Tag: Native Americans

Why do we love (and fear, and kill) polar bears with so much intensity?

In Idaho, former state representative Paulette Jordan faces a tough race to become the nation’s first Native American governor.

The 20th anniversary of the Amber Alert sent the writer on a two-year journey to cover a murder in the Navajo Nation.

It took the murder of a young Navajo girl to get the tribal police to refine their Amber Alert system. But will these changes work?

First, please retire the clichés.

A new Indigenous MFA program is becoming an incubator for Native American writing, free of white Eurocentric standards.

Given a journal while hospitalized, Terese Marie Mailhot writes her way through generations of trauma.

TV producer Nicole Lucas Haimes details her fascination with one North Carolina man whose attempt to run an honest court got him killed.

A look at the Oglala Lakota people of the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, and how they’ve preserved their identity and customs after more than a 100 years of a tenuous relationship with the U.S.: Buried deep within the pages of the 2010 Defense appropriations bill, signed by President Barack Obama in December 2009, […]