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Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST By Antonino D'Ambrosio Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/11/08/johnny_cash/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2009/11/08/johnny_cash/index.html?source=rss The untold story of Johnny Cash, protest singer and Native American activist, and his feud with the music industry By Andrew O'Hehir Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/08/06/cahokia/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2009/08/06/cahokia/index.html?source=rss Archaeologists are slowly unearthing the ghastly secrets of Cahokia, an ancient city under the American heartland By Gary Kamiya Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2009/04/09/ward_churchill/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/opinion/kamiya/2009/04/09/ward_churchill/index.html?source=rss 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 Andrew O'Hehir Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/30/frozen_river/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/30/frozen_river/index.html?source=rss 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 Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/10/exiles/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/ent/movies/btm/feature/2008/07/10/exiles/index.html?source=rss 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 King Kaufman Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/sports/daily/feature/2008/05/23/bender/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sports/daily/feature/2008/05/23/bender/index.html?source=rss A biography tells of how the Native American pitcher overcame long odds and fierce prejudice to star for Connie Mack's Athletics. By Louis Bayard Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/05/09/horwitz/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2008/05/09/horwitz/index.html?source=rss Forget the Pilgrims. America's roots are older and more twisted, what Tony Horwitz calls a "primordial slime of false starts and mutations." By King Kaufman Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/sports/col/kaufman/2007/10/18/thursday/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sports/col/kaufman/2007/10/18/thursday/index.html?source=rss The Cleveland Indians minstrel show: Fans painted to resemble the outrageously racist mascot are shown without comment in the mainstream media. Enough. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/sports/col/kaufman/2007/02/21/wednesday/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/sports/col/kaufman/2007/02/21/wednesday/index.html?source=rss Indian mascot to shuffle off this mortal coil. Plus: Britney Spears mulls hockey offer. By Emily Schmall Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/03/26/lawrence/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/news/feature/2005/03/26/lawrence/index.html?source=rss 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 Juno Gregory Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/04/22/bones/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2002/04/22/bones/index.html?source=rss 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 Andrew Nelson Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/11/20/mankiller/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/bc/2001/11/20/mankiller/index.html?source=rss 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 Scott Malcomson Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/bag/2000/12/01/malcomson/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/bag/2000/12/01/malcomson/index.html?source=rss The author of "One Drop of Blood: The American Misadventure of Race" picks five books in which racial lines go blurry. By Maria Russo Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/10/26/nasdijj/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/10/26/nasdijj/index.html?source=rss A not-quite-Native American's hard, strange life makes for a fiercely original memoir about the compulsion to write. Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/letters/2000/03/20/park/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/letters/2000/03/20/park/index.html?source=rss Does the debunker need debunking? Plus: Up with the Sponge! "Mission to Mars" doesn't get off the ground. By Lawrence Osborne Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/03/16/skulls/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/feature/2000/03/16/skulls/index.html?source=rss Native American activists battle scientists for bones that may prove they had white ancestors. By Jonathan Miles Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/log/2000/02/14/alexie/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/log/2000/02/14/alexie/index.html?source=rss 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 Charles Taylor Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/02/01/frazier/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/books/review/2000/02/01/frazier/index.html?source=rss In an instant American classic, a great writer zeros in on the Oglala Sioux (as much as he can zero in on anything). By Susan Emerling Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/people/feature/1999/10/29/pills/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/people/feature/1999/10/29/pills/index.html?source=rss Fred Tomaselli's work offers the experience of taking drugs in the safest possible way -- through the eyes. By Polly Shulman Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/mwt/wild/1998/06/04/shul/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/mwt/wild/1998/06/04/shul/index.html?source=rss Ric Lynden Hardman revives the cowboy genre with "Sunshine Rider: The First Vegetarian Western" -- a picaresque, cocky, playful coming-of-age novel. By James Surowiecki Sun, 08 Nov 2009 17:11:00 PST http://www.salon.com/media/circus/1997/06/26/media/index.html?source=rss http://www.salon.com/media/circus/1997/06/26/media/index.html?source=rss Friends and colleagues celebrate the writer's life -- and take issue, sometimes angrily, with those who have raised dark questions about it.