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Philip J. Deloria

Bylines

When Tribal Nations Expel Their Black Members

Clashes between sovereignty rights and civil rights reveal an uncomfortable and complicated story about race and belonging in America.

by Philip J. Deloria via The New Yorker on July 14, 2022
What Tecumseh Fought For

Pursuing a Native alliance powerful enough to resist the American invaders, the Shawnee leader and his prophet brother envisioned a new and better Indian world.

by Philip J. Deloria via The New Yorker on October 26, 2020
The Invention of Thanksgiving

Massacres, myths, and the making of the great November holiday.

by Philip J. Deloria via The New Yorker on November 18, 2019

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A man wearing a cowboy outfit shoots at a series of targets in a sand pit

Home on the (Firing) Range: Gunfight Reenactments, “Old West” Competitive Shooting, and the Myth of Authenticity

Reenactments of the frontier west, complete with cowboy shootouts on main streets, reproduce a narrative of history that is widely accepted by millions.

by Jennifer Tucker via The Panorama on November 15, 2023

The Country That Could Not Mourn

The Covid-19 pandemic has shown just how hard it is for Americans to grieve.

by Sarah Jaffe via The New Republic on September 23, 2022

The author, as a young girl, standing in front of a wall.

As If I Wasn’t There: Writing from a Child’s Memory

The author confronts the daunting task of writing about her childhood memory, both as a memoirist and a historian.

by Martha Hodes via American Historical Review on September 19, 2022

Collage of nature images and transcendentalists' faces, with flowers in Emerson's eyes.

Emerson and Thoreau’s Fanatical Freedom

Why do the Transcendentalists still have an outsize influence on American culture?

by Sarah Blackwood via The New Republic on January 6, 2022

Portrait photo of Geronimo in European style clothing, holding a bow and arrow, 1904.

Ambushing Geronimo

An introduction to salvage anthropology.

by Samuel J. Redman via Lapham’s Quarterly on October 27, 2021

Ernest Thompson Seton posing with three citizens of the Blackfeet Nation, ca. 1917.

This Land Is Your Land

Native minstrelsy and the American summer camp movement.

by Asa Seresin via Cabinet on December 15, 2020

Equestrian statue of Theodore Roosevelt on a horse accompanied by an African man on foot, outside the American Museum of Natural History

The American Museum of Natural History Grapples with its Most Controversial Piece

Museum visitors, as well as scholars of art, history, and African and Native American studies, discuss the sculpture’s intended and perceived meanings.

by Reniqua Allen via Aeon on August 4, 2020

“Natives of the Woods of America”

Hunting shirts, backcountry culture, and “playing Indian” in the American Revolution.

by Marta Olmos via The Junto on July 14, 2020

Is Elizabeth Warren Native American?

What the DNA controversy reveals about race, identity politics, and the Native American present.

by Claire Bond Potter via Public Seminar on October 17, 2018

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