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How Photographer Frank S. Matsura Challenged White America’s Hegemonic View of the West

How Photographer Frank S. Matsura Challenged White America’s Hegemonic View of the West

Glen Mimura on the Groundbreaking Work of the Japanese Photographer Who Made Washington State His Home

By Glen Mimura | September 11, 2025

How Amaranth Influenced Indigenous Culture and Cooking in the American Southwest

How Amaranth Influenced Indigenous Culture and Cooking in the American Southwest

Michael Shaikh Explores the History and Legacy of Pueblo Cuisine in New Mexico

By Michael Shaikh | June 25, 2025

First Memories, First Lessons: Chyana Marie Sage on Grief, Narratives, and Cree Spirituality

First Memories, First Lessons: Chyana Marie Sage on Grief, Narratives, and Cree Spirituality

The Author of "Soft as Bones" Offers Up Her Life in Fragments

By Chyana Marie Sage | May 28, 2025

How Christian Missionaries Sought to Erase Native American Culture and Identity

How Christian Missionaries Sought to Erase Native American Culture and Identity

Mary Annette Pember on the Church-State Collaboration That Led to Systematic Displacement Throughout the 19th Century

By Mary Annette Pember | April 23, 2025

How the Cherokee Nation Used Diplomacy to Resist Subordination

How the Cherokee Nation Used Diplomacy to Resist Subordination

David Narrett Explores Native American Strategies of Self-Preservation in Colonial North America

By David Narrett | April 17, 2025

Five Essential Books For Understanding Native American History

Five Essential Books For Understanding Native American History

Cundill Prize Finalist Kathleen DuVal Recommends David Treuer, Ned Blackhawk, Brenda J. Child and More

By Kathleen DuVal | October 17, 2024

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“Weapons of Health Destruction...” How Colonialism Created the Modern Native American Diet

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From the Reservation to the River: On the Complexities of Writing About a Native Childhood

From the Reservation to the River: On the Complexities of Writing About a Native Childhood

Deborah Taffa on Acknowledging America’s Genocide of Native People

By Deborah Taffa | February 28, 2024

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Paul Morton on the Performance of Authenticity and the Native Stories Left to Tell

By Paul Morton | November 20, 2023

How Making Maple Syrup Keeps Native Culture Alive

How Making Maple Syrup Keeps Native Culture Alive

Joseph Bruchac on Tapping Maple Trees in the Adirondack Foothills

By Joseph Bruchac | September 2, 2022

How Colonialism and Patriarchy Create Enduring Misery for Native American Women

How Colonialism and Patriarchy Create Enduring Misery for Native American Women

Sofia Ali-Khan on the Brutal Legacy of the United States’s Westward Expansion

By Sofia Ali-Khan | July 27, 2022

How a Mundane Anthropologist and Bureaucrat Helped Contribute to American Settler Colonialism

How a Mundane Anthropologist and Bureaucrat Helped Contribute to American Settler Colonialism

Alicia Puglionesi on Spending Time With History's Malevolent Minor Characters

By Alicia Puglionesi | April 14, 2022

One of the Most Important American Documents You’ve Never Heard Of

One of the Most Important American Documents You’ve Never Heard Of

Colonial Lessons in Civility from the Five Nations of the Haudenosaunee

By Nicole Eustace | April 29, 2021

How the Specter of Islam Fueled European Colonization in the Americas

How the Specter of Islam Fueled European Colonization in the Americas

Alan Mikhail Considers the Historical Ripples of Islamophobia

By Alan Mikhail | December 17, 2020

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