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Leonard Peltier

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Leonard Peltier’s Story Isn’t Over Yet

The Native activist spent nearly fifty years in prison for the killing of two F.B.I. agents. In January, Joe Biden commuted his sentence, and he went home.

by Nick Estes, Leonard Peltier via The New Yorker
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on June 26, 2025

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Painting of Plains Indians and teepees at the Fort Snelling internment camp.

A Continuum of Federal Violence

A history of indigenous-US relations in Minnesota in the wake of the murders of Nicole Renee Good and Alex Pretti.

by John R. Legg via Clio and the Contemporary on February 9, 2026

Comedian Charlie Hill on stage with a microphone.

‘Part of Why We Survived’

Is there something in particular about coming from a Native background that makes a person want to write and perform comedy?

by Ian Frazier via New York Review of Books on December 23, 2021

Mount Rushmore.

The Battle for the Black Hills

Nick Tilsen was arrested for protesting President Trump at Mount Rushmore. Now, his legal troubles are part of a legacy.

by Nick Estes via High Country News on January 1, 2021

“The Landing of the Pilgrim Fathers,” an 1885 parody of an 1850 painting by Charles Lucy.

Thankstaking

Was the 'first Thanksgiving' merely a pretext for the bloodshed, enslavement, and displacement that would follow in later decades?

by Jane Kamensky via Commonplace on January 1, 2001

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