rapidly and creatively as everyone else’s.”
by David Treuer via Longreads on January 22, 2019

A History and Future of Resistance

The fight against the Dakota Access Pipeline is part of a centuries-long indigenous struggle against dispossession.
by Julian Brave NoiseCat, Annie Spice via Jacobin on September 8, 2016
A photograph of the massacre perpetrated by Americans taken on the morning of March 8, 1906, on the eastern crest of Bud Dajo.

A Notorious Photo From a US Massacre in the Philippines Reveals an Ugly Truth

A shocking image of the 1906 atrocity survived but failed to become a humanitarian touchstone.
by Kim A. Wagner via New Lines on June 17, 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
A photograph of John G. Neihardt raising his fists to box.

A Tale of Two Visionaries

What roiled the mind of Nebraska poet John Neihardt with whom Black Elk, the iconic Lakota holy man, shared his story?
by Gus Mitchell via JSTOR Daily on December 13, 2023
A window through which an otherwise black and white leaf can be seen with a rainbow.

Native American Histories Show Rebuilding is Possible — and Necessary — After Catastrophe

What the Medicine Wheel, an indigenous American model of time, shows about apocalypse.
by B. L. Blanchard via Vox on March 24, 2023
Painting, a portrait of Thayendanegea, depicting a a Native American in a red and orange headdress.

Do We Have the History of Native Americans Backward?

They dominated far longer than they were dominated, and, a new book contends, shaped the United States in profound ways.
by David Treuer via The New Yorker on November 7, 2022
Poster for HBO documentary "Exterminate All the Brutes," featuring a human skull painted to look like a globe.

We Must Burn Them: Against the Origin Story

"History​ is written by the victors, but diligent and continual silencing is required to maintain its claims on the present and future."
by Hazel V. Carby via London Review of Books on May 26, 2022
Collage of a contemporary man encircled by layers of an old map, looking at 19th-century men walking past him.

Those Who Know

On Raoul Peck's "Exterminate all the Brutes" and the limits of rewriting the narrative.
by Nick Martin via The Drift on January 27, 2022
Image of a social studies book coming to visual life with edits to the content.

Revising America's Racist Past

How the 'critical race theory' debate is crashing headlong into efforts to update social studies standards.
by Stephen Sawchuk via Education Week on January 18, 2022
Mountain landscape.

The Never-Ending Frontier?

The US imperialist wars in the Philippines, Korea, Vietnam, and Afghanistan grew from US wars against Indigenous people in the 19th century.
by Karl Jacoby via Public Books on February 9, 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
Oglala Lakota Chief Red Cloud in a formal portrait arranged by William Blackmore, whose hand is visible at right

The Power Brokers

A recent history centers the Lakota and the vast territory they controlled in the story of the formation of the United States.
by David Treuer via New York Review of Books on November 11, 2020

Can Colonial Nations Truly Recognise the Sovereignty of Indigenous People?

The Lakota, like other groups, see themselves as a sovereign people. Can Indigenous sovereignty survive colonisation?
by Pekka Hämäläinen via Aeon on October 2, 2019

Who Speaks for Crazy Horse?

The world’s largest monument is decades in the making and more than a little controversial.
by Brooke Jarvis via The New Yorker on September 16, 2019
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

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