While rereading A True Relation (1608) by John Smith, a statement about most guns being packed away caught my eye. I noticed the statement ...

Police and Military Attack Oceti Sakowin Treaty Camp from Unicorn Riot on Vimeo .

Spokane City Council votes in favor of Indigenous Peoples' Day : SPOKANE, Wash. - The Spokane City Council voted 6-1 Monday in favor of ...

A roadside billboard alerted me to the phenomenal archaeology collection at the Chelan County Museum in Cashmere, Washington .* The fishing ...

When I am reading, I frequently go back and reread a passage. Most often I have missed something due to inattention or interruption, as when...

In Howard Zinn, A People's History of the United States (1999 [1980]), we read: On their own, the Indians were engaged in the great a...

Tribal names, as the names Native, Native American, Indian, American Indian, Native American Indian, are inventions more often than not. Som...

Frederich Engels, co-author with Karl Marx of the core texts outlining the prospects of communism, offers one stereotype of American Indians...

Still working on an article that no one will ever read for an encyclopedia that no one will ever buy, I just came across a few marvelous art...

I'm not blogging much of late because I'm struggling to finish an overdue encyclopedia article that compresses all of Montana Indian...

Thanks to Pam Wilson, curator of " Indigenous Cinema and Visual Language(s): Why Should We Be Teaching These Films? " at In Media ...

In the comments to yesterday's post, Doghouse Riley posed a question about President Obama's rhetoric in his Inaugural Address and ...

In her classic bestseller, Patterns in Culture (1946 [1934]), Ruth Benedict draws upon Greek myth to construct two categories of cultural p...

My evening history class ends at 10:00pm. After the short drive home, I need to read for a few minutes before I can fall asleep. Last night...

Do all the people named the Sioux call themselves Lakota? Does an accent mark belong on Nez Perce? Are the Chippewa related to the Ojibwa (o...

Written in a spiral notebook 28 June 1995, Fort Loudon Lake, Tennessee. What we call history and what we call the novel are more recent than...

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Tuberculosis In A Patriot's History , Schweikart and Allen’s claim that “[t]uberculosis existed in Central and North America” (8) appear...

Smith and Pocahontas In 1624 Captain John Smith published an account that he was rescued by Pocahontas from a death planned by her father,...

1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus Lots of books on history are written by journalists these days. Most are well-written ...