While Teaching for Native American Heritage Month, Remember the Troubling Role of Schools in Indigenous History

Each year during Native American Heritage Month in November, school classrooms around the country focus on Indigenous history. For educators in Illinois, this fall marks the first ...

A 1970 Law Led to the Mass Sterilization of Native American Women. That History Still Matters

Over a six-year period in the 1970s, physicians sterilized perhaps 25% of Native American women of childbearing age ...
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Violence, resistance, and survival in the Americas Native Americans and the legacy of conquest edited by William B. Taylor and Franklin Pease G.Y

Spanish and Andean perceptions of the other in the conquest of the Andes / Franklin Pease G.Y. -- Allegory and ethnography in Cabeza de Vaca's Naufragios and Comentarios / José Rabasa -- The art of ...
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As federal environmental priorities shift, sovereign Native American nations have their own plans

(THE CONVERSATION) Long before the large-scale Earth Day protests on April 22, 1970 – often credited with spurring significant environmental protection legislation – Native Americans stewarded the ...
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Native voices : American Indian identity and resistance / edited by Richard A. Grounds, George E. Tinker, and David E. Wilkins

The psychology of Earth and sky / Joy Harjo (Mvskoke) -- Ethnoastronomy as the key to human intellectual development and social organization / Clara Sue Kidwell (Choctaw/Ojibwe) -- The power of Seneca ...
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As federal environmental priorities shift, sovereign Native American nations have their own plans

Billy Frank Jr., left, a Nisqually tribal elder, was arrested dozens of times while trying to assert his native fishing rights during the 'Fish Wars' of the 1960s and 1970s. In this 2014 photo, he ...