David Treuer

They dominated far longer than they were dominated, and, a new book contends, shaped the United States in profound ways.

The national parks are the closest thing America has to sacred lands, and like the frontier of old, they can help forge our democracy anew.

A recent history centers the Lakota and the vast territory they controlled in the story of the formation of the United States.

“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.”