Tag: Native Americans

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

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.

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

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?

“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.”

Telling Washington’s story without erasing the people and lands that preoccupied him leads to important new questions; like, just how consequential for American history was the first president’s addiction to land speculation?

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, […]