Native Americans

Many American towns and metropolises have initiated unions with international locales – “sister cities,” where citizens travel to each others' hometowns and build cultural bridges. Rarely have local leaders considered such an arrangement with tribal nations, until now.

Thursday marks Canada's first National Day for Truth and Reconciliation – a day meant to acknowledge the enduring impacts that residential schools had on Indigenous people.

Idaho Matters is joined by author and Idaho Mountain Express Journalist Tony Tekaroniake Evans to talk about his book Teaching Native Pride: Upward Bound and the Legacy of Isabel Bond.

Prior to World War I, Nevada’s Douglas County adopted an ordinance that prohibited Native Americans from being in the towns of Minden or Gardnerville after sunset — at the risk of jail time or worse.

An interview with Blaine Harden, author of Murder at the Mission: A Frontier Killing, its Legacy of Lies, and the Taking of the American West. The book examines the cost of American expansionism, and the problems that arise when history is only told by the victors.

Indigenous Americans have suffered the highest rate of COVID-19 deaths, according to data from the CDC. But even those numbers could be an undercount.

The latest coronavirus relief package includes $20 billion for tribal governments, a potentially transformative infusion of cash. Idaho Matters talks with Mountain West News Bureau reporter Savannah Maher about this issue.

Ruling otherwise, the court's majority wrote, "would risk perpetuating the historical injustice suffered by Aboriginal peoples at the hands of Europeans."

Before white colonizers took land from indigenous people already living in Idaho, the Nimiipuu people occupied much of the north central part of the…

This interview was originally broadcast in May, 2020. On November 8, 1519, the Spanish conquistador Hernando Cortés first met Montezuma, the Aztec…