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Posted by Valentine Belue on Tuesday, July 9, 2024
  • The Vote | Article

    Why Vote-by-mail Could Depress Native American Turnout on North Dakota Reservations

    North Dakota’s new emphasis on mail-in balloting could mean fewer votes and less representation for Native American communities. 

  • American Oz | Article

    The Lakota Ghost Dance and the Massacre at Wounded Knee

    How the American drive to force Indian assimilation turned violent on the plains of South Dakota.

  • The Vote | Article

    Overcoming Barriers for Native American Voters

    The action, and promise, behind Native American representation in the U.S.

  • Building the Alaska Highway | Article

    Alaska Natives Before Statehood

    In the early spring of 1942 Alaska's population was approximately 73,000. About half of those residents were Native Alaskans, members of indigenous groups who inhabited Alaska before it was colonized by Russia.

  • The Transcontinental Railroad | Article

    Interview: Native Americans

     Donald Fixico, Thomas Bowlus Distinguished Professor of American Indian History and Director of the Center for Indigenous Nations Studies at the University of Kansas, talks about the West before white settlement.

  • Annie Oakley | Article

    Biography: Sitting Bull

    Sitting Bull was the political and spiritual leader of the Sioux warriors who destroyed General Custer's force in the famous battle of Little Big Horn.

  • Ulysses S. Grant | Article

    Red Cloud

    Red Cloud, chief of the Oglala Sioux, fought unsuccessfully to save his people and their land from being seized by whites.

  • Mount Rushmore | Article

    Native Americans and Mount Rushmore

    The Black Hills are sacred to the Lakota Sioux, the original occupants of the area when white settlers arrived. 

  • The Alaska Pipeline | Article

    Native Land Claims in Alaska

    Between 1902 and 1926 the federal government had set aside 54 million acres as national parks and wildlife refuges. All the rest was potentially subject to Native title. However, Congress had never made any treaties with Alaska Natives. 

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