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NBN Episodes hosted by Andrew:
April 26, 2016
Informed Power
Informed Power: Communication in the Early American South (Harvard University Press, 2016) maps the intricate, intersecting channels of information ex…
November 10, 2015
Peacemakers
On November 11, 2015, leaders and citizens of the Six Nations of the Haudenosaunee Confederacy--Seneca, Cayuga, Onondaga, Oneida, Mohawk and Tuscarora…
October 22, 2015
The White Possessive
Owning property. Being property. Becoming propertyless. These are three themes of white possession that structure Aileen Moreton-Robinson's brilliant …
August 17, 2015
An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States
When Howard Zinn published A People's History of the United States in 1980, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz was thrilled. "I used it as a text immediately," she …
May 18, 2015
Native American Whalemen and the World
For as long as Herman Melville's Moby Dick has been a staple of the American literary canon, one element often goes unnoticed. The ship commanded by …
April 26, 2015
Power Lines
Last month, VICE NEWS released a short documentary about the Navajo Nation called "Cursed by Coal." The images and stories confirm the title. "Seems l…
March 5, 2015
A Generation Removed
In 2012, a young Cherokee girl named Veronica became famous. The widespread and often coercive adoption and fostering of Indigenous children by non-Na…
December 9, 2014
Remembering the Modoc War
If George Armstrong Custer had kept off of Greasy Grass that June day in 1875, Vine Deloria, Jr.'s manifesto might well have been called "Canby Died F…
October 21, 2014
West of the Revolution
Few years in U.S. history call to mind such immediate stock images as 1776. Powdered wigs. Founding fathers. Red coats. And if asked to place this ass…
August 21, 2014
Settler Common Sense
In Settler Common Sense: Queerness and Everyday Colonialism in the American Renaissance (University of Minnesota Press, 2014), Mark Rifkin, a professo…
June 3, 2014
The Red Atlantic
For all the incisive work published in Native American and Indigenous studies over the past decades, troubling historical myths still circulate in bot…
November 23, 2013
Native American DNA
Is genetic testing a new national obsession? From reality TV shows to the wild proliferation of home testing kits, there's ample evidence it might jus…
October 1, 2013
In Search of First Contact
We all know the song. "In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue..." And now, thankfully, we all know the controversy; celebrating a perpetrator of g…
September 2, 2013
Mark My Words
The maps drawn up by early settlers to plot their inexorable expansion were not the first representations of North American space. Colonialism does no…
July 8, 2013
The Seeds We Planted
"School was a place that devalued who we are as Indigenous people," says Noelani Goodyear-Kapua. These were institutions -- at least since white settl…
May 13, 2013
Domestic Subjects
The suspension of the so-called "Indian Wars" did not signal colonialism's end, only a different battlefield. "The calvary man was supplanted--or, rat…
April 1, 2013
On Records
Can the spoken word be a reliable record of past events? For many Native people, the answer is unequivocally affirmative. Histories of family, tribe,…
February 4, 2013
This Indian Country
Deploying hashtags and hunger strikes, flash mobs and vigils, the Idle No More movement of First Nation peoples in Canada is reaching a global audienc…
January 10, 2013
The Indian Great Awakening
Just east of the Norwich-New London Turnpike in Uncasville, Connecticut, stands the Mohegan Congregational Church. By most accounts, it's little diffe…
December 13, 2012
Crooked Paths to Allotment
Despite what you may have learned in undergraduate surveys or high school textbooks, the nineteenth century was not one long and inexorable march towa…
November 20, 2012
Decolonizing Museums
"Museums can be very painful sites for Native peoples," writes Amy Lonetree, associate professor of history at UC-Santa Cruz and a citizen of the Ho C…
September 9, 2012
Murder State
Brendan C. Lindsay's impressive if deeply troubling new book centers on two concepts long considered anathema: democracy and genocide. One is an ideal…
June 20, 2012
Reimagining Indian Country
The term "Indian Country" evokes multiple themes. Encompassing legal, geographic, and ideological dimensions, "Indian Country" is commonly understood …
May 23, 2012
The Only One Living to Tell
Late in 1872, as the United States sought to clear the newly incorporated Southwest of its indigenous inhabitants, a company under Capt. James Burns c…