As our tribe debates Cherokee history and identity, Cherokee citizens with white privilege carry the most responsibility to move our tribe forward.
History
Posted inJune 1, 2020: Dissent at a Distance
The U.S. is closing its doors to asylum seekers
‘The Dispossessed’ follows a family’s harrowing search for safety, and asks what new policies say about the nation’s long-standing ideals.
Posted inJune 1, 2020: Dissent at a Distance
American violence in the time of coronavirus
Author Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz puts armed ‘reopen’ protests in their historical context.
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Monique the space elk and the wild history of tracking wildlife
The legacy of scientific researchers, and a couple intrepid ungulates, endures half a century later.
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How Mormon history helps explain today’s public-land fights
Betsy Gaines Quammen’s new book looks at the Bundy family and religion’s connection to the Western landscape.
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Explore the land-grab universities data
Reconstruct the ties between Indigenous dispossession and the funding of land-grant universities.
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Stolen lands and living stories: A photographer reimagines reality
Jeremy Dennis confronts historical narratives by composing digital illustrations.
Posted inApril 1, 2020: Land-Grab Universities
How the U.S. immigration system has grown increasingly cruel
The nation’s migration deterrence policy shapes the way immigrants are seen and treated.
Posted inApril 1, 2020: Land-Grab Universities
Land-grab universities
Expropriated Indigenous land is the foundation of the land-grant university system.
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How we investigated the land-grant university system
A methodology of our two-year inquiry into the origin of wealth that undergirds the nation’s system of higher education.
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Further reading on HCN’s land-grants university investigation
Dive deep into our bibliography.
Posted inMarch 16, 2020: Wiring the Wild
The wildness is in me, too
People were excluded from the wild, historically, and in today’s rapidly digitizing West.
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‘Men like you weren’t meant to own land’
Rural Colorado has a history of discriminatory lending.
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The two castles of Austin, Nevada
Tycoons, turrets and the hidden history of a tiny desert town.
Posted inMarch 1, 2020: Predator (Mis)perceptions
Boeing’s history reveals connections and disconnections in the West’s economy
The placelessness of corporations today can imperil communities.
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Western states widely support refugee resettlement
The president’s executive order meant to limit resettlement, but the West is opting for more.
Posted inFebruary 1, 2020: How One Woman Took a Stand Against Tribal Disenrollment and Paid For It
How Andy Warhol painted the West
The artist challenged ideas of masculinity but fell short of addressing racism.
Posted inDecember 9, 2019: Crossing to Safety
What the cowboy hat says about ‘Americanism’
A problematic symbol of the West gets a reboot.
Posted inDecember 9, 2019: Crossing to Safety
Where does ‘the West’ begin?
When it comes to the myths and images of the West, Fort Worth, Texas, has created a cottage industry.