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This overdue honour is a welcome sign of the growing power of Native Americans.
An anthropologist who's researched the dispossession of Native Americans and their enduring connections to ancestral places sees the value in asking 'whose land are you on?'
Many Native languages are dying, and their loss has deep and profound implications for our world.
The struggle for sovereignty over their own lands has been a long hard fight for America's Indigenous peoples.
American Gods imagines a US where ancient gods exist at "right angles to reality", asking why we have mythologies and why we need them.
More than an easement: A scholar of Native American law lays out the legal arguments in the Dakota Access Pipeline and why they matter to all of us.
A scholar of American Indian studies shares the lesser-known, true story of two men who stood up and spoke out against the murder of American Indians, and how they are celebrated as heroes today.
What sacred sites have been damaged by The North Dakota Access Pipeline? We can't really know for certain – and our legal system is partly to blame.
A scholar explains what makes landscapes sacred in Native American religion and why there needs to be a better understanding of the ties to the land.
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Lecturer on Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Associate Professor of Environmental Studies, The University of Montana
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Professor of Indigenous History, University of Hull
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Senior Lecturer in English and Writing (children's literature), University of New England
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Professor of American Literature and Culture; Native American Studies, University of Denver
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Assistant Professor of Law & Co-Director, Margery Hunter Brown Indian Law Clinic, The University of Montana
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Lecturer, Post-1945 US History and Transatlantic Relations, University of Stirling
