Access to the Past: A New Tribal-Friendly Approach Explains Old Archives
The Yale Indian Papers Project is opening tribal archives to online research, but even more importantly, it is helping to win acknowledgment of tribal identity.
Summer 2017
Ofelia Zepeda: A Langage for Praying
The career of the distinguished linguist and poet is winning national recognition.
The Tohono O'odham and the Border Wall
The homeland of the O’odham people extends from the Gila River in Arizona to the Sea of Cortez in Mexico. Deep religious, cultural and family ties spanned this region long before the Gadsden Purchase of 1854
imposed an international border, and they persist today
Reading, Writing and Preserving: Native Languages Sustain Native Communities
An Extinction Event threatens indigenous languages. Here are some of the efforts the federal government,
Native organizations and individual tribes and scholars are taking to avert this cultural disaster.
Mending the Border: The Indigenous Eye of Postcommodity
The art collective Postcommodity brings an indigenous eye to issues of the U.S.–Mexico frontier through several
much-acclaimed installations.
Summer 2017
The Indian figure adorns the front fender of a 1948 Indian Chief, now on display in the Potomac Atrium of the National Museum of the American Indian on Washington, D.C.'s National Mail. The original manufacturer, The Indian Motorcycle Company of Springfield, Mass., chose the model's name and this corporate icon to show the American origin of its now legendary product, one example of the complex interaction between U.S. national identity and the country’s indigenous peoples.