Raymond Thundersky roamed the streets of Cincinnati – a Native American in a clown costume who drew urban construction scenes, both real and imagined. Mary Annette Pember relates her own search to find the story behind this enigmatic “trickster” who connected worlds as he created his own.
In Wisconsin, new iron-ore mining legislation threatens the Penokee Mountains, upstream from the Bad River reservation. Some say that Gov. Scott Walker and other mining proponents are about to encounter a force of nature: Objibwe women bent on preserving family and community.
Women's lives were absent from the study of history until the 1970s. Gerda Lerner took herself and her students seriously, demanding that universities do the same.
Double Edge Theater's staging of The Odyssey in Western Massachusetts inspires rural leaders to dream big and, in the spirit of Native peoples, bring art's magic back home.
Wisconsin's legislature is considering rules that would make new mining
operations swfiter to begin and less subject to oversight. But the
state's Native American tribes, with experience behind them, are
prepared to defend their land and water.
The best Christmases are the ones in our memory. An Sicangu Lakota blogger recently asked her Facebook friends about the holiday — and these are the memories that came in return.
A federal apology to Native Americans for a ruthless history has been made but mainly kept under wraps. Is it for shame or the fear of huge reparations?