Indigenous political prisoner Leonard Peltier finally returns home today. In the last moments of his presidency, Joe Biden commuted his two consecutive…
Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about the violent origins of Thanksgiving and his book Our History Is the Future. āThis history ā¦…
The liberal story of the United States is that weāre a nation of immigrants. The indigenous story is that the country was…
Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe, an assistant professor in American Indian studies at the University of…
The way Leonard Peltier tells it, he was a criminal the day he was born ā but not by choice. The seventy-eight-year-old…
Bellecourt and the American Indian Movement taught us that colonizing society is weak because of its sense of superiority. It has God, guns, and gold, but its soft underbelly is glory
Indian boarding schools held Native American youth hostage in exchange for land cessions
But Theyāre Unrecognized and Unpaid
Interview on how two centuries of indigenous resistance created the movement proclaiming āWater is life.ā
Itās either us or them, and thereās nothing pragmatic about sustaining the system, because the system is destroying us
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