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.
A better review of the cultural heritage might have prevented the face-off over the Dakota Access Pipeline.
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An anthropologist argues for new ways to value sacred landscapes.
Members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe protest construction of an oil pipeline near their reservation in Cannon Ball, North Dakota.
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What is the months-long North Dakota Access Pipeline protest really about? A Native American scholar connects the dots to environmental justice and the legacy of U.S. colonialism.
The Washington Redskins have been a flashpoint for the controversy surrounding Native American mascots.
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Nina M. Versaggi, Binghamton University, State University of New York
Cultural resource management archaeologists don’t choose where they dig. Instead they identify, evaluate and preserve cultural heritage sites in locations slated for development.
This clay facial reconstruction of Kennewick Man, carefully sculpted around the morphological features of his skull, suggests how he may have looked alive nearly 9,000 years ago.
Brittney Tatchell, Smithsonian Institution
A 9,000-year-old skeleton became a high-profile and highly contested case for the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act. How do we respectfully deal with ancient human remains?
Native Americans have struggled for recognition of the violence done to them through colonisation and the persistent harms of settler colonialism.
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Despite significant shortcomings in the negotiation, content and honouring of treaties, they continue to define the nature of the relationship between most Native Americans and the United States.
What would a 19th-century American think of Donald Trump’s hair?
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Many groups have been labeled ‘enemy’ in the American past. A literary scholar looks at the role literature and philosophy have played in dispelling fears and shifting public attitudes.
What is the history of the Thanksgiving dinner?
Nast, Thomas, 1840-1902, Library of Congress
The canonization of an 18th century Spanish priest is causing controversy given the suffering of Native Americans in California’s missions. But there’s a bigger issue at stake here for the church.
The tallest mountain in the US is again called Denali.
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For millennia, the Koyukon Athabascan have called the 20,000-foot mountain “the tall one.”
Members of the Chitimacha language team (from left to right) Sam Boutte, Kim Walden and Rachel Vilcan use the new language software for the first time.
A genomic sequencing study suggesting that the 9,000-year old skeleton dubbed “Kennewick Man” was Native American will intensify a 20-year-old dispute about what should happen to the remains.
Visitors mourn at the Armenian Genocide Memorial in Yerevan, Armenia.
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On the 100th anniversary of the Armenian genocide, we asked scholars to reflect on the significance of Armenian insistence on remembering and Turkey’s insistence that the genocide never happened.
Drawings by male warriors – like Black Hawk’s ‘Dream or Vision or Himself Changed to a Destroyer or Riding a Bufalo Eagle (1880-1881)’ – often depicted visions perceived during meditation and fasting.
New York State Historical Association, Fenimore Art Museum/John Bigelow Taylor