Native Americans

A new documentary on an outlet’s struggle to cover its own tribal government charts the implicit challenge that the American media writ large has faced in the past eight years.

The director discusses shooting movies outside the studio system and finding the right way to film a story about a series of murders that took place when oil was found on Osage land.

They said we had too much white blood, we were not dark enough.

The Justice doesn’t just join with the liberals on the bench when it comes to tribal rights; he often seems to lead them.

The playwright behind “The Thanksgiving Play” discusses her satire of theatre and U.S. history, the enduring prevalence of “redface” in casting, and how a background in ballet made her a better writer.

The Shinnecock photographer Jeremy Dennis was inspired by Noam Chomsky’s view of zombie movies when he set out to tell the long and violent story of his peoples’ stolen homeland.

Tribal nations hold the rights to significant portions of the Colorado River. In the increasing drought, some are showing the way to sustainability.

The Academy formally apologized for how Littlefeather was treated after she declined the Best Actor award on behalf of Marlon Brando.

In Sean Sherman’s modern Indigenous kitchen, every dish is made without wheat flour, dairy, cane sugar, black pepper, or any other ingredient introduced to the continent after Europeans arrived.

Clashes between sovereignty rights and civil rights reveal an uncomfortable and complicated story about race and belonging in America.

The Yanktonai Dakota painter Oscar Howe, who died in 1983, is the subject of a remarkable retrospective at the National Museum of the American Indian.

A former academic looks at group identity and how it affects students, and a historian of comedy explains that complaints about certain kinds of jokes are nothing new.

In the film “All on a Mardi Gras Day,” Michal Pietrzyk documents the tradition of a community of New Orleans artisans.

In “The Sentence,” Erdrich takes on COVID-19, the George Floyd protests, the effects of incarceration, and a haunted bookstore.

Through a story of addiction and athleticism, Amar Chebib’s documentary short “Joe Buffalo” shows the effects of the system that separated Native children from their families.

Redniss has spent her career upending the relationship between word and image. In “Oak Flat,” she confronts her trickiest subject yet: the sanctity of Apache land that, for decades, has been under threat.

The memoirist is at the center of two new, very different books: a biography of D. H. Lawrence and a novel by Rachel Cusk. Has she been rescued or reduced?

For centuries, settlers pushed Natives off the land. But they continued to use indigenous language to name, describe, and anoint the world around them.

The Penobscot language was spoken by almost no one when Frank Siebert set about trying to preserve it. The people of Indian Island are still reckoning with his legacy.

Nagle is one of the leading lawyers advocating for tribal sovereignty—and one of the country’s most-produced Native playwrights.