Justice Denied in the 1870s
Equal protection under the law is a legal and social concept which has often not been viewed as applicable to American Indians. During much of […]
Month: February 2012
Chaco Culture National Historic Park
More than a thousand years ago, the Ancestral Puebloans constructed a number of larges pueblos in Chaco Canyon, New Mexico. The ruins of these ancient […]
The Navajo and Oil in the 1920s
Traditionally the United States has assumed that any mineral and energy resources found on Indian reservations should be developed by non-Indian private enterprise and that […]
First Nations News & Views: Okiciyap, the Dawes Act & Elders Get Heard from K-12 to College
Welcome to the fourth edition of First Nations News & Views. This weekly series is one element in the “Invisible Indians” project put together by […]
Taking Indian Land Without Compensation
The United States bought Alaska from the Russians in 1867. The Russians had never attempted to force the Alaska natives to recognize Russian ownership, nor […]
Mount Taylor and the Pueblos
The Pueblo Indians, who have lived in the American Southwest for thousands of years, do not draw a distinction between the secular and the sacred: […]
First Nations News & Views: This Week – Code Talkers, Slurs and Silencing Native Tongues
Welcome to the third edition of First Nations News & Views. This weekly series is one element in the “Invisible Indians” project put together by […]
Federal Indian Policies in 1890
Throughout the first century of its existence, the United States had carried out policies intended to decimate the First Nations that had occupied the lands […]