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Home » Native Americans

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a Native man and woman kneel in the desert
Posted inFilm

The Last Manhunt

by Catey Sullivan November 18, 2022November 19, 2022

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.

Posted inNews & Politics

‘We’re still here’

by Natalya Carrico March 18, 2019August 18, 2021

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?

by Cecil Adams May 25, 2018August 18, 2021

A bold new era for earwax research has dawned.

Posted inBlogs

Pow Wow is a wry documentary about Americans’ distance from their own history

by Ben Sachs February 16, 2018August 18, 2021

The latest from Zoo director Robinson Devor screens all week at Facets.

Posted inBlogs

For Thanksgiving, a list of long reads dedicated to Native Americans

by Maya Dukmasova November 23, 2016August 18, 2021

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

by Tony Adler April 15, 2015August 18, 2021

But its messiness and complexity are right for a subject like race in America.

The Purge: Anarchy
Posted inFilm

Crime takes a holiday in The Purge: Anarchy

by Ben Sachs July 23, 2014August 18, 2021

In The Purge: Anarchy, all laws are suspended for a single night.

Chris Drew
Posted inColumns & Opinion

What will be the legacy of street artist Chris Drew?

by Deanna Isaacs April 15, 2014August 18, 2021

An eavesdropping law has been ruled unconstitutional, but the city’s strict peddling regulations remain on the books.

Trash Animals
Posted inArts & Culture

When one’s trash is another’s . . . house cat

by Yasmin Nair November 18, 2013August 19, 2021

The new anthology Trash Animals considers our relationships with the wild and the unwelcome.

Posted inArts & Culture

Chicago Artists Month touts 200+ events

by Sam Worley September 29, 2011August 19, 2021

Thirty-one days of city-sponsored art events

Posted inBlogs

5/19 — Free Open House at the Mitchell Museum of the American Indian

by Sam Worley May 18, 2010August 19, 2021

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.

Posted inBlogs

Saving Jane Johnston Schoolcraft

by Harold Henderson January 18, 2007August 19, 2021

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

by Harold Henderson June 29, 2000August 19, 2021

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.

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