Congress passed a law in 1990 mandating the return of all Native American items that federally funded institutions took without consent. Progress since then has been slow.
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Current laws that deem species safe from extinction ignore their ecological role, geographic range and genetic diversity, as well as their relationships with people.
Rather than have students memorize names and dates, this history curriculum invites students to grapple with real-life issues faced by people from the past.
As the Kansas City Chiefs prepare to take on the Philadelphia Eagles, The Conversation takes a critical look at some of the biggest news stories from the past NFL season.
Indigenous language instructors struggle to keep their languages from becoming lost.
A new report disputes the heritage claims of Native American activist Sacheen Littlefeather. A scholar explains why scrutiny over alleged ethnic fraud is essential.
Indigenous people’s languages were largely lost as a result of forced assimilation efforts in the U.S. Here’s why one tribal leader says the languages should be brought back.
Indigenous people in the US have high rates of food insecurity and dietary-related health problems. Any attempts to address the problem must start with land justice, argues a scholar of Native health and food.
Renaming a national holiday to celebrate Native culture is one thing, but many Indigenous peoples are looking for greater recognition of the land grab that deprived them of ancestral homes.
The Supreme Court’s July 9 ruling that half of Oklahoma belongs to the Muscogee Nation confirms what Indigenous people already knew: North America is ‘Indian Country.’
Tomanowos, aka the Willamette Meteorite, may be the world’s most interesting rock. Its story includes catastrophic ice age floods, theft of Native American cultural heritage and plenty of human folly.
The Hollywood actor’s controversial role in a perfume ad has drawn criticism for ‘cultural appropriation’. But it’s not as simple as that.
This overdue honour is a welcome sign of the growing power of Native Americans.
An anthropologist who’s researched the dispossession of Native Americans and their enduring connections to ancestral places sees the value in asking ‘whose land are you on?’
Many Native languages are dying, and their loss has deep and profound implications for our world.
The struggle for sovereignty over their own lands has been a long hard fight for America’s Indigenous peoples.
American Gods imagines a US where ancient gods exist at “right angles to reality”, asking why we have mythologies and why we need them.
More than an easement: A scholar of Native American law lays out the legal arguments in the Dakota Access Pipeline and why they matter to all of us.
A scholar of American Indian studies shares the lesser-known, true story of two men who stood up and spoke out against the murder of American Indians, and how they are celebrated as heroes today.
What sacred sites have been damaged by The North Dakota Access Pipeline? We can’t really know for certain – and our legal system is partly to blame.
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Professor of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Professor of Indigenous & Environmental History, University of Birmingham
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Associate Professor of Political Science, Emerson College
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Assistant Professor of Race, Ethnicity, and Indigenous Studies, Colorado College
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Earth scientist, Instituto de Geociencias de Barcelona (Geo3Bcn – CSIC)
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Executive Director, Myaamia Center, Miami University
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E.P. Clapp Distinguished Professor of Politics, Occidental College
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Professor of Rural Health; Director, Center for Indigenous Health Research, Oklahoma State University
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Knight Chair in Sports Journalism and Society, Penn State
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Professor of Educational Psychology and Quantitative Research, Evaluation, and Measurement, The Ohio State University