The untold story of Johnny Cash, protest singer and Native American activist, and his feud with the music industry
By Antonino D'Ambrosio Nov 8, 2009
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Archaeologists are slowly unearthing the ghastly secrets of Cahokia, an ancient city under the American heartland
By Andrew O'Hehir
August 6, 2009
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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.
By Gary Kamiya
April 9, 2009
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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).
By Andrew O'Hehir
July 30, 2008
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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!
By Andrew O'Hehir
July 10, 2008
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A biography tells of how the Native American pitcher overcame long odds and fierce prejudice to star for Connie Mack's Athletics.
By King Kaufman
May 23, 2008
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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
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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
October 18, 2007
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Indian mascot to shuffle off this mortal coil. Plus: Britney Spears mulls hockey offer.
February 21, 2007
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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
March 26, 2005
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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
April 22, 2002
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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
November 20, 2001
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The author of "One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race" picks five books in which racial lines go blurry.
By Scott Malcomson
December 1, 2000
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A not-quite-Native American's hard, strange life makes for a fiercely original memoir about the compulsion to write.
By Maria Russo
October 26, 2000
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Does the debunker need debunking? Plus: Up with the Sponge! "Mission to Mars" doesn't get off the ground.
March 20, 2000
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Native American activists battle scientists for bones that may prove they had white ancestors.
By Lawrence Osborne
March 16, 2000
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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
February 14, 2000
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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
February 1, 2000
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Fred Tomaselli's work offers the experience of taking drugs in the safest possible way -- through the eyes.
By Susan Emerling
October 29, 1999
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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
June 4, 1998
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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
June 26, 1997
The bitter tears of Johnny Cash
Sacrificial virgins of the Mississippi
Ward Churchill's win is scholarship's loss
Double-wide dreams
All-night party in a lost city
"Chief Bender's Burden"
Is everything we know about American history wrong?
"Welcome to Red Lake"
Bones of contention
Wilma Mankiller
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Glenn Greenwald
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