Native Americans

Ward Churchill's win is scholarship's loss Ward Churchill's win is scholarship's loss

The ethnic studies professor should not have been fired for speaking out about 9/11. The problem remains his slanted work on Native American history.
  • Double-wide dreams

    Courtney Hunt on her Sundance-acclaimed, slo-mo rural thriller "Frozen River" and making an indie film even action-movie fans can love (interview/podcast).
  • All-night party in a lost city

    Kent Mackenzie's gorgeous black-and-white film "The Exiles" captures a garage-rock world of urban American Indians in a vanished L.A. Plus: German groupie tells all!
  • "Chief Bender's Burden"

    A biography tells of how the Native American pitcher overcame long odds and fierce prejudice to star for Connie Mack's Athletics.
  • Is everything we know about American history wrong?

    Forget the Pilgrims. America's roots are older and more twisted, what Tony Horwitz calls a "primordial slime of false starts and mutations."
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    The Cleveland Indians minstrel show: Fans painted to resemble the outrageously racist mascot are shown without comment in the mainstream media. Enough.
  • King Kaufman's Sports Daily

    Indian mascot to shuffle off this mortal coil. Plus: Britney Spears mulls hockey offer.
  • "Welcome to Red Lake"

    A muckraking Chippewa journalist says tribal press constraints keep details of the recent school shooting murky -- and hide systemic problems on the reservation where he grew up.
  • Bones of contention

    The ongoing debate over where the first Americans came from has anthropologists battling with Native Americans, white supremacists and the Army Corps of Engineers.
  • Wilma Mankiller

    The first female chief of the Cherokee Nation, she took tragedy and illness and made strength. And don't even ask where she got her name.
  • Mixing it up

    The author of "One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race" picks five books in which racial lines go blurry.
  • "The Blood Runs Like a River Through My Dreams" by Nasdijj

    A not-quite-Native American's hard, strange life makes for a fiercely original memoir about the compulsion to write.
  • Letters to the editor

    Does the debunker need debunking? Plus: Up with the Sponge! "Mission to Mars" doesn't get off the ground.
  • Skull wars

    Native American activists battle scientists for bones that may prove they had white ancestors.
  • Sherman Alexie's cultural imperialism

    The Native American novelist thinks Ian Frazier had no business writing "On the Rez." He may have some trespasses of his own to answer for.
  • "On the Rez" by Ian Frazier

    In an instant American classic, a great writer zeros in on the Oglala Sioux (as much as he can zero in on anything).
  • Artist's little helper

    Fred Tomaselli's work offers the experience of taking drugs in the safest possible way -- through the eyes.
  • A kinder, gentler cowboy

    Ric Lynden Hardman revives the cowboy genre with "Sunshine Rider: The First Vegetarian Western" -- a picaresque, cocky, playful coming-of-age novel.
  • Remembering Michael Dorris

    Friends and colleagues celebrate the writer's life -- and take issue, sometimes angrily, with those who have raised dark questions about it.

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