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Oklahoma is trying to limit the number of earthquakes caused by oil and gas extraction, but some existing faults there – which could be activated by wastewater injection – have never been mapped.
Native American scholars joined in the global March for Science. Their science blends seamlessly with beliefs.
For the Blackfeet, Lakota and other Native American people, water does more than sustain life – it’s the place of the divine.
Comparisons often ignore the troubling history of how Jackson treated Native Americans. An expert on Native American history draws parallels to the new administration.
From Chinese laborers to ‘bad hombres,’ the US settler mentality has perpetuated an immigration system that pushes out unwanted groups and bypasses the Constitution.
An anthropologist of the American West argues that protecting nature and our cultural heritage are good for business but few recognize how they are threatened by ‘jobs-creating’ oil pipelines.
The pains of the past carry into the future, especially for groups of people who have been mistreated for decades or even centuries. Here is not only why that happens but also how you can help.
A Native American scholar explains why so little has changed despite the apparent victory of protesters opposing the North Dakota Access Pipeline protest.
The ideology of ‘manifest destiny’ has underpinned centuries of discriminatory legislation and violence against the US’s indigenous people.
Standoff over North Dakota pipeline and Chief Sitting Bull’s Standing Rock is another broken promise made to Native Americans.
Thousands of people, both those within Native American communities and their non-Native allies, felt called to go to Standing Rock. What was the motivation?
The protesters have scored a big victory in the Dakota Access Pipeline conflict, but it’s served only to illuminate the sharp divisions over energy policy in the US.
The Pilgrims were thankful for finally being able to vanquish Thomas Morton and Ferdinando Gorges, who spent years trying to undermine the legal basis for settlements in Massachusetts and beyond.
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.
The presidential turkey pardoning draws on a language of forgiveness common to many religious traditions.
A little-known suit against a Mohegan tribal employee will test the limits of Indian tribes’ legal immunity.
An anthropologist tells the story of how Columbus actually came close to falling into historical obscurity, until American hubris got in the way.
An anthropologist argues for new ways to value sacred landscapes.
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Professor of History, University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
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Distinguished Professor and Professor of the Humanities, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences
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Professor of Law and Adjunct Professor of Political Science, Wayne State University
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Associate Research Professor of Anthropology, University of Colorado Denver
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Assistant Professor, History, Coventry University
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Associate Professor of Indigenous Literatures, University of Dayton
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Associate Professor of Native American and Indigenous Studies, San José State University
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Assistant Professor of Anthropology, Florida State University
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Assistant Curator for History and Culture, National Museum of the American Indian, Smithsonian Institution
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Indigenous Governance Program Manager and Professor of Practice, University of Arizona
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Professor of English and Literary Arts, University of Denver
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Professor of Environment and Sustainability, University of Michigan
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Associate Professor in Modern US History, University of Bristol
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Executive Director, American Indian Policy Institute, Arizona State University
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Lecturer, Post-1945 US History and Transatlantic Relations, University of Stirling