American Indians
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The Legacy of Wounded Knee May 21, 2020
What’s in a name? Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee, published 50 years ago, is still a widely read book on the American Indians. The title of the book comes from the last line of Stephen Vincent Benét’s poem, “American Names,” published in the Yale Revi...
Tribe of Sitting Bull and Crazy Horse October 30, 2019
Pekka Hamalainen's impressive history is also a quarrel with how history â?" especially the history of indigenous Americans â?" has been told and sold....
Sketches of Native America April 12, 2019
In 1862, after land-hungry invaders from the east had repeatedly violated their treaties with Native Americans, Dakota Indians rose up and “attacked and burned farms and killed settlers.” Many soldiers as well as civilians were killed, “hundreds in a...
