Film
The Native Journalists Fighting for a Free Press
Bad Press follows a Muscogee publication's struggle against local government censorship and corruption.
Native American
News
New York State Bans Native American Mascots in Schools
Sports team names and logos in the US have long reinforced derogatory stereotypes of Native people.
News
Over 650 US Sites Renamed to Remove Anti-Indigenous Slurs
In recent years, local activists have pushed to change the names of federal sites featuring the dehumanizing “s-word.”
News
Oklahoma's Beloved Statue of Native American Ballerina Stolen and Sold for $250
A sculpture of Marjorie Tallchief, a ballerina of Osage descent, was stolen from the Tulsa Historical Society and sold for parts to a recycling center.
Art
Brad Kahlhamer and the Amalgamations of Existence
Relationships, not isolation, inform Kahlhamer’s ideas of identity
Art
What It Means to Curate for My Native American Community
Unlike other curators, my work involves collaborating with Native Sovereign nations, which brings up issues disregarded by US art institutions.
News
Met Museum Acknowledges It Is on Lenape Land with New Plaque
The initiative was led by curators Patricia Marroquin Norby and Sylvia Yount.
News
A Bill Offers California’s Indigenous Tribes Ownership of Ancestral Objects
Also, a work by Paolo Uccello, sold in a Sotheby’s sale this July for $3.1 million, was revealed to be looted by Nazis.
News
Text This Number in the US to Find Out Which Native Land You're Living On
Just text your zip code or city and state to this phone number to learn which Native territories you're occupying.
News
A Rare Collection of 19th-Century Photographs of Native Americans Goes Online
Digitized by the American Antiquarian Society, the 225 vintage images were intended for non-Native audiences and were reproduced in government reports, illustrated newspapers or mounted on stereo cards.
Art
A Retrospective of Edgar Heap of Birds Rises High
With public art pieces, biting political, text-based work, and more intimate abstract paintings, this small exhibition illuminates Heap of Birds’s expansive career.
Art
The Indian Removal Act Is on View at the National Archives for the First Time
Visitors can read the handwritten 1830 act that was signed by Andrew Jackson and led to the forced removal of indigenous tribes across the United States.