Indigenous narrative

A dispatch from Wounded Knee that layers the realities of poverty, climate change, and resilience on the history of colonization, settlement, and genocide.

Jill Lepore’s awkward embrace of the nation.

“Our cultures are not dead and our civilizations have not been destroyed. Our present tense is evolving as rapidly and creatively as everyone else’s.”

Jill Lepore's widely-praised history of the U.S. relies on the eventual exit of indigenous actors to make way for other dramas.

Traveling to the heart of Mexico for a Ceremonia del Perdón.

A series of objects of both Native and non-Native origin that tell a story of extraordinary culture disruption.

Was the 'first Thanksgiving' merely a pretext for the bloodshed, enslavement, and displacement that would follow in later decades?

Remembering the river helps me forget, at least for a moment, the challenges, fears, and feelings of inadequacy I experienced in my childhood.

American Indian tribes have long used activism in their struggle for justice and the preservation of their lands and culture.

A history of imperial forgetting.

A new book explores California’s history through the experience of its Native peoples.

Land acknowledgments stating that activities are taking place on land previously owned by Indigenous peoples are popular. But they may do more harm than good.

Local evidence of the cataclysm has literally washed away over the years. But Oregon’s Douglas firs may have recorded clues deep in their tree rings.

And then took credit for "saving" them.

History classes made it seem like young girls wouldn't ever change the course of the world. These books taught them that they could.

The tribal sovereignty movement from the late 1960s never really ended. To find the future of the Native left, look to the past.

A new curriculum from the American Indian Museum brings greater depth and understanding to the long-misinterpreted history of indigenous culture.

Before California was West, it was North and it was East: an arrival point for both Mexican and Chinese immigrants.

In a famous 1910 photograph "In a Piegan Lodge," a small clock appears between two seated Native American men.