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No Man’s Land

In ignoring the messy realities of westward expansion, McCullough’s "The Pioneers" is both incomplete and dull.
by Rebecca Onion via Slate on May 10, 2019
Map of Tongva villages in the area that is now Los Angeles.

Mapping the Tongva Villages of L.A.'s Past

The original people of Los Angeles, the Tongva, defined their world as Tovaangar.
by Sean Greene, Thomas Curwen via Los Angeles Times on May 9, 2019
Spencer Dam destroyed by floodwaters.

The Missouri River Flood Hits a Historic Native American Homeland

In the wake of devastating floods, one writer reflects on the importance of place to Great Plains Indians.
by Ian Frazier via The New Yorker on April 3, 2019
Painting depicting Jamestown Fort under construction.

Learning from Jamestown

The violent catastrophe of the Virginia colonists is the best founding parable of American history.
by Brianna Rennix via Current Affairs on March 15, 2019
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Native Pasts

This exhibit showcases the cultural, political, and environmental histories of American Indians, from ancient civilizations to contemporary activism.
Erica Armstrong Dunbar and Tiya Miles.

Talk of Souls in Slavery Studies

The co-winners of the 2018 Frederick Douglass Book Prize on researching slavery.
by Erica Armstrong Dunbar, Tiya Miles, Jim Knable via Medium on February 26, 2019
Painting depicting Cherokee people riding, walking, and driving wagons on the Trail of Tears.

“Work of Barbarity”: An Eyewitness Account of the Trail of Tears

A missionary's account of the atrocities perpetrated against Cherokees shows that the Trail of Tears is no laughing matter.
by Evan Jones, Matthew Dessem via Slate on February 10, 2019

When The President Laughs At Genocide

In the period of a few weeks, President Trump mocked both the Trail of Tears and the Wounded Knee Massacre.
by Michael E. Carter via Tropics of Meta on February 10, 2019

Ulysses Grant’s Forgotten Fight for Native American Rights

The President and his Seneca friend Ely Parker wanted Indians to gain citizenship, but their efforts are mostly lost to history.
by Mary Stockwell via Zócalo Public Square on January 7, 2019

Half the Land in Oklahoma Could be Returned to Native Americans. It Should Be.

A Supreme Court case about jurisdiction in an obscure murder has huge implications for tribes.
by Rebecca Nagle via Washington Post on November 28, 2018
A painting entitled "The First Thanksgiving, 1621" by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (ca. 1932).

A Brief History of Thanksgiving

Thanksgiving is a holiday about food – but it is more specifically a holiday about food’s absence.
by Rachel B. Herrmann via History Extra on November 21, 2018
A painting entitled "The First Thanksgiving, 1621" by Jean Leon Gerome Ferris (ca. 1932).

Thanksgiving: The National Day of Mourning

A Native student explains why the holiday is a painful reminder of a whitewashed past.
by Allen Salway via Paper on November 21, 2018
Frederic Remington illustration of Wounded Knee massacre.

Midterms and Troops: The Bid to Save a Party that Led to the Wounded Knee Massacre

The political context for one of the worst atrocities ever to take place on U.S. soil.
by Heather Cox Richardson via We're History on November 13, 2018

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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How Pocahontas—The Myth and the Slur—Props Up White Supremacy

The roots of the attacks on Elizabeth Warren.
by Honor Sachs via Made By History on October 16, 2018

Columbus Believed He Would Find ‘Blemmyes’ and ‘Sciapods’ – Not People – in the New World

Columbus wasn't unique in his belief that bizarre, monstrous humanoids inhabited the far reaches of the world.
by Peter C. Mancall via The Conversation on October 5, 2018

How Maps Reveal, and Conceal, History

What one scholar learned from writing an American history consisting of 100 maps.
by Susan Schulten via Process: A Blog for American History on September 13, 2018
Archaeologists looking into an hole they've excavated.

Archaeologists Explore a Rural Field in Kansas, and a Lost City Emerges

Of all the places to discover a lost city, this pleasing little community seems an unlikely candidate.
by David Kelly via Los Angeles Times on August 19, 2018

Think Confederate Monuments Are Racist? Consider Pioneer Monuments

Most early pioneer statues celebrated whites dominating American Indians.
by Cynthia Prescott via The Conversation on August 7, 2018
Drawing of two laborers in a vast agricultural field with a farmhouse in the background.

A Family From High Plains

Sappony tobacco farmers across generations, and across state borders, when North Carolina and Virginia law diverged on tribal recognition, education, and segregation.
by Nick Martin via Splinter on August 2, 2018
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Native Americans Managed the Prairie for Better Bison Hunts

Hunter-gatherer societies may have a bigger ecological impact than we thought.
by Kiona N. Smith via Ars Technica on July 25, 2018

This Innovative Memorial Will Soon Honor Native American Veterans

The National Museum of the American Indian has reached a final decision on which design to implement.
by Ryan K. Smith via Smithsonian on June 26, 2018
Laura Ingalls Wilder

Librarians without Chests: A Response to the ALSC’s Denigration of Laura Ingalls Wilder

A network of professional librarians seeks to destroy a beloved literary heroine and malign her creator.
by Dedra McDonald Birzer via National Review on June 26, 2018

America's National Parks Were Never Wild and Untouched

Montana's emblematic Glacier National Park reveals the impact of human history and culture.
by Adam M. Sowards via Zócalo Public Square on June 11, 2018
How a group of Red Power activists seized the abandoned prison island and their own destinies.

This Land is Our Land: The Native American Occupation of Alcatraz

From November 1969 to June 1971, 89 Red Power activists seized the abandoned prison island of Alcatraz, and their own destinies.
by Mariah-Rose Marie M, Eleri Harris via The Nib on June 11, 2018
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How A Child Born More Than 400 Years Ago Became A Symbol of White Nationalism

Virginia Dare and the myth of American whiteness.
by Andrew Lawler via Made By History on May 24, 2018
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One of the 19th Century’s Most Important Documents Was Recently Discovered

How a rare copy of the U.S.-Navajo Treaty, once thought lost, was found in a New England attic.
by Megan Kate Nelson via Made By History on May 22, 2018

Edward S. Curtis: Romance vs. Reality

In a famous 1910 photograph "In a Piegan Lodge," a small clock appears between two seated Native American men.
by Allison C. Meier via JSTOR Daily on May 18, 2018

Yes, ‘Little House on the Prairie’ is Racially Insensitive — But We Should Still Read It

Librarians are once again raising concerns over the book’s depiction of Native Americans.
by Caroline Fraser via Washington Post on May 13, 2018

The Gods of Indian Country

How American expansion reshaped the religious worlds of both settlers and Native people.
by Jennifer Graber via Not Even Past on May 1, 2018

Remembering Native American Lynching Victims

Research shows that many more Native Americans were lynched than previously believed.
by Cecily Hilleary via VOA on April 25, 2018
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