Indigenous Communities

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Nuuk, Greenland skyline with the aurora borealis.
Greenland Fantasies
Mount Fuji from Omiya by Kusakabe Kimbei c. 1890
Japan’s Meiji Restoration
Sacred Gods at Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park
A Postcard from the Puʻuhonua o Hōnaunau National Historical Park, Hawai‘i
An allotment delegation approaches the Nez Perce
The Dawes Act
Meiji Constitution promulgation by Toyohara Chikanobu, 1889.
Japan’s Meiji Restoration
battle at Tenochtitlan
The Fall of Tenochtitlan
Ferdinand Magellan with an antique map behind him
Magellan and Elcano: The First Circumnavigation of the Earth
Advertisement of an upcoming land sale by the United States Department of the Interior in 1911. The Interior Department published many similar advertisements to encourage white settlers to purchase "excess" reservation lands.
The Dawes Act
Cover of Apache Diaspora by Paul Conrad.
“Diaspora” as a Creative and Historical Force
L to R - Indigenous, African American, and Jewish Peoples
Ideas of Race and Racism in History
Two pictures of Tom Torlino, a member of the Navajo Nation.
Erasing Indigenous History, Then and Now
The Nuremburg Map of 1524 is the earliest known European visualization of Tenochtitlan
The Fall of Tenochtitlan
Cover of The Chiefs Now in This City: Indians and the Urban Frontier in Early America by Colin Calloway.
Native Americans in Urban Places
Dreamcatchers shown against the sky
Re-storying the Experiences of Indigenous College Students
Native woman with her back to the camera
Reclaiming My Family's Story: Cultural Trauma & Indigenous Ways of Knowing
Man at march holding sign that reads "Make America NATIVE Again"
Indigenous Peoples' Day: A Conversation
A polar bear steps off an ice slab.
Killing the Arctic
Students at the Tuberculosis Sanitorium, Phoenix Indian School, ca. 1890-1910.
Early American Contagions
An Aboriginal leader at the 13th Annual Canadian Aboriginal Festival in 2006.
Westward Expansion & Imperialism: Horse of a Different Color?
A 1939 reconstruction of the signing of the Treaty of Waitangi.
The Treaty of Waitangi
Rainforest scars from illegal mining and deforestation.
The Amazon Rainforest under Threat
Auguste Chouteau—Founder of St. Louis and Head of the Chouteau family
Blood Rules the Water: Kinship Diplomacy in Early America
A posthumous portrait of Ferdinand Magellan, painted c. 16th or 17th century
Magellan’s Circumnavigation of the Earth
Bartolome de las Casas
Bartolomé de las Casas and 500 Years of Racial Injustice