With The Last Manhunt, the epic story of Willie Boy the Desert Runner reclaims the narrative of a Native hero long portrayed by white men as a bloodthirsty child kidnapper.
Tag: Native Americans
Posted inNews & Politics
‘We’re still here’
The First Nations Garden in Albany Park aims to heal the community and the environment.
Posted inNews & Politics
Why are different races correlated with two different types of earwax, and when did this divergence occur?
A bold new era for earwax research has dawned.
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Pow Wow is a wry documentary about Americans’ distance from their own history
The latest from Zoo director Robinson Devor screens all week at Facets.
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For Thanksgiving, a list of long reads dedicated to Native Americans
Long-form stories from the Reader and elsewhere to get you thinking about the origins of Thanksgiving
Posted inArts & Culture
Rushed to Victory Gardens’ stage, An Issue of Blood is more effusion than play
But its messiness and complexity are right for a subject like race in America.
Posted inFilm
Crime takes a holiday in The Purge: Anarchy
In The Purge: Anarchy, all laws are suspended for a single night.
Posted inColumns & Opinion
What will be the legacy of street artist Chris Drew?
An eavesdropping law has been ruled unconstitutional, but the city’s strict peddling regulations remain on the books.
Posted inArts & Culture
When one’s trash is another’s . . . house cat
The new anthology Trash Animals considers our relationships with the wild and the unwelcome.
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Chicago Artists Month touts 200+ events
Thirty-one days of city-sponsored art events
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5/19 — Free Open House at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian
Evanston Township High School students will show off computers they’ve refurbished at an open house at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian in Evanston.
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Saving Jane Johnston Schoolcraft
Nineteenth-century men used her material to become famous, but nobody knew the first Native American literary writer, until now.
Posted inArts & Culture
The Rise and Fall of the Mound People
The ancient mounds of Cahokia constitute the largest earthworks in the Western hemisphere. You’d think something this hard to miss would be easier to figure out.