Lakota

“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.”

The political context for one of the worst atrocities ever to take place on U.S. soil.

War, famine and persecution inflict profound changes on bodies and brains. Could these changes persist over generations?

Alicia Puglionesi explores the damage white supremacy did to Native Americans and their land.

On the performance of authenticity and the native stories left to tell.

From homesteaders to tourists to the U.S. Army, railroads flooded the Great Plains with people who saw bison as pests, amusements, or opportunities for profit.

We're talking about the Battle of Little Bighorn all wrong.

The Lakota advocate helped thousands of domestic abuse survivors, Native and non-Native alike.

New research adds scientific detail to Indigenous narratives that tell a different story.

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

The Coney Island “Congress,” supposedly captured here in audio, was a conglomeration of counterfeits.

How the 'critical race theory' debate is crashing headlong into efforts to update social studies standards.

How white feminism failed Native Americans in the late-19th century.

For centuries, everyone from archaeologists to amateurs pillaged artifacts — and human remains. Now, the FBI is cracking down on those who continue to dig.

The national parks are the closest thing America has to sacred lands, and like the frontier of old, they can help forge our democracy anew.

Nearly two centuries later, many tribes remain suspicious of the drive to get them vaccinated against the coronavirus.

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

A digital companion to "We Do Not Want the Gates Closed Between Us," telling the story of Native American resistance to forced resettlement on reservations.

Sculptor Gutzon Borglum was deeply involved with the Ku Klux Klan while designing the Confederate memorial at Stone Mountain, Ga.

Why have Americans been obsessed with this one loss rather than dozens of victories?