Tag: Native Americans
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...
Native people did not use fire to shape New England’s landscape
Wyatt Oswald, Emerson College; David R. Foster, Harvard University, and Elizabeth Chilton, Binghamton University, State University of New York
An interpretive sign stands at the...
Why more places are abandoning Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous...
Malinda Maynor Lowery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Increasingly, Columbus Day is giving people pause.
More and more towns and cities across the country...
Why more places are abandoning Columbus Day in favor of Indigenous...
Malinda Maynor Lowery, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Increasingly, Columbus Day is giving people pause.
More and more towns and cities across the...
This year at the Supreme Court: Gay rights, gun rights and...
Morgan Marietta, University of Massachusetts Lowell
The Supreme Court begins its annual session on Oct. 7 and will take up a series of cases likely...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
