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Arthur Fletcher (1924–2005) was the most important civil rights leader you've (probably) never heard of. The first black player for the Baltimore Colts, the father of affirmative …
Three decades ago—years after most tribes had filed land claims—the Zuni initiated legal battles related to aboriginal claims, rights, and use that few experts thought they could …
Haskell Institute of Lawrence, Kansas, first opened its doors in 1884 to twenty-two Ponca and Ottawa children, sent there to be taught Anglo-Protestant cultural values. For a …
The Diné, or Navajo, have their own ways of knowing and being in the world, a cultural identity linked to their homelands through ancestral memory. The Earth Memory Compass traces …
In 2006, millions of Latinos mobilized in opposition to H.R. 4437, an immigration proposal pending before the US Congress. In her new book, Heather Silber Mohamed suggests that …
Twice denied admission to a California medical school, despite better grades and test scores than successful minority applicants, Alan Bakke took his case to court. This is a …
A collection of contributions covering more than 12,000 years of Native American and Euro-American occupation of the Great Plains. There are summaries, discussions of important …
Peter Seaborg Award The heroics of black Union soldiers in the Civil War have been justly celebrated, but their postwar lives largely neglected. Donald Shaffer's illuminating study …
As "e;Savior of the Union"e; and the "e;Great Emancipator,"e; Abraham Lincoln has been lauded for his courage, wisdom, and moral fiber. Yet Frederick Douglass's …
Labriola Center Book Award The heyday of American Indian activism is generally seen as bracketed by the occupation of Alcatraz in 1969 and the Longest Walk in 1978; yet Native …