Native and Indigenous News and current events

Representations and history

Chickasaws debut documentary about confrontation with Hernando de Soto

Residential Schools

Ottawa forced to turn over reports of electric chair use at residential school

Land and Resources

Klamath River water levels and the threat to the fall salmon run

Irrigators file suit to stop release of water

Rarest Native animals find haven on tribal lands  8/25/14 New York Times article on Native programs restoring endangered wildlife on the Northern Great Plains
 Museum and online exhibits
Photographer Matika Wilbur’s Project 562, portraits of individuals from all federally recognized Native tribes (now 566)
Walking with our sisters: A healing journey in unfinished moccasins  An exhibit centering the lives and stories of hundreds of missing and murdered Indigenous women
Indigenous knowledge “confirmed” by western knowledge
Harper’s Franklin ‘discovery’; Or, did anyone ask the Inuit? Blog post on Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper’s announcement that research scientists “discovered” ships from the lost Franklin expedition after finally listening to the Inuit.
When science meets aboriginal oral history  Paleogenomic research confirms indigenous oral histories

 Links were correct at the time of posting.