Native American
The myth and reality of Jim Thorpe
David Maraniss’s biography of the legendary athlete highlights the contradiction in White America’s attitude toward Native people.
The creative resistance of Native American Christian art
The Christian Thunderbird is once more taking flight.
Telling Native stories on TV
Rutherford Falls gambles on humor to sort out White blindness. Reservation Dogs ignores the White gaze altogether.
What Native American political systems can teach us about power and truth telling
My Choctaw ancestors understood the cost of lies.
Doctrine of Discovery
A few blocks away from where I live, there’s a lovely green space. Renaissance Park is a revived bit of Chattanooga along the Tennessee River. There’s a walking tour that you can take, where you call a phone number and hear the history of the place.
Washington does something right
President Obama earlier this afternoon:
Indian Country has some of the highest rates of domestic abuse in America. And one of the reasons is that when Native American women are abused on tribal lands by an attacker who is not Native American, the attacker is immune from prosecution by tribal courts. Well, as soon as I sign this bill that ends.
The good grain: Restoring wild rice in the North
Wild rice is like maple syrup or morel mushrooms: producers need customers who know the real thing and are willing to pay more for it.
by Jon Magnuson