The Sioux’s battle against a Dakota oil pipeline is a galvanizing social justice movement for Native Americans. By Kristen A. Carpenter and Angela R. Riley September 23, 2016 What sparks and sustains a movement? For more than a month, members of the Standing Rock Sioux tribe and thousands of allies have gathered in camps along … Read more
Dear AIS friends and colleagues, Congratulations to Ben Madley, who has won the LA Times Book Award for best book in History! Well-deserved recognition, Ben! Best, Shannon Read the full article: LA Times Book Prize winners announced
By Alan Taylor May 27, 2016 The state of sunshine and pleasure is drenched in the blood of Indians, the victims of mass killings. These peaked between 1846, when Americans conquered California from Mexico, and 1873, when they snuffed out the last group resistance by natives in the state. The slaughter of California’s Indians was … Read more
By Alexander Nazaryan August 17, 2016 The tally is relentlessly grim: a whole settlement wiped out in Trinity County “excepting a few children”; an Indian girl raped and left to die somewhere near Mendocino; as many as 50 killed at Goose Lake; and, two months later, as many as 257 murdered at Grouse Creek, scores … Read more
By Richard White August 17, 2016 This spring, the US Congress passed a unanimous resolution condemning ISIS for its genocide against Yazidis, Christians, and Shiites. “Naming these crimes is important,” Secretary of State John Kerry said after the vote, “but what is essential is to stop them.” It’s far too late to stop the genocidal … Read more