American Indian and Indigenous Studies

  A documentary telling the story of indigenous journalists’ fight for a free press Join us on Monday, February 26 at 9:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. for the free documentary screening of “Bad Press,” which shows the story of indigenous journalists on an Oklahoma tribal reservation that pushed back against censorship and convinced their community …

Boarding Schools and American Indian Dispossession Professor Brenda Child, University of Minnesota and Guggenheim Fellow Government boarding schools went hand in hand with the American Indian land dispossession policies of the United States.  Professor Child's grandparents were among the thousands who attended the schools. She draws on her own family story to humanize the broader …