Native Americans
A fictional reservation that feels real
Amy Frykholm’s novel creates a fascinating interplay of Native people and settlers whose lives are complicated by intergenerational trauma.
When the doctrine of discovery became law
Steven Schwartzberg shows how the 19th-century arguments for Native American expulsion went against the intentions of the framers of the Constitution—and how they remain with us today.
A harrowing novel about Christian boarding schools
In Margaret Verble’s Stealing, a Cherokee girl finds what she needs to survive an evil system.
Restoring the land
Nearly all of the land we live on was taken from Native people. What can property owners do to make it right?
My land acknowledgment
My family owns a residential plot in suburban Chicago. I decided to find out what used to be there.
Listen to the survivors
Some churches are starting the long process of reckoning with their role in the horrors of Indigenous boarding schools.
On Native land
Land acknowledgments can do a lot of good—if they’re rooted in solid process and relationships.
Joy Harjo gives words to the poet warriors who were her ancestors
The Indigenous writer’s new memoir understands memory as counsel and ritual as the potency of love.
The bones of Jacques Marquette
The Jesuit explorer was a friend to Native Americans. At last, he’s going home.
The forced migration of Native Americans pushed them to inferior land
A recent study illuminates the economic cost of land theft. What might reparations look like?
The woman who haunts the book of Job
In Diane Glancy’s poetry and prose, the cries of Native Americans echo the laments of Job’s wife.
Louise Erdrich’s novel gives names, faces, words, and life to the Chippewa Turtle Mountain Band
A story of survival in the face of termination