The popular version of the “first Thanksgiving” story frequently portrays happy colonists and Native Americans feasting together. But it hides the realities of what many historians and activists call “settler colonialism.”
We've been asking listeners to tell us: What does the phrase 'My America' means to you? Mary Joe Mercer from the Osage Nation Reservation in Oklahoma, told us about the Native Americans that have called this country home for thousands of years.
Beth Kobliner, Takeaway contributor and appointee to the President's Advisory Council on Financial Capability, shares history and hard numbers to help us better understand the American value of home ownership.
Today in Washington, Jefferson Keel, the president of the National Congress of American Indians and a member of the Chickasaw Nation of Oklahoma, offers his take on the state of the Indian union
Forty years ago this month, a group of Native Americans staged an occupation of the Island of Alcatraz. The occupation lasted nineteen months. We talk to Andrea Carmen, executive director of the International Indian Treaty Council. From The Takeaway.
Cleaning up graffiti in some of our nation's parks and monuments requires expertise and cultural sensitivity.
Cleaning up graffiti in some of our nation's parks and monuments requires expertise and cultural sensitivity.