http://dir.salon.com/topics/native_americans/?source=rss&aim=native_americans en-us Copyright 2007 Salon.com. Fri, 23 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT King Kaufman Fri, 23 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT 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 Fri, 23 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT 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 Fri, 23 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT 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. Fri, 23 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT 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 Fri, 23 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT 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 Fri, 23 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT 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 Fri, 23 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT 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 Fri, 23 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT 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 Fri, 23 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT 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. Fri, 23 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT 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 Fri, 23 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT 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 Fri, 23 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT 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 Fri, 23 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT 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 Fri, 23 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT 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 Fri, 23 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT 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 Fri, 23 May 2008 03:05:00 PDT 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.