A Monumental Sadness and a Paradoxical Legal Tradition
Indigenous peoples and the Antiquities Act
indigenous history
America's National Parks Were Never Wild and Untouched
"America's National Parks Were Never Wild and Untouched: Montana's Emblematic Glacier National Park Reveals the Impact of Human History and Culture," Zócalo Public Square (June 11, 2018).
America’s National Parks Were Never Wild and Untouched | Essay | Zócalo Public SquareIn 1872, Congress created the
On Historical Thinking; Thinking about Technology
Three facts:
1. I am teaching Native American history as a standalone course for the first time.
2. According to many, history (or the humanities more broadly) is not especially relevant today or for the future.
3. Technologies are rearranging our daily lives in fundamental ways.
I want to connect
Dispossession in a Minute: On Shifting Perspectives
The visualization unfolds briskly, envelops the continent with a relentlessness that shocks. Almost an entire continent consumed in a century; from Native land to a nation’s land, sped up to a minute. The continent is eaten away as if by acid, the edges crumbling like old letters long stored
The Trump Administration's Review of National Monuments Smacks of Paternalism
"The Trump Administration's Review of National Monuments Smacks of Paternalism," History News Network (May 28, 2017).
The Trump Administration’s Review of National Monuments Smacks of PaternalismOnce again the federal government is talking down to Native Americans.History News NetworkAdam M. Sowards
(pre)Occupations
Legacies produce all places. As a historian, I am perhaps more sensitive to that than most. I see multiple pasts, multiple narratives everywhere I turn, stretching from the immediate present back through years, decades, even millennia. The evidence is all around us if we bother to look and listen. Yet,