Sitting Bull

The baby boy who would one day become the renowned and feared leader of the Lakotas was the second child of Returns Again and Her Holy Door.

The 1872 act that established the nature preserve provoked Lakota assertions of sovereignty.

Thinking beyond the dichotomies of oppressor and victim reveals the human urges that inspire so much of our expressive culture.

How Buffalo Bill’s Wild West brought scenes from the American West to audiences around the globe.

The story of suffragist Matilda Gage, the woman behind the curtain whose life story captivated her son-in-law L. Frank Baum as he wrote his classic novel.

Fifty years ago, the Oglala Sioux Civil Rights Organization invited the American Indian Movement to Pine Ridge and reignited a resistance that has not left.

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

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

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.

The Lakota, like other groups, see themselves as a sovereign people. Can Indigenous sovereignty survive colonisation?

The world’s largest monument is decades in the making and more than a little controversial.

The great showman taught us to love hyperbole, fake news, and a good hoax. A century and a half later, the show has escaped the tent.

“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.