Navajo Nation

We must recognize the continued suffering and sacrifice of the Navajo that built the atomic era.

The conservative justice is on course for an originalist fight with Neil Gorsuch.

From the 1918 Spanish flu to Covid-19, broken treaties have been the foundation of health crises among Native people.

How a rare copy of the U.S.-Navajo Treaty, once thought lost, was found in a New England attic.

While researching the history of racism in Silicon Valley, Lisa Nakamura is surprised to discover the Navajo Nation's role in the creation of the tech industry.

Climate change, colonization, and the Navajo Nation.

The U.S. sought to rebrand nuclear power as a source of peace, but this message helped mask a violent history.

Western landscapes and their names are stratified with personal memories, ancestral teachings, mythic events and colonial disturbances.

Native traditions and novel discoveries tell the migration story of the ancestors of the Navajo and Apache.

During the Civil War, Union soldiers in the West weren’t fighting to end slavery, but to annihilate and remove Native Americans.

“It is one thing to play dress-up, to imitate pronunciations and understanding; it is another thing to think or dream or live in a language not your own.”

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

My ancestors were the good whites, or at least that’s what I’ve always wanted to believe.

Federal agencies awarded millions of dollars to scientific studies on Native American human remains, undermining the goals of tribes fighting for repatriation.

A catalog of cleanup efforts at the 50-plus sites where uranium was processed for nuclear weapons, where polluted water and sickness were often left behind.

The foundational document was flawed from the start.

Is there something in particular about coming from a Native background that makes a person want to write and perform comedy?

On the therapeutic turn in Indigenous politics.

The ghosts of the uranium boom continue to haunt the land, water and people.

A new history charts the forgotten ways the social politics of the Roosevelt years transformed the United States.