Histories of Native America and the Port of Los Angeles Win Bancroft Prize
A sweeping history of Native Americans and a study of the creation of the port of Los Angeles in the 19th century have won this year’s Bancroft Prize, one of…
Federal Cuts Came to Native Schools. Students Are Livid.
The women’s basketball coach stood atop a ladder on Sunday night, carefully cutting down the last of the net after Haskell Indian Nations University won the league championship. The scene…
The Case Against Greenpeace Puts a Spotlight on Native History
Greenpeace went on trial this week in North Dakota in a lawsuit brought by the pipeline company Energy Transfer, which accuses the environmental group of masterminding protests against the Dakota…
‘Day of Reckoning’: Trial Over Greenpeace’s Role in Pipeline Protest Begins
Lawyers for the pipeline company Energy Transfer and Greenpeace fired their opening salvos in a North Dakota courtroom Wednesday morning in a civil trial that could bankrupt the storied environmental…
A Long Journey Home: After 50 Years, Back on the Reservation
Leonard Peltier had waited five decades to do something he had increasingly doubted he would ever be able to: say thank you, in person, to the fellow Native Americans and…
What to Know About Leonard Peltier, Activist Released From Prison by Biden
Leonard Peltier, a Native American rights activist, left federal prison in Central Florida Tuesday morning after nearly 50 years behind bars, in a victory for supporters who have criticized his…
Native American Activist Leonard Peltier Released From Prison
Leonard Peltier, a Native American rights activist held for nearly half a century for the killing of two F.B.I. agents, was released from a federal prison in Central Florida on…
The Playwright Larissa FastHorse Doesn’t Want to Be a Cautionary Tale
Three years later, FastHorse took “The Thanksgiving Play” to Broadway, where it opened to rave reviews. Jesse Green, chief theater critic of The New York Times, praised it as a…
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith Wanted to Be the Rule, Not the Exception
The trailblazing artist and curator Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, who died in January at 85, had many firsts to her name. She was, for example, the first Native American artist to…
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Artist With an Indigenous Focus, Dies at 85
Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, a fearless artist and indefatigable supporter of her peers who brought the full complexity of contemporary Indigenous experience into unmistakable view, died on Jan. 24 at her…