Writings
‘Duke University, please take action to support Native American students’
An open letter to Duke University from the Duke Native American Student Alliance by Quinn Smith explains how Duke has failed to support Indigenous students and calls for healing
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Don’t focus on shame and guilt in Indigenous people’s healing | Duke
I was born and raised away from the reservation, like the vast majority of Native youth of my generation. However, my grandfather grew up on the family allotment near Ada, Oklahoma. Papaw was the biggest cultural defender in my family. He was a Chickasaw artist who could draw, paint, sculpt, and car…
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Real Indians and Fake Indians
“Until 1934, blood quantum played no real role in determining tribal citizenship. Referring to someone as “part” Indian is based on a European idea of…

What Are Tribal Nations and Reservations?
As with all Native history, this article contains graphic depictions of violence in the section titled “Physical Genocide.” But this is a part history we…

A Stolen History, Future Claims: The Blackfeet Nation and Glacier National Park
With Special thanks to elders Ernie Heavy Runner and Darrell Norman. In Memory of Darrell Norman. As with many writings on Native history, this article…