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The Untold Stories of Wes Studi

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 23, 2021October 19, 2022

“Wes starring in films that have nothing to do with Native American heritage is something we acutely desire: to be allowed to play parts without having to authenticate our realness as Indians.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Endless Robbing of Native American Graves

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands July 12, 2021October 19, 2022

“We have taken Native lands and tried to eradicate Indigenous societies, yet it’s not only what we’ve done to the living that is so deplorable. It’s what we’ve done, and continue to do, to the dead.”

Posted inEditor's Pick

The Native Scholar Who Wasn’t

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands May 26, 2021October 19, 2022

“Academia is an industry, like journalism, that defines itself in large part by its ethical standards; we’re supposed to educate people and produce knowledge. So what does it mean that we’re also a haven for fakes?”

Posted inFeatured, Highlight, Nonfiction, Quote Posts

The Seattle Police Shooting of Native Woodcarver John T. Williams, 10 Years Later

by Cheri Lucas Rowlands August 28, 2020October 19, 2022

“I don’t think you can talk about police accountability in our region without also talking about the murder of John T. Williams.”

Posted inNonfiction

In Pocahontas County, Deep Divisions and a Gruesome Discovery

by Longreads January 21, 2020December 30, 2022

In an excerpt from ‘The Third Rainbow Girl,’ Emma Copley Eisenberg interrogates various social conditions that might have contributed to a mysterious double murder in West Virginia in 1980.

Posted inNonfiction

(Who Gets to) Just Up and Move

by Nicole Walker January 3, 2020December 30, 2022

Nicole Walker contemplates the nature of migration, and realizes there are two places you can never escape: the planet and your own head.

Posted inBooks, Nonfiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

Shapes of Native Nonfiction: ‘The Basket Isn’t a Metaphor, It’s an Example’

by Colin Dickey August 1, 2019February 3, 2023

The editors of “Shapes of Native Nonfiction” talk about the craft of writing, the politics of metaphor, and resisting the exploitation of trauma.

Posted inCulture, education, History, Nonfiction, Quote Posts, Quotes

Why Can’t California Public Schools Quit Teaching a Eurocentric Version of State History?

by Aaron Gilbreath May 15, 2019October 19, 2022

Despite decades of effort, activists are still trying to get California public schools to teach an accurate history of the state’s indigenous people and the cruelties of European settlement.

Posted inBooks, Fiction, Profiles & Interviews, Story

‘I’m Always Writing Against This Idea That Denver’s a White Space.’

by Adam Morgan April 4, 2019October 19, 2022

Kali Fajardo-Anstine talks about her new short story collection “Sabrina & Corina,” her obsession with dualities, and Chicano and Indigenous history in Denver.

Posted inBooks, Essays & Criticism, History, Member Pick, Nonfiction, Story

America’s Post-Frontier Hangover

by Will Meyer March 14, 2019October 19, 2022

America binged on expansion, relying on land grabs as an engine of growth and a way to externalize racial hatred. Historian Greg Grandin asks, without a frontier, what can America be?

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