Ojibwe

The tendency to favor interest in resource extraction over the protection of the state’s waters, vital to the native Ojibwe population, has deep historical roots.

The resurgence of the wild rice harvest seeks to tells the story of settler colonialism, tribal kinship and ecological stewardship.

A 1918 letter sent a historian diving into the archives to learn more about its author.

Chicago has been a skunk haven for centuries.

A look back at the early years of the 350-year-old institution that once claimed a vast portion of the globe.

The blind erasure of native culture is nothing new.

Disappearing foods – and why they need protecting.

Last month, descendants of copper miners and history enthusiasts alike gathered for the 117th annual Central Mine reunion service

Forced by the federal government to attend the schools, generations of Native American children were sexually assaulted, beaten and emotionally abused.

Native Americans demand accountability for a federal policy that aimed to erase Indigenous culture.

What the Medicine Wheel, an indigenous American model of time, shows about apocalypse.

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

The city of Chicago was built upon the settler colonial dispossession of Indigenous peoples and lands. That history of this conflict continues into the present.

In this modern Indigenous kitchen, every dish is made without any ingredient introduced to the continent after Europeans arrived.

On the relationships formed and marriages made by the fur trade.

The unauthorized removal of the monument took place during the racial justice protests of summer 2020.

The story of Indigenous women’s participation in the struggle for women’s suffrage is highly complex, and Zitkala-Ša’s story provides an illuminating example.

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

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.

The intertwining of white flour, nutrition science, and profit.