November 2023

Chief Ousamequin shares a peace pipe with Plymouth Governor John Carver. California State Library To read more Claire Bugos' article, please click here. In Thanksgiving pageants held at schools across the United States, children don headdresses colored with craft-store feathers and share tables with classmates wearing black construction paper hats. It’s a tradition that pulls on a history passed down through the generations of what happened in Plymouth: local Native Americans welcomed the...

To listen to the 16-minute interview with Lakota historian Nick Estes, please click here. Lakota historian Nick Estes talks about the violent origins of Thanksgiving and his book Our History Is the Future . “This history … is a continuing history of genocide, of settler colonialism and, basically, the founding myths of this country,” says Estes, who is a co-founder of the Indigenous resistance group The Red Nation and a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe.

Greg Masten (Yurok), President of the newly formed NCAI Foundation. (photo/Levi Rickert) To read more of Levi Rickert's article, please click here. Last Wednesday, November 15, which was National Philanthropy Day, the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) announced the launch of its new philanthropic arm, the NCAI Foundation (NCAIF) . The announcement came on the third day of the NCAI’s 80th Annual Convention and Marketplace in New Orleans. “Today marks a pivotal moment in our ongoing...