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Native Americans

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."
By Louis Bayard May 9, 2008
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.
By King Kaufman Oct 18, 2007
King Kaufman's Sports Daily
Indian mascot to shuffle off this mortal coil. Plus: Britney Spears mulls hockey offer.
Feb 21, 2007
"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.
By Emily Schmall Mar 26, 2005
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.
By Juno Gregory Apr 22, 2002
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.
By Andrew Nelson Nov 20, 2001
Mixing it up
The author of "One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race" picks five books in which racial lines go blurry.
By Scott Malcomson Dec 1, 2000
"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.
By Maria Russo Oct 26, 2000
Letters to the editor
Does the debunker need debunking? Plus: Up with the Sponge! "Mission to Mars" doesn't get off the ground.
Mar 20, 2000
Skull wars
Native American activists battle scientists for bones that may prove they had white ancestors.
By Lawrence Osborne Mar 16, 2000
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.
By Jonathan Miles Feb 14, 2000
"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).
By Charles Taylor Feb 1, 2000
Artist's little helper
Fred Tomaselli's work offers the experience of taking drugs in the safest possible way -- through the eyes.
By Susan Emerling Oct 29, 1999
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.
By Polly Shulman Jun 4, 1998
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.
By James Surowiecki Jun 26, 1997
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