Tag: Native Americans
Ending food insecurity in Native communities means restoring land rights, handing...
Valarie Blue Bird Jernigan, Oklahoma State University
For Indigenous people in the U.S., food is considered a sacred gift....
Returning the ‘three sisters’ – corn, beans and squash – to...
Christina Gish Hill, Iowa State University
Historians know that turkey and corn were part of the first Thanksgiving, when Wampanoag peoples shared a harvest meal...
Repatriating the archives: Lumbee scholars find their people and bring them...
Ashley Minner, University of Maryland, Baltimore County and Jessica R. Locklear, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Following World War II, thousands of Lumbee...
The complicated legacy of the Pilgrims is finally coming to light...
Peter C. Mancall, University of Southern California – Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
The 400th anniversary of the Pilgrims’ voyage to Plymouth will...
Oklahoma is – and always has been – Native land
Dwanna L. McKay, Colorado College
Some Oklahomans are expressing trepidation about the Supreme Court’s recent ruling that much of the eastern part of the state...
Supreme Court upholds American Indian treaty promises, orders Oklahoma to follow...
Kirsten Carlson, Wayne State University
Land in eastern Oklahoma that the United States promised to the Creek Nation in an 1833 treaty is still a...
Growing up in a banking desert can hurt your credit for...
Tony Cookson, University of Colorado Boulder
The Research Brief is a short take on interesting academic work.
The Big Idea
A banking desert is an area without...
How a Native American coming-of-age ritual is making a comeback
Rosalyn R. LaPier, The University of Montana
The Ojibwe, one of the largest indigenous groups in North America, with communities from Quebec to Montana, are...
EXPLORING NATURE
Oldest known cremation in Africa poses 9,500-year-old mystery about Stone Age...
Jessica C. Thompson, Yale University; Elizabeth Sawchuk, Stony Brook University (The State University of New York), and Jessica Cerezo-Román, University of Oklahoma
