Navajo Nation

Seventy years after the civil preparedness film Duck and Cover, it's long past time to reckon with the way white supremacy shaped U.S. nuclear defense efforts.

A nation that identifies itself with nature begins to fall apart when it can no longer agree on what nature is.

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

The West and the nation need worthier, more honest memorials.

Indigenous scholars have long contested the “virgin-soil epidemics” thesis. Today, it is clear that the disease thesis simply doesn’t hold up.

A riveting new book shows how the Civil War in the West was both strategically important and lacking in the moral contours of the broader war.

Native communities’ vulnerability to epidemics is not a historical accident, but a direct result of oppressive policies and ongoing colonialism.

How the forgotten fight for the West exposes the meaning of the Confederate flag.

American Indians, the Civil War, and Confederate memory.